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You Tight Git! £100 a day for all that? if the climber hasnt much experience, then fine but anyone who is at a production level..... - i wasnt too far off that when i was on the books!

also you will end up with a lot of what a lot of college students dont have, hours on the tools and in the field which counts for a lot, they cant teach half of what you need to know from text books and lectures. (i'm still looking for the bit in the tree climbers companion about frozen pine trees....)

haix protector pros all the way...really like the high boot, being a lanky sod my chainsaw trousers always end up over the top of low cut boots and thus full of saw dust, on my 3 rd pair in 4 years and they are the dogs

saw got jammed, tied saw to rope to truck, the tree snapped and at on it in, you backed the truck up to take the tension off the rope, at which point the saw was spat out run over, and then sat on by the groundy who at this point was pissing himself laughing so you bashed him on the head with, Got home stuck the saw in the vice to sharpen it, then forgot about it and backed the chipper against it and threw it at the wall in disgust. the end

last week i was climbing a big asp by the rail, about 6 meters up was a hole, where hornets lived, i tried to spike past them but they got far too curious for my liking so went down, throwlined up in the canopy and climbed as quick as i could, once i was 3 meters or so above the nest they didnt seem bothered, it was a big nest, usually the hornets nests are quite small, but i could hear them buzzing as i climbed, I didn't get stung and managed to leave a nice high pole for our dave to fell.....they wernt happy with him and more than once he bolted but we got it down unscathed. Hornets are like really f#ing big wasps, i have found some nearly the length of my thumb... My Groundy for some time Christer, more than once i have seen him legging it after i have dropped a top on to a wasps nest when doing line clearance out in the woods, he's also needed airlifting to hospital one time when he didn't run quick enough, then there was the time he came up to me and when i asked why he had stopped working he replied 'i'm being attacked by an angry snake' .... he now carries an eppy pen or what ever you call em - its an adrenalin shot for if he gets stung again - always fancied giving it to him to see if it would make him pick up his pace a little.... glad to here your ok though, they are buggers for sure.

they are almost as annoying as fruit flies...

there the little black specks on said tooth picks

also does any one else get reminded of lemmings when you see pete start climbing down the first pole to be chogged?

Here is Pete and Paul, whom i have to tolerate on a regular basis :001_tt2: taking down a couple of aspen logs. unfortunately i missed them taking the tops, but the tops where taller than the logs they chuck so as you can see they are rather tall, The reason for them doing the work is they were to big and unbalanced to fell so close to the rail over heads, they took the tops and then a chog to bring them down to safe felling size and balance. the music is to mask me chewing gum whilst filming. enjoy! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMCDhxVY1Qg]Pete and Paul and a couple of chogs - YouTube[/ame]

hmm, just had a thought, i may have to design my own, as most have the Hi Vis just above the ankles, not the best when your over your knees in snow by the rails...

The hi vis isn't as yet compulsory, but the Traffivverket (government transport office) are running out of things to complain about so we are trying to pre-empt them. The new Sthil x-fit come with the reflective stripes, they are only Type a as far as i know, but again over here that isnt an issue. - i have been using type A since last november. Hi-flex are solid, and thats a good point Jenks about the over trousers, there was a lad over here who wore some light weight combats over his trousers, he'd had them 2 years and they looked brand new, The low temperature is only a problem when standing around, its surprising how quickly even in temperatures at -20c and below the body heats up and in these temperatures the last thing you need to do is start sweating.

Martin Lothman, he isnt on this forum, but i'll be chatting with him soon so will send you a contact e-mail or something, one of his best mates has just bought a house in gothenburg, he too is a rock climber, so i'm sure they would appreciate a little local knowledge. I'll give you a shout myself when i get near there, but its a long slow walk for me, shouldnt be in that neck of the woods till next winter. I havent touched rock since last december, i was just getting the hang of it as well (only been rock climbing 6 months prior to that - but my mates are keen trad-climbers who have been doing it a few years.) and just to point out to anyone else who reads this..... i went out in Kalmar city last saturday, 3 of us each blew around £200, the average round was £35 and that doesnt include the cash from the side job which paid for the meal, nor the £40 cash i won at black jack....you have been warned!

and hes 40odd years old (though with over 20years forestry under his belt...)

85kg after i wake up.....84kg 20 minutes after the second coffee of the day..

bah! taking all the work out of the job? we'll just be like the bloody bin men in a few years..... (though is we earn the same pay as them that could be a bonus!)..... seriously its an interesting product, and if it saves the back so you can keep working, and work faster then its a good thing

na! the bigger the better - all our trees have to be picked up by the harvester and as much timber in length as possible, even if most of it goes for pulp, they don't like us taking things down in pieces much smaller than 3 meters, bigger if we can, i tell you its a god damn night mare when we are clearing big oaks from the HV's and the bigger bosses are telling us off for taking things in small bits.

shuch a short life span is no good....are the yellow the same material? they are going to have to put up with some harsh punishment over the winter months...

Been looking at the Hi vis chainsaw trousers from Stretch air, useful, but some feed back would be cool, also i noticed they do a class 2 protection (24mps chain speed) any one tried these? they sound like they would be a tad warm, but then i'm looking at another winter in scandinavia rail bashing spruce trees.....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oE_kdIdspU]our daves first big top - YouTube[/ame] this might do it

13 mm is good, i rate the xtcs, i think 11mm is too thin, unless you use a lockjack. One advantage of an 11mm rope is it opens up lots of possibilities to use gear mainly used in rock climbing, where 11mm is probably as thick as it gets. I switched from Yale xtc to poison ivy, which is 11.7mm the extra .7mm makes a hell of a difference to how the rope feels in your hands, i really dislike the blaze 11mm, i find it hard to grip, especialy when wet, but then i got some fair sized paws with which to have to grip it with. I started using 8mm prussik cord on the poison ivy, it worked well, but would heat up a hellish amount when descending, to the point where i could hold the knot, have just switched today in fact back to 10mm and from a knut to a VT, much happier i must say. - thats just my view and experience, best thing is to try and get hold of some of the ropes you are interested in a try em out.

hang on might have sussed it, never loaded a film of my phone before to post on here...

Log in | Facebook this might work, will continue to try and get this bloody thing off my phone...

balls it doesnt...

Our Dave, bless him, only been climbing 3 months. Woodpecker nesting site in the pine, to be left as a habitat pole....do you think we can take it in one, he asks, if you use a wedge we says. enjoy <object width="320" height="240" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150365451876062" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150365451876062" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="240"></embed></object> i hope that link works...

hmm interesting stuff, had a rope access worker over here in Sweden say the alpine butterfly reduced strength by up to 60% which has made me reconsider the system I use for setting up and advantage for pulling trees over, though with out having the correct measuring gear its hard to sya how much force is being put on the rope....