RobRainford
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I did large trees in summer 08. Felling some almighty poplars with my little 260 and a 15" bar! Congrats on passing. I struggled to get an assessment because not many people do it!
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He could always dye it to match them
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Jazzy dresses and yellow thigh highs? That's bound to get some attention!
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afaik dont you need 33 before you can take 34? i cant remember if you do. 34 is a fun course though, dealing with serious tension and compression! what are the prerequisites for being an AC?
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i would assume so, it would also be a tight fit, but i used a pair of longnose pliers to push it through. But its in and works well.
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I can add to that, i know some knowlodgeable people who are active with customers, one guy is really good with it, he can come up with all sorts of examples. yet still talk it simply and in a way that even 70yr old mrs potts in the big house on the hill can understand. sort of like this: we understand it like this: 1: we dont top trees because it is not industry best practice and it looks bad and has more chance of a tree catching some sort of pathogen. it has to be explained like this 2: ere luv we dun' do that coz it might make the tree poorly sick and it might not look pretty
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its simply a pin that has a choice of two directions, beneath the silver cover, there are 4 holes opposite each other, a metal bar goes through two of these either parallel with the pulley or perpendicular to it. You simply thread a loop of rope into the gap in the top and push the pin through, then scew it back on, its very clever, you have to thread the rope through the cover too unless you end up with that not being able to go anywhere! the OP loop i have there is 10mm, and it was a struggle to squeez the metal bar through, so id say 10mm is maximum. ill post a picture of it when i am next with my kit, as im inside in a warm house and cant find the effort to go outside for it!
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yeah, its a 70cm one, i would prefer a shorter one as i do lose a fair amount of height from it when its round small branches. I am saving up for another shorter one or anything else thats endless like those, i was thinking a normal dyneema sling? but im concerned about the friction capabilities of it?
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Does the hc always have to have two crabs in the two holes? I've used a petzl William pear carabiner and there's enough room to have both the friction hitch, the HC and also the spliced eye. Just as a way of eliminating metalwork? I've climbed on a knut for a while so not needed to use mine. But I'm thinking of trying the vt. I've tried it a bit but had no proper usage so can't compare it.
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The small pullley is a guide and also there for retrieval purposes. The ring is a perfect size for the cocoon. It will cone through fine. Sometimes it needs a wiggle. But it's easy enough.
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No they are not, credit for the splices and the ring in that goes to jamie, he helped me out on that half, made it a lot easier im thinking about a shorter prussik loop, but would have to be something thats sewn rather than tied to keep bulk down, but this one works for now. some proper way round images, and one hung up in the workshop. it all works pretty well together, the oscillante pulley is small enough so the rope wont jam in it but is enough to allow a good force to pull it down with.
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here's the setup in action. Works very nicely and frictionless! It's also retrievable from the ground! http://img11.imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&l=img11/7025/73256184.jpg
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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?
