Rupe

What a load of rubbish! Valentines was supposed to be so you could tell someone you liked them and maybe start a relationship. If you are already in one then you dont need to do anythign for valentines, you should be doing all those nice things all year round and especially NOT on valentines day. Its another example of how marketing has created a need for us to spend more money for no reason, and I cant believe that some blokes actually have annoyed girlfriends by not buying a stupid card on the one day of the year that they are being told to buy a card anyway! No, I didn't get any!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blaze packs down really well, but if you only want 30m then it doesn't really matter. Its only when your using 60+ meters of rope that light weight really becomes important IMO.

Not sure about the method he shows at around the 5 minute mark. Effectivley its like a rope guide mad on your access line, great, but you have to be very careful using that method. He says that the prussik cant get pulled through the loop but it can! If its tied near the TIP then its safe as, but if its 10feet below the TIP it is possible for the prussik to go through the butterfly loop and the loop then moves up the now doubled line until it reaches the TIP. SO if thats 10 feet away you would fall 10 feet. There is a way to prevent this and I can't remember how, but he should really have pointed it out. Like I say though is the whol thing is set up at the TIP then the loop cant go anywhere.

STIHL 088 chainsaw c/w 36''bar and spare 48''bar on eBay (end time 18-Feb-11 20:00:39 GMT)

Well done. Are you going to have to get proffesional Indemnity cover for inspections now then?

The angle may feel a bit weird to start with but stick with it, they are a good purchase!

Four cuts!! Awesome!!

Yep, thats it. Worked ok except for my poor skill with the winch!!!!

If it was higher up it would only be able to lower the stem into the other tree. I set it as low as I could so that it would still have liftign affect, in fact the angle of the ropes to the fallen stem were near 90 so the liftign effect is maximum. Any higher and the DWT would be pulling the stem back towards the base of the tree which I didn't want. The limiting factor I guess was the height I could fix the ropes in the upright section which was very unstable. Anyway as it was I could cut down the fallen stem much further until I got as far as the DWT set up, then lower the rest. ANy higher and there would be more to lower, if that makes sense?

I do a lot of that. Its not the easiest thing to sell but I usually get there. "lets take as much long stuff out as we can without stressing the tree, and see what shape we are left with and adjust it from there if really necessary" Also, the "good tree work should be invisible" line is working well.

Round here they would just get some muppet out of the yellow pages to do that for 80. My minimum is 120 but rarely even look at jobs like that which is good.

Except that you probably wouldn't get it cos its the sort of thing that someone else would do for 80, well in my experience anyway.

Thats along time for a 150 quid job that someone else would do for 80.

You cant reason with some folk. Removal should be cheaper than one reduction, let alone in the long run. How long did it take you?

I suppose that is a repaet reduction? Looks like it. So the customer clearly wants to spend/waste money! Removal would have been quicker and cheaper.

Boomeco? If you can load it they will take it in 37T truck fulls.

I was out but now I'm back!! I think you should've known better! I'm out again!

OOh! Next to a childrens play area!! I hope your insurance is good!! Fell it!!

"I'm out!"

What tree?

Ah, I think I get it. You dont have a boss then, you are the boss of your team right? You employ your guys and get subcontracted from someone else who you are refering to here as the boss? Am i right so far? So you are surveying for your team, yet you are not qualified to do so! And your team had the near miss/incident? Well your stuffed then!! YOU are responsible for your team if you are employing them (even if they are self employed guys) and it sounds like your company (YOU) is taking on work you are not qualified to do so you would be strung up for it. HAvign said that, the power companies would take major issue with the main contractor for hiring un qualified companies to carry out the works. He would be ultimatly responsible to the power company but you are ultimatly resonsible for the safety of those working for you. You have no chance of winning any legal action agains your "boss". You took on work that you should not be doing. He may be wrong in having let you do this, but you still have no case against him. If one of your guys died then you would be in so deep that he might well be in it too but that didn't happen so no point talking about it. Are the power company fining you or anything like that? Or is it not that serious? I would say if they are that the fine should go to the main contractor and stop there. If he passes it on to you then make up you rown mind. Pay it and walk away or just walk away, but you have no action you can take against him for getting you to do the work in the first place. That was your choice as a company in your own right. So I take back what I said. It sounds like you were a subcontractor after all, if I got the information correct in the end! I totally agree that yout Utility career does look over!!!

An offence to who? I'm not offended.

I use the carbon fibre ones but I have got the alu ones as well and they are just as good. The carbon ones are not wearing too well and when they are finished with I will go back to the alu ones and stick with them.

I think the legal issue is in the method that you are employed. You say that you sub? Well the is no such thing. If you have a boss that you work for then you employed by him, even if its on a self employed basis. You are clearly not a sub contractor. The fact that you refer to "a boss" or "the boss" suggests that you are under his control. Ultimatly all safety issues are down to him. The legal issue would be more to do with him avoiding employign someoen properly. Just to confirm, how many days a week do you do for him? And how many other companies do you carry out this surveying work for? I'm guessing the answer is five and none respectively?

Yep. I put mine upe up, its an old basic one, no sky+ or HD. Might get a tenner for it for a kids bedroom? You can run four in total but only two if they both record. An HD one would fetch 40 odd I guess?