josharb87

cheers tommy:thumbup: may take a trip to the local climbing shop tommorrow, and have a play

last pic, in the main fork, you can still see the white fungus, Polypore??? then to the right of the picture, theres a lime with a wall beneath it, if you carry round to the right of the pic (out of shot) you would have seen the mullberry steve and i have worked on

dont know what that is! got a fair idea though, will have a look at one at justins show haha, yep! how did you get on with it?

yeah yeah, thats it, gefa, never used it but seen it up a loada trees

heres the oak david! has it still got the fungus in the main fork? 3 more years untill its felled for good. . .

cheers david, but i like real simple and fast to setup, i was thinking flying capstan, a loada wraps, and locked off . . .

haha, no way! thinking about it i either re braced it, or adjusted youre brace, green bracing i think it was you used???

fi youre on the south side carpark right next to the cathedral, to the east is a real old cabled and braced oak i heavily reduced, and to the west, over a high wall is the mulberry, which i tip reduced the end weight off, there is a private mini arboretum there too . . . just used the right pantin, left hand holding the fixed end of my climbing line, right hand i stretch up to grab the 'live' end, helping the foot to pull down the rope, thus ascending, when my hand comes down and reaches the vt hitch, a quick grab of the hitch up to prevent any sit back and wasted energy . . .if that makes sence! it was real smooth and efficent anyway, i'll do a vid next time. only extra kit i used was the extra rope! now contemplating the best (read simplest!) way of tieing off at the base so the groundie could lower the climber down in worst case senario

i cant believe all the work ive done in the cathedral and surrounding houses/grounds, i have never seen that plane! have you seen the big mullberry in the bishops garden? tried this out today john, really cool! 1st oak got it up about 15m, unhooked then climbed to the top, 2nd oak, climbed the rock behind it to place the throwline in the top of the crown-about 20m and worked off it without re-anchoring, and likewise with the 3rd oak, 20m+ diddnt re anchor, all 3 pantin'd to the top no effort atall, really good tip:thumbup:

ah, thatd be why they diddnt fit me then-im 5'11, the pair i borrowed was from a 5foot midget

just paint it in red gloss with white spots jobs a goodun!

flying tues evening arlanda-heathrow, sunday lunch heathrow-arlanda, gonna be there both days:thumbup: you worked for or with derek i guess?

plane tickets booked

hi mate! good to hear your up in the trees tip, use a cambium saver, or better by far, a rope guide, i use a rope guide on EVERYTHING!!! have never washed a rope yet, only sticky caribinas

if you can easily do anything to any tree in any location at a commercial pace youll get work easily. most places offer a trial week at basic low pay, so nothing to loose! tickets, just the basic 4 really ive got a thread in the picture forum of typical work, search 'Josh's sweden thread' good luck

min svenska är inte så bra, kan vi prata engelska? ja? bra! no, it doesnt look like youres mark, theres no rips and the roof is intact if i were to have quoted, i'd have tried to go for the fell, and carve a bench out of the stem or something, but im sure the boss explored every avenue. . . i sure am making a mark on the swedish countryside:lol:

ive a set of alloy bashlins with velcro pads and theyre GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT tried the carbon fiber ones and wasnt impressed, just diddnt fit me properly, and weight diffrence was tiny

too right! if the woods gonna end up on the deck, it can be spiked. . . the trees butchered anyway mate:lol: i know, just jesting, thanks for asking thought provoking questions its a swedish oak . . . sorry

you always ask "client happy with final spec" on my topping jobs! tree was a fine specimen, totally healthy, a really nice tree, nowt wrong with it the client wanted it felled as it was too close to the house, too big ect, she had had a reduction away from the roof, and crown clean back in 97, and decided she diddnt want to keep paying for a trim. felling was only ruled out because of the cost of transport of removing the timber and brash (around £700 for transport, then additional cost of hireing a machine to get timber/brash close enough to where a lorry could grab it) so spec was to reduce as hard as poss/pollard 3m from main fork, to an inner crown if possible, so i just butchered it down to where i thought best higher than the 3m suggested, but 80% of stubs has decent growth comming off, the remaining stubs are knuckles. hopefully it will take, but i suspect chancer are that it will go crazy next year, then die and the client was really happy

yeah that makes sence, i think ive seen pics of something simmilar, but the pics above, is something i can see myself actually using, with the good old pantin cheers john, something else arbtalk has taught me to make life easier!

beautifull dog our collie died of cancer too at 17, i spent my first 17years with that dog, he was the most loyal person, character, animal ive ever met

that false crotch ropeguide setup is brilliant john, gonna try that next chance i get

what a selfish cow

been topping today no before photos just during and after

great thread, itd be nice if people like dawkins could respect and or tollerate others views rather than try and force their own upon them. or to be openminded rather than extremely narrow minded i dont believe in god, the theory of evolution is plauseable to me, i do believe there is more to life than what we see and know