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Haven't seen rupes video yet but sounds interesting. What I use is a 4m lenghth of 14mm de attached to.a 16mm rigging line by a blakes hitch. Tie the 14mm straight on to the branch or use a sling. Easy to use balancer for about 10 quid

We did that on Monday and finished about half two Tuesday with 3 of us. The bands called sublime. Worth looking up if you haven't heard of them.

Nothing fancy, I just fancied making another vid. This job was to top about 10 25m Eucs down to 6m. On the day they asked us to top the Cypress's and Poplar too. Crappy spec but some fun rigging and plenty of bashing out big lumps. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCMnUH1d4Wo]YouTube - ‪Eucy Bashin‬‏[/ame]

That's a huge Cicada. Great opportunity you have. Is it paid or do they just pay costs? How long do you stay away? Cross bow works ok but there the power isn't variable enough, only ok if you can bounce it off a higher branch

Cool photos. Where are the 90m trees? That's massive!!!! I'd have a powered winch to drag me up, just so long as I wasn't the one who has to carry it in

I'm using 16mm sirius at the moment.I'm happy with the rope, low stretch so good for speedlines too. Got it at a very good price

I have both a 3l canter and td5 130. The canter is more comfortable, quicker and better on fuel than the landy. I still prefer driving the landy though.

I'm using the trupulse. Half the price of the laser ace with better range. Find it very quick and easy to use. Easy to find heights between different pionts or working out heights on un-level ground. will measure crown spreads and inclination or lengths of a leaning tree.

I'll sell you one, using a laser measure now

Looks good to me. It's very hard to do much better than that on rock hard old dead oak like your tree looked. On more recently dead or living stuff try to make some of it tear, then you've got less to rough up with a chain saw.

That would be good if it was September. I haven't done any splicing either.

I would like to come along depending on the dates. I will be out of the country for a lot of August

I met a German couple in Nicaragua driving something very similar to that. They had a motorbike strapped to one.side and a boat on the other. They were 4 years into a round the world trip

This is my home made iveco daily camper. Its 7m

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Yeah they're small fruiting bodies, but there are loads of big old ones from last year. Interesting site though as there's loads of inonotus on the oaks, one tree has them nearly 2m from the stem on the ground. One very large oak does seem to be losing the battle though with almost no living roots at all on one side. Id like to reduce that one a little

Bloody awfully things to climb, and the wood feels like your cutting a cucumber. The absolute devils own tree is a sand box. Looks similar to a ceiba (spiney cedar) but with high pressure sap. It squirt out when you knock the spikes off and it will blind you if it gets in your eyes. Add on top of that they're full of fire ants

Here it is again. I spotted this Inonotus during an inspection this morning. Looks like this Oak has been dead for quite some time. This is only the second time I've noticed it on a dead tree.

There are still un answeted questions for me here, perhaps because you haven't answered them for me. 1. Would you have have made all of your pruning cuts the same way if you had the ability to work from rope and harness, just for the areas not easily accessible with the truck? 2. Why did you not inspect the branch union before you decided to brace? 3. Why did you not inspect the branch union before deciding how much pruning was required? 4. Who do you mean when you refer to people who do not understand this level of pruning? It's ok to name names, infact it might be better if you did rather than to imply that anyone who disagrees with you is simply to thick to understand the advanced level to which your working.

Which ever one you chose they both have the same winch. As soon as you get used to rigging up as well ad down you will wander how you managed for so long without one.

Daniel most of your pionts are valid, but sometimes you come across ad very full of yourself and unable to consider other peoples points. Rightly or wrongly, you seem to use a bucket truck for the majority of your work. In your felling videos you use this to rigg up complex systems to fell trees others would simply climb. Your pionts on stubs are valid here, the tree is in decline and I agree that they are irrelevant.the trouble is many of us contractors have a hard time with trying to educate customers on the benefits of proper pruning. Is your customer going to accept that the stubs you left are ok when every other arborist is pointing out the stubs on a neighbouring tree when they need to show an example of poor pruning? I think the real reason you are leaving stubs is that sometimes you can't quite get into a good position with your bucket and you are reluctant to get your harness on to tidy up the odd cut. Lastly, without watching it all back, I think you decided to brace the limb prior to inspecting the union. Would it not have been easy enough to inspect it from your platform before advising on the cable?

That board looks cool. Watch out who you take advise from through. I didn't go to the arbshow so not sure what company your boss spoke to. I used a national loler company to inspect my kit a year or 2 back and had kit damaged, stolen and serial numbers changed without a record kept it the original .numbers so I bad no idea of the length of time some kit had been used. On top of this had to listen to a whole load of other crap that if have rather not listen too. Sometimes its best to draw your own conclusions rather than take it from an "expert".

This one reminds me of the octopus faced man in Pirates on the Caribean

Tony. I'm looking at this post again on the computer (not phone screen). Do you think that there was any significant soil compaction beneath the decking prior to the decking being layed? Were the decking posts concreted in? Mat

Congratulations on forging your own path. Your the ultimate mould geek.