Tony Croft aka hamadryad

i agree with that too, cheap razor sharp keep a good edge and no tears if you lose em, good general purpose knives the others are really just ornaments or for special "bush adventuring"

looking at the photos you made hard work of it anyways, they could have been strsaight felled onto the bank butts up hill and tied to stumps of same, these could then have easily been dragged back of the embankemt with the butt tie as control? saving a lot of time and leg work.

it is never clear cut shrek! personaly I would as suggested by somone else look to another tree for anchor over and above the hieght of the trees to be worked, this gives you the freedom to go from one to the next, be supported from above so wieght doesnt flex those thin stems so much etc etc etc, or even bettter still if the tree besdie them is that tall and strong enough get some rigging gear up, and lower them skinny things down but first in one hit, if need be get some mechanical advantage on the butts and pull them right down to the level ground off the embankment. save all those bits speeding off down the bank towards your groundies too!

Thanks bundle, great link. maybe its time for Tony, I reckon you ought to start a thread on this subject all of its own? How many of us agree that the idea of combining forces to represent a united front is a really good idea? and what are we going to do about it?

"I see the industry as divided in many ways...or perhaps I see a conflict of interests having a negative influence on a more united agenda? Local authority v private sector Sultants v contractor ISA v AA F.C v All things amenity Treehuggers v Capitalists Planners v Aknowledged Arboreal value" It does make you wonder how we get on with our day to day business when you look at it like that! i guess we all as individuals want to earn our money and peform our duties, each of these groups is just trying to do thiers. i really do not know what answer there is to this, theres a lot of issues there to work through! personaly, Ive never had anything to do with the ISA and its american as far as I can see, not international! and the comment made earlier, the americans are soo NOT more proffesional than us! if I had my way I would have the U.K completley dissasociate from america but thats another debate. I do think tony has a plan in the making, a thought worth looking at at least how could we combine the two sections of arboriculture? FC/AA FAAC (forestry and arboricultural commision) i like it!

not exactly what I had in mind! the rescue line needs to be re positioned all the time as you slab down, pegs on the opposite side to the throwing/dropping line cause no issues, give your feet a break and a bit more stable ground from which to shove huge slabs off. pegs allow you to just flick the rescue line down to the next point at 6ft intervals you have at your feet the rescue line as you stand on that peg ringing down the 6ft above as slabs?

at least one person gets it! pegs allow for a secondary accses line should someone need to come and get you. in a hurry spikes stop the need to think about your climbing, and lead to laziness, good technique and work positioning make spikes redundant in all but 1% of the operations. over reliance on spikes, bad, and not good for your legs/feet. but i have no arch in my feet, I have spade foot so i am less inclined to find them comfortable.

I think our tony sorensen is onto a winner! combine reform and unite, but wht would the FC gain from us, we seem to have more to win in this?

Ive seen too many folk get a little too acustomed to their use lets say!

well yeah, but if ive only got a peg at 6ft to ten ft intervals i reckon im pretty safe, try not to make a habit of slipping. I think the key were looking for is good work positioning

I get the comments regarding the slips and potential for a cracked rib, I usualy only leave the odd one here and there as a respite, spikes huert my legs after prolonged use, and I very rarely if ever use them, spikes make you lazy, only good on pole take downs in my view.

EXCITED? I DONT GET EXCITED! lol:001_tt2:

Well said that man!

:banghead: :banghead:Argh found one just for me!:banghead whoooop whoooop! oh the joy!

Wishing ALL arbtalkers a very happy new year, and hopefully a prosperous one too, good luck with all your doing in 2010.

i want smart smileys like you lot have, it aint fair!

LMAO!

Technology can only advance via financial input, be that via paying consumers like us "investing" in it by taking it up or via some disgustingly rich dude spending a decade bringing it to full and complete readiness and provability. the latter i am certain is not avaliable to the purveyors of the technology, unless they had a lottery win or married Miss Hilton! How many trees did it take to prove the picus? etc I am sorry if there is something I am missing here, but I still havent seen anyone give a good reason other than price to dismiss it? you say isnt proven, but its being proven as it gets used and there is enough trees assesd now to be adequate enough to satisfy even you tough nuts surely? is 7000 destructive assesment plus 20000 others not sufficient proof? how much time would it take you to build a layered image via the picus that could compete with the full frame view of TI?

I dont think im getting the full picture of this strange affair, but im getting a wee bit of it.

its usualy groundsmen that bitch about a climber having pegs on which to stand or keep a rope on! pegs are good, and Im getting a t shirt with it on as a slogan now!

all technology is expensive in the begining, picus still is too? Resitograph is invasive, and evidance that its fine holes promote barrier penetration (schwarze) So other than cost, what possible negatives can there be? weather including sun heat spots have been accounted for it asseses the whole tree in one go, it is non invasive, can detect bats and other mammalian life in residance, can see bark inclusions, the list is pretty long for its posatives, aside from the angst Ive witnessed against it, maybe some of the service supplied in connection with it, but other than those "people" issues I havent heard anything that says that it is less effective or inferior technologicaly speaking to any of the current tools avaliable?

cool, thanks steve

nah cant find anything on uktc, new to the site

what is SEO?

i will go and have a gander