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I'd be interested in coming over as a 3 man team for a 3 week jolly up if the money was workable. Very experienced crew all the tickets and education you've asked for and more..We have lots of experience with very big and tricky jobs and used to travelling all over the world with our gear. Can provide any info you want and have posted examples of work on the forum.
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Stuff work and get down the pub in the sunshine. It's the holidays
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Get a cherry picker
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Sunny climbing is a step on the route to being a boss. You just got to get on with the crap jobs until its your turn to employ someone else to do it
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well I would stay at home and send a couple of the lads off for that job.
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Thanks. I knew I didn't say it quiet right
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Climbers have more skill but groundless work harder
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I hard a nasty job once and used a small loop of throw line as a week link on my lanyard
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1000m3 timber - need it biomass chipped NOW!
gibbon replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
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I used felcos for years. The last pair got stolen by some joker I contacted through this forum to do our loler. Now I use bahco and they are about 12 a pair. Just as good as felcos I recon.
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Chances are all they will do is register you with the procurement website. You could do it yourself for free. Where's the name twobob come from? Haven't worked in west Africa have you? They call white guys toubobs
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Nice job but crap music. I'd agree that more use of a tagline would have given you a lot more control. Not just to avoid the building but to ensure the pieces fall further away from you and to help lay the stuff out on the deck. I've had pieces swing back onto me and onto my ropes in the past when I should have used a tagline. Good work though!
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Veteren tree/fungi tour september 2011
gibbon replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I was keen until I googled the postcode. My devon passport will not allow me to travel that far up north. Maybe we could hook something up down here aswell? -
There not so brilliant when 20 of the little buggers get you all at once. I got stung by a huge solitary wasps once and it felt like I had been shot. Hard to believe such a little bug could pack such a punch
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I've been attacked by black wasps climbing in Costa Rica and disturbed a swarm of bees high up a tree in Gambia but got down quick enough.that time. I have always been amazed at how.relaxed UK bees are. I have rigged and craned tree sections with bees inside and used a saw inches from hives here and never been hit.
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Looks like your a bit of a hotty janey
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Grcs. I was also torn between the 2 but only really liked the hobbs because of price. With the Grcs wincing capabilities you will end up finding more uses for it than standard rigging. I would invest in the visor though and get them to throw in some extra rubber mounts as it will move if you work it hard. On really big lumps you also have the bollard which gives you more control than the winch does.
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2 100ft pines, small garden, speedline and heavy rigging
gibbon replied to gibbon's topic in Video forum
A few photos of the job if your interested -
Tony is right. The mycelium if it is present could be just on the below ground parts of the tree. I've felled large dead cedars with hardly any above ground signs of hf, just subtle mycelium beneath small dead patches of bark between butresses
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Don't forget to factor in what you'll be doing in that anchor piont. Are you hanging straight down on it or limb walking right out and pulling it over? I had an anchor piont rip out and fell 15feet onto a drive. The top was strong enough to hold me but when I step cut a large branch off to through it out, the weight of the branch and me pulled the top right out. Lucky I wasn't cutting and holding with the saw!
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Thanks. I am in Devon so I am trying to get a local guy so I can minimise the time we are down on a truck. This guy can build most of it so he only needs the truck for 3 days. I'd like to build my own but I know I would never find the time
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Nice. That's just what I am after. Did that include the tipping gear?
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Just had a quote for a new tipping body on our Canter. Would have full height toolbox at the front and high sides all the way back. Removable tail board and barn doors above and a roof on the front half. All Ali and re-using the existing tipping gear. All in its £4200 plus vat. Does this sound right? Just wandering as I thing I paid £3600 plus Vat for the landy which included the tipping gear. I know the Landy is smaller. Its a 2000 truck which isn't worth 4k but I'd hope to re-use the body if she blows up.
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2 100ft pines, small garden, speedline and heavy rigging
gibbon replied to gibbon's topic in Video forum
There were 2 side by side. We were called out in the snow because the 1st tree was listing right over the house with the weight of the snow. We stripped it down to a pole as an emergency. The tree we speedlined had dropped some huge pieces and smashed up the conservatory. The client wanted this one down on the same day but I didn't think that it was imminently dangerous as it had already shed a lot of the weight. What foliage was left would not have sustained the tree for long so we applied to fell it and took the other stem out at the same time. Yeah High Scale we did have to carry it all out. Had to slice the big rings into 3 just to get them throuth the passage. The wheel barrow only just made it through the access passage. I still havent seen any photos from this job but I'm hoping there are some good ones -
2 100ft pines, small garden, speedline and heavy rigging
gibbon replied to gibbon's topic in Video forum
Thanks for the feedback. The job was a good one, managed to blast it out 5 man days under what I had quoted so its nice to earn some good money on the job. The reason for the speedline was that the access was awfull. Everything has to go down steps and through a very narrow passage. It only took 3 of us 2 days to get both trees down the way we did it. All done now and the gardens are spotless execpt 4 or 5 small dings that we filled and re-seeded Here is a picture from my phone to give a bit of scale. I did have a mate come in to get some better photos. I'll put a couple up when he sorts them out.
