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    The bathroom...
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    Who loler's in Essex? I'm in Maldon and don't have a crazy amount of kit as I freelance out as a climber only. I would be willing to travel out to whoever and wherever you are. Thanks.
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    Hello Peter, I see what you are saying. I tried to illustrate that with a single line I can use as many crotches (or TIP'S) as I want because the hitch doesn't suffer from it. So in a tree with a spreading crown my line travels like a compound rigging set-up. So there is in theory not one TIP but many with varying degrees of weight applied to each. And with less of a swing/fall if the last one decided to go. I wouldn't tie into the top point of the birch if I thought there was very high chance of it failing. The rock technique would be employed if there was a need to be overly cautious, otherwise I would use a platform. Or get Tom to do it!
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    I made a dodgy drawing over the birch picture, sorry about that but I wanted to show how I would have set my single line system up. The alpine butterfly would be the main anchor. I re-pollarded an ash similar to pete's but with more spread and the climbing line passed through as many crotches (false or not) as I worked the outside and upperparts of those horrible snappy bits. It strikes me as being like rock climbing?
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    Rupe, what is a 9?
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    ok...got ya.
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    Hello, I couldnt see what you meant. Was it the re-direct pulley with the long leg?
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    thanks!
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    It is more like the standard triangular shaped pulley with an extended plate below with an open cam shell, like the petzl ascension. It was red and running up to 13mm. I know what you mean about releasing the line but all the same I WANT ONE I believe that they had a single AND double pulley.
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    I saw a red ISC pulley with built in cam at the APF on demo for a speedline. Anybody see this...anyone know if they are on sale yet? I wish Id taken a bloomin photo now.
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    I don't think this was the intention as those lapsed hbm sticks are knocking out left right and centre up there at hatfield. At least the growth has started lower down, that was the gamble, the tops can be worked on again. Is the retrenched growth classed as epicormic? If so I have another interesting picture.
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    Another... ...
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    Some propping at the Old Imperial Palace, Kyoto.
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    oh yes, tis the same only yr photo is much much better!
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    I took the picture a couple of days ago. Tom Fleming and Tony Davies did the work several years back on that hornbeam. The survey guidelines are Neville Fay's....it read something like....promote layering to base of crown on north side....and then we got creative. Yes, it was an axe and with two guys taking the weight. We reduced it once it became steady on the ground.
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    Layering on a hornbeam
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    Retrenchment on hornbeam
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    I have been fracture pruning at Hatfield forest. There is a hornbeam that was worked on around seven years ago as a retrenchment. This means bringing the crown down toward the pollard point in order to keep the non-managed poles from snapping out. It has bloody worked I tells ya. Minor pruning, up to 15%, at the tips is likely to inspire growth further down the stem. This is exciting work, finally a way to holistically manipulate growth. Photo(s) to follow.
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    eeerrghooouuuu
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    Yes there is a benefit in that the hitch bites between every pull.
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    Hi D Mc, for one company I work for I let one of the three groundies there be my rope man when rigging, always the same guy, we know where we are going with running lines, compounded forces and MY SAFETY. It has taken a year or so to form a decent work relationship and he has the mind for the job. I would let him set-up my trunk belay, I would let him control me to the ground from it too. I didn't mean that the other guys would tamper with the set-up system, just that they cant grasp these techniques yet. Saying that though I'm planning an afternoons rope and rescue update so if these ideas will sink in I might have three guys to work closely with.....hopefully. Not everyone has my enthusiasm for climbing...if only!!
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    It was an interesting angle for sure, I'm happy with a trunk belay while in zone one and two. It's no bother for me to set an extra rescue line as I'm roping into my work TIP...just a couple more minutes pulling up a rope. My main concern is that the anchor is low...like they sai,d trunk belays pass the anchor down to your mates...or not mates if you sub around. Food for thought...
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    I didn't know that, thank you Pete.
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    I listened to the same talk about rescue from an SRT line , I couldn't help but simplify the concepts i.e. why struggle to get someone off their own line when you could have a dedicated rescue line as well as the SRT line. I mean if that man has to come down just cut his god-damn line above the ascender. It seemed like they had got hold of a thought and run with it, I mean really run with it, those are some clever blokes that can search out all of the angles, but like I said I couldn't help but simplify their in-depth thoughts. Did you notice the guy climbing on the right hand side had two access lines that he was travelling up, one for frog walker and one with the petzl inertia brake...Ekka pulled a joke thread at tree buzz a few months ago about backing up an access line with another access line and then I saw it for real. funny!
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    I would like guidance on seed collecting if anyone knows who does it, where it goes on, if it pays and any or all comments on the subject! Thanks.

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