Rupe

Oh, yes, misread your post!! Will let you know re the arb show.

I've always found tom tom to be more user friendly, i.e. better user interface software i.e simpler!

Cant do the 29th, but 5th would be ok I think. Yes will be at the show for a while, not sure what day yet, depends on work, if things are slack then I would go on the friday and get it over with!

The only ever stockist as far as I know were treeworker and proclimber but niether of them list stock on their websites. Ask Nod at tree worker, he would know, or could get you stuff to order. We should go climbing soon??

Visors are the problem, you need a mesh visor for ground work really, some kind of visor when chipping is essential and I think the mesh ones are best. But a mesh visor in the tree? No chance! Not never going to want that. So two helmets is not that unreasonable. We carry husky balance helmets for chipping and general groundwork, they are orange so visible, important! Then petzl vertex ones for climbing with safety glasses. Colours optional but we all have black, they are ninja, important! The point above about your ear muffs keeping your helmet in place is bobbins! You have your helmet on when walking around site, under trees when lowerign etc, you dont necessarily have your earmuffs down all the time, you might be communicating with a climber and have something fall on you. Anyway, you dont need chin straps for ground work helmets, if they get knocked off they will have either just done their job and pretected you and fell off in the process, or they have just fallen off due to something minor in which case you put it back on again.

Oh, so you have little choice. Sounds daft though a height restriction on the tree height!

If your not climbing then is just for forestry work? If so who are you insurign against? i.e. what public are you a liability to?

And here is Rhys in the masters. Its a bit long (17minutes) but a good climb and worth a watch. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP2W8KyIhys]YouTube - rhys masters climb[/ame]

2 years ago I think. ALso you climb on your normal system with a belaying pulling your slack if you ask them to, so its far more realistic now than it was, big improvment, also it levels the feild a bit so more people score points instead of one whippet winning it by miles.

I took some video, need to edit the larger ones, so only got these un edited ones so far. You've all seen my work climb so wont bother with that, heres JT's spped climb. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9szjnvdpMk]YouTube - Jon Speed climb[/ame]

Might be true in Wales!

The new one (HD) only records in MOV and its a bit of a pain, but should be ok on your imac. The old one in AVI was very easy to use/edit etc. on wondows movie maker.

Which drift is it? The HD one? can you change the file type on the camera?

Nothing wrong with it, but depends on how many slings you have? I couldn't tell from the video if you just had the one big lowering sling? (I could see a second holding the top pulley in place). The whole point of slings is to speed things up, so you can sling the next branch while waiting for the rope to come back up, and the next and the next etc. You can even clip the slings to the line before it get pulled back up as long as you have something big on the end of the rope (I have a gizmo for that called the gimp!) So the way we decide weather to use slings or not is dependant on the ground crew. If there is only one groundie than the speed of the job is slower anyway, you have to wait for him to move the branch, maybe cut it up etc. so slings dont really help, you have plenty of time to tie the branhces on while he's dragging/stacking/cutting etc. then you also get the more purist and relaxed way of doing it. If you have extra groundies and one of them is purely lowering, nothing else, then you need to keep the job moving faster, so dig out as many slings as you have and get them all lined up, then the lowerign rope should be up down up down quick as anything. The only problem with those big slings is that they are expensive, so using them when not necessary is just going to muck them up quicker. So, thats not a critisism, just my observation.

Here at 17 seconds [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3lL-ofBcE&playnext=1&list=PL2CE3883BB4277B7E]YouTube - ray mears tarp knots[/ame]

It just half hitch pulled back around the stem, like a cow hitch really but not tied off (you could tie it off if you wanted) all you need is to get the vertical section taught.

I think it was a good option and probably the best, but it can be done with just a rope and a sling, no more is required.

That was funny and cool! Husky tried to make a cool vid but the climber in thiers looked like an utter tool! Stihl video is much betterer (like the saws)

It will be interesting to see if the price fo the old ones goes up or down! I personally want 2 new old ones as I have spare parts for them already, but the temptation to try the new one is obvious!

Just my opinion, it looked like it worked ok. I prefer to get the bollard off ASAP so there is zero risk of hitting it, mine is more expensive! Have you seen how tight ray mears gets his tarp over his bivi!! Its amazin. Also all that kit has to get put away at some point, so the groundie could be doign that while your doign all the knots etc. less standing around waiting, so then when the stem is finished there is less kit to put away. Gettign things done simultaneously is better that consequetivley, time and motion study and all that.

Can you put 2x 50 link loops aside for me, I'll make a full order when for them and some other chains when you have them in. Thanks.

Slightly over equiped there me thinks, you only need the ray mears bivi knot for vertical speedline tensioning.

No I am pleased, welcome to the modern world! I dont mean to be stroppy but as you know I am a septic of these things! It was all there already but it took a pinto and a hitch climber to show you. Thats marketing my friend, how much have you spent on what any old school mariner could have taught you?

I'm really glad for you, but that has been possible for many year before pintos and revolvers were invented! Pulleys and rope have been around for a while you know. Sorry, a pinto and pulley on a krab.

Only if someone important is telling you that you do. Until then, no you dont.