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If it's growing in Scotland it's more likely to be T.T. 32, a common shelter belt tree up here - hybrid of Western Balsam Poplar (Populus trichocarpa) and Eastern Balsam Poplar (Populus tacamahaca) gives you Populus tacatricho 'Balsam Spire' TT32.
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great vids, cheers for posting, had seen the first couple a while back whilst browsing your site last year never realised you had done a whole series, looking forward to more. The tight fork manouver is a good one.
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2x climbers looking for work in Alaska any info
scotspine1 replied to carlos119's topic in General chat
try these guys - Tree Services in Anchorage, AK | Greatland Tree Service https://www.facebook.com/Greatland-Tree-Service-133384383380255/ -
David Humphries vid of a highline job - some good stills and vid of the set up they used [ame= ] [/ame]
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tree fancier, this thread/vid may be of interest to you - High-line improvisations | The BuzzBoard [ame= ] [/ame] .
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another tensioning setup (this one is taken from an old Treebuzz thread). That's the original Buckingham Port A Wrap 1 being used in that setup.
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I've worked off 3 highlines on different jobs in recent years and it would never occur to me to use a tirfor to tension the line, it seems excessive. I think I posted this pic in the Beech highline thread, we just use a variation of a 3:1 block and tackle system for removing the slack and making the highline taught enough to support the climber. Equipment wise we just use what's easily available and works. David Humphries has posted good pics of highline setups following the beech highline thread which are more refined than what I've used. Some people like to use two lines to create the highline with one of those rigging hubs in the centre as an anchor point. .
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Chris, Is it 100% gravity? is there any influence of phototropism at all? .
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Might as well eh.......it turns a semi-useless bit of kit into something half decent, especially for a long ascent into the crown. Petzl should be ashamed of themselves. They've ruined the Pantin with the latest design. .
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pantin mod, works well
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Darren, 288, brilliant saw, had it a long time now, just keeps going on and on no matter what you chuck at it, much like the 660. Like the 288 best with a 24" bar. That's a 30" in the pic but the vibes are brutal if you're standing there cutting beech like that all day so it's normally just a back up for the 660 on jobs like that. I'd buy another 288 if they still sold them in the UK. cheers Jon (Mendip) .
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Simpler the better this time of year, big straight fells like that are a rarity for me so was good not to have to climb and dismantle especially with the bad weather we've been having lately. The Beech Taleban eh? The kids play under that tree every day, house is within falling distance of the tree, dropped a big branch out recently the way old Beeches are prone to do. Client not overly interested in crown reduction when I suggested it. Decay wasn't bad, but the pics below were taken at the final stump height (3ft) decay was worse nearer the ground. Client was sorry to see it go. Tree was planted in 1870 as part of a circle of Beeches round the house. Most of them are still left standing and in good health. Yes, I agree, bonnie tree. Cheers .
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felling job from last week, tree came down due to Kretzch and Armillaria base rot, saw was a 660 with 36" bar, Yale double esterlon 3/4" rope attached halfway up tree, attached to 5 ton cable handwinch which had a little pre-tension on it prior to making the felling cuts. Spec was to fell, de-limb, stack branches, cut timber into logs, no tidy up, great winter job. [ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRpNMuQw60&feature=youtu.be]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRpNMuQw60&feature=youtu.be[/ame] - .
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You're right Stubby been using 7 pin and 8 pin sprockets on my 660 for years with various bar lengths. I'd occasionally use the 660 36" bar with an 8 pin and extra link and as the chain nears the end of it's life adjustment is running out. I also agree that the 7 pin is better with a 36" bar and 3/8, more torque. I switch to the 8 pin on the 25" 28" bars. For shear cutting power and smooth cutting, the 660 with 25" bar, an 8 pin and 3/8 full chisel is hard to beat. Sometimes if you use a 660 with an 8 pin with 36" bar you think because the chain is going faster you're cutting faster but it's an illusion. Unless you're cutting balsa wood that is.
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Nobody has any answers to the questions in bold above? Didn't think so. .
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Hey Mull, remember when your former 'dear leader' was once best buddies with Trump. of course you do, but like all SNP/45/YES voters you suffer from cognitive dissonance when it comes to anything Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon or any other SNP politician has ever said or done, including your own sectarian bigot SNP MP Brendan O'Hara.
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Trump made his comments off the back of the San Bernadino mass shooting carried out by ISIS inspired Islamists Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. Why would Tashfeen Malik, who was born in Pakistan but lived most of her life in Saudi Arabia, want to go and live to the United States? She obviously hated the United States and its values, at least enough to help stockpile an arsenal and to kill 14 people and wound another 21. Why did her husband and co-mass-murderer Syed Rizwan Farook, if he was unhappy with his native America, not return to his parents’ Pakistan, where he could've have practiced Sharia law unhindered by the crass American culture he hated so much? Trump 's words may seem excessive but his suggestion of banning all muslims from entering the US needs to be taken within the wider context of the worldwide problem of radical Islamism. .
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lime tree reduction,garrion bridge ,Lanarkshire
scotspine1 replied to biggarlogs's topic in General chat
I doubt you'll find anyone serious without posting a few pics of the tree with hazards obstacles etc or streetview screen shot at least, Good luck though, nice little part of the world Garrion Bridge. -
thought this was good -
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as the crow flies yes....in reality there's an hour's drive from Lochgilphead to Kennacraig, then a 2 hour ferry trip to Islay and if you arrive in Port Askaig instead of Port Ellen you've another 30 mins drive round to the distillery
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shame the SNP didn't take a leaf out of Corbyn's book when you consider the importance of the vote it was shameful to see the SNP whip in full effect, a block vote by the little Salmond sycophants. It's no surprise though as Salmond was against the NATO bombing of Kosovo which saved 10,000s of Bosnian Muslims being slaughtered by Milosevic. He made a mistake then and he made a mistake tonight. The pathetic attempt by the SNP to use this vote as future political capital against the UK government in upcoming Scottish elections was very transparent. .
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buckingham titaniums with the twisted shank combined with buckingham super wrap steel insert pads (with the angled rigid attachment) are the most comfortable spikes I've found after years of using other spikes (Bashlins alloys etc). We do a lot of removals and when I wear the Buckinghams with Meindl airstreams there's no discomfort at all, even over long days stood on the spikes. .
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Archbishop of Canterbury doubts the presence of God!
scotspine1 replied to the village idiot's topic in The Lounge
So it's fine for Islamists to act like that now in the name of religion because fundamentalist Christians did it 500 years ago? If you follow you're logic the rest of the world must wait 500 years for an Islamic reformation followed by another few hundred years of enlightenment and at that point, only then can are we allowed to make judgements on Sharia Law? I'm sure the people sentenced to death in Iran and Saudi Arabia would find your words, "This is Religion" very comforting. -
Archbishop of Canterbury doubts the presence of God!
scotspine1 replied to the village idiot's topic in The Lounge
Religion is an interesting subject though isn't it........ Shia Iran has just sentenced two poets to 9-11 years imprisonment and 99 lashes for 'shaking hands with the opposite sex'. Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison : International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Saudi Arabia has just sentenced a poet to death for writing 'atheistic poems'. Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death after appeal against 800 lashes | Write Out Loud This is Islam in 2015 . -
Archbishop of Canterbury doubts the presence of God!
scotspine1 replied to the village idiot's topic in The Lounge
forgot all about this thread, where were were we? ah yes...... so your grandparents and great grandparents were responsible IRA bombings and assassinations during the troubles? listen mate dont answer this because of course they were not responsible just like everyone else's grandparents and great grandparents were not responsible for the list of events you posted from WW1 to women not getting the vote. By the way, Nazism and Communism were atheist ideologies, it's hard to make a case for them being powered by a christian ethos. My general point was that western civilisation (when taken over a much longer period of history than you focussed on) has benefitted from having a christian ethos rather than being stifled by the negative impact of islam. I think Niall Ferguson makes my general point here - [ame= ] [/ame]
