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  1. Rowden the cowboy
    I have heard from numerous unreliable sources that the climber riding the crane hook into the tree to get there anchor point in is bad practice and actually illegal?! Just looking for some clarification on the matter: is it illegal, if so, why? also, who would be liable in the event of an accident as a result of this practice? I have seen it done several times now and cant work out why it would be bad practice.
  2. Rowden the cowboy
    marlow gecko its the best rope you can buy and very reasonably priced, and a lovely colour! x
  3. Rowden the cowboy
    tried to set one of those up the other day using an old climbing line as the zip line and two micro pulleys to go along the line, one as a back up. to control descent we treated it as you would when rigging a speed line but used it just to decellerate the climber at the end of the zipline. We also stuck a dolly on the line to tension it so when the climber hit that knot they were brought to a halt, albeit a bit suddenly.
  4. Rowden the cowboy
    Frankly what is the point of mastering footlocking if you cant do it in your basic PPE? The only suitable boots are surely ones that have chainsaw protection? I use the footlock technique with my haix boots and rarely slip now: you just have to get used to it.
  5. Rowden the cowboy
    Get a ms200t they are the best saw stihl make
  6. Rowden the cowboy
    so hows he meant to do the odd pikey job at the weekend if he hasnt got his own saw??
  7. Rowden the cowboy
    nah I got sod all apart from a tin of warm lager and a hangover the following day: did you meet up with alex and adam? I went back to theirsafter wards and we nearly killed ourself on a zipline.
  8. Rowden the cowboy
    did you get any thing good there matey?
  9. Rowden the cowboy
    Oh, and another thing, £2.50 for a tinny of warm lager is not brilliant. For next year they need their beer on draught and at special industry discounts. I think £1.50 a pint is appropriate. And the beer tent needs air con or at least a fan: it was stifling in there!
  10. Rowden the cowboy
    http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachments/picture-forum/16832d1246185398-aa-trade-show-2009-pictures-thoughts-opinions-dsc_0761-large-.jpg Did you like sparsholt colleges clunge log then? it obviously merited a photo!
  11. Rowden the cowboy
    In all fairness, roping is one of the most difficult things about groundwork to get right and can take years of experience to perfect. If you are unhappy with the way your team lowers timber then talk them through it, take smaller pieces, and build up a climber-groundy relationship where you are both working towards the same aim. Otherwise do the roping yourself and send someone else up the tree but it is bloody difficult to get right.
  12. Rowden the cowboy
    Ah... but my cowboy practices are considerably quicker than all you people who do it by the book cos I have a spare hand free when im using a topper to do other stuff! Like lowering etc...
  13. Rowden the cowboy
    Im based in the hampshire area (winchester) and can guarantee I will be cheaper than everyone else who's posted.
  14. Rowden the cowboy
    dont forget the handy spear cut: straight through the tree at full revs in the direction its leaning! Like a "\"
  15. Rowden the cowboy
    so why fanny about with a piece of kit that cost £120+ as opposed to a normal cambium saver that cost £20? Can it ever be worth it?
  16. Rowden the cowboy
    That sounds genius, im going to do that the next time I get a chance!
  17. Rowden the cowboy
    fair play, and i just realised that on a footlock line the rope is doubled so the BS is nearer 44kn. I will now eat my words
  18. Rowden the cowboy
    it is true that a £1500 transit does not look very pro but Im a great believer in using tools for their intended purpose and a transit or any other 3.5tonner is designed to carry heavy loads and to tip, whilst landrovers were never designed with that purpose in mind. Whilst landrovers are very good off road, they are not rated to 3.5t (at least not the 110), rarely factory fitted with a tipping mechanism, and as a result any aftermarket conversions make them shocking to drive, have a tiny payload, and can cost 3-4 grand! I personally think that if you were going to spend that sort of money you would be better investing it in a tool that was actually designed to do the job, not butchering a motor that was designed in the 1950s to fit a purpose it was never designed for.
  19. Rowden the cowboy
    Surely going up on the casualties line would entail potentially exceeding the safety working load of the rope, as most ropes have a breaking strain of minimum 22kn, thats just over 2000kg: Apply a safety factor of 10 and the swl is 200kg: potentially with 2 full grown men hanging off it you would be outside the SWL and therefore it cannot be good practice.
  20. Rowden the cowboy
    get a crappy trasnit for £1500 to carry chip and mulch- It only has to last a year to pay itself off, then you wont have to butcher your landrover and can use it to price in. Plus you can use the landrover to tow the transit out whenever it gets stuck on a blade of grass or a gravel drive.
  21. Rowden the cowboy
    No, these mechanical ascenders do less: they don't really fairlead properly so you have to feed the rope with your spare hand. I found with the lock jack you actually had to walk out backwards on branches feeding the rope in with your right hand so that the rope went through it: It offers even less flexibility than a prussic for £150. Money well spent I think.
  22. Rowden the cowboy
    A tree round my way is badly suffering from soil compaction....canopy die back, drought symptoms, water shoots etc....mainly because there are cars parked around it the whole time. Now the parish councils got wise to this and have stopped parking cars all over it but it prompted a question in my mind: what can you actually do to remedy it? I know most people just say to mulch the area for a few years, but do those products such as the air spade or the terravent work? Or anything else for that matter?
  23. Rowden the cowboy
    I can think of at least two ways in which this title is misleading.....damn, and i'd thought maybe arb talk was going in a whole new direction there.
  24. Rowden the cowboy
    all those old saws are slow as hell but absolute torque monsters: I have an 070 which will happily pull a 36" bar and up to a 48" bar. If you look on you tube you can see an 076 fitted with a 60"bar that pulls well enough so dont worry about slow revving: speed is not the aim of the game with these saws
  25. Rowden the cowboy

    I think we are going upon friday eve: Steves taking a minibus so no need to drive. Food is provided on friday night I think then we have to bring some food for the rest of the weekend, then compete on sat and sun, back home sunday night.

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