RobArb

Yep, you need to change your YouTube settings to public Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

They'll come soon enough (the vid was in a tree, albeit from my viewpoint) I've got a whole backlog of photos but thought i'd start a fresh fresh from now, you never know what may come of it:thumbup: Anyway, not been on wordfeud in a while, is it my turn:lol:

Cheers pal, might go next weekend then:thumbup: If only the evenings where a bit lighter:001_rolleyes:

2ft dbh and over 80ft height, that was one tall skinny tree:thumbup:

Nice vid mate:thumbup: what editing software did you use?

Cool:thumbup: So, on descent with a rope not big enough to put an alpine butterfly in to retrieve the rope, how does one retrieve the rope? Again, just interested (and me being thick:lol:)

I understand what you are trying to put across but risk in relation to trees IMO is too subjective to be given a quantifiable "threshold". Statistics unfortunately, within any walk of life, are still open to too much human interpretation. Now i'm not saying QTRA tries to "bend" those statistics, not at all, but it is interpretation of risk that is key here. for example.... taking your example:biggrin: I'm not trying to be awkward, i just try to look at things from all angles. So, 4,441 (4500) cars use that road in a day, we can presume that its quite a busy commuting road, even at 30mph. (Without using the QTRA calculator, what is the rationale of the target value being 1/10?) Looking at your sentence in bold, i feel again IMO, that this is too subjective to be quantified Has it been taken into consideration, time of day that the tree/tree part "might" fail? Cars will be less frequent at night, or even the day compared to rush hour times... Has it been taken into account what cars travel on that road? Is it a wealthy affluent ares/poor less affluent area? More affluent areas may have bigger and better/safer cars. Bigger, newer cars "tend" to be safer and more responsive than older models (pure speculation mind, but very subjective:biggrin:) What about the people? We all drive differently, we all respond differently! Who's to say your reaction might not be good enough to react in time to a falling branch/tree and that mine would be (or vice versa). Again, subjective.... one might say clutching at straws or being obstinate but i disagree:biggrin: I tend to agree with you here on the PoF being subjective and it also being down to experience, but para-phrasing it 'professional judgement' sidesteps the core theme here, that trees and the potential "risk" they may (or may not cause) is a VERY subjective subject. Even every self-optimised tree with good vitality is open to subjectiveness, OK fair enough the 1/1,000,000 threshold set by HSE and professional bods is now "set" as you state, the base point reference and there is nothing that can change that (is there?), does it take into account 'professional judgement'? We, or at least all those trained with numerous and numerouser years experience, are still fallible, we all get things wrong from time to time, and therein lies objectivenesses problem. What about healthy trees that have signs and symptoms of reduced vitality and vigour mis-read and mis-quantified? Also how can you quantify "how many times more likely is the tree to fail, than the 1/1,000,000 tree" without it being subjective? Lastly, kind of off on a tangent but one i feel is quite pertinent. Veteran and Ancient trees are becoming less and less (yes the ATF is doing a good job of recording the ones we have left and trying to save them) so how would a tree of this category stand up in a case of QTRA assessment in regards to keeping the tree for its important ecosystem/s if it where in a place where it's PoF may be within Targets of RoH? And please, don't apologies on the long post, l like it when people have put time, effort and thought into a post reply. We may not agree on all things but debate IS healthy:thumbup: Robin

Can you be my dad please:lol:

Just saying though... what if there was a big post, i.e. someone explained quite a lot of points and did so using multiple paragraphs Those multiple paragraphs sometimes gives both the author, and the reader, time to take in what that post is about One big block of text stops that from happening, and with the way some people type (and their grammar (no offense to anyone intended)), it gets a bit difficult to read:blush: Don't mean to be a pain, just giving an opinion:biggrin:

Nice Vid:thumbup: I've got a Stein Plasma lid too but find the sticky pad fits on it just fine with my Drift HD:biggrin:

Does that make sense...? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Yep, can't see the "breaks" between the lines... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Just testing something.. Noticed it on a few posts just now.... I'm typing here with entered spaces between the lines... But viewing on the new app it seems to be one bunched up paragraph... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Wrong thread dean:biggrin: Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Got, received and left rating and comment. Works fine on my galaxy s2 Part from the signature not changing? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Nice one! That pic with the 3 different SRT anchors, how did you set them? I mean, they're all non-retrievable right? So, did someone climb up from a base anchor then set them there or where they thrown up and tied off (running bowline?) somehow? Just curious that all:biggrin:

That last one is a corker:thumbup: Love an old yew:biggrin:

aye, i fallen for the dark side:lol:

Ehem

Thanks guys:thumbup: Hopefully going to make quite a few v ids now so watch this space:biggrin: Here's some more pics of the woodland i went to survey for uni yesterday

Got some better pics of it off the camera rather than those off my phone. Your right, if I had too (not that I'd want too) I'd ping the holding roots off one by one... By one... Sent from my Galaxy S2

Sorry Nick, thought i had made it possible on mobiles? Yeh Paul, Silky was brand new that day:thumbup: Like a knife through butter it was, and especially on Lime. Rarely take a saw up with me on pruning jobs any more, it just gets in the way:biggrin: I just use a Hitch climber with VT, think my rope is yale xtc fire and hitch cord is OP 8mm, got it tied just right albeit with a little bit of sit-back. Tried the spiderjack for a week when i borrowed one but must admit i prefer my hitches:thumbup: (each to their own an all that. Really wanna try SRT next, only used it once and that was for access, and that was well over a year ago...

A tree from today in a local woods hanging on for dear life:biggrin: Sent from my Galaxy S2

The duo of us will be down in the big smoke in October for our 10 year wedding anniversary, so if i don't make it down before, i'll be sure to say hello then:thumbup:

Seeing as a few other peeps have a thread of there own, i thought i'd have meself one of them:thumbup: It'll be pictures, video and ramblings of day to day life and a small window to my world:biggrin: To start, I've just bought myself a Drift HD and this is the first video edit i've ever done. Tis only a reduction an a medium Lime tree but it was the only decent job we had that week that i could really video:lol: Anyway, watch (and hopefully enjoy) in 1080p:001_smile: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgJirRM_uQ]Lime Tree Reduction - YouTube[/ame]