Red.Squirrel

May be an idea to ring rock climbing walls and the portable ones you sometimes see and find out what they do too.

Great stuff, we learnt the dog tooth cut in college but always wondered what to do if the tree was slightly too thin to bore into horizontally.

Great stuff, I love the grain. Please don't over polish them like most do though, I much prefer them with a bit of rough myself.

The Ferrari never actually went around the track, it was a set-up filmed in the Nevada desert.

What can only just be seen in the pictures is that the trees are at the bottom of a very steep slope (willow pic 3 just about shows it), when I was at the top of the tree it was level with the house and seating area at the top of the slope. I would rather have done a crown lift but that would have had no effect at all because behind the trees in the farmers field are more hedges plus you'd need to be at the bottom of the slope (which they rarely go down) to then see through. I respect your opinion and agree but for this situation there was nothing else to be done apart from a clear fell or topping. Also a thinning was simply not what they wanted, they wanted a clear view. I made them aware of the risks to the trees and potential growth there on but the final decision is and was theirs. Yet another wrong tree, wrong place.

Not too sure but I think depending on the age and size of the kids they deffo need full body harnesses. I'd be interested to see what games people come up with cause if anything I think even on my degree course it would've helped if we'd played more games in the trees to help get used to the environment. Only game I can think of is to tie a piece of tape around a branch and then each person has a go at moving the tape further and further along the limb. Sorry for not much help but good luck, the bio in the tree sounds ace.

I like it, far better than the one I did which was just a block cut out and the edges smoothed. <-------As can be seen here

Cheers mate, managed to talk the guy round to not completely hacking away at it so at least there was some left. The branch in question actually doesn't look too bad when you're there, maybe just a bad angle ... either that or I just really didn't notice it:sad:, had to go back up that willow anyway as I wasn't quite happy with a couple when I got down. Also that is just a lower limb, it does look quite bear now but should fill out and I was just chuffed I managed to get everything down to the same level without completely hacking away. Guess this was a nice intro into the world of morals and mine seem to be out the window for the time being lol.

Does it make the splice any less safe though? Or is it purely just harder to do cause of all the crap building up and strands twisted out of place?

Ai, I gotta agree. I'm really not experienced enough when it comes to the fine tuning but a more rounded shape would have been better. Thanks for the comments though guys.

Crimson King in 3 stages:

A while ago I posted my first ever job that I did for a friend of my mums, well this one was a little further disconnected as it was the son of a friend of my grandma lol. Anyway here it is, the guy wanted the height reducing (read topping), on 2 willows and his crimson king so he and his neighbour could see into the field behind from the windows to watch the horses and foxes etc. Did the best I could considering I was basically topping and hopefully they'll fill out a bit in coming years but overall he was chuffed to bits with it so I guess that's the main thing. p.s. It's a bit like where's wally in some of em. Willow in 3 stages:

Obviously not.

Reduce it down to a single pole then have a fun swaying in the breeze at the top.

Being outside and knowing that the more effort I put in the more I'm gonna get out (even if it's just taking pride in the job and not just more money). And as SWB said, chicks really do dig braces.