RobRainford
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thats good, but looks shopped, palms dont have branches like other trees!
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thought so, luckily the blase came with a nice easy end to feed it onto!
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did you find the croft oak? and the field of ancient oak pollards? went there twice in october, will be going back to get some data, that place is important for my dissertation. love those old sweet chestnuts!
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can a positioner be mounted mid line? i got mine at christmas but im yet to use it, treated it to a nice 5m length of blaze with a spliced on snaplock, mmmmm shiny! ive used the grillion but that was in my early days, never really got attracted to them gri gris can be picked up cheaper, but they have a swinging plate on the side that is held on by the carabiner, the grillion is fixed and is designed for arb!
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Hitch Climber.... Am I just a big fairy...?
RobRainford replied to WorcsWuss's topic in Climbers talk
for ascending, get a pantin, works wonders. i think the friction saver would be the biggest issue here, get a longer one! -
all mine is on gravel, it gets lifted and tunred and sometimes bits get in it, the gravel in it is the fine stuff used when Colas (road maintainance guys) covered loads of our roads in that mixed with tar. i doubt id get much for it?
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I know the feeling! Ive just turned 21 and doing it on my own nearly 2 years now. One cheeky customer got me in for a job then came out and said they are disappointed with what had been done and I'm too inexperienced! Most people are surprised to see that I'm the boss, usually the guys I have working with me are asked if they are the boss.
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I've got one too. They are cool. Mike do you make chainsaw noises when you use it?
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I should have said conifers, as it slipped my mind that you can get broadleaved evergreens! Holly is a hardwood Evergreen oak is a hardwood Ginkgo I'm unsure, it did pop into my mind, i shall be doing some reading on these. Swamp cypress I would assume softwood Open to corrections, these are off the top of my head.
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Not proper spalting, but still a cool pattern i think.
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Although there is the odd one or two oddities!
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large fir dismantle,Prestbury,Cheshire
RobRainford replied to [email protected]'s topic in Picture Forum
Bish bash bosh. Nice job! Wish they were all so simple! -
V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"
RobRainford replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Tree health care
First one, looks like abnormal growth stresses causing the rippling, doesn't seem like mega compression, definitely increment strips because of fast growth though! Second lot, if that's elm it could very well be Scolytus multistriatus that caused that. -
If ganoderma was the culprit I believe you would have seen a failure at the base of the stem and not roots. As well as fruiting bodies. Culprit for this could have been merip due to root rot, can't remember 100% if sorbus is a host for merip.
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Here's mine from my recent 21st:
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Hardwoods are broad leaves, softwoods are evergreens! Sums it up pretty much. To go into detail it's to do with the vessels in the wood, where hardwood is made up of xylem vessels, and softwoods use tracheids to transport nutrients.
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finally got round to making a tool box
RobRainford replied to testcricket01's topic in Picture Forum
Smart that, inspiring. Makes me want to change 4x4 for transit! Purely for the loading space! -
Plenty firewood in those chunks! Would not fancy carrying that through a long muddy garden alleyway and onto the back of a truck! Nice bit of merip spalting too, I do like that
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Red bag for rigging equipment, hardware and strops etc, black rope bag for rigging rope, blue rope bag for 45m line, black kit bag for all climbing gear including 20m rope, daisy chained and neat and tidy! Back in my container, hooks for everything!
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In front of the town hall 6.30 am to stunt fell the 40ft Christmas tree and get rid of it, 3 big lumps into a farm trailer that wasn't quite big enough. Then into the main town square to get another denser 40fter that filled the trailer even more again. In Manchester for 8.45am to take out 3 alders on a building site and finish off yesterday's fallout job. Home for 2.30. Not a bad day!
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We've got a parsons terrier and a little brown terrier of some sort, don't know what he's crossed with. The parsons terrier (Sam) sleeps in front of the fire, two inches from it when it's roaring and near enough cooks herself! Sits there panting most of the time and gives you a really depressing look if the fire isn't lit! Bud the other one has taken a liking to me, moved in with my dads girlfriend about 18 months ago, he's about 15 now and disappears if you bang a plate down too hard. Likes hiding under my bed and has been found numerous times under my duvet. Whether I'm there or not. Quite happy to sit near you and whine and chirp and make all sorts of daft noises if you ignore him! Pair of them sleep wherever they fall over. But do have their own beds downstairs at night.
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A machine like that which has a crane on and a hydraulically operated chip box lid so that you could drop lumps of timber straight in would pay for itself in saved time and efficiency. Big kit gets it done!
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Two call outs in two days now. Manchester and easthim in the Wirral. Fair old travel to each. Plenty photos taken.
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I was good last year and Santa got me a positioner. I bought 5m of blaze with a spliced on snap lock to go with it. Not even tried it properly and I love it already. So much smoother! I'm converted to mechanical shinys now. I love the reliability and simplicity. I can climb more confidently knowing it will grab reliably. I'll let you have a play if you get hold of a SJ I'll have to have a dance on that too.
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Stolen greenmech 1928 1 hour ago - reward!
RobRainford replied to monkeybusiness's topic in General chat
Because your kits worth money either elsewhere in the country or abroad, some can be stolen to order, a lot of farm machinery is and is being sent to eastern Europe and other places. If you've got it,they want to steal it!
