Big 'Ammer
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Were you levelling off the pile with a fork? I always wondered what they did with the losers when they got voted out.
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If you see what looks like a bush driving around in a tranny van in East Yorks, don't be alarmed. Its only Frank flushing with epicormics after being spiked all over from the monkey puzzle climb!
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I wouldn't use them for pruning. I have very occasionally used them to help access the crown of a very large tree with a deep furrowed bark, like an oak or ash, or a redwood, from the top of the ladders to the first main branch. And taken large steps, as lightly as possible , round the 'back' of the tree!
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We had one of those in the shed as the spare, when I first started. I tried it once and was scared I might fall out of it, with no leg straps!
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He's a farmer, he'll know... Thats why it was for sale!
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Good thinking there, Mike. Especially the phone bit.
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Could we coin a new term? "Mewpilation"
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Let us know if your successful, with a thread entitled:- "Look at the rack on this!"
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Blokes a legend! I heard tell today that he went away in his caravan at the weekend to a rock festival..... across the road from his house!!!!! Just so he could properly get into the spirit of it! But chucked a bike in the back of the landy, so he could nip back home to feed the dogs without having to drive after mucho beers.
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Thats a huge gob, whats the story on that fell Tim?
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I was meaning that if possible you could set a redirect block high, in cases where you can only set a low pull line because the trees have an enormous lean, say woodland edge trees that have grown out under something else, or like your trees, where the top is unsound. If you can pull from any sort of height, either with a redirected pull line or from up a slope. it can make a huge difference to what you may decide to pull over, or not.
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Phoenix nights theme tune.
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I see where your coming from with that Rich, but never seen it used or tried it myself. I would normally do as Pete described, and if there's chance redirect the pull line through a block set high up in a strong tree nearby to get a more lateral rather than downward pull, even a slight upward pull if possible, but certainly use the longest pull available. A lot depends on the size and species of the trees, and how much they are leaning, and what gear you have available to use. I'll have to try your technique out when there's a suitable safe situation and see how it goes, its the only way to learn.
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If I have to beef up the chassis as well as fit extra/different springs and new plate etc, it sounds as though its not worth the expense. Be easier to just change the vehicle for an ex-utility one.
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Climb!
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Mewp.
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Here's a bit of steel wedge action for you, Frank! Also, this one illustrates Steve Bullman's earlier comment about using the buttresses for hold on rotten trees. Knackered beech needed felling away from trees being retained and a large tank to the rear. Crown was weighted over the good side, so couldn't just wade in and cut it down as it would have failed sideways. Cut a slot through the centre to see what the extent of sound and rotten wood was. Cut the back out, leaving a small piece of holding timber uncut near the left hand buttress/rib and kept lifting the far corner up with some serious hammering in of wedges in pairs (hit one and then the other, it works really well). When it was picked up far enough, cut through the little holding piece and used the front buttress to keep hold of it.
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Here's another hinge, or lack of. About 20" diameter. Not sure how much sound wood on the right hand side and didn't want the tree to swing that way if there was more than anticipated. So, over-cut the top face of the gob to deliberately ensure the hinge failed and the tree would pop off forward in the right direction.
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I have a W80 and its ok.
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That is a tidy hinge. Gay wedges.
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With you saying you were going to do some welding, and my recent thread on landy wieghts, I'm interested.
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Ed, is you hicap 3050 kg or 3500kg?
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That's how you learn. Dont be disheartened, take on board what happened and log it away for next time.
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What a great job to do!
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Should I be a tutor/trainer?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
Do both. Crack on and write a book about tree fungi, you have already got all the pictures. You have probably written a books worth of words since you came on here. People who are passionate make good teachers, because they make the students interested.
