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  1. Hi. I've.not been online for a long time but we have a vacancy. Always good work and good crew. Email [email protected]
  2. Hi we could use a hand a few days a week and are looking for a hard working subby. Mostly need a ground work alongside our full time team but some climbing experience might be usefull. Would suit experienced groundsman with Ariel rescue or maybe a college student looking for part time work. Loads of nice tree work lined up in the coming months. Please email Mat at [email protected]
  3. Sorry mate. It's my day off
  4. I'm at home mark, my phone won't wifi. Need to get my wife to fix it, I'm a bit simple that way.
  5. Hey reg/Tim hope your both well. Sorry but can't see reg's vid cos wifi is too slow here. I always felt that letting branches run was the fastest and easiest for little pieces and doesn't tie up grounds men. Dumping branches on to a taught line and letting it run a little combined with control line works good for medium chuncks. For big limbs dropping it all in to a slack system with a control line and add tension after worked for me. I think the vid Tim posted had a bit of everything. If your pushing it I always used to prefer a smaller rope in the hope that the rope was the weakest part of the system over the tree I was tied too. Mat
  6. Hi I haven't seen a confirmed case in my area yet until this possible one yesterday. Any thoughts?
  7. Good work. I've rigged off a high line but never climbed on one
  8. Regardless of what they are calling it, its great that they are accepting srt as a valid method of tree work within the code of practice. Definitely a big step forward for the AA and our industry
  9. We've had a lot of interest in the climbing trip to Gambia on the 1st of May. Due such a great response we are looking at the option of taking a second group the following week. The trip costs £1250 inclusive of flights, half board accommodation, local transport and srt work shops. If you want to book one the few remaining places email [email protected].
  10. gibbon

    Bottled it!

    I bottled one once and it felt like a big deal at the time. Some of them ain't worth climbing
  11. Thanks Ian. Please like the canopy spirit Facebook to find out more about previous trips and how to get involved with up coming adventures
  12. Have a good trip Ben.
  13. I had an ingunial hernia last year. Nhs was a 6 month wait so I had to get it done privately. My mate had one at the same time and didn't take care of himself, his ruptured at work and he was in a real mess. I had key hole surgery and was in Africa ten days later, climbing steadily after 14 days. The only problem I have with it now is when I go kite surfing, I get a bad burning pain after about an hour and a half.
  14. We are looking for another apprentice. Please apply by email to [email protected]
  15. Gambia will be in the region of £1200 incl flights.
  16. If your interested in getting experience climbing in the tropics we are organising another trip to west Africa next year. Pm me if you want to find out more
  17. I need about 2/3 transit of a load well composted wood chip for a soil de-compaction job in Salcombe, week beginning 24th March. Any local guys who can get buy some from and deliver to site?
  18. Thanks for the comments. Yes we were rigging some of it off the crane hook and also using the crane as a climbing anchor. It was difficult to tell which branches were supporting the tree so after discussing with the crane guy, we decided to use that approach rather than tie to the tree, I also tied back to the hook for a timber section which I thought was holding the tree up. I was pretty happy with how the go pro on the crane perspective came out.
  19. Hey David. Roots were fine. It's a fairly shallow soil on a pebble bed but the valentine storm was just too much for them. The other trees may have been affected, one if the clients wants us to survey the rest of the trees. I haven't really had a good look around thee yet
  20. Interesting job, thanks for sharing.
  21. I had someone watching the root plate the whole time. Didn't move much when felling tops out. It starting started to get a little wobble on cutting the side branches. Just had to go slow so it didn't build any momentum
  22. Sirius is pretty low stretch. That's what we have as part of the speed line set up
  23. 35m Cypress. Nothing too technical, just finding my climbing legs again after a long time out of my harness [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRoCk4eGzc[/ame]

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