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Ripping the bathroom out doesnt count, thats a hobby, I wish I had time for a hobby like that!

Its difficult to count really, I do 10 hours a day of actual work (4-5 days a week at the moment), but when I am home I am working as well and I have a lot of paperwork to do today but will interperse that with walking the dog and other sunday things so difficult to get an exact amount. Feels like a lot though!

The 2002 catalogue has both numbers in it (026 MS260 etc) so I guess that was the switch over year. 2001 is 026 etc and 2003 is MS260 etc.

And, what I meant to say aswell was, well done to those new companies!! Its a good process, I would recomend it to anyone who is considering it.

I know some of the different names in the states but didnt know you called planes Sycs. So do you have Sycamores? Or do you call them Maples? Some of the biggest (width and height) trees I have seen here are Planes and they look similar to yours. Sycs are sometimes big but not that big.

Planes not Syc's surely?

Got my first job via the AA website, and AAAC list last week! Quote accepted this week!! Only a small job, but quite a good start!

I think they are nearly fifty years old and never been reduced! Fellign them all and replanting with Leylandii (not a serious suggestion) would make a nicer hedge quicker than these lawson will ever look nice (Bad english there, sorry!!) Agreed, I dotn heve any photos either for exactly the same reason! Not worth photographing.

Multiple rigging points to spread the load and to increase the amount of rope in use, then GRCS or hobbs etc to ZERO (not reduce) the shock loading. If possible use vertical speedline for stem and tops to ZERO the negative rigging.

Yes, anything you can find would be good. You know how see through a perfectly executed hedge reduction can be, but customers dont get it!! The other day she (we) looked at the hedge and she put her arm up to cover the top third of the hedge and said I want it to look like what I can see under my arm! The other problem is that the trees are in a circle with very little greenery on the inside of the circle apart from the top third!! Its gonna look a mess!! I'll do it, but only if I can show some photos of how gappy it will look! Anything anyone has to show this would be mucho appreciated!

Hi all. I am after some help if possible, I need some pictures to show a client how her hedge might look once reduced. She has some lawson cypress, never been reduce before and she thinks they will look the same as they do now but smaller. I know she is a fussy customer and I want her to see that they will look gappy when done. I explained that some of the greenery below the line that she wants will be coming from the truncks of the trees above the line and will therefore be reomoved. Also, with the tope gone, light will come in and the gaps in the side will show up even more. She doesnt really get what I am saying so photos would help! I am not particularly trying to win this job, I would prefer to leave the trees or fell the lot, so bad photos are just as usefull, but before and after would be good. I just need to be able to show realistically what they might look like. Also, if anyone has bad photos that they would rather not show then pm me and I'll give an e mail to use and I promise they wont end up on this site!! Great hedge reduction phots might also be good, as long as they show how the remaining section never looks as dense as they (customers) think it would do.

Ignore the green ring, that is just how he likes to finish his VT, it has nothing to do with the O rig. Not sure what you mean with the rest, it is quite a simple set up, I use a ropeman instead of the small hitch. Its quite easy to change over TIP if you wanted to, just and extra hitch (or ropeman) to remove first thats all.

Three films this week! You have too much spare time! Someone asked me what I do in spare time and I said I cant remember!

Not sure thats the right definition of a fair lead? Imagine you had a sling between you and your hitch climber, so the hitch is away from you. YOu could pull on the lower bit of rope and you would ascend. The O rig makes it possible and the distance is adjustable. Very clever, but if you use a pantin then its not really necessary. When I first saw it (Beddes, climbing At Euro comp in Brussels) it was the coolest thing I had seen, but its uses are limited really, or at least there are other methods of achieving the same result. And wrope wrench is making all of this unecessary.

I use the other style with sewn in pockets rather than individual loops. The pockets on mine are 5kn but the whole things is rated at 22Kn so if the pockets ripped you would still be in a 22kn loop. It is quite a handy thing for all the things yhou mentioned but I dont think I like that grivel one TBH, looks tricky to store on a harness.

It moves the hitch away from you so you can pull on the rope below the hitch to make it advance, then you can pull the hitch back into its normal position again.

Next one for you then Steve, is "Let the right one in" Or the Girl with dragon Tattoo series is you havent already seen them.

I welcome recomendations for films for me to watch as well!

If they are outside the fence then just crack on with it! Dismantle them, you cant fell unless you have 2x safe distance so its a dismantle job, no worries. Dont climb over the fence though, and dont drop anything that side.

No one is disagreeing with that. Its not on the course though for the reasons mentioned. FAW course is a broad spectrum course for all types of workers in every proffession, there is no reason why celox or many other things should be included in the course, and those who go on the course and expect it to all be about them and them at work only are very shortsighted as to what an the course is all about. Its just here as a minimum standard for employees. Also if one of us walk into a chip shop or a garage or anywhere and witnesses an accident we should be able to grab the standard first aid kit (if we can see it somewhere) with the knowledge that the same stuff should be in there, and vice versa, maybe a client of ours (with FAW training) might grab our kit to help us one day, there shouldnt be anything extra in that green box. My certificate is valid for three years so if I change jobs and go work in an office I have the same certificate there as anybody else. Thats all it is.

It will work with a standard cambium saver but to get the full benefit you should really have a rope guide or pulley in top of tree in some way. Pulley on your cambium saver is a start.

Ah, I think I might have heard of that now you mention it. Spike Lee is slightly outside of the hollywood mainstream box though, so it might be ok. Again, I wont be in a rush to see it.

Some fire lighting stuff and skinning a poor little fluffy bunny! Not my thing really, I go into the great outdoors with lighters and pot noodle!!

Yes, I believe you need to do a specific first aid assessment and plan/carry kit accordingly but the green box still needs to contain specific stuff so that when you crash on the way home soemone else could use your standardised kit. My specific RA concluded that we need extra wound dressings and eyewash so we carry these in addition to the green standard kit. And we coudl have decided to carry celox as well, as said there is nothing wrong with it. My point is the FAW course is a standard course for people at work in offices or in tree work, no differnet and the instructor has no reason to go into celox.

No, its a minumum and maximum requirement, nothing extra should be in the official green box. Thats for HSE requirements. Once thats met you can have as much extra stuff somewhere else as you like. So if you want paracetemol at work then take them but dont put them in the green box.