Tom D
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I'm very jealous of your roofmount, looks very handy. Mine's a BCS, about 50 horse, handy because it fits on a trailer behind the landy.
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Any one can climb high, thats just a question of balls. But its nice of you to say so. I reckon the key to being good is being organised and thinking about what you're going to do before you do it, planning your way round a dismantle before you leave the ground is a good start, picking lowering points and routes for rope, drop zones etc.
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General tree work pics
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From the album: Me and my lads at work
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From the album: Me and my lads at work
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One of Andrew taking down a fir last week.
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I really should tidy up a bit, taken 2 mins ago with phone.
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Normally handballed, however where possible I'll take the little tractor. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVtiN3tOBpM]YouTube - Little Tractor[/ame]
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I'm not actually sure, I have not really climbed allongside many others to compare myself with. I haven't broken much, and I've never found a tree I couldn't do, I've a friend who I think is faster than me at cut and chuck type work, but I've also seen a few climbers who are slower too. Speed isn't everything, nothing worse than a climber who flies round a tree leaving a big nest of brash at the bottom, then walks off and smokes while the poor groundies have to deal with it.
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Nice work Tim, I hate those things, thats two less to worry about.
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You must be thinking of a different rope, tachyon is the lowest stretch rope I've come across. What were you using before?
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Get well soon mate, hope its not too long.
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Still feeling rough even now:thumbdown:
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Nice one Rod, came out pretty good.
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Hope you didn't see Huey again.
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The next get together sanny.:001_smile:
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I can't wait to see Rods video of the zip line, please post soon mate.
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I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who came, especially Gustharts and Willie Dobie for letting us use his land and hot tub. I didn't take any pictures on day 1 but here's a few from today.
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Gustharts will probably bring something, I have some you can try.
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Cheers John, Its not a swear word you know. In fact I seem to remember a whole 1970 sitcom based on that gag. Meaow.
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Thinking back to the "trees and the law" lecture I was at the other day for my tech cert, I think Highways law "trumps" planning law in this case so just get something in writing and go for it.
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:001_tongue:Just got back from rescuing a cat out of a tree. Poor thing had been missing for 2 weeks! It had been found up a tree in some woodland, the fire brigade refused to do it, apparently they don't do that anymore. The rspca have a climber apparently but he said it was too windy so they got me. There's nothing better than climbing a big lime in the pissing rain on a wednesday night, especially when its covered in ivy:thumbdown: My heart sank when after struggling up I realised the cat was in the neighbouring tree, luckily I managed to get across without having to come back down. They were very pleased to get their cat back though, and it didn't scratch me so not too bad in the end.
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Nice vid mate, not sure about the two hands thing, and boy is your winch slow. I used to use a 4x4 winch, it was hydraulic and ran off a pto on the gearbox, it was a little faster than that but not fast enough for me. My solution (please note this is not recommended in any fastco guide as rope stretch in a winching situation is not ideal) was to use a rope from the tree to the winch wire the rope would naturally stretch a little. You need a reasonable rope run for this, say 8m, this stretch was preloaded on to the stem, not too much obviously, meaning that as the stem was cut it would go quickly lessening the chance of leaning stems going astray. Like i say this is for experienced users and can be a handy technique under the right circumstances, but abuse it and if it goes wrong things could be nasty.
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