Rupe
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Don't you need the top ascender to move independantly of the croll?
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You only need the URL not the embed code. Arbtalk embeds it for you.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Fd_B_P82M&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Top half of poplar removal[/ame]
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No, you should of had more rope!! It was the coolest thing I ever saw, your my hero! It is a good method, but there are many methods all with their own advantages/disadvantages. A floatign false crotch is great for working one side of a tree on you way up and can eliminate the need to ever get to the top, so if that suits the work you are doing then perfect. If you are going to work the whole tree then footlock or srt is more efficient and you can still work a bit on your way up. In my video I couln't get my throwline into a perfect TIP, so there was always going to be some climbing to get to where I wanted to be but I didn't struggle up because og no friction saver, I struggled up with a pantin and ascenders instead!
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Well sort of. In that video its a rope guide instalation (a pulley saver as you call it) but I've footlocked up to that point using a pre installed line set from a throwline. So no different to Str and then installing a saver and way better than installing a saver from the ground and then body thrusting up. And yes, I did work the tree on the way up, I cut many small frithy bits off, but of course I couldn't cut anything major off until I had got to the top and installed the rigging system.
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Sure yes that is good and can be used in many situations. The whole point of SRT though is efficient access to the crown. Replacing that with a Ddrt system defeats the object. It would work on jobs where you only need to work off a few low branches on one side of the tree. I think I saw noddy doing this same thing in the first climbing comp I ever went to in 2002, except he footlocked up one line and had another Ddrt system waiting for him once up there.
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Ok, then the hitch failled or was wrong. The Pantin cannot be at fault because its not vital, if that makes sense? My pantin fails all the time, or I get tired of using it, whatever, I don't end up up side down.
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You were using the pantin wrong then!! Its an aid, not a point of atachment. Hand ascenders are good for SRT, I use them from time to time, a place for everything, and everything in its place.
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I use a pantin for going up any distance so don't worry about it too much. I have tried it extended away from me using the "O rig" method, but I'm so bad at tieing friction hitches that I worry they won't bind when needed, so I prefer to keep them well within arms reach.
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Just onto the ring on the treemotion harness.
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I can't find the slings on line, but they were from proclimber, made by cresto, and they are an awesome 750kgs SWL, so I'm happy using them for most situations.
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Err, gecko carbon firbre spikes
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No. Tim Bendal is a trainer/assessor at some colleges in the area. Top bloke, don't think he's ever been on here.
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Sometimes you do the easy bits first to make space to rig the difficult bits into, but the rigging must be set up with the difficult bits in mind. And set up before you start cuttign bits off, even if you think you know where yo want to set up its sometimes best to have an option to go for plan B if required.
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I may be confusing myself then, not osmosis but similar. Any how Shrek, you got dry logs, yay!!!!
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Sure, pressure required in commercial freeze drying just to speed up the process, but the principle is the same with the logs, and low pressure wouln't necessarily be required, moisture in the logs would move into the atmosphere around it due to osmosis, and a high pressure (weather type) wouldn't stop this.
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Hence the term "freeze dried" !!??
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Definatly, moisture can't exist in cold air, so very cold weather is always dry. Hence we always moan about the cold when its -2 and damp, yet when it gets to -10 ish its so much drier that body temp doesn't get conducted through the air as well and so it doesn't immediatly feel so cold, yet of course it is!
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Sure, I was drinking the devils advocaat, I don't know all the facts. Like I said at the end, if you get them to agree the new price then good for you, otherwise its down to experience. Your always going to feel like you failed though if you go to the customer cap in hand.
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Re negotiatign with the client is all well and good, but if they had two or more quotes and yours was the cheapest but the re neg takes you over the price of all the other quotes then they are not going to agree to any extra. If I was the client, I would ask you to leave site and I'd call the next company to re quote. If you can't do what you said you would do for the money then thats called a FAIL. Pay for the MEWP yourself and learn from it. Thats general advice only, of course if they go the re negotiated price then good for you and more fool them.
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I'm guessing you have already removed whatever could have been used as a rigging point? Even if there is no central leader you can still make a rigging point out of two other low leaders. Also you can rig the but end of the branch so it cant go anywhere if it does break. Rope and ratchet straps will do to tension stuff up. If the original plan was to rig the branch of itself then this seems like a poor plan, but one the you would use as a last resort. In which case it should have been dealt with first, or at least assessed first. If the tree is alive and the branch hasn't fallen off yet on its own then you should be ok. Have you got an anchor point for climbing? Or has that gone already too? Words can't explain it really so I'm only guessing. Photos would be good?
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That link won't work. Cotswold site is a weird one, you can't link to individual pages or items!
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Almost any decent fabric ankle walking boot will be good for climbing. Solomon for example do a few models around 90 quid that will be way better than any chainsaw boot. IMO scarpas are worth the extra though.
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No sugar for me, sweet enough and all that!! I am fairly addicted to tea though, I've adapted a bottle carrier on my mtb to hold the lifeventure flask, got to have tea on the winter bike rides!
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Mine fit in the pocket of my stretchairs. Sometimes its the one I left the house with in the morning and sometimes its fresh one. Will stop when the clocks go forward!! Water from then on I'm promising myself!!
