RobRainford

nice one tom, did they include the idents in this one?

arbclimber you big girl! my mum had it done and she has never looked back either. she is always in front of a PC and it helped her to no end! i have one eye that is slightly long sighted and the other is slightly short sighted, reading is a mightmare because one eye is blurry and the other is in focus, makes it so hard, need glasses for any close work. doesnt affect my climbing though as im not looking at fine print and stuff like that.

the next choice would have to be an ipad 3g! i would blag through the insurance for one anyway. ive got a touchscreen laptop, the HP touchsmart, good for drawing on pictures! BTW, i think it cracked itself up because it was in a shelander!

ive took mine off also, if it was a bit awkward to get the eye in the cover would always catch in the gate. i thought it would be a no no but i could only ever see it as more of a hinderance than a help?

well leeds doesnt count! its 2 hours and 40 minutes to cirencester but around an hour and a half or so to cannock, which makes it a lot better to get to! are there any idea for dates for this event?

central as in its brummy town. well the apf is cannock, so its a bit further north than the AA show. its closer to home for me anyway.

well, like mozza said, he best be nimble because there will be various paperbacks coming in his direction. i personally have no issue using ladders but i would only ever use one as access andwhen at the top of thr ladder i would then start climbung normally. But nevertheless, he still had aserious injury and i wish all the best for recovery

Well currently most shows are held in the (rubbish )/more southern parts of England bar the apf show as that's central. But the aa show and others are more difficult to do in aday due to driving times. Having something setup in the better part of England would benefit more people up here as I would assume some of the northern guys don't get time to come allthe way down.

id be interested in seeing how its done! may even bring a new rope for you to have a play on for me

i wouldnt mind somewhere int he lakes or a bit more central, as im in liverpool it would be a trek to 'ull and back in a day id be happy for mid july maybe? than again im off till september so im not exactly squeezing it in

whereabouts? id be interested in something like this.

i bet that was one hell of a ring twitching experience! that guy is truly a legend looking at his previous experience! imagine felling that with a 260 with a 15" bar

nice one i sstill have access to all the learning resources from the whole year, ive popped back to them from time to time for fungi mainly! the indicators one is one i need to look at!

when learning these in college, i could never get my head round learning the flowers, when there were the trees selected for the flowers identification tests and we were being tested on flowers i could never get a good mark. but when the same trees come up in other tests and we are being tested on other means i could get them most of the time. same for the ancient woodland indicators and the soil indicator plants i could never get for some reason. but i am willing to learn anywho!

think of the risk involved aswell, he could slip on a wet floor and drown in the toilet!

i too would be i nterested inw hat the insurance companies say. Although it will probably be a while before i have any involvement in cable bracing, i do agree that installing it means you are admitting the problem but you are effectively slowing down the failure. This was discussed at college, if you put it in clear writing and put in all sorts of clauses about acknowledging weak points in a tree and the bracing will only prevent it but it can still fail regardless etc then i would think you have covered yourself sufficiently?

I too am skeptical there are going to be some obvious compromises, such as keeping battery weight low but this will hinder power, and then having amore powerful saw which would need a huge battery and long life to run for any sort of ample time

he is wearing a chainsaw protective jacket, which makes his over the head use less of a no no, but still a no no. he also does the back cut on that first tree whilst on both knees, no chance of getting into his escape routes...

Have you been driving through fields and gates again ed?

You'll find that you may get a good deal on eBay. I bought a pair from cts pn here. They are used but they will last a lifetime.

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The customer was constantly saying it's really frightening. I had to climb part of it and even then I was thinking I don't want to go too high and increase te lever arm with my body weight. As I could feel it wanting to come over

Haha. Strangely enough I had you in mind. I saved them all . I'll get a picture of them all tomorrow. One of them is still in situ with it's old pruning wound. I couldn't prise it off so I cut a slice off instead. No fear tony!

more pics this last image shows the decay zones really well, and also shows how much sound wood there actually was, approx an inch on half to 3/4 of the stem, if not less.

Well, today was going to be a half day ivy removal job, turned out to be very very different! As i removed some of the lowest parts of ivy not far after starting, i found what appear to be some old Ganoderma Australe brackets, there is one which still has the white underneath tbut the others were of the same appearance but where brown underneath, photos of those are to follow. This was on an old cherry, it had been pruned heavily before and badly, which is where the spores must have taken hold. I picked 6 seperate bodies off this tree, 4 from the tension side of the stem, one from an old pruning wound and another in between two branches which were at an included union to the two major stems. I stopped work and told the customer that this tree could go at any moment. Which they later mentioned in the day, that it had started to get a bit more lean since i first went to look at the job abouta month ago. Ill have a video on youtube which is a perfect example of the 'death knoll'. Scary scary stuff. Ill sleep soundly tonight though, knowing that this tree wont hurt anybody. As they have two young grandchildren now. after piecing it down i felled the remaining stem. Ignore the dodgy cut, it came down fine, my angles were just a tad out . The remaining wood in the stump was so soft, it could be dug out by hand, it was a good example of CODIT and the zones of decay, each wall between the decayed wood was rather strong, where in between it was mush. i dont have any pictures of the tree before it came down unfourtunately.