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  1. Rowden the cowboy
    Give the poor man a set of spikes!
  2. Rowden the cowboy
    I heard that they had made the fine unlimited now to try and hit building companies harder, as what is a £20,000 fine to a builder with a multimillion pound development? Often they will just absorb the cost of the fine, there may even be some that would budget for a fine for felling protected trees!
  3. Rowden the cowboy
    have it out and get them to plant a proper british native tree: british trees for british people. Is that a frisia variety of robinia or just the standard? Loads of those robinias are full of compression forks/included bark and have a habit of dying before they reach maturity so a case could be made for replacement. from what i've heard they dont respond that well to pruning and they are a pain in the arse to work on (tight forks and spikes)
  4. Rowden the cowboy
    I will take a pic tomorrow of it. Its weird because I wouldn't have thought it would self tend but it seems to. It has to be tied using only four wraps otherwise there is too much friction. The best thing to do is to just try it if you have got a split tail kicking about just tie a short blakes hitch and shove a pulley behind it. Id be interested to know what you think
  5. Rowden the cowboy
    yes it will.
  6. Rowden the cowboy
    Its the west meon agricultural and plant auction at the cross roads off the A272 outside Petersfield this saturday. Who's going?
  7. Rowden the cowboy
    Tried this the other day, tying a really short blakes hitch and putting a micro pulley behind it. In essence it functions in exactly the same way as a VT except you have the consistency of a blakes hitch: it always grips and very rarely jams and is very easy to tie correctly unlike the VT knots, where if one leg is shorter than the other you will slide down the rope. This is now my new working knot; it seems to outperform the vt on every level. I recommend that everyone tries it.
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  9. Rowden the cowboy
    I was wondering, as we approach hedge cutting season, whether flails have any place on the finer quality hedges? The flails used by farmers on their mixed hedges seem to smash up everything and look pretty awful for a few months but the jagged cuts promote very vigorous re-growth and look alright. What im driving at is how effective flails would be on your more domestic hedges, e.g. laurel, beech, leylandii, thuja, tauxus. Can they give a nice finish, or could they be used to do the bulk of the work and then just touch it up with a hand hedge cutter? It would be nice to be able to drive a tractor up and down a hedge twice and go home rather than spending all day up a ladder trying to get a straight line. Any thoughts?
  10. Rowden the cowboy
    thanks for your advice, i wont be getting it. i do like the older models though, like the 090, 070 etc... just was wondering what it was like.
  11. Rowden the cowboy
    I've been offered one of these for £100. its good working order, new guide bar(20"), new chain and seems to run well. Is it worth it, and can they be used legally in the workplace? this saw is fitted with a chainbrake so should be h+s compliant.It is a top handle saw, so does that mean It cant be used on the ground? Should I get it? Thanks in advance for any advice.
  12. Rowden the cowboy
    what about as a lowerer then? it is still a cheap alternative and a lot lighter than an equivalent strength double braid rope. Obviously it could only be used in static overhead lowering situations, not for snatching.
  13. Rowden the cowboy
    Why's that then?
  14. Rowden the cowboy
    I've decided its time to replace my horrible marlow gecko rope with something that doesn't get tangled round just about everything and was wondering whether static caving ropes could be used for tree climbing? They have good abrasion properties and are all CE rated and at caving-supplies.com you can get 100m of mammut pro-static for £89.00 inc VAT! Should I get it?
  15. Rowden the cowboy
    Does any one know what the practicalities of running a 7.5t truck are in this industry? obviously you need a category C1 license to drive it if, like me, you hold a >1997 license, but are there any other operators licenses required, and how often are VOSA checks required? Is it actually worth getting a 7.5t given that you could almost afford two 3.5 tonners for the same price(ish). I'm thinking of doing my C1 license, but would like to know if there's any point given that most people roll around in transits, and would be interested to know how difficult the test is. Has anyone here taken it?
  16. Rowden the cowboy
    "Explain the specifications of tree work in BS3998 reccommendations for tree work and give details why professional tree work is undertaken to those standards" Can I pick anyones brains on that one? Regards
  17. Rowden the cowboy
    All very true. As for the noisy, inefficient chipper, we have a Timberwolf 150DHB, so you can see my point. They are truly awful.. The stress feed comes on as soon as anything thicker than 2" goes in, the blades are a pain to change, and it is just crap for any material like yew, where there is a lot of leaf matter going through. It jams easily and makes too much noise. Perhaps if i'd only worked on 14" bandit chippers my opinion of chippers would be less prejudiced, but i seem to spend most of trhe time cutting and refeeding material that was just too much for our TW first time round.
  18. Rowden the cowboy
    Its worth taking time out and doing a survey then and pricing the job as a whole. you can easily load the prices so that your time spent surveying the site is payed for, and it then means that the job is accurately priced.
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    Seen this for sale at proclimber as a recovery line: 9mm amsteel rope has 10000kgBS! imagine what weights a 16mm amsteel line would be able to lower. Has anyone used this line for lowering? would it actually work cos I don't know how well it reacts to heat?
  20. Rowden the cowboy
    Any footlockers here by the way? This discipline of climbing predates the three knot system by about three centuries. Surely this is the "traditional method"?
  21. Rowden the cowboy
    just take smaller bits: 24mm polyprop still has a WLL of about a ton and to be honest you shouldnt be knocking pieces out that big anyway: your ground crew will hate you for it. Ideally, the ground crew should never have to pick up a saw, it should all come down in manageable chunks. For jobs where you simply cannot do this, well thats what the fandangled new kit is for, but even then its easy to trash the gear and there are so many components that could fail in the setup. With natural crotch rigging and polyprop rope the system is simple and the only thing that can fail is the rope. Providing your groundsman knows how to lower properly, polyprop can be used just as well and efficiently, and at about a £1 a meter its not such a heart break if you do ruin the rope.
  22. Rowden the cowboy
    So what would you do to make it burn cleanly? just wack a leaf blower on full blast behind it? A fire like that could probably do with two backpack blowers on it at all times.
  23. Rowden the cowboy
    looking at the design of the air burner it looks like you could mount a smaller version on a 16' trailer and integrate a fan system with the incinerator: should be fairly easy to do. Only thing is, how would you stop the trailer tyres from melting?? still, anything is better than a noisy, inefficient chipper.
  24. Rowden the cowboy
    That looks like the mutts nuts to me. what would be good is if you could get a smaller version of the air burner that could be towed behind a landrover. Then you could continuously feed brash in there. I seriously think that this could be a viable alternative to chipping even on urban sites, as they seem to burn so cleanly and quickly. then you have no chippings to dispose of, very little maintenance, and a quieter worksite. Think of the man hours that are spent ferrying loads of chip to your yard.
  25. Rowden the cowboy
    Just thinking... How about a mobile incinerator for burning waste rather than chipping? Imagine, maintenance free,low on fuel, no need to dispose of chips, no need for a yard, no need for a tipping truck. Does anyone know of such a machine or will I have to make one? I'm envisaging something about the size of an agricultural grain trailer which can be fed manually or automatically: there will be no faffing about with stress feeds etc.. you could just chuck brash and whole rings of timber in there and dispose of it quickly. Is this possible? Does such a machine already exist? If not, then it was my idea first.

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