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Quite a large horse chestnut fell, worked out at about 5 3.5t trucks in the end.

Ha! Skyhuck! Lovely reduction on that one.

Tree removal 26th July 2014 Enjoy. climbed by moi.

i wouldn't want to snatch anything off that, i'd just get up and drop a top then chog it down.

that is properly light, must of been a pain, it will come back so soon too!

Initial Reaction was Whitebeam or some sort of sorbus.

How about compulsory testing for crack, coke and ketamine? ive worked with a few fellows who loved a bit of that on weekends and weekdays.

well heres how the story unfolded, my team had finished and we were sitting about, then my manager gets a call from the other team, they've been robbed oh dear. so anyway they were doing a through the house, and were back and forth every 3-5 minutes or something, they seen a guy down the road next to a landscapers van on the phone eyeing the truck up so they locked the boxes with the tools in, and went back to work, about 15 minutes later, they come out and the boxes are open and everything nicked apart from climbing kits and an 020, then a resident comes over and says did you just see that blah blah i seen a guy nicking your tools then running off, would have been nice if they could have said something a bit sooner eh. this happened in clapham, at 2pm in broad daylight, the barsteward should get sent down, but they will never catch him, they didnt get a numberplate, and my boss hasnt got the saws serial numbers. just goes to show be careful in the bigsmoke! can happen even if your security concious and lock your boxes up. dont settle for cheap padlock!

i have to agree steve, from what ive seen in some of my fellow students from when i was at capel, that gung-ho whop it down in as bigger lumps as possible permeates through the younger "adrenaline junkie" generation of arbs even if your not taught these techniques. i'd be worried about people my age, with a good knowledge of arb but certainly not years of experience going out and trying this stuff for the first time, i know for a fact id never even contemplate trying something like that bore and release cut.

i agree here, sometimes you have to use those little techniques that arent in the books i myself only use it on smaller stuff, never around targets most of the time i will just letterbox it and twist it out, or set up a tirfor or 3 in 1. i think when it comes to the big wood if you cant be sure how that piece is going to react to your cuts, then you shouldnt even be thinking about it, one twist, or barber chair and your a goner, is it worth your life to save half an hour or an hours work?

i think this technique looks bloody dangerous myself, i cringed everytime the holding wood broke, i hate to think what any nptc assesors on here think about this one. just for the record i would never try something like that in a customers back yard or id get the sack!, just do it the propper way and set up a tirfor.

looks propper fishy, hes sold hundreds of assorted gardening/tree surgeon equipment, most of it spankers.

i climb on 37m of yale xtc on prussik loops, i have a small 18m shortline for small stuff, and a 10m line for fruit trees, i use a 4.5m soft lanyard on a distel and pulley, and a 3m wirecore on distel and pulley for chogging, i very rarely use 2 anchors on my main line, only if its a big horizontal branch without much to hold onto, or if its a wet slippery day, i use a fishermans for all my termination knots, and use timber hitches, running bowlines and half hitches for rigging.

really nice vids thanks for sharing, the work your doing is a lot more advanced than what i do on a daily basis! i love that last video, just the fact you have the onions to drop them pieces that close to the fence, i would smash it to bits if i tried that haha!

just want to draw your attention to an old mate of mine offering free tipping, hes got a social group on here. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/groups/touchwoodtrees-recycle-wood-group-kent.html feel free to contact him if your interested.

wicked carvings jen, looking siiiick, you have improved immensely.

any big heavy reduction on a large tree (50%+) i usually get em on, the type of cuts you are making are huge so i think the damage of a few spike marks on the tree is negligable, obviously if spiking when reducing i would take lighter longer steps and try to keep in the unions and off the spikes, for a thin or a reduction 40% or under, i wouldnt bother with em they just get in the way, most of the time they stay in the bag unless im doing stuff on a pole. i think using spikes to access a tree is a copout, if your having that much trouble and getting the big jobs in why not just buy a bigshot.

im on £6.86 an hour, thats 55 a day before tax, and i could NEVER work in a place like tescos, my love of the outdoors and the fresh air is too strong, i love treework and the sawchips are definately in my blood, everyone i work with seems to cope pretty well on treework wages, they have nice flats, not short of money, all have cars.

my mate works for that company, he says its a nice ride.

wiley x's! expensive but bloody last, and dont fog up at all!

i just think of a pencil dean, if you try and break it sideways its easy, but if you push against the cells of the wood lengthways, its impossible!

no way steve? this is the same guy thats in those famous pictures? felling a thuja at 100 foot with another 100foot of top above him? in a broken leg cast aswell! beranek is a legend in college circles.

ive seen some of this guys other videos on youtube and he definately knows how to deal with the big wood, cant say id like to do some of the stuff he does, i wouldnt know where to start!

hahaha indeed stevie he runs like a man who knows his cohones are at risk *giggle*

you cant really say that just from watching a vid though, looked pretty brown inside, i MAY have climbed it, or atleast climbed the smaller one.