Rupe
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Sold. 40 quid scrap!!
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Not knocking you. hourly rate is all irrelevant as it depends on what kit you have. 40 and hour is good for a climber or groundy, but these guys on here with there mogs and the biggest trees in the world ever need to make much more than that and more than I need to earn too.
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Well in that case you didn't earn 10 quid in 15 minutes, you did the work for nothing and he gave you a tenner, nice!
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Thats only 40 quid an hour? I wouldn't leave home for that. 400 quid in half hour once, police escort to site too! Branch failed over busy road traffic held up in both direction, police brought me to the front of the queue from miles away. The branch was a whole upright stem of beech leaning into another beech and towards the road. I climbed the good beech and cut one branch off and the whole leanign section collapsed into the verge and a bit in the road. The land owner had employees there to clear up I went home!
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Did you actually watch the video. Missed the point somewhat me thinks!.
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Yesterday.
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Drew, have you seen ones that use a piece of wire inside the spliced eye to keep it open? They work well for releasing, don't know how easy it is to get the wire in there though!
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Its 12 foot long! I take it no one wants its then!
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No, adding a roller shutter tool box. the overhang will be the same as on a crew cab tipper. (almost)
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I'm taking the dropside back off this truck and it will go to the scraper unless I can sell it for a few quid. Its steel and the wooden bed inside has seen better days! I know we all use tippers but I might as well offer it here just in case. Also the light board at the back and the spare wheel carrier are coming off and will be for sale if anyone wants them.
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Yey, more pink boots, just what we all need!!!!!
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I say go for it. A mans got to have a project. Whats the worse that could happen? It turns out to be rubbish? Never mind sell it on e bay or put the tipper back on.
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I had a quick go with your method the other day day Marc and the Rads bit works well as it has done in the past but adding the footloop to the ascender does not work IMO. YOu are lifting yourself on the footloop then takign in slack when the whole point is that the rads system allows you to keep a taught line and have a 3;1 system. The footloop negates these two points, I still don't get why its needed. Rads is perfectly good for its purpose. Srt using frog method is great too but for different purpose. rads with footloop still seems to be neither.
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All things in small stages. Start with one pantin and exhaust the limitations of it before addign any further complications. (IMO)
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I'm not sure thats really "self tending" its works but you are still having to pull the rope through the knot, just so happens that its all done with the same movement that is pulling you up the tree. I find true self tendign only really happens when quite high up and walking back in on a limb. The vt has gone slack enough and there is enough weight of rope below you. If the vt is self tending while pulling yourself up a vertical rope in free space away from the trunk then I would think that the vt is too slack and might not grip in an emergency. This scenario is where a pantin on one foot is a great help, it saves burning your arms out. Against the trunk or on spikes it is still usefull but maybe not as much. If you are in free space with spikes on then its even better because footlocking the tail end is not possible with spikes, or if it is its not much fun!
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Yes, it works well, as long as there is enough rope below to pull the slack through but it doesn't need much. Can be put on over spike too. Is very handy but you'll be using one leg too much and you end up not just pullign the slack through because one leg is stronger than both your arms you end up usign your leg strength more.
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It says over 750kgs... It look like an old PTO chiper with an engine taken from something else bolted on the side of it. You can see some kind of fittings where the engine should bolt into a gearbox or clutch casing.
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Er yes, what you cut might make a difference and milling is the dustiest thing you can do!!
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Good enough, but for easy maths replace 7:1 with 10:1 and metals for ppe should be 10:1 also. My previos calc was wrong then you were right swl 600kgs for that thing. Still a bit high IMO. Anyway of you go by the straps 10% of the MBS would do. For the money it looks good to me, I've used home made stuff, still have one somewhere and never worried about SWL and stuff much, just use your common. Sound liek brian is still goign to be natural crotchign anyway so that takes alot of the strian away form the device and into the rope which will probably break before the bollard does.
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Its all the same filter isn't it? Not got mine to hand though so can't check.
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I've just recently installed the HD filter to the O66, big improvement. Will get oen for the 460 when I'm next at the shop.
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CE markis only for selling. SWL is what is important and it is usually a tenth of Minimum breakign strain (MBS) as we all know. So if that thing has been tested to 3t then it has a SWL of 300kgs. So 100kgs snatched onto it is a no no!! The straps in th epicture are not supplied but personally I would just take the SWL of whatever straps you use and stick to that Those holes might break out but I would geuss the strap would go first.
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Ha ha ha!! Nice rope used in the demo pic. SWL 100kgs tops.
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Yes your right, but I just want to advance to grand master of cantankerousness...
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Slicx. Are you tied to him for the three days a week? The same three days every week? If so then you shouldn't be self employed either. He coudl easily employ you part for those three days a week. I doubt you'd pay any tax beign a student and as for holiday pay, well you will be entitled to some and that comes form him paying you a little less each day and not from paying you for days your not working like soem bosses seem to think it is. If your happy beign self employed thne fine, I don't want to stree you anymore than I have! But being SE means that you should tell him waht days you want to work and when and work for others too. Supplying your own PPE is fine. Employed or otherwise thats abetween you and the employer, his only responsibility is to ensure you wear it.
