Rupe
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3 years, with no holiday pay sick pay etc? You are being shafted, you are not a contractor and you are not freelance, you are an employee with no benefits, and I bet you owe some tax? Your "boss" should be paying that for you and if IR cought up that is exactly what would be happening.
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Great line! I charge more and have more days off, so I end up with the same as those who charge less and work every day, muppets!
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I've just orderd some velvet rope and brass hooks, it will look awsome!
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i like the look of the hitch climber, Remember that the hitch climber is only a pulley, it is not a climbing system in its own right. A VT can be used with any kind of pulley.
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I did it. I went way under the threshold last year and phoned them up, no worries done! No enquiry, no ifs or buts, I was surprised TBH. It was quite easy.
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Oh Ok. The Hitch climber is no real advantage to the VT ropeguide set up. It has other advantages but thats a seperate issue really. The ropeguide has a little retriever on it, called a trapeze. Your line runs through that, then through the pulley. For retrieval install the little ball on your eyesplice (only really works with a splice) and pull it. It goes through the pulley but catches on the traze and pulls the whole thing out of the tree. The problems with retrieval can coem from either its set to tight so the pulley jams against the ring and wont release, fixable if facign the pulley but difficult if you exit the tree on the opposite side. And the other problem is the whole thing getting caught in tight forks, but this could happen to any cambium saver.
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Not seen that teufelberger pic before. I suppose its not going to pull itself all the way through. I dont see the point though, I would have thought its harder to retrieve. Just move the prussik further up the line and choke it that way?
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Ben what hitch do you use? There is no mechanical advantage using a ropeguide (or homemade one) but all there is less friction. Less fristion if using a prussik or blakes could be a problem. You need that friction to hold you in place while you advance the hitch. Also less friction means the hitch bites more when loaded and is harder to release. If using a VT then less friction is good. YOu need less friction to be able pull yourself up, no more body thrusting, and even though its hard to hold yourself while pullign the slack though, you can do this one handed with a VT which also opens the possibilty of footlocking the single line below you while pulling up and therefore removing the need of advancing the hitch manually altogether. So the RG does not help or hinder your style, its just a vital part of one system and a slightly unecessary part of another system.
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Liam, what going on in that photo? Looks liek the yellow rope is pulled through the spliced eye? Not good, very dangerous in fact!
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I have only just discovered the 13/64 after years of using 7/32 on the larger saws. 13/64 is correct and better IMO. 7/32 for 088 only now.
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A soft eye, (splice) with wire and heatshrink to stiffen it a bit is generally regarded as better then the hollow ring design. It looks good but is not necessarily worth copying.
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Not big enough!
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Pole saw would be a good idea though!
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Top handled saws are only extremely dangerous in the UK. They are fine anywhere else in the world! Nothing is dangerous in greece apart from sunstroke! Last time I was there some Albanians were cutting conifer trees out of the groves below our villa, and generall makign a lot of noise while I was trying to sleep by the pool. No ppe, just shorts and flip flops, no worries! They worked hard all day and couldn't believe it when I offered them water and a beer at the end of the day! People who shouldn't be using machinery are dangerous.
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Happy days!
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Thanks chris. Alway there when your needed.
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17 years ago we had three strand rope which was nearly as dynamic as rock climbing rope!! The point about KN is good though, but we are definatly talking about work postioning, not fall arrest, they are two different things altogether.
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Yes they could, you would still be well within the MBS, but you would be in the "cycles to failure" area so its possible the harness might have to be chucked after the rescue, or immediatly inspected by a loler inspector, who would add up the weights of the victim and rescuer and possibly condemn the harness, but as long the vitcim lost a whole leg or two, and those losses were included in the calculation then it would probably be ok!!
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Harnesses are to arrest falls, Are they? I know that "fall arrest" harnesses are designed to "arrest falls" but I was always under the impression that "work positioning" harnesses were for something else?
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If you have not used a lady button before, maybe thats cos you cant find it or didn't know it was there in the first place? Judge is possibly the largest (tall and big) climbers I know of and one of the easiest and most at ease movers in a tree I have ever seen.
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I use and abuse my subaru legacy but it is a bit low, so a forrester woudl be better, or the outback version of the legacy.
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Nah, dont believe in them! Good pic though!!
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Thank you, but no not slate, just wooden laminate tops and ceramic tiles. All my own work though.
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Its from the "wobbly Sycamore" thread in the rigging section Stevie.
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Shame I only got the small one eh?
