Rupe
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Thats why they don't come with two eye splices!! No they are not pre stretched. Thats a job for you. Some ropes milk a lot less and blaze is one of the worst for it but its not a fault of manufacter.
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Where else would you milk it from, the middle?? You can easily get a meter of sheath if you milk it hard enough, and this should be done to prevent the sheath hocking up in the middle. There wasn't a meter of rope with no core, there was just a meter extra sheath than core, its not dangerous if you inspect your kit.
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Floating anchor for lowering rope retrieval
Rupe replied to Big 'Ammer's topic in Rigging and roping
Sure, and you can't have too many pulleys! -
Stihl do another one, with an arm that reaches over your shoulder to hold whatever tool your using.
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Stihl do one for their pole pruner, its in the catalogue
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Floating anchor for lowering rope retrieval
Rupe replied to Big 'Ammer's topic in Rigging and roping
The pulley makes it smoother but is not necessary. Buying one for that purpose seems a bit OTT. Using a spare one makes sense. If I don't have a spare one then just tieing the rope to the cut off piece will do, you can help control the swing, using a 9 if necessary, then goundie joind both ropes together to retrieve. -
Martyn.. Try these http://fatflyers.com/ One of their offices is 100m up the road from my house, they always look busy! If you have any trouble I can go up and sort em out!!
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Good point about the root plate of the tree!! It could have taken the MEWP with it!! It felt safe that way and the job got done. More mewp pics soon.......
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I've used (or been part of a crew, using) many types of winch, but don't have access to much these days. If a job definatly suited a winch then I would let that job go to someone who did that kind of thing. If I got a pint or a favour in return then all good, but I stick to what I know. Good point barney! I had to tip in some ends to avoid the septic tank thingy. Lopping off whole branches in one would have been fine while climbing but tryign to avoid the tank would have been harder, although a vertical speed line would have done it. Anyway, there it is. Next job...........
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Ermm, not backwards I don't think. from the back the ground slopes down to a small stream and no access to the other side of the stream. MAybe to the side, 90 degree to the lean, like towards the camera in the first shot, towards the driveway. I have little experience with such things so I wouldn't have done it that way. They did ask a forester bloke with all the winches etc to look at it and he said maybe but wasn't keen. So I was asked to do it the way I know. But in theory yes, I'm sure someone could have done it with a winch but I wouldn't as its not my area of expertise. Also the company can only use someone with suitable HSE approved paperwork. Mine does not include the use of tractor mounted winches so I would never be able to offer them that method.
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Yep, thats it!
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Skyhuck wrote "As I have said many times before I do not calculate my prices by working out my costs and adding a wage, I try to work out the "price" a job has, as I feel all jobs have their price, and the do the job in the most cost effective manor, creating as bigger gap between my costs and the price as I can, it works for me. But others must do what works for them!" I absolutly agree with you there!! We are on the same page, this was just an instance where the client got me a mewp, the wrong one, I got another and posted some pictures. My main aim in life is to undercut those who use unecessary equipment or just put in high prices due to a non-existant "high risk". Especially those who quote to use a crane. If I can do the job without a crane and pocket half of what a crane might have cost on top of the price for the job then thats all good. I won't pretend I need a crane/mewp and then not use it as I often have to put forward a method statement along with a price.
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Bump. Never got round to this one for various reasons. Its still standing, will do it soonish....
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You wouldn't do that to your best client would you? You would have to quote for the job and add the mewp then not use it? I don't quote for jobs here, they know what I charge if I suddenly added the price for mewp they'd know I was up to something. They insisted on MEWP use, safety first and all that and they paid for the Genie which went back unused, paid for my time trying to use the genie, paid for the second platform and my time the second time round, then took me off round the estate to look at more work and paid for my time then aswell. I look after customers like that.
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A few months ago it had a little bit of a lean, enough for me to know which one they meant by "leaning pine tree by the cottage". But since then it had moved a lot. Any risk assessment should involve considering a mewp and if the customer will pay for it then why not! Climb it or not, its not important, the jist is if your going to use a mewp then get the right one.
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I doubt it will resprout after stump grinding!! Usual rate is £350/day.
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The second one? It a tuepen gt 23
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No its not! A short day with the right MEWP job done, no worries. I never set foot on the tree, no need for rigging just dropped each branch and then chogged it. Crane would have had to park even further away and then it block the road, and you'd still need a mewp to make the cuts.
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A week later we finish it off with the right tool. Lesson learned, sort your own MEWP out from now on Rupe!
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I need a better MEWP, the estate manager (who I'm working for) says he can get me a tracked one but they are 1000 quid minimum hire!! I call my usual MEWP bloke down the road and arrange my own for a week later. We spend the day deadwooding beech and get paid for a full day. LIke I say its my best client!
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In the second pic above you can see the trees trunk behind the mewp, its leaning directly towards the camera. Thats as close as I can get and stay on hard standing. In the end I parked it on the rootplate of the Thuja tree that my head is lost in. It does not feel safe and at full reach I can only cut 2-3 feet off some branches two thirds of the way up the tree.
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This is the MEWP they got me... its tall enough but I can't get it anywhere near the tree.
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second picture shows all that is visible above ground of the new tank. Its much bigger below ground and of course the ground all around is especially soft due to the excavations let alone wet weather.
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Got a call from my best commercial customer. They have a leaning tree which is suddenly leaning a lot more. I know which tree they mean as I've seen it before, its lean is not too bad. Since I last saw it they have installed a huge septic tank under it which involved lots of excavation work. The tank is more than just a tank apparenyly, its 10 grands worth of **** organising treatment centre. I'm geussing I'll need a MEWP, and they have always provided me with one when needed. I can't quite remember how far the tree is from the driveway but they assure me they get a big enough MEWP.
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Ok so its not the system thats stupid but the fact that it can be so misinterpretated (sp)
