Tom D
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The really bad thing is I can't remember the makes, I'm pretty sure they're both ISC. I have a small red swing cheek one which is the one in the Beech vid and a larger blue one which has a (i think) 24mm split tail. The blue one is sort of visible in the pine dismantle video from a while back. They're pretty common.
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For snacks, I find these hard to beat. http://www.orkneyherring.com/index1.htm Especially the ones in the Luxury marinade.
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I'm not condoning attaching anything to someone elses tree, however despite being invasive screws and bolts are much less damaging then tieing something around the stem.
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I think SWB's tales of cyber-chickens may be a little ott. However, KFC is the food of satan, disgusting intensively reared bleached white protein smothered in greasy chemical flavourings and MSG. The fact they sell it by the bucket says it all. Even their chips are crap. I do occasionaly have a whopper but Mcdonalds is also hell's ambrosia. Rant over I'm having a ribeye steak the night.
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I'd say no since the 30kn will be the breaking strain and therefore your SWL on that sling would be 4.2 kn which is a little low for even small jobs. Having said that in the beech dismantle vid I posted recently I am using exactly that:001_tongue: TBH though that pulley and sling are normally used as a redirect or for light work such as that beech, really though I should have changed to the large pulley for the bigger stuff. The other problem with a webbing sling is its difficult to adjust on a single stem when blocking down so a proper round spliced split tail would be better. then it can be timber hitched or cow hitched to suit.
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You're right on all four but criminal dammage is the most serious. What the police would say is another matter though.
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One other tip is to think about where you fell it, felling up hill will give a gentler landing which will leave more branches intact where as felling down a slope will give a harder landing and hopefully do some of the work for you. Shorter "ball" shaped trees are worse than taller specimens which will hit the ground harder. Its worth keeping your hinge a reasonably narrow to increase the speed of fall too (within reason). When you do have a problem tree like the one pictured as Skyhuck says; experience is the most important thing as well as comon sense. Don't work on the down slope side of a felled tree. Ever. They can move anytime even when you're not actually working on them.
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Yes mate.
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I use 16mm at the mo but I have ordered a 60m 12mm for big trees and for a speedline, all the double trolley type pulleys seem to only go up to 13mm so the 12mm will be ideal for that. I have almost run out of rope on some jobs with my 16mm which i think is 50m so having the extra length will be good too. My large pulley will take a 19mm rope and I always intended to get one for blocking down big stuff but have'nt got round to it yet. If you're only having one rope I'd go for 16mm.
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What a beast, had you felled the top out first? How old was it BTW?
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This is all true, I can remember as a kid watching my dad changing a wheel on the landrover, just as he was removing the wheel it fell off the jack and trapped hus fingers between the top of the tyre and the wheelarch. Amazingly a guy who was there lifted it up to let him get it out, the docs reckoned his wedding ring saved a worse injury. I might still be taking mine off though, or taping it up.
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Get LDV mate, it wont happen again. BTW regrease the hubs just in case its run out.
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Yes mate, I'll post details of how to get there and whats happening etc in due course. There are also lots of tracks in the woods used by a local 4x4 school so bring your landy.
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Its a great Idea, I've been asked to take part in a climbing demo at the Edinburgh treefest in the summer, it's for a training colledge, hopefully it'll be a great chence for a bit of free publicty. Any opportunity to show you're wares so to speak should be grabbed with both hands IMO especially in the current economic climate.
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TBH when I looked at the job thats what I thought, but the branches over the flat roof were 6 - 7 metres long and really quite heavy, trying to haul them out and chuck them with the 2 phone lines underneath them was going to be difficult so I tip roped them instead. Since i already had the pulley in the tree I lowered the thicker of the two remaining stems and chunked the last one. Now that I think about it you probably can't see the lines in the vid, there were three more running down the lane too hence not felling it SWB.
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Many of the cheaper ropes can be bought off the reel so just get whatever you want. 20-25 m is big enough for many jobs and not too big for fruit trees and the like. I have a piece of Hi Vee that does that job.
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I did, mind you she wasn't as freaked out as the "loose fitting harness" one.
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Thats given me a real dilemma now. I really like the ring and If I didn't wear it all the time I'd just loose it. Its either all or nothing. That picture has got me worried though:scared1:
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Tom D replied to Marcus B-T's topic in Tree health care
I think all decay detection measures have their limitations and while I've no experience of this, it seems as though the results would be at best difficult to interpret. I would also love to see some pictures, preferably with a real life cross section of the same stem. -
There's a few guys who have the big ones, not sure about the bobcat type though.
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They were rain over here, they didn't last long. Thats Andrew in the tree BTW. It was pretty windy, I got a laugh sending Andrew up a 45 foot single stemmed euc that was only 8" at the base, he was tied in to a neighbouring tree, I'd have video'd it if I could have he was blown all over the place.
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I said that first:001_tongue:
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The greenmech is a 8" 220 which I bought second hand a couple of years ago. Its been ok so far with no major probs, its fairly light for an 8" so is good behind the asmatic LDV.
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TBH I was worried about that when I first got it, but I've developed a callus either side of it and, touch wood' it has never caught on anything. I've done a few watch straps though.
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A couple from today, taking down various things on the riverbank.
