Rupe
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Portugal eh?
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One thing I was thinking: How come you have got the job for friday but not figured out how to do it yet? How did you price it? I'm glad you have the power outtage sorted though. Please put up some pics.
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Thats putting it mildly!!! Instant dismissal time me thinks!
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What does your employer think about it? If you are doing it "above board" then I presume you have asked him/her/them?
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If it 3 meters away to one side from the powerlines then it might be ok if your experienced. 3 meter above, or overhanging at all then no chance, but 3 meters is quite a long way for side distance. YOu wouldn't be that close the lines yourself I hope? If you were that close, like if the trunk is 3m form the lines, then I would say no way. Remember Stevies comment in the other thread, its possible this client wants you to do it cos everyone else in the area has given him a proper price including shut down etc. If you have won the job cos you dont know what you are doing then you are being taken advantage of, and you'll never make any money to pay for all these courses. 1-2 years working with a tree company and you would know all this.
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Probably fine, but make your own mind up, and I agree with what Stevie says completely!
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Yes will be fine, just use a slightly larger anchor than usual and test its hard deadwood not soft dead wood. Then if you are not high enough to get the top out just use a polesaw up there, simples!
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Yes i guess it would slip and allow extra rope to the loop side? With my incicent, if the set up had been further away from the TIP than I was from the ground then I would have hit the ground, if that makes sense. If you set this method up right at or very near to the TIP then its safe as houses and needs no back up, the loop can only ever move up as far as the TIP, at which point it girth hitches the TIP and you can go nowhere. So it is a great system, I just dont like it set up part way up an access line without some additional back up. Are you using an 8 wrap prussik then? I missed that on the video. That would certainly help. And if tension on the set up is maintained then I dont think it would go anywhere. I think I let the tension off and then slipped off a branch or something which shock loaded it and it popped through the loop. Anyway, good vids, please post here more often. Rupe
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well 30m of any of the above mentioned will fit into a small bag.
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The job I cleared up in the summer where some "builders" had dropped stuff on parked cars etc was done with a hired in MEWP and saw. I found the scabbard under some brash with the hire company label on it.
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I think the prussik has less chance of it slipping, the loop would hold it in place, its fallign through the loop that could be a problem.
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Thanks for the response and good to hear from you directly. I did manage to get it to pull through once (by accident) and it surprised me to say the least!! I think I dropped about 15 feet and I was only 30feet up so a good shock!! No harm done. I cant say for sure how any wraps the prussik had, or in fact the pulley might have been tied onto an alpine butterfly, but even so I still think this method has its risks. I know that the sytem was unloaded and then shock loaded, so not a normal situation. I had done something wrong for sure but it still happened so it makes me wary, and I have not used it since. This was about three years ago, I could look it up cos I know exactly what job it was on. I then talked to Jon Turnbul about it as he was working for around that time and he explained a method of preventing it but I'm not clear on that either!! Not much help I know, I just know to be wary of it. If the six wrap prussik is enough to prevent it then all well and good, if you are sure?
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Dont get all up set by builders using saws. saws are not the holy grail, they are just tools. We think we are the only ones who can or should use them but overall I bet arbs are a minor percentage of overall users. Sure we spend more money on PPE than others but more fool us sometimes!! They wont be insured, and you are not, but your just doing a favour for a mate, dont worry about it, only do what is within your abilities and dont forget to save some time for laughing at the builders! Just check out the conservation/TPO thing out first, that should be your concern more than builders using saws, leave them to it.
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Not if your going to call me dumbass! Inbox cleared.
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What's your favorite tree to work on / look at?
Rupe replied to showoffsummer's topic in General chat
Beech all day long. If I could work on Beech every day I would be happy. I would only need about 40 big beech take downs a year to make the same money as I do now. Problem is we are running out of big ones in this area! -
Again, load of rubbish!! If I met a girl who only did that one day a year then I had better meet her ON march 14th!!
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Busy this month, not sure passed mid march! Its impossible to plan ahead, I got the work now but no drivers, then in the summer I have someone but not necessarily much work. Driving is the main problem, chainsaw tickets I can work around or train someone.
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I think they are pretty hardy but this winter has been extreme.
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Thanks. I'll ask her if she wants a copy. She may not have had one or lost it, I guess if she had one she wouldn't be asking me.
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And a locked cage!! Thats an expensive tree! Thanks for the info, just the sort of thing I need to tell her to give her confidence in planting it. She has a south/west facing garden on a hill, quite windy but lots of tree cover around.
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Still need a driver/responsible groundsman for work around cheltenham and south/east glos. More of an organiser/driver than a brush dragger/groundie really, lots of varied stuff. Hopefully full time, but dont know what the long term prospects are at the moment. PM me if interested.
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Its not as bad as christmas!!
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Saw one of these today for the first time. Client has it in a pot in a sheltered sunny courtyard, and is wanting to plant it out soon, maybe next winter. Anyone got any recomendations regardign suitable locations or experience of growing these on? Wickepedia says that these are surprisingle toloerant to cold and can cope with sun or shade so I dont think she has much to worry about.....butif anyone has anything to add I'd be interested.
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Yes, and a "by the book" loler inspector would probably fail it. If you are not having your kit loler inspected (maybe your employers dont know about it) then it makes no odds what harness you use anyway. But stricty speaking no its not suitable and you definatly cant have it tested to EN cos thats a very complicated process that only the manufacturer can do, some harnesses need to be tested to destruction so you cant just have your one harness assesses for EN compliance. The main thing to do is to ascertain what your employers are happy with. If they say that they sent you on the course so that you can sort it all out then refer back to what you were taught on your CS38 course. In fact you possibly should not have used your harness for the assessment, although that might depend on the assessor. As you are not working in the harness (not tree work as such anyway) then it will be fine, there is nothing wrong with them, but they are not recognised here as compliant.
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Thank you! That cheered me up! X
