Rupe
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Thats cool, didn't resize it at all! AT did it all, easy, will do some more later. Food first!!
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Lets see if this works
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Even a zoomed in one needs resizing! This is narcacism at its best!
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Yep!! Most saw will do that in beech trees though, unless you can sharpen them perfect, which I can't. As long as its EEC approved bananas its ok. These photos look so much better on the photographers Apple fance better then HD res screen thing!
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Arb talk will do it down to 400x 600 I think but only if they go in small enough, so I normally don't need to bother. I've not fully decided on the quickest method yet, but I have paint shop pro that will reduce them either by a percentage (and let AT do the rest) or directly to the required size.
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Ok, the second one got resized by arbtalk ok, so less need for me to do it. But actually the original file for this one was not too big, it seems only some are huge files. I'll put some more up one day, but there are 1600 of them so it will take me while to choose half a dozen ok ones, some are awsome though and might not appear on this site just yet. Nearly 200 of them are of the dog!!
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And another size
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I finally got hold of some proffesional pictures taken in December, lucky I wasn't paying for them!! This is just a test to see how they look resized on here, they are 20M pixels to start with and 13Mb so need to be reduced wuite a bit.
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Good stuff Jerry! I'd have him do stunt fells for me all day long!
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Yes that would help a bit, but more importantly if it goes down the back, over larger and larger branches, this could stop you from ripping the tope of the tree clean off!! i.e. in a fail, the lower branches would take up the load until eventually the tree stops breaking. Useful if you are tied in above the TIP. We use this quite often, havign the lowering rope run up the back of a weak tree so that in the case of failure the climbers journey to the ground would at least be slower!
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Tims diagram make sense to me, but I sure that more force is required at the base to get the same tension in the rope, so the force now applied at the new angle (red line) is higher than what would have been applied in the first diagram. Taking it further, franks method would work (in reducing sideways pull) but the resulting downward force on the tree would be immense far greater than from simply lowerign a load, so the tree could fail due to the compression force
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I'm unsure too, so am equally happy to learn something. I agree with what your saying peter. If you apply the same load through the pulley then the sideways force is less. But to achieve the same tension in the line (before any load is carried) is less efficient when tensioning at the ground so more force is required overall for the same effect, but yes there still would be less sideways force, and if the ground tensionign was at an oppoiste angle to the load then it would create downward force only.
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Ok, I see the edit. now, so the sideways force is decreased due the downward force cancelling it out?? Is that correct?
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I'm not sure about that. My simple mind thinks that tensioning at the base of the tree is less efficient, so to get the same tension in the speedline part of the rope, more tension is required to be applied at the base. This then means there are two forces acting on the top of the tree, these forces may partly cancel each other out but overall I think the force would be greater. As I said this is only my perception, I may be wrong but I'd need it explained to me in simple terms to understand.
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90 minutes of grown men pretending to be hurt, no thanks. At least in rugby they pretend to not be hurt!
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I should bring you your ascenders back at least.
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I do agree, reductions are in the most part pointless form the trees point of veiw, thats why I don't really post pictures of such work. Also I always forget either the "before" or the "after" shot! In small gardens its the customers desire for something that creates the work, not the tree itself, we just provide what they want. The only surprising thing here is that I got the job in the first place, I explained my prefferred method and they went for it, so the tree got a gentle touch. Its not often that that happens on these smaller jobs where folk just want more off for their money. Good for them I say, and they are v. happy with the results and thanked me for not ruining their tree. Very occasionally the public surpise me and it has cheered me up this week!
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I think I'm on another stag weekend, will check!
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Is that the AA show one?
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Yes, hope so. I fully intended to come on sunday, but did myself in due to the heat really! Did 2 thirds of the welsh 3000 and felt like crap, so I went home!! Took till monday to feel right again!
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660 with oversized drive sprocket and 20 inch bar for everything?
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I wanted to call in on sunday, but I made myself Ill in north wales on saturday and went home instead!
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You not competign then Peter? How many did compete?
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Isn't this what we do for a living? The ££££££ are a vital part of that.
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For one time only I'll put up boring pics of a reduction. This was previously reduced 10 years ago, had recovered well with a little decay but getting bigger and denser. Customer had already obtained full permision for 3-4m reduction all over but I said I wouldn't be that harsh, just remove long leaders thoughout and lift and thin etc. Got half a truck full of chip off it, but only really reduced the overal size by small amount.
