josharb87

Beautiful site mate! that first pic looks like an advert!

beech reduction before and after then morning sunrise

It was dead mate, the live half had fallen out, well peeled off, leaving a dead stem and another smaller strip that was only about 3inch deep, 9inch across, clinging onto the dead stem. I diddnt want to trust for the forces involved to lift the stem off the roof, so that was straight felled out of the way, the pine was close enough and sound:thumbup1:

Interesting job working for a contractor. Half a rotten Oak had fallen onto this house. First we set a line over the house, tied off onto an Oak behind, Makeshift SRT'd up onto the steep roof, steel stropped the chimney with spare hitch climber pulleys as rope guides, stripped the brash off, leaving the main stem and main branch resting on the roof. Luckly the Contractor had a winch on his 4x4, so cut a path through the scrub for him to drive closer. We cradle'd the stem so that it ould lift off flat and not twist, sent a line into a nearby pine into a pulley, down to the base of an oak into another pulley, a mid line bowline was then tied for the winch hook to clip onto. Then to stop the stem falling off side ways and clipping the roof again (slow winch), clipped a tag line onto the rigging plate at the cradle, into a pulley in another tree and down into a capstan. Had to tweek the pulley configurations a few times, but worked a treat, stem lifted off the roof, cleared the roof, then slowly controlled side fall into the scrub

Avant Attachments For the Avant loaders but just a tow hitch. . . could get a donkey engine for the hydraulics

£170 delivered final price i paid was £170, with all the basic mounts, sucker cup mount and a few others to my door

GoPro - non HD recording GoProHD - HD recording GoProHD2- HD recording and apparantly far better than the GoProHD i think buy from an ebay seller from the states for about 170quid delivered (GoProHD)

how big have i gone? she must have been a good 18st, never again will i mix whisky and wine

Apparantly they wernt tuned correctly from the factory, tuned mine by ear and much better. . . still no 200 though

The new SIP freedom 1's (£130) are holding up better than my old stretch airs

Riga was "compact" haha, beautifull place more germanic influence in the buildings than Stockholms Gamla Stan, cheap as chips compared to Stockholm too! If you're getting a cruise over, be sure to get one of the better boats, we took Tallinks "festival" which was a bit 3rd world Tallin is the next cruise for me, on one of Birkas party boats:thumbup: who you working for in Stockholm?

Great pics! where are you working? I first saw beaver damage in central Riga

Full chisel dulls quicker, but is initially sharper

Wtf!!!

this fella was still standing http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/30497-oak-crane-fell-pictures.html decay pics of stem at bottem of pic set

värsågod 2 diffrent trees

A fatty in skinny jeans

I had troubles finding it in the search and on Xersuis profile a few days back also

When you're fat arm is the size of a normal person the 2 brunettes look tasty though

Doing well thanks! Always intrested when rigging or finess is involved especially with cradling techniques, as anyone can limb up, chog down and make a time consuming mess at the bottem!

Nice work! How long did the job take?

Hi Cartman, whats the above mean and how can you have a cert in this industry and be studying further without the fundamental knowledge of basic tools and practices? More aimed at the system than you btw:001_smile:

You have naff all decent competition on the tree side dont you mike? and im guessing not much outside intrest in buying christians side of the tree buisness, so possibly not much more than the sum of the shared tools and a token amount if youre buying his side out?

That links really interesting, thanks for that!