RobRainford

Look after it Tom. It won't stay shiny for long! Mines not even a year old and look at it now! The black thing is just a broken spoon. Still good for stirring but no good for scooping.

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Congrats from me! was it a surprise or did you know about it?

and tampons for nosebleeds! so this is the future of treework as we know it, using SMEG dishwashers to clean your kit and store it all in prada man bags and filling your gloves with Oil of ulay. in the words of the chuckle brothers oh dear oh dear oh dear!

try the HPOC, hilux pickup owners club, plenty for sale on there and they generally tend to be looked after!

my 10ft container was £500 and we stuck it on a 7.5T wagon and brought it back ourselves!

yes you are allowed to do that. AFAIK the assessment requires a walk with a strop and one without. With a strop it means you scramble out to the tip of an awkward branch and clip on at the end. They have no qualms about clipping on early and having it loose. You would fail if you tried to take your main line out to tie onto it!

Well another day where I need a guy. Simple enough job. Conifer work and a laurel to either shape or remove. Customer will decide on the day. Pushing for removal though. Own kit would be handy. My climbing gear is in for LOLER so will need rope and harness. I can provide everything else. Pm me for more info. Cheers

I would say slack belt. It did block today briefly trying to start up with bits still stuck in which I didn't realise were there! Probably rubbed them a bit. I would have replaced the pair anyway because they are both like that. Everything else is hunky dory. When I took them off and tightened them myself the other day it seemed to run better. They squeal less easily now that I had them off and on to swap blades over. I think they've rubbed too much since I got it. The belts seem to be Abnormally worn. Another piece like that came out. But more severe and easier. Theres a place near me I'll bob over to and get some new belts this week.

Yes it's called a limbwalk. But if you get out there they can't argue. I did mine on a tall sycamore which had a crown starting very high. Rather steep angle. Had to shuffle. Just put your strop loose underneath and it stops your pendulum swing. Do it on all my big limbwalks/shuffles.

Cs38 was updated end of 09 to include pole climb and rescue and a few tree idents! You don't have to walk on a branchwalk. I tend to shuffle anyway. Keep my centre of gravity lower and easier to balance! Just take it slow. Don't push all your energy into thrusting. You'll have nothing left in you when you get to the top!

that's frightening. Its a tough one to say over a pic. But I would say that's some other factor causing that major damage and JK has just entered and made it a bit worse.

im surprised too, its an ex demo so the belts were used when i got it, chances are its had some good stress with people demoing it, its still easy to stress it though, get them squealing a couple of times a day, have to be really careful. dont let many others feed it! I think ill go for two new belts, as one will run slack if i have a new one.

it has a very high potential for damage and costly damage too. I dare say, moreso than large trees and their roots.

My girlfriend is essentially a prostitute who does a lot of charity work.

Noticed this on one of my belts on the chipper today (after i found it wouldnt run because there were a few chunks of wood blocking the blades, so out came the whole drum to clean it out!) Is it anything to worry about? should i get new belts?

we are having a little climb next weekend (me and tom) if youd wanna pop along, depends on weather. was gonna be today but didnt feel like getting soaked for fun. plus im tired from yesterday!

its 8mm same as ocean polyester, but does seem thinner! Rob: ive got a length tied that ive used for VT setups, very smooth and works well on the XTC 16 strand ropes

I think that's still a couple of nights worth I didn't manage to do anything. Had assignments to do and a bit of chipper maintenance. I've got one of those massive red noses for your car. To put on the big black landy!

You shouldn't be cutting it. It's classed as propagating it. You could miss that one little piece and grow a whole new plant! You are best spraying it with a high concentration solution late summer/ autumn when it starts to pull it's reserves back in to the roots. If you get it right and hit it hard you can achieve a good level of control. We were getting 90% control using this method. We now stem inject where possible. This can be done any time of the growing season. And we were seeing upwards of 95% control. We have just done a garden full of it. Garden probably wasn't more than 10x13m but we had to remove 15 ton of soil. Then put 15 ton of clean soil back in! The roots had spread 2 gardens each way. One bit has gone through the foundations of the house, another is coming up though a garden shed. Inside it! The most severe is where it's grown under the house then gone up though the cavity wall. To remove that the whole outer wall has to come off!

looks like a nice climb, would love some nice pruning jobs like that! heres one that might need a clean

Id put that down to a weak chair, being out in the sun would have weakened the plastic Its happened to me too! but i was leaning back on a plastic garden chair, off came the back legs! laughter ensued.

crrrraasshhhhh! Thats amazing reg. top job!

the navaho does come with a full body attachment. its an IRATA harness too, hence the good sized full body harness which isnt too uncomfy. if you want something fancy then sequoia, treemotions are nice and comfy, id love to swap my seq for one. but ive still got years in it yet! tree austria are good harnesses and do have the seats as mentioned. Komet dragonfly for a permanent seat afaik. i think the seq swing is a bit of a contradiction to itself, a lightweight harness that aids your agility with a seat that will keep you a bit rigid?