armchairarborist

pm me your password and i'll change it to something that you will never guess. or maybe i'll just abuse the power of having a spare profile:thumbup:

Ha good work, im on it!

nice skirt big feller:lol:, bet you loved wearing it eh?

what would you do with your evenings then? i was thinking of getting a life..but i'm too lazy:thumbup:

bit of weight on them tyres (last pic)

there's the helliwell system of valuing trees for amenity, could do a search for that? got any photo's?

find out what access is like, how high/wide it is, what tree was it, and call stumpbusters or similar, i hate stumpgrinding and just contract them all out

nice one mate, was it as hard as you expected?

if you visit the manufacturers website i.e. insa etc.. you will be able to view the tyres load rating/speed rating/how many plies they have and also the ply material used. a remould on my disco got kerbskuffed so much by the woman that you could read 'goodyear wrangler' on the side! as ever you get what you pay for:thumbup1: but i wouldn't trust a remould at high speed with a load on

if its a bigish tree to dismantle i like to anchor in with a pulley at the top then its less effort pulling yourself back up, lots less friction, and when the tea and biccies arrive you can bomb out of the canopy looking supercool to get the best biccies before the groundies have got back from the other end of the garden..!

i'll happily use a small anchor point (wrist size) in most stuff, but if i'm jumping about and throwing my weight around then it's a bigger one i look for, not forgetting how strong the unions/branches look below the anchor too! i wouldn't anchor on anything just one side of a co-dom/included bark stem (unless its huge). if you get your anchor with a throwbag it's easy to do a bounce test with a couple of fat groundies:thumbup:

i have been trying to break a new pair of haix's in for weeks now and just can't do it, i have to push my knee with my hand in queues/slow manouvring:thumbdown:, i keep going back to my old boots with the soles hanging off:biggrin:

only new ones as they are less flexible, im sat on the sofa with mine on they are that comfy, or is it that it takes too long to take them on/off when you just nip home for half an hour?

Has anyone on here gone through a steel flip line accidently or on purpose?

i've seen one that has been cut through with a saw, didn't see it happen though, still safest having your rope round the stem at knee height when chogging:thumbup1:

i dream of more toys not money, sometimes i dream i have less toys then wake up sweating and look out of the window to check:thumbup:

41 is a good course, we spent a whole day setting up ziplines and learning new stuff, oh yeh we also did rigging/spiking/chogging down and got groundy ticket thrown in for working the bollard at the bottom of the tree. well worth it!

haha woodpecker with a 10mm chuck:thumbup:. pm sent Bob

no way! i wanna see it fall over:thumbup: i was talking to one of the residents who has done a bit of work clearing rubbish in the small wood behind, he wasn't going to admit to it but i made sure he knew how dangerous it is/will get. i also gave a price to dismantle but told him that price will go up nextyear when its 'more dead'(if its still standing) i'm sure the message will get to whoever is responsible

Have you ever considered working for Relate?

in the point and laugh division?

the cuts don't look mega recent, so i'd guess last summer. i'll go check nextweek to see if it's leafing up yet, there's another one that was behind me when i took the pics, thats been done years and is shutting down, they can last a bit like this can't they? i'd love to be called to the wreckage if it failed.. be one for the local rag, 'Revenge of the tree'

spotted this lastweek, tree is approx 85cm DBH, targets include 3 garages, two houses and a workshop. i wouldn't like a tree that size hanging over my house dead! looks like its been drilled all over with a flat drillbit too

set up a half size one and you will get more people into having a crack at it, this will lead to more entries to the big ones. if no half size ones are available then i'll bosh out the top on my way down for ya..! that would be a cool contest, spike up bosh out 50ft and do a crowd pleasing lunge on the top:thumbup:

just got back from the pub, i was wearing khaki trousers, and sporting my new summer haircut, a bunch of fat chicks kept looking over and smiling.. eventually one of them came over and asked if i had just come out of the army..'well obviously i just fell out of me helicopter in me desert pants..!'

the dilemma today.. shirt on or off?

Saves money on fuel you know us tight northerners haha.so you rate the stretch air T's then steve? May give one a try to compare as the hotter weather is approaching.Was heartbrokn to be forced to shave my beard haha

certainly was cooler without it

been to get the fuzz cut back today, head and chin once every month or two, nearly froze to death on the way home, hope its sunny tomorra as me hat's in the wash:thumbup:

the first tree was all weighted towards the house, the branches from the tree on the left spread past the tree on both sides so a tug line was used just to make sure it did as it was told. the second tree was a first fell for the guy felling (using proper-ish cuts) and we had a bet wether it would whip the tractor:thumbup:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GInD6I5_hFk]YouTube - two easy fells[/ame]