Dan Curtis

I usually use a flat file, but have run a bench grinder over them when they've been really bad.

Make sure you keep the right angles, they'll not work properly if you do something odd to them.

I usually do the underside face towards the point, then tidy any burrs on the top two faces, making sure to keep the centre point aligned with the spine of the gaff.

What you reckon the payload will be?

 

 

Look at the snorkel!

Nice one Stevie. Mum looks a bit knackered!

The point I was trying to make was if the local tree officer has the sense to say get it done. What's the big deal!!!!!!!?

I know. My point is that it has as much to do with the TO as it does my cat. And I don't even have a cat.

Let's agree to disagree.

So he is not allowed an opion .

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but his would count as much as say, people commenting on an Internet forum:D:what:

Only one member of the gang need have the card but would then be overall responsible for signs, guarding, etc.

One needs the operative card, someone else within the company (not necessarily on site) needs a supervisor card.

You are right, without correct tickets/permissions if something was to go pear shaped you'd be up for the high jump.

 

If you do decide to go down the temporary closure route, bear in mind the possibility of an emergency vehicle needing to get somewhere and try to keep the road as clear as possible.

To add to this, things don't have to go wrong for you to get grief. Highways inspectorate can and do do spot checks, I've had 3 visits from them in the last few years. They're also self funding so fines can be 'within reason' for the offence

Local tree officer told me apply the common sense rule.

Nice to know your tree officer is branching out into highways issues

I am based in Herts. Not sure where I would stand legally if challenged or worst by controlling the traffic my self with an untrained team etc, pretty sure I wouldn't have a leg to stand on though. Car wise using the road around 20 per hour maybe at a rough guess.

You are right, without correct tickets/permissions if something was to go pear shaped you'd be up for the high jump.

If you do decide to go down the temporary closure route, bear in mind the possibility of an emergency vehicle needing to get somewhere and try to keep the road as clear as possible.

Teleporter

good tip - no need to weld the plate on.

If I got a tree like your one near the fence I think I'd be happy paying the extra for a 50 tonne bottle jack, a new one on ebay at the mo for £40. Can't imagine the stress if it started leaking oil before the tree tipped.

I chose that picture for the plate being stuck in the tree. Funnily enough, the seal blew in my usual 12.5t Jack the day before, so we ended up using a little one for that tree. I think it's only about a 3t but it did the job.

My usual jack impresses me every time with what it will push over

Buy yourself a 12 or 20 ton bottle jack from machine mart and weld a 10mm thick steel plate on top, then you have yourself a hydraulic tree jack for fifty quid!

You will never use your high lift wedges again.

Leave the plate detachable, saves your jack getting thrown if the plate gets stuck in the tree.

You'll still need wedges, blow a jack seal half way over and you'll be in trouble

Aerial rescue is the climbing ticket

Whats your budget? 110's in pickup form are cheaper than 90's in pickup form generally

But still not a great payload as most are only 3050kg gross. Without lots of fiddling and paperwork it's not that easy to uprate a standard 110.

Gd points fellas! Bit lost without my truck at the mo and bit stressed so not making very good decisions at the mo!

At least you're going in the right direction vehicle wise, away from family 4x4's and towards work horses

Someone will be along soon to take offence to that

You'd be better to save for a 110 if it's a land rover you want. A 90 would have rubbish payload, most of your load would be over the rear axle so you'd probably put it overweight before getting to the vehicle's gross weight. It would handle like a pig, even with helper springs.

The other option would be a 90 with a tipper trailer, bigger payload overall than a 110 tipper and you'd retain the load space of your truck for tools, so you wouldn't need to have them thrown in with the chip.

There are companies who do 90 tippers though; Google will find them.

Take the dog to the beach, lunch in the pub (she's paying) Film and fire in the evening

It would be a bugger to open the back door if you were towing anything

Twice I've had a gate roll open. Once it caught on my bridge and turned, the other was against a small branch and turned.

Glad you noticed it and got it sorted.

Yep, typical journalism - full of emotionally charged BS.

I deliberately avoid any channel 4 documentary these days. Most of it is biased, unresearched propaganda designed to cause controversy.

It was a bugger to bag a high anchor at all.

With hindsight I should have gone lower with a better route then climbed to a higher TIP.

I still haven't got my head round advancing SRT anchors quickly.

 

 

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I meant once you've got your high point, couldn't you have pulled either end up and down to get a cleaner route?

Having a ring on the end of the line makes TIP advancing easier. You can push a bight through the ring and clip into it, much quicker and easier than tying in and out. This way can also be made retrievable, so you can advance beyond reaching distance of it, then bring it to where you are.

I was ascending

 

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If that's the case, could try spending a bit of time with the throwline to get a route that doesn't involve nasty bits of climbing?

A static redirect is when a Alpine Butterfly is tied into the line and the 'bina & sling are attached to this? These are only preferable when there is a chance the redirection point may snap?

 

Daniel.

That's one way to do it, there are others. I think there's a thread somewhere in the forum with more static ideas. The downside to using a butterfly is that you need to take your weight off the rope to install the redirect.

By the way Dan, loving the Safe Eyes, really impressed with them.

 

 

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Good man

Do you find that you disconnect often when climbing back through natural redirects or is that my inexperience?

 

Daniel.

I try to avoid them more now, mainly so I don't have to get back through them! Much prefer to use a hardware based redirect than natural, though obviously it needs some consideration whether you use a static or dynamic redirect

Great tip Dan. Maybe I'm just being lazy?

 

Daniel.

It doesn't require disconnection or having another branch to stand on, so will usually work for the majority of redirects