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looking for work in scotland although ayrshire would be preferred
scotspine1 replied to Alasdair's topic in Employment
Alisdair, how come you still got that serial killer avatar? QTS have a big contract up in Helensburgh just now, they may need extra bodies. -
Are there any targets under the stems? What about funding for cable bracing? could be cheaper than the pollard option.
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What was the original height and how many were pollarded to 4 meters?
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Charlie, you talking about a Hybrid Black Poplar of some kind? .
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Refresher? I know more now than I did then. Dont see the point in refresher courses other than its a good way for training companies to make more money. Good luck tho in finding other people.
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Did the SAC course 5 years ago with Graham Watson, think he's left SAC now, which is a real pity as he was well respected in Scotland for the thoroughness and completeness of his knowledge on everything from propagation to felling. Anyway, the course then was pretty interesting, think it was 2/3 days lectures followed by written exam and thorough examination of arb equipment. You need to know your stuff, I think Petzl have info on their site about climbing equipment inspection. .
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Jason, what are all those little drawers for?
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Good pay. You ever find out anymore about the whereabouts of Jez Crowson?
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Yeah but he'd be wearing a Treemotion right? the SWL is 100kgs, two climbers descending on a single line are gonna be well over that.
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It should be the norm, its a very easy thing to do - setting up a simple rescue system for SRT, but anyone whose used a gri gri or Stop for that kind of belaying will know they are anything but smooth on the descent. Someone was asking what's SRT? - http://www.spadout.com/w/ascension-systems/
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Agree with that Rupe, I've never once used a gri gri, grillion, figure 8, Petzl Stop or mini portawrap(probably the best option) for that technique, I just wouldnt trust the ground crew to get me to the ground safely. Not that my ground crew is bad, its just that there's no need for the belay device at the base of the tree as I wont ever need rescued while SRTing, what situation would you need rescued whilst SRTing anyway? Whats the half hitch for? always just use a plain running Bow.
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Why does the council want a tree report? what legislation does it relate to?
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Nev, this shot, the climber riding the ball/hook - were you using someone to set the slings and a separate cutter in tree? Thats how I learned crane work, havent seen anyone else use it recently. One guy would get hoisted up, set the slings, descend from the ball using his regular climbing line, pull his line out, then the other climber in the tree would do the cutting, branch gets lowered then repeat the whole thing again.
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Was that when you worked for Eric Frei?
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Any pics?
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Not the best advice I've heard heard about crane work. Shilo, ideally, large tree crane work should not be attempted without an experienced person to guide you through your first attempt. I used to work for a company and me and 2 other experienced climbers were sent to do a 110 foot Oak dismantle using a crane, all the timber had to be lifted over a £500,000 home - none of us had ever done crane work before and the crane operator had only done one tree removal 10 years previous. After one overstretched pick the back outriggers on the 50 ton crane were 3 ft off the deck, its not a good way to learn. After that near disaster we forced the boss(who had 15 years crane experience) to come and show us how to do it properly.
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Nice hat-rack
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Huck, at 1.45 his left thumb is not wrapped around the handle when he's cutting, always catch myself doing this with the 200T - very bad habit. Ever used a 338xp? they have a little thumb rest for your right thumb, so much for 'always wrap your thumbs round the handle'. Anyway.....its a good vid.
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chassis? How did you tension the main line?
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Outta interest, how come you didn't go for the DVX1? Really nice vid and job, watch the left hand thumb on that saw handle mate round about 1.45 , its a bad habit of mine as well. Liked the speedline to take it over the garage. Near the end......whats with the poker chips?
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You could try contacting this company, seem to remember seeing an article somewhere where they went out to some Caribbean Island to carry out some storm damage clearup. There were pics of them sitting in UN vans. http://www.treevolution.co.uk/ Having said that I cant see the United Nations having a treework division seeing as they got much bigger problems to deal with than a few trees down over a road.
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We take on liability when we prune a tree, "admitting" those branches were removed because the tree had a problem. A tree hazard is defined as a level of tree risk greater than the owner is willing to tolerate. Hazard trees are managed by lessening—reducing, mitigating--the risk they pose, either by removal or by arboricultural treatments, to a level that the owner accepts. Reducing or supporting defective branches, propping or bracing defective trunks, guying trees with defective root systems; all these and more arboricultural activities can be recommended and practiced free of liability concerns. So long as you work to current industry best practice.
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When its done right, cabling can make a tree stronger than it was.
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Using lag hooks when blocking down
scotspine1 replied to Rowden the cowboy's topic in Rigging and roping
Reg Coates who's a member here has used the technique and made an excellent video of it in action. As for a cordless drill up the tree, its not a problem, having cabled 100s of trees using a petrol drill you get used to it very quickly. . -
Excellent work Tom, that helmet cam is definitley a handy thing for keeping a record of how you do jobs and what you might do differently next time. Keep those vids coming.
