ben lightfoot
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i dont think you will get away with it, all i know is that on passing class C you can drive any size rigid hgv and tow up to 750kg i believe you will have to do full artic hgv as not many places do C1+e. Thats my understanding as the company i work for puts everyone (required to drive hgv) throught their C+e (artic) hope this is of use
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i like to think i can hold my own not the fastest though want to try and learn new techniques as i still just use both my ends of the rope but it works.
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i always struggle with this and end up just clamping my other foot on top i think like you say having the weight of the rope helps so would probably get easier the higher you got.
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good point dean i expect prosecution only occurs if people are knowingly killing bats and mick the bat people took them away to keep check of them although they were moving around they could have still been hurt luckily no torn wings which are a big concern as the wings are too fragile to stitch back up.
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Very good point but something that led to a bit of a debate at college and am sure will open a tin of worms on here but who should take the most liability the person cutting or the person surveying. This is from the point of view of a contractor working for local authority so might be biased but i believe that the surveyer should carry a lot of weight some of the listed trees said be aware of bats surely if he has put this then a survey should be carried out before we are aloud to go in to carry out works. Dont get me wrong i do also believe that the climber/cutter also has a duty of care. Its certainly a tough call
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we were recently felling a large beech adjacent to a national speed limit A road with traffic management ect. removed all the brush wood and was left with the stem knocked off some large pieces for the hiab then had one more piece to do before being able to fell stem. because of the way it was twin stemmed the wood had twisted round each other so felled it below fork as it hit the deck it split open and there were 5 bats inside a small pocket no evidence outside the pocket showing signs of bats even the bat man said there would have been no way of telling without a thorough inspection just have to wait and find out if natural england will take it any further?
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was that meant to be a hint will, saying the bracket was very dry? dryadeus? good pic too by the way
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just helping out a friend who is not on the forum firstly found it saddening that its so frequent there is a link to stolen items thread. Anyway theft occured last night just outside basingstoke here is a rough list: husky 3120xp 42' bar 395xp unsure what size bar nearly new 346xp 357 355 338(the top handled one) stihl blowersx 2 pole saw + hedgecutter attachment and engine block hedgecuttersx2 will try and find out what sizes ms200tx2 makita dcs5000x2 dcs7901 i know its a bit vague but like i said trying to help out a mate
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afraid not dont know any dyer? i have met you before at last years kill and grill with keith weale. im mates with andy townsend and blake davis well i think you were there it was either then or when i did my medium fell sorry poor memory
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i tried to relate it to a cedar i climbed today which was about 85ft oh well good fun though
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as your referring to the SRT im guessing that its a foot assender in one of the pics although looks like a spike not trying to be funny just wondering well done on some good work you lucky sods
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im going 81 feet
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i think its just the nature of the beast we know what this job will do to us, although with better machinery its always a good idea to get equipment in to save us. This is harder for the smaller companies i guess. Maybe its not my place to say having only been in the industry for nearly 7 years but i see what you mean although its quite funny been doing HGV class 1 all last week and my back is starting to ache and i know once back to work it will be all good
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useful information there guys i have ordered a few things from sherril verygood service and very friendly. helpful to know about vermeer uk as i do like a lot of there products funnily enough wearing one of sherrils shirts cheers for the help
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sold my good man will get the application sorted my girlfriend will be overjoyed that for her birthday weekend she gets to camp out and see loads of hairy arsed tree surgeons doing there thing will ask around and try and bring a load of chaps from work too just to make it that bit more interesting
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very interested not done any comp before so just want to see how i will do, im travelling from hampshire so might be worth entering the others too are there many rules and regs i should know about?
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is this at the norwich showground at the same time as the countryside fair thing, also is there different pole climbing catagories ie for different spikes or all together as i only have regular spikes? many thanks
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i think its a repeat was shown about 6 months ago could be wrong though
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nice makita dont have one but used a few bet she tore through the pine?
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im guessing willow?
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Hi there im really interested in entering some pole climbing competitions this year i have never done it before and only have regular spikes wanted to have a go at the APF but chickened out. i have found one at the east anglian game and country fair and wales wood fest aslo not confirmed but possibly capel manor festival of trees so if anyone could help me out much appreciated.
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i can remember that daryll i think it was an ash pole not much of a fun learning curve. my most scary was when we were felling a large beech and had to rig over a wall the climber was cutting into decent stem wood about a 5 ft piece in goes the gob then the back cut, after killing the chipper and three groundies later he heard us and realised he was still tied to said lump of wood think if he would have come down would have messed me up a bit in the head
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now thats pushed the piles back in
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no sorry must be someone else although as its a random name didn't think there would be another ben lightfoot out there funny hey
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you think women can talk, wait till yo see arbtalk
