Albedo

I had to play golf early today....I hate playing golf in the morning so I'm in a bad mood:marchmellow:

Dadio is like a polemic / controversy Vampire….He kinda feeds on it. I’m working on …Polpire …..Contropire….Yankpolpire. Just not finding a word with the right ring to it. Not trying to insult you Dadio….just trying to figure you out. Have you lived outside the States by the way…It gives one a perspective on how other nationalities see your own? I’d be surprised if you know where the UK is:001_smile:

I nearly edited to this effect as I'm thinking of split wood, but I couldn't work it out for chord. Bids need to be higher than mine:001_smile:

As it's seasoned I reckon about 3 tonnes, based on about 400kg per cube. That's just my tuppence...don't quote me on it:001_smile:

I don't normally name my tools.. with the exception of 'gentle persuasion' for hammer. However just for you I have just named my 200t ..."Ingrid":001_smile:

Wait till you see our class system, you're probably a bit common for us too:001_smile: I did crap myself when that thing came down, think I actually jumped back from my laptop.

You sayin we redneck treesurgeons boy?….Hey Maud….where me twelve bore:thrasher:

Well done everybody, including the OP. This is the forum at its best:thumbup1:

Thought you might like that Jaime, I can see you have a healthy sense of humour:001_smile: It was your Paul...AAtechie in Mr Humphries aerial, namby pamby, gizmo thread:001_smile:

That says it all....bet their H&S is faultless though:001_smile:

Arborist Working Group...from Paul in another thread

What's the AWG? It's just Paul and his dog innit?...on the payroll:001_smile: Edit: Where you going on holiday, I might take you up on that....anywhere good:001_smile:

Hi Jaime I think your recent proactiveness with us lot is great and complements Pauls’ work very nicely. You are raising good stuff. I’m liking it and you have my support. But the AA don't do this: "And I have to add, that being given the opportunity to try and asssit the AA, through the AWG in maintaining, developing and promoting good arboriculture, is a privilege for me." This is well established and I refer you to my earlier post and Pauls' (AA Techies') answer to it.

Hi Paul This is all old ground isn't it. How about you send me some stickers for my truck and some copy for my advert. I'd gladly display them for you as the public won't have a clue what it means...they will just assume that I must be an ace tree surgeon. Cheers mate:001_smile:

No - the AA has many good points but is too H&S - centric for me. I would like the AA to be a CORGI type guarantee of workmanship....but accept that this would be difficult, if not, impossible to implement. Without the "guarantee' of workmanship it loses its attraction for me. This would also have to be recognised by the general public, which makes it a monumentaly big ask.

I hope that this post will be seen as constructive and not the needless continuation of a perceived argument. I gave this a lot of thought last night and today. According to the first law of thermo dynamics. You cannot remove the energy lost to friction from the equation, but you can use that energy more efficiently, by not allowing so much of it to be lost to friction in the first place. So you don’t move the friction to somewhere else in the system, you move the energy lost to it. Hence my above quote which says the same thing but more poetically. I think what Scotspine was alluding to is that in treework we can make friction work for and against us. We take wraps around a tree or a lowering device to use friction to help us lower a branch. We use a cambium saver to reduce friction on the branch at our ‘tie in point’ and get reduced friction on our climbing line too. This reduced friction is available to us as energy to use how we see fit. For example it takes less of our own bodies’ energy, used in friction, so we conserve that energy for raising pint glasses after work.

Imagine the Jacobs Crackers and pickle you gotta carry too:001_smile:

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” — Frances E. Willard,

Thanks for the considered response, but the bit in bold was my point too. Assuming we get what 'cycles to failure' is, I'm on about how you quantify it by visual inspection. He'd need to xray it and in the absence of said machine, how is cycles to failure determined. Is it by time in service, for example? as well as visual inspection. I won't be getting a chipper ticket, I hope:001_smile: but never say never is what I'm supposed to have learned with age:001_smile:

Don't mean to argue mate but just because I used one example in my first post does not mean that I assume it's the only piece of kit that requires attention. Your first response suggested that my example was not correct, yet this response suggests that it was ok so you've moved the goalpost. Anyway let's not argue. I chipped in because I'm interested to learn as I think this could be a good thread.

I read that metal fatigue will be microscopic before it becomes visible as small cracks. The last inspector I saw only used his eyes. Also, I LOLER my rope every time I put my hands on it which is a lot. (he was passing up to 10% damage to ropes, which I wouldn't pass for myself or climb on) Slightly off track but I carry out up to 200 RA's a day (for every cut, amongst other things) It's just in my head and not written down.

Having just googled 'cycles to failure' it raises a question for me. What fatigue cracks can a LOLER inspector see, in a crab for example, that I can't see?

Sorry Felix. In an attempt to make it amusing I’ve given the impression that it’s my cat and my picture. I’d like to take credit for the pic but found it on the internet and thought it would be cool in this thread.

The Dalai Lhama ..on tree climbing….glasshopper “Do everything with a mind that lets go. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.”

A quick google revealed this list on Wicki: List of trees of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I'm sure it's not exhaustive or complete but may serve as a guide as to how you might go about this epic task:001_smile: