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oh yeah i try to uphold that as much as i can, but it was over a garden/path and the owners have a toddler.

these other products, same concept?

what situation would you choose to use bracing over cobra?

isnt the risk assessment qualification part of the climbing NPTC? i know it definatly played some part in the tree felling NPTC.

yeah set mine up today on that cedar when i finished it off. used a throwbag, top anchor point after about 3 attempts, then installed the cambium saver via the throwbag, no mess no grimy ropes and an easy climb. also looked pretty good.

thats what i thought, but the totally sound wood closer at the stem has really thrown me. will re-climb and get pictures when i go back friday, left about 4 as i was not totally sure of what to do.

Hi im 19, almost finished my first year of ND arb course at merrist wood, have NPTC's in chainsaw maintiance, crosscutting/snedding and felling small diamiter trees. taking my ariel rescue, climbing and chainsaw from a rope NPTC's in a few weeks (i have no problems with any of these as far as ability). Their seems to be only so much they can teach you at colleage and was looking for work either days of the weekend and wednesdays. I am very keen to work and learn, also to expand and hone my current techniques. i work well as a groundsman as well but would prefer the majourity to be climber work, i own my own harness, ropes ect which i wouldnt mind using at work. but i may be leaving to NZ in 4months time. ideal job would be with a small company, climbing with an experienced tree surgon who can teach while i work. as i said befor i have basic experience on pruning, reducing, thinning and dismantelling. south surrey area. :wave:

cobra bracing seems to merit cable bracing in every aspect. allows movment in all directions, non invasive, thickening growth. bracing seems to be condemming the tree to be depandant on the brace, and allowing the limbs to become way to large, not to mention the obvious damage with putting bolts into and through the tree.

i wish i had my camera, but it wasnt just one or 2 the tree was say 50ft, pretty skinny cos of a fair bit of competition, and had about 9 or 10 of these reasonable 3m long limbs with no needles on at all. like i said i removed about 2 over a path way. left the others just incase, going back to top a leylandii on friday so i told the guy i wasnt 100% sure. is this just the natural growth of cedar or lebonon? when u look at larger trees it seems to have big but not many large limbs with big "plates" of needles on the end. and many many branch stubs up the stem. this is my first propper paid pruning job and i really dont wanna damage the tree by removing what seems like totally sound wood. and about the laterals, i didnt see any at all

what the hell is it seems to be the biggest question...

I was taking out a few storm damaged limbs today in a cedar of lebonan, and the guy asked me to take out any dead/dying limbs and branches that would come down in wind, so seeing a few with no needles and die back on the tips i started to remove the ones over the path. now looking at these branches, they had no needles on them, bark flaking on the tips ect. and typically these branches had no laterals, just a fan like at the tips. after taking the ends off and starting cutting hand held sections up to the tree stem, the wood seemed far from dead, had a very resiny smell about it and was a decent colour. what dose this mean? was i wrong in taking the branch off?

i miss my two lurchers. one lovley little norfolk lurcher pure white lovley dog. and a wolfhound greyhound cross (longdog) coal black, mean as anything. the ultimate ying and yang of appearance and personality as far as lurchers go. love ur god pete, what breeds she got in her?

just looking at some of those pictures was making my heat beat fast. they all seem HUGE. is it mainly dismantle jobs you get?

that was a mans sink cut. and boaring in for the back cut....pure genius

i really like my 180, considering i didnt pay any money for it and instead reduced the price of a job in exchange. remember im not running a company, just need a nice light weight saw i can use both on the ground and up the tree in pruning work. so far using it its not struggles much when cutting up limbs on the ground, using it later in the tree today to see how it handles.

nice, honey bros sells them for a rediclious amounts i think. would quite like one tho.

Thought id attempt to exploit the site for my own personal gain into finding out what the surf is/will be doing over the next week. Any one living in Devon or Cornwall near the coast (west) has any thing to say about the surf conditions down their i would be greatly appreciative. lost all trust in surf report sites from the last couple of times iv trusted them. all i need is approx height, how clean the waves are and offshore onshore wind, also location. thanx in advance.

yeah was taking some weight out, deadwooding and dismanteling some pretty large hung up storm damaged limbs today in a cedar. combined with the wet and all the moss and lichen on the tree i decided i needed a cambium saver. cedars seem really hard to take a pretty ragged one with alot of deadwood and make somthing beutiful looking. especially as this one has almost no growth on half of it.

very confused by the last comment.

whats the redicliously expensive one, £70 i think. yellow scabbard with intergrated legstrap?

hahahah, sapwood cuts, just like taking the ears out but deeeper and more angles right? i decided to drop as smaller top as i can, using vduben's tactic of peg climbing. looked at it better today, pretty small drop zone and im getting slightly worried about it falling into lower branches and rolling into precious things that will reduce my pay. tight gob is standard proceider for stuff like that ain it? make it jump off the stem when the hinge goes...

AHHHHHH YESSSS. just worked it out. contact spring slipped out its normal position on the master control. causing, must have been when he last used it. over the 6 months it didnt do any thing the spring settles into a new position so every time i tried to switch it off, it wouldnt slip on to the short circuit wire and instead just popped the shaft outta its pivot mount, causing imense frustration. in the end it was a simple case of bending the contact spring slightly so it all run smoothly again. sorry for the indepth account but its one of those times when u spend 2 hours trying to work somthign out then it all suddenly makes sense. to bad my girlfreind got pissed off and bored with me an hour ago and fell asleep....

ok this is really annoying me, looked at the manual for the master controll with no joy. its not realyl the fact that its not working as such, its just the master controll lever wont go into the off position. its only it hovers around it but their is no difinitive click or secure hold in it. seems i can only set it at on which is constantly is half choke and full choke. but it wont click into off and stop.

judging from all these pics, i got a balistic browning career to look foward to in arb. sketchest tree iv worked on so far was a snow gum with a 2cm deep drought crack in the stem...

harsh monday pete. Priced 2 tree jobs up, got my first chainsaw, considered doing some colleage assignments, started packing car for devon surf trip. arbtalk..