RobRainford
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no its the Connection Magazine, delivered to most of this town, regardless of value i think.
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Here is an E. gunni in my garden, it used to be roughly the same height but had one stem instead of several, one drunken evening my dad took his saw to it. Its been growing since and now has a good number of fungi at the bottom, im suspecting one is Coriolis versicolor?
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The little magazines that Go round your local area are a good start. Work out cheap too. I'm in the process of organising 2 months of advertising for £88 on a quarter page. This one goes to 10000 homes. If I get a 0.5% return on that it's 50 jobs! That should help get me going. Newspapers tend to be costly, as does printing lealfets. 10,000 leaflets from anywhere else is well into the hundreds. So it's a massive saving too. Plus it can be paid back in one job!
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thats a good point, most of these shiny toys are only making our jobs that much easier
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i climb on a knut, like how simple it is, not too confident with the temperamental nature of a VT. i would still happily use basic kit, but its nice to have a spare for two anchor points, makes both friction free!
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I understand that. I wanted to do this out of kit that was designed for the job. As I don't have money to buy oodles of shiny toys. I try to keep each piece of kit specific to different tasks. So then everything is being used evenly and I'm getting my moneys worth. Instead of using a couple of thesame pieces and wearing out half of my kit and having another half that I can't use because I've worn out everything to use them with!
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I've bought a cocoon to overcome any snagging problems. I do know the pulleys like the fixe aren't designed for this. Their rating is only 7kn downwards on the roller, where it is 22 upwards, the way i use it is is not bearing a load. It is there to tend up my friction hitch. As said earlier in the thread, it is my life hanging off this!
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Big bump to an old thread. I am currently in training for cs39 and will have the assessment in a few weeks. I am saving up to put myself through cs41 and possibly cs40 if budgets allow. I'm also very willing to learn new skills. Even if i don't have the chance to work on any jobs, I am interested on gaining an insight to the behind the scenes things, such as pricing and the organising of how these jobs are undertaken, what the best ways of surveying trees are and also putting some of my university gained knowledge into practice. Is anybody available to help me with this? Thanks
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I've had trouble with gateposts before now. They come out of bloody nowhere sometimes!
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Can always lower it though. Or just catch it!
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This was only a prototype. Using what I had to hand. The crabs will be changes to maillons and the first pulley will be an art one instea of that petzl one. Simply because the art one has room to allow for a spliced eye to drop through, but the second pulley lower down will not allow for this and will make it retrievable. It still needs tweaking in places though. I have some small crabs to tie the zing it onto to make the pulley interchangeable
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i use a stein with a mesh visor, the plastic ones get scratched to hell if you get any grit on the peak behind the visor. i find it real comfy. when thats gone though, im getting one of these for my next lid, loads of room and lots of ventilation
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Well there are already regulations for side top and front impact afaik. So what could there be a new regulation against?
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yeah it happens to me almot every day!
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im doing one now, without it, i wouldnt even know 10% of what i do now. Im doing the FdSc. Its not just about having the degree, you learn a lot more around trees and about their anatomy and their evolution, the soil they grow in and even down to their DNA pretty much, you learn a lot.
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ive had a play with some old blaze rope and what i had in my kit, i have no maillons so had to stick with normal biners, this was just getting an idea of what it could look like. i am aware that this needs changing, i need a shorter prussik, a different pulley and maillons. Is it worth sticking with the fishermans on each end? or should i splice it?
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thats why im looking into it a bit more, i want to get the better quality cords and pulleys for them to work properly when they are all together, a ropeguide is probably the beetter option, but money isnt on my side as you know. i coudl use an ART pulley instead of the oscillante, but that amkes it a lot more expensive! ive got some money on the way soon, from some work i did a couple weeks ago so i will be using that for kit!
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The Mighty Oak V's The Beautiful beech
RobRainford replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
i sure do love how 'british' oaks are, they will take their time and not make a fuss, when they do its a big one. And are pretty resistant to disease to my knowledge beech on the other hand, although they are a great tree to climb with loads of anchors, they succumb to diseases more easily and are more likely to fail. -
ill keep all of this in mind, but i would let any moths out my wallet unless i had my rigging ticket done, and ill probably ask similar questions like these again after they start to make even more sense. Im learning a lot from this place
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yeah i was thinking splices, but im just thinking of costs really, if there was anyone who could splice up some rope for me if be grateful here is the list so far: HB15MC - Maillon Rapide - Standard 8mm £2.95 ex VAT Quantity HB15MD - Maillon Rapide Pear Link 12mm £7.00 ex VAT Quantity HB15M - Maillon Rapide Delta Steel Link 10mm £4.25 ex VAT Quantity HB8AF/PS - Marlow Boa 9mm Friction Cord - TiedLength: 50 cm £6.50 ex VAT Quantity HB20C - Petzl Oscillante Pulley £8.04 ex VAT Quantity HB8CB - Yale XTC-12 Climbing Rope £3.18 ex VAT Quantity Total ex VAT £31.92 i have an oscillante already, but i dont know whether to use that one i have already or buy one specially for this to keep it all together. its working otu cheaper than other makes which are simpler in design
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i was planning to go for tying some fishermans knots round the same as i would with my lanyard or climbing line friction cords, and make sure they are all secure and stuff
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so for rope you would recommend something more like a 16mm for a 16mm block and a 19mm split tail? on a side not ive got some good news, im managing to get my CS39 training through myerscough for free because of my FDSC and ive got an assessment credit for an assessment thats paid for but didnt complete, so my plans this summer have suddenly become a lot cheaper! this hopefully means i can spend more on some godo rigging, i would go and buy that in person after ive got a good idea of what to buy
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thats what i was thinking, a big maillon on the left hand side and a pulley with a small gap, like a petzl fixe or something, as then i could just tie a knot in it and it would pull on the pulley and pop through the maillon, that was my aim anyway. i do remember that, ill have a look for that too, im sure his idea was similar ive seen that, but was looking for something like a pulley as its a lot smoother IMO. Maybe a crab with a pulley in would work too? as when the rope drops through the other loop it would ride on the pulley instead of a ring, plus i want to feel good about making my own stuff
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is it possible for me to make my own adjustable cambium saver? i was thinking buy a 1.5m length of rope, buying some prussik material, a pulley and some metal rings. what would bet he best ropes to make this of? How would be the best way to put this together? is this any good? sort of like a cheap adjustable friction saver. here is a very poor quality drawing example
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could that be heavy loading over a long period of time? i.e. lowering big pieces slowly and often, instead of more smaller pieces quickly?
