Will Ayers

well... thats bloody impressive! used to free climb years ago as a teenager, but since working in trees i haven't done any. amazing skills! have you ever rock climbed? i saw a mad old boy on stanage free soloing everything!

saw a similar rescue set up at a comp in the new forest a few years back, never saw a rescue though, i was up the work climb tree being a tech. anyone remember that one? what did they do?

:lol:Love it!

i want one!

when a bit of tree does something humiliating like bitch slap you, or go up your nose, or whip your sack, or try and remove a contact lens. it gets a stare, sometimes a slap back and then a quick removal everytime. i thought it might just be me that got so upset when a tree tried to humiliate me. thank god i need no longer hold back, next time i get a slap from a twig i'll show it what i think with pride! cue one lankyk, noisy tree surgeon throwing a hissy fit up a customers tree!

the appreciation from the boss is key to success, you'll be happy earning whatever, to a degree, if you feel like you achieved and done a good days work. the other day i reduced a load of lombardy poplars and then a whopper of a lime, by the time i'd fannied around in the tree tidying up and getting hangers out, it was properly dark, the boss turned up and said what a cracking job i had done and that i had done better than he expected. maybe it was just because it was dark and he couldnt see, but either way it made me proud and i didnt begrudge working late. the groundie i was with got a hand shake from me for a cracking days work and we all went home happy. if the boss hadn't of showed his appreciation i could of gone home feeling tired and rubbish!

i want one! need to find a fabricator who'll build me on of those!...... oooooh peeeeete?

i climb on armor prus and a VT all on poison ivy i think steve was on armor prus and imori last time i saw him climb and he climbs on a vt too! the vt is a great hitch, it allows you to have a stiff solid hitch or a super "sporty" slippery one depending on how many turns you give it and how you set it up. just make sure you give it a test before you use it at work, you need to constantly look at the hitch to make sure it is set to grab, if not it is prone to slipping. once your used to it though it is awesome. hope this helps

if you look at the new fandangled arbtalk knot guide it'll all be in there

i think i would go for a more free running hitch the swabich looks like it would be prone to binding, espescially after being loaded.

if i need to get to sleep i ask my wife how her day was:lol:

sounds like you need to play around with your hitch rather than your rope? what hitch do you climb on? is the rope really dirty? i think if you swapped ropes youd be dissapointed as you'd probably get the same problem if you keep the same hitch configuration. that said my tachyon is quicker to run through the hitch as it doesnt fuzz up the same as imori or poison ivy do. but i think that is of little consequence realy. id say play around with your hitch before replacing the rope!

i have some of the Teufelberger tachyon hi vee stuff, i like it. but my main line is poison ive which i love, think i'll try out a bit of imori next though!

i love sub contracting, PPE and saws are a must. i cant expect other people to pay for them, yeah so they get wrecked, thats why we earn so much, things get broke! and you have to be as happy with a day on the ground as you are spinning around a canopy, i charge £130 a day and feel that is fair. i'm going to have to put my rates up for some of my further away firms in the new year as fuel is eating in to my rates too much, but im sure they'll be more than happy to pay it as i work my hardest to ensure we go home having done what was on the list and regularly more! a subby can never begrudge the amount a firm is making in a day or for that matter, how much others on site are earning. that is your job, to make money for other people. if your good at it, you deserve a bigger cut. but that takes time effort and experience before your good enough to get proper money. im investing money in some more gear that i think will make work easier, new rigging gear and a little tipper for extra chip capacity on jobs. i think once those things are in place i can easily charge £150 a day if not more for those far away jobs.

Ha ha well this is a rum one eh! When my wife stitched my hand up, and my arm for that matter, she was a nearly qualified doctor! whom loved her job and sadly used me as a guinee pig many a time! She kept a good eye on the stitches and would have sent me off to the gp at my convenience if she thought there was a problem. The procedure carried out in the front room last night, was sadly, likely to be more sterile than A&E. Carried out by a GP trainee (read as, quallified for 3 and a half years with the letters DR in front of her name) who has had experience for six months in the A and E department. They would of done exactly the same in there. Maybe my innitial post was misleading! my question obviousely aroused a differing level of concern around these small contusions we manage to inflict upon our selves. i find it interesting that some people are content to DIY it while others feel a hospital is a must! personally i have spent way too much time in hospital waiting rooms to let a cut send me in! and i'm a massive wimp about injuries! i dont believe there is a right or wrong here, although if the wound is anything more sinister than just skin or is at all awkward looking with jagged rough edges, i'd definitely reccomend a trip to the pro's! i bet theres some doctors out there with some stories, guys coming in with staples holding fingers on etc. be careful people, its best if we dont need any stitches at all:biggrin:

well he's all back together now, pictures to follow another day. too late to start uploading now! I'm actually jealous of pete's stitches, when my wife did mine she was a student but now she's a fully quallified doctor and having done a 6 month placement in A&E as part of her GP training, she seems to have learnt a trick or two, like using local anaesthetic..... very gucci! poor old pete. on the mend now though! and if you were wondering, he knocked his hand on a sharp bit of metal in the workshop and put a lovely 2 inch cut in the back of his hand, resulting in 5/6 lovely stitches

years ago i cut my hand with an axe and my dutiful wife, then a medical student, stitched it together for me. then after an accident with a hedge cutter she again patiently put me back together. i'm now cleaning the kitchen table for the imminent arrival of a friend who is looking for a few stitches in the back of his hand, and has heard we do a great line in home made "personalised" stitches. what are peoples views on these home remedies. has anyone had the same. and as a side note, isn't it strange how many tree surgeons end up with partners in the medical industry! i know a fair few!

the crodas at least have some ben in them the trangos are an ice boot, i have a pair of asolo ice boots which are equivalant and there is no bend at all! bit clunky for tree work i think

i stayed late while subbying to do the "can you just" job which was trimming up a pyrocantha, spikeyroo! not quite as epic or heroic, well done and good on yer! i hate the fact people drive past accidents like that!

to be able to control the wind when it was coming from the wrong way and help carry stuff out away from the grade 2 listed building between the sheds and over the pond! crane lifted fan maybe. ooh and a lightsabre with jedi powers so you could throw it down the hedge and get it to return to your hand, leaving a nice clean and even cut, job done!

this is just so sad! i wish there was something i could say to make things better for those affected and involved, but there isn't! rest in peace buddy.

ok sorry i meant charcoal, but dont people make it from chestnut coppice? this guy is on about making charcoal from things other than wood, he has made a massive prototype using a shipping container and some whirlygigs and a spoon.... or something like that, but the thing got too hot and it all went wrong, he asked me to come on here and ask the pro's for some advice, he is a mad scientist who isnt afraid of experimenting so could be fun for someone if they are interested. his other inventions have been really succesful and he owns several businesses, propper dragons den type! does anyone know of a charcoal guy or knows a bit about building kilns for making charcoal with, any help would be great.

hello people. I dunno whether this has been coveredbefore, or if anyone can point me in the right direction, but i need the advice from someone who has good experience in making coal. Specifically making a coal making device!?!?! i am asking for an aquaintance who is interested in building a specialised coal production thingmy so if you are the person or know of someone then who is either post it on here or PM me please, could be a good business opportunity in there somewhere! many thanks Will.

i could get there steve,m as long as you still dont need a chip truck. possibly could tie it in with work i have out that way

im sure your right that because of low cutting speed and perhaps poor maintanance these saws will kick back more often, however im sure the kickback will be less severe than from a petrol engine. i could be wrong. perhaps the saw is more prone to kicking as the power is delivered in a way that the chain is less likely to stop in the cut as a petrol saw might but is more likely to push out of the cut. all i know for sure is that i dont like them. i think if your not confident and comfortable with a proper saw then you shouldn't be using any saw, this isn't saying leccy saws dont have their place.