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know what you mean jarnii, the uk chaps undercut all the swedes, which screws people up in the long run if they want to stay... i worked near falkenberg but not in gotheburg, stockholm indeed isnt for everyone, myself included but its a good place to get a foot in the country. jarnii is you gf f-skat??? if so it would be best to point out that as f-skat you give not quite but close enough to 50% ( i think its 47%) so out of the 200quid you get to keep a little over 100 and giving the extra living costs (it costs me nearly double in food bills than in the uk and the price of a pint is a joke). If some one is employing her at that rate as a groundie can i have their number????

what the!!!! crickey, how many people does it take to get a cat out of a tree???? bloody too lazy to haul their own ass up there.....though i think i will be trying that....looked bloody overcomplicated mind, also was that a throwbag cannon???!!!!! gimme gimme gimme!!! SMART = Smug Martys to Animals, Rubbish at Treeclimbing. I was earned the title of the Cat Whisperer in Lincoln city for my uncanny ability to get cats out of trees with my eyes still in place.....Old Joe went to rescue one, it ran to the top, it was blowing a gale, he cut the top of the tree out with the cat in it, landed on its feet but bust a leg, turned out it was stray, he got it fixed, kept it and called it lucky.

Had another good test run on it this weekend with a tricky maple over a house. The groundy has really got the hang of pulling in the slack when i had to drop some high stuff, handled some bigger lumps really well, the 14mm polydyne is awesome, we only had to put one full turn on when the chogs got more than about 130-150kg, really looking forward to getting a bit more on it.

First i find out Stihl have brought out chainsaws with a usb port built in them, computer software, for rigging??? angle measurments? got to love modern technology....though what ever happened to 'Are you sure this going to work?' 'I'll just cut it and see' Top stuff mind.

are there any climbers with out silky scars???

tradmastarna in stokholm are looking for climbers, they should give you a two week trial Stockholm is the best place to look for work in sweden, it has the most companies and highest population density of Sweden.

thats rail work in sweden!!!

how mature? i know two climbers who started in their 40's by no means the fastest but still far from the slowest. - i fancy harvester driver .....in the winter...those finks in their nice heated cabs munching sandwiches listening to the radio all day....air con in the summer, wearing shorts! they are fat though.... Lots of other options, surveying and such. What qualifications if any do you have? and or experience?

ah yes i see...nadgers!! though i agree a little competitive pricing could be in order.

I was just about to do a thread about how i enjoyed today, in fact the last week or so has been great and this looks like the place to put it. Last Monday after a quite period my phone rang 3 times from other companies needing me asap. I'm now looking at being flat out until mid November. I drove from Malmo in the south of Sweden upto Stockholm, its 650km, and a nice drive if you have time to stretch your legs which i did. I crashed at my mates house with his small army of dogs and worked with him the next day, ate food watched bad movies, next day worked with a mate whom i used to work with back in Oxford for nearly two years and who i havent seen in about the same amount of time. Next day worked for another company up in Stockholm, group of brits there working and a swede or two, met up with some old faces from last years season, went round to another mates house who i havent seen since February, Back to chill out with my mate and his dogs and make plans to take over the world, the friday drove back to Malmo, helped out a woman who had wrecked her car, and waved traffic around (hi vis in the van) till the firebrigade and ambulances showed up. got back to my missus in Malmo to find my shiny new rigging kit had arrived, and my new laptop Chilled out for a few days, did some quotes in Malmo and now i'm in a place called Emmaboda just shy of 300km from Malmo working for another company doing rail clearance which involves being out in the forests and having an easy time of it, playing with my new rigging kit today, found the lower jaw of a wild boar by the rail road track ( the missus is a dentist and loves this kind of stuff) and then got to my cosy house where i'm being put up (best digs i've had when working away for a long time) to find this e-mail in my inbox.... the translation will follow. Hej! Tack, äntligen någon som vet vad han pratar om. Jag tycker detta låter som en bra plan för trädet och priset låter också rimligt. Boka gärna in oss när det passar dig. Jag är mamma ledig och nästan alltid hemma, vill gärna träffa dig och lära mig mer om trädet den dagen du kommer. Tack på förhand MVH Ellen in english it translates roughly as Thank you, finally someone who knows what he's talking about. I think this sounds like a good plan for the tree and price also sounds reasonable. Please book us at your convenience. I am a home mum, and almost always at home, would love to meet you and learn more about the tree that day you will come. Thanks in advance MVH Ellen In short I like the travel, new towns and places, working for different companies and different places. I'm my own boss, I can choose whom i work for. I enjoy a customer who appreciates that i'm not just some bloke with a chainsaw and a ladder but some one who is a professional. I enjoy all the aspects of running my own company, from moaning about paper work to getting out there and getting the job done! When i put on a t-shirt with my company name on, i feel good. I couldnt work inside full time ever again. I like looking in the catalogues at all the shiny things that i can spend my hard earned money on. I enjoy the fact that tree work has almost a sense of community, a lot of people know a lot of people, and these forums where people offer help and advise and you can also help and advise others. You never really know what the day is going to throw at you and getting through the day and getting home. Its all good. I've rambled enough...but when things go good this job is the dogs nadgers!

i was thinking we could train him....

i bought the Treerunner 500, My gear gets shipped about alot, and also budget was a constraint so price and weight were an issue. I gave it a test run today on an oak tree, using a 14mm polydyne lowering rope and ISC pulleys of various sizes. The groundsman was not the most experienced of riggers but had no trouble using the tree runner. The fact that there is no slack when using a capstan was very noticeable, also when firing the tops off the groundsman was able to pull the slack in as the pieces fell from above the pulley and then let it run again with no problems just reducing the shock loading of the tree. I have thought about attachments on the top for lifting fiddler blocks and i have a few ideas in mind, though i dont know how much these parts are rated for. I sat down and worked out the loads every thing can take, and to be honest the jobs i do at the moment in no way require something with the capacity of the stein3001, or the jobs that the extra load would be useful would just mean taking smaller pieces. I also got a very very good price on my tree runner making only a little more expensive than the stein2000, but with no need to purchase extra ropes. I believe 14mm was a good choice for the set up. The groundy found it very easy to tie and untie, and it didnt create too much friction on the bollard as sometimes can be the case when using thicker mm ropes on not so heavy pieces. Setting the treerunner 500 to the tree took a little longer than would have with a capstan but that is just getting familiar with the kit. On the whole i'm happy with how it has performed though perhaps the largest that was dropped on it to day was only a touch over 100kg. I will continue to test it out and i'm looking forward to dropping some bigger chogs on it in the near future.

of course David would need a wingman, in case he got in to trouble so you would have to book a flight for me also........ Sounds like an awesome project! Two other reasons i would say climbing the trees would be a preferable option is that you can ensure that material is collected in a way that will have the least negative impact on the tree, with the tree you mentioned being so old and big it would be a shame to damage them needlessly with bad cuts and bullet holes. The gun method however is probably the fastest, but will result in excessive damage to the tree. If you intend on climbing them your self i would strongly advise going on a suitable training course and if possible never climb alone, have some there in case something goes wrong.

weird.... i got a fair amount on my polydyne.

fiskas or wilkinson sword pruners are the dongs nadgers, for tip thinning and reductions, the wilkinson ones are a bit tougher. dont be put of by the price, can be around 100 quid for the telescopic sets, mine have a 6.9 meter reach, and i love them, perfect for brining in tips, thining etc, only down side is they dont take very wide diameter branches but then if the branch is too think for them then you should be able to climb out no problem. I agree with a proper crown clean will open up the crown a lot. The illustrated guide to pruning is worth a look, although it deals a lot with nursery trees it has good pointers, and diagrams. If you do a proper thin, you shouldnt really be able to tell you have been in the tree after you have finished unless you take before and after photos, same for an artful reduction. One boss told me to leave all the branches at the bottom of the tree till the customers sees it. as for odd growing branches, the trees try and make the use of as much light as possible, and by removing to much you expose the trunk, which can lead to sun scorch and even encourage more epicormic growth. On tree where epicormic is natural leave a bit on, such as limes and oaks, remove all of a group but leave one for example.

just invested in 60meters of 14mm polydine, not tried it yet, but it knots well, needs a fair bit of milking though.

thats a point, what is the life expectancy of the RW? are there any parts that will need replacing?

looks nice and slippery

SOLD!!! will have to wait a bit as i just forked out for lots of other shiny gear, though may wait to see if it gets over to the uk to save on import

its illegal to smoke weed, you are out in the public, with customers, contractors etc. every one likes to chill out and has their vices but on the job, na why? is your life so crap you have cant wait till 6pm to blur reality? I dont drink at work, i dont smoke at work, what i do out of work is irrelevant as long as i turn up the next day and i'm in a fit for fight condition.

gimmie gimmie gimmie!!! what a toy! can think of pleanty of jobs where that would have saved, time and my back!

i was going to say why not a mewp? though i would have climbed it, a circle is a strong shape, a pipe is strong, there is some expriment you can do by laying out loads of bog roll inner tubes and standing on them..... good that you didnt need to shock the tree with any rigging, but then again a good groundsman would have prevented that. if there were obvious signs of root heave i would have been a bit twitchy though.

my mate is more a rope access guy than tree bloke but he does do tree climbing, albeit with far too much equipment and over complicated systems. Hes a level 3 tech years of rope experience, has taught me a few tricks about ropes and i him about trees, if he thinks its safet to use then i for something outside of tree work i will take his word on it, regulations where made to be flexed a little.....

hmmmm....its cheaper than a spiderjack.......i'm tempted, going to show it a rope access nut who cant resist shiny new toys, will get him to buy one and then try it out i know a couple of trees i have done recently that this would have been perfect for.

oh yeah... can see how that works......so again how much do these toys cost?