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This one of bobs looks good too! Notice that the pulley is on the end of the rope and the ring is on the friction hitch part. Its an interestign variation.

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An experienced climber should be able to take a tree down calmly and safely. If your on a white knuckle ride I think your doing something wrong. Well put! I know where he's coming from too, and hopefully he knows that having a bit of fun at his expense is par for the course on Arbtalk. If your going to put yourself out there as the great big tree taker downer for nothing then you will get poked at!

Please don't patronise us, do you really think we need your help?? I wouldn't allow anyone on site who's in it for the adrenaline. This is a proffessional business, there is work to be done and it gets done withough any yee har ing or adrenalin inducing risk taking. If you want adrenalin go skydiving at the weeknends or something else like everyone else does. The problem with doing work for nothing is that you have "nothing" to lose. If you screw up you could walk away from it. I'd rather employ someone who needs the money and is careful in there work in order to ensure further money in the future.

Sure, mine too, but last year I bought from them at the APF, (cut from the reel) and no serial numbers. Not a problem though, I mark them myself. It would never be a problem at a comp though as far as I'm aware.

I might have?

Stevie, don't put him off! After all not many people on here can manage those really big trees that I've heard of. We might need his help one day. Whatta guy, he must be like so brave and that!

Did anyone at the comp have their gear failed cos the lable was missing? Loler requires kit to be indentifiable. It doesn't have to be labeled by the supplier although that is a seperate requirement. Lets say you buy a rope with a label on one end but you nick the rope with a handsaw 1m from the end. The rope would fail Loler becaus of the nick. So you cut the 1m off and chuck it along with the lable. That does not mean that the rest of the rope is unusable or that it will fail Loler inspection. I agree ropes should be labeled by the supplier esecially if cut from a reel, but that rarely happens at trade shows and thats ok. Oh. Well done on going to the WTCC.

What comps have you been to where you've had to have labels on your rope? Anyone inspecting gear will know what it is and if its suitable, then as long as the condition is good that is all that matters.

Yes, nearly. You don't need to do one as good as drews. You don't have to splice anything either. All you want is a pulley up the tree to run your rope through. That can be done very cheaply i.e the cost of the pulley only, and any rated pulley will do. The petzl fixe would work fine. Tie it onto a prussik loop, then tie the prussik on another bit of ropewith a big bowline at one end with hose pipe on it to keep it open. Then you need a retriever on the other end. HAve you got any spare pulleys already?

Have you thought about making one?

Ok, learn something new everyday! Do cameras not have an internal memory that will buffer the information if there is a delay getting it onto the card? Computers have one, can't remember whats its called though. I guess only top end cameras would have it as they would be the only ones that need it.

No such thing as a spare ropeguide! I've got 2 and use both and would happily have another.

Really? I can't see how, its just storage space there is no "processing" going on, thats all done in the camera? I'm not sure I know anything, so I'll happily be wrong. But the headcam in question is not HD or anywhere near it, so I doubt the card would make any difference. Personally though I still think its all a con. Like when they try and sell you better cables for digital hi-fi stuff. digital is digital it either works or it doesn't you can't have a better or worse digital signal. But thats cables its a different thing, but similar.

As far as I know 8gb is 8gb, you can't have a better 8gb than another. I'm guessing its just branding, using "HD" to get an extra few quid of you. Don't know much about batteries though!

Conway, I don't mean to be negative but CS tickets won't teach you anything aout tree surgery or "arboriculture". How are you going to set up on your own? Do you know every species of common trees in this country? Can you price up jobs so that you get them insteasd of the company down the road thats been doing tree work forever? And can you then do the work fast enough to make a profit and enough extra to repay your sponsor? I know of folk setting up on their own after doing the ten week tree surgery courses and that seems crazy enough but to do it with only the cs tickets is a disaster waiting to happen, probably only a financial disaster. The climbing tickets will only show that you can climb a tree safely, they won't actually teach you how to climb every type/size of tree or what to do once up there. The chainsaw ticket will show you can cut things safely but it won't teach you which things to cut or why. Get a job with a company for a year at least, then you can get the kit together during that year instead of all at once before you have any work to do.

Yep, warmer weather, bettery batteries, screen off, spare batteries in pocket, it will be fine! Hope to use it on the next beech tree job.

I just fiddles around with it but no improvement. I might call them, I'd be interested to hear what they say if you call them first. Its weird how it picks upthe "clicking" of karabiners quite nicely but not the sound of the saw! Have you used yours much? What do you think so far?

Sure if if you can reach round to it, or your just chucking it over a branch that you can't be bothered climbing back over then its simple and easy. Longer retrievals need a bit of pre planning and then don't always work.

Plenty!

Yes, nothing more to it than that. Its only impressive if done from one side of the canopy to the other through/over many limbs, saving a massive re climb.

It still gets stuck! Have to not do it up too tight.

I'm not overly bothered by the sound quality. Editing sound is really hard its much more likely to have a music soundtrack in the future.

Definatly not self taught, learned that one a while back, probably form one of european harness designing friends.