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They are based on the same industrial estate as me. I have used them a bit, they are good for embroidery and corporate stuff. They do minimal tree work stuff to, supplied by fletcher stewart so they could get you anything and embroider it for you! Gloves etc. Sevsafe have a better range IMO. I use Mapa ultrane gloves at 1.66 a pair, they last for ages, well a couple of weeks or so.

Its just under the right of the canopy, just touching. So will need to take care but shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Looking from inside the garden. This is roughly the intended set up, although it actully runs diagonally away from the veiwpoint so the right hand blue and red are further away and the left hand blue is closer. Yellow is a large ISC pulley. This will be the final pulley for large lumps. The two blue ones are medium ISC pulleys. These are the actuall lowering points, away from the trunk and one for each side of the tree. The red one is then the extra temporary lowering point, and this will be moved or removed as required. The tail end of the rope goes through a fairlead pulley and down to the winch. One this is set up it can be easily reversed to work the other side. This method is great for distributing weight throught the crown.

So the first thing I wanted to get done was this overhang over the front entrance. I've marked the section I want to remove first. The red upright is the stem overhanging the front and I want to remove whats above the red T line. I've done it in red cos that matches the pulley I'll use for that section. This should all become clear eventually!

The main targets below are the railing fence and the nice expensive cotswold stone pillars! The tree overhangs these railing quite a bit. To the rear it is easier but still there are shrubs and hedges to be avoided. What I would usually do it start at the easiest point and make a space in the crown and then rig all the tricky stuff round into that space. Problem here is that that space would be 20+ meters away from the tricky bits which are too low to swing round that far. Also there is a risk of us getting delayed by weather (thats why I'm home today typing this!!!!) and the easy stuff is all away from the house and I promised the client that if we left it un finished that we would not leave just the stuff overhanging the house!

As you can see the crown is quite dense, not massively tall but quite wide.

After some delays with planning issues and weather we finally started this Beech tree removal this week but are off due to snow again today. So I'll post the whole lot so far. This may be really boring but I'll try and explain what is going on so that it may be of interest to some and load of old hat to others. Start off with nice pictures of the tree!

Chucking it t down here again! Much warmer and wetter than last time though, hopefully it won't last!

Not exactly new. I've had the same avatar for about 6 years or more, thought I'd add my new work logo to it for a slight change!

Hope you mend soon! What have you actually damaged? Srt might put extra force on the anchor branch, but the back up of the other branches must compensate for that. That anchor was weak either way, so srt was good choice under the circumstances.

He's got good feedback etc. I agree, he's just not very good at selling.

How's her husband going to get fed if she's out on the road all the time?

You'd thinlk he take out into the yard and take some decent photos! He's not overly helpful with questions either! Something not right!

I can vouch for Owen then Kiwi. Probably the best freelance climber available at the moment in the UK. You definatly wouldn't need two climbers for the job!

When is the first branch ever too high to get a line over??

How much UK stuff do you want?

I'll send you whatever you like in return for some AP.

There isn't a general rule that rope and cord have to be different diameters to grip and work efectivly! It depends on the knot and the application. Split tails are larger diameter (and often equal to rope diameter) because they are used (primarily) for blakes and open prussik hitches and these hitches work well with similar diameters as long as its in a Ddrt system. In rock climbing, prussik loops are used for self rescue on single ropes, in this instance a significant differnece in diameters is required because full body weight is appplied onto the loop which is not the case in our Ddrt systems. The with Vt's and other fancy hitches a difference in diameter is required but there are no hard and fast rules for this, it depends on so many variables.

Yes, and in normal use (as designed by petzl) there is no need for this to be officially load bearing but arbos use things differently. There are a coupel of really neat ways of tieing VT's and distels etc using the becket!

Yep, but the becket (bridge) on the fixe was never "officially" load bearing.

rarely even take them out to jobs except hedge trimming. But will if the tree is dense or Lombardys stuff like that.

If its only half a cube then 50 quid for ash is ok, if its anything over half a cube then bargain and if it really is a cube then a very good deal IMO.

Tony, I've seen that at Comps before, old news mate! It was one upmanship on Gavin old wheelbarrow that he used to use whilst everyone else has beech rolleys! I can't remember where I saw it, Brussels I think or Nantes, not sure but it was cool!

That wasn't mine, I just posted for Gerbutt who was having troubles up loading pics directly.

I get gunned plenty for many things, thats not a problem for me. I just think that there is no right or wrong with reductions, so posting pictures of your (ones) work is a bit pointless, un less your happy to get ripped to pieces for no reason cos generally that is what happens. No-one agrees on much cos its so objective (or subjective I'm not sure which) but then those who think something is ok will probably say its crap just to stir things up, so the conversation goes round and round and gets no where, but that is part of the fun of the forum I guess. From my point, I don't think I've said much about this reduction, because like I say its pointless, all I pointed out was that I don't think you listened to the customer very well. If you search through, you might find some reductions that have been posted by people with very little experience. Some of the pics are not the best work in the world but the generall responses are encouragement and praise, because that is what we do. Encourage the new guys and tell them they have done well, and then rip the old hands to peices cos they can take it and its fun!! You and I are old hands, well past needing anyone to tell us we've done a good job! Except when it comes in the form of genuine sarcasm from Tim!