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    Yes to many thongs on the job! It was a Hong Kong Thong Accident.
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    Or .....it could have been failure of the rigging but it looks line the lowering line is still in the tree after the event.
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    It looks to me that he felled the top across his own ropes (a second anchor point in an adjacent tree). The longer lines acted like a bowstring, becoming tense under the load of the falling top and pulling the climber round the tree before suddenly releasing as the top rolled off the line. Twang! If he had just used a strop and a backup strop on the pole it would not have happened. Moral: Don't fell stuff on your climbing lines it inevitably ends with a brown trouser moment.
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    Could be a wound resulting from failure of a codom/weak fork. The black could be Armillaria bootlaces or later stages of Ustulina deusta. Difficult to tell from the photo. Could you post some better ones (preferably the right way up as my neck is sore!).
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    Agreed. Cost will be very important and should be at a level affordable to all if it is going to work.
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    Have you tried wedges or a grenade? I must admit I haven't had a lot of problems splitting conifers and plum (with the exception of yew). Have you got anything beefier than your x27?
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    Thanks for the reply. Its good to know we are singing from the same hymn sheet. I hope that once we can prove that ArbAc ticks all the same boxes as the other badges then hopefully, sometime in the not to distant future, we can dispense with the others. As far as the PMs position goes....why not give it a shot? I think you may be better equipped than the two jokers currently in power! Keep up the good work.
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    Wouldn't it be better if there was just one accreditation that was accepted by all. Perhaps the AA could work towards producing one that was acceptable to all bodies? Just a thought.
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    Why thank you kind sir. Verily I will try to remember to check the website anon.
  11. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    I would be more worried about the hideous topping!
  12. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Thank you Sir!
  13. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Better than I could do!
  14. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Any chance of one of these in Scotland? Perth perhaps?
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    Looks like Helix hedera to me. Are we talking the tree's left or your left?
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    A nice bit of advertising for you. I knew there had to be a reason why you didn't go for the straight fell. Is the use of eye protection optional in your company?
  17. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    When you think of Charles Darwin, David Attenborough, Archibald Menzies, James Audubon, Carl Lineus and the like do you think of them as naturists or naturalists? Ok sorry, leg pulling over now, back to work.
  18. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    errr ....well.... I have it from a higher authority (The Oxford English Dictionary) that "horticulturalist" is indeed a noun! But I am sure you guys know better
  19. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    and................Horticulturalist.........
  20. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Arboricultural Consultant and Tree Surgeon. As most of my work is consultancy but I still offer tree surgery locally. I never use the term Arborist as it is a term coined by our cousins over the pond generally accepted as a Tree Surgeon in this country. I don't offer my skills to an American market so stick with Tree Surgeon as most people know what a Tree Surgeon is over here.
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    Thank you sir!
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    Seems to work on my pc. Not sure I would use it though. Can you do private chats between members of your choice?
  23. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Nicely put together but a strange choice of soundtrack. I am not sure that zero gravity would be much help!
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    96 metres not including the tail on the floor
  25. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    Just put them on the compost heap and return the bags. Life's too short.

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