Stephen Blair
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just front protection joe, dont come close to hiflex. if i am not climbing i opt for the lighter trouser mate. they are more of a gimic to be honest. i got them for 80quid at the apf.
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hypnotherapy mate, they will make you think a fag tastes like dog doo, every time you think of them. good luck
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took me 30 mins to log on tonight.:thumbdown:i was going to text huck but that would of cost me 6pence:sneaky2:
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they are single protection, so feel like jammies compared to allrounders joe.mark the wood is still on site as far as i know. all the stuff i dismantled got mulched. i got paid just to deck it, mulch the stump and debris:001_smile:
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drooooool:001_smile:
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i think you will find johnty that i am trying to clean up my act, and show my mature side. i will get lofty back dont you worry:001_tongue:
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good job mike
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please put your arbmeal on the appropriate thread tom, this one is for snacks:001_tongue:
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stretch airs and 200quid boots dont make you a tree cutter. the 110 foot redwood down safely 20 feet away from buildings eitherside of it does.
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i am scunnered. i was scunnert. you are thinking of the past tense rod. got any crisps or dips for next sat night mate:001_smile:
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pics please mike:001_smile:
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the root plate wouldnt go any further down, after the innitial weight getting taken off from the fence line, the way she went over she had shoved her way back in the root hole. so she wouldnt go any further. all the weight was then on the roller and the stacked oak. you will see in the last pic the stem is sitting a wee bit higher, it is only that way because i put it there with the crane. every tree is different. you can asses it as much as you want, but your innitial cuts will tell you what it is doing, its the same when climbing. your first few cuts tell you what the wood is doing, or how its behaving as i like to call it:001_smile:
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theres deans crazy anchoring system again, lol. she is pretty goosed mate. keep us posted
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i think the main point is that it isnt his own tree iain, and there is a tpo on it. i have never done any bracing, but i have seen a lot of home made jobs wreck a tree. i have seen the top of a rowan die from a copper screw up that was holding in a bird box, i have watched council guys nail tika tape onto sappling trees:scared1: clothes lines strangle trees, the list goes on. this oogsy means well, but i think he could rectify his job and still be super awesome dad that is the envy of all the kids in the street:001_smile:
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were you just playing around with different ideas, or is that the way you do most of your stuff.
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is pic 2 how you left it?
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heres a couple of pics of 2 beeches i did a few weeks ago that had blown over. the first one you see, with the plate up was the worst. all the weight wasnt on the roller or the plate, it was on a pile of stacked oak about 10feet from the base. my old man and farmer wouldnt believe me and i told them to get out the way' no chance that will move' they said. so i lumped off 6 feet and it jumped back a couple of feet and you want to have seen them move, it only went as far back as the plate would allow, then shifted the pressure onto the roller. the snapped one, was easy, i worked around the edges first, get the wee stuff on the deck, then came back down and logged it into lengths leaving it where you see it at the fork. that cutting took about 30 mins, but i did get the saw stuck once and had to cut it out:blushing:. then it was a we play in the tractor.
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great job by the way, the kids must think you are awesome, but you have drilled a big hole in healthy tree, being a good dad, or polite gent doesnt get away from this. i have taken dozens of trees down because people have put swings, slides, treehouses etc in trees. usually 20 yrs after the kids have left home, and the next generation now have a dangerous tree in their garden. you are obviously very able, i would of thought an old telegraph pole, from the ground up, through the tree house would do the job, even stick a stay in it, for extra strength.
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definately different dean, were you just playing or do you actually use these different methods at work?
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that was excellent, i saw him on tv years ago, i am sure he did pavaroti.
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lol, thet did that up here one day, buy drove round the cars starting and stopping. have you anchored off a lower branch dean?now that looks like a kiffuffle.
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are they displaying at capel this year?
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when i did my first aid years ago, everywhere i went folk seemed to collapse in front of me, at work on the main st. i would panick and walk around them if more folk were already there. but there was one instance where i was the only one there that new what to do, and it comes back. the best thing now i think is a mobile phone. i really need to do a refresher, and get some big bleed stuff.
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i will need to pick your brains at capel mate:001_smile:
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if you have ever been to a toffs, clay shoot and posh dinner. which being a shooting man, i wreckon you have. you will know the sorts that go. most of them were steaming before they got to the shoot. tweed and huge eyebrows everywhere. so i wreckon she was almost blind, but drunk to go with it:001_smile:
