Ian Flatters
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Looks like Forest Whitaker with bad make up on.
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Poleclimb.com | Speed, Spikes & Splinters is a site where i will be storing full data archives of events and full results as well as uploading the edxcell files and pictures here.
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Planning your route is quite important. Also if you can get a line up above where you need to work (throw line) and isolate it, i.e split branch removal. You will be vastly quicker and more efficent than climbing to the top, placing you anchor, then going to cut.
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If no-one asked questions we could all still be using arbor paint.
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Haven't got a clue at the moment. Im sure i'll know in a few days as all i did was cover the home owners 'Duty of Care'.
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No, only spirals of cambium.
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Went and had a closer look at the stem wood today and im 99% sure that the dying of the cambium is caused by Bleeding Canker and as you've said the spiral grain would make it clear to me as why the cambium has died in such a spiral way.
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Keanu Reeves
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None that i could find on site or even see any residual attachment points of and fungal brackets. Still not 100% sure why all these chestnuts are almost tearing themselves apart I would guess bleeding canker.
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Thought i should add that the last pole climbing picture is Ernest George Tipping who is 78. He runs up the pole to raise money for a cancer trust after losing his wife to it. He can do it in 30-50 seconds too and has raised over 22K.
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Yeah to start off, it then started to develop into a full blow shear crack down that stem. Sadly a lot of Horse Chestnuts around here the bark is splitting in a kind of helical fasion (spiral). Most are still able to act healthy an get some photosynthesis but i do wonder how the travel of fluids acropetally and basipetaly throughout the crown over a period of years.
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A TPO'd chestnut which had a stem failing over the weekend due to high winds:thumbdown: Made safe and have left the works to be decided by the Local Council. Had to have a climb to find the cracking sound to cover my own back first tho. Kind of blends in with some of the electric board work in the area too:lol:
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TreePhoto comp 2011 - win great prizes!
Ian Flatters replied to joe into trees's topic in Picture Forum
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At a guess Richard Hammond??
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Facebook puppet man fan page..... When im old im ditching treework for his life style choice.
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Hey Neil,
I just realized i do not have your mobile number. Can you PM me it?
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You must be gutted getting forced to climb such a small tree. Nice work and set of pictures. Whens the move to Canada?
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I won an oregon one last year and the spout lasted less than a week. I prefer the sthil can over the orange husky one, mainly because i can see the amount of fuel from a distance as its see through. Both the husky and sthil spouts last as long as each other. Hope this helps.
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To all you bosses - How much would you pay a day for a groundie?
Ian Flatters replied to button1803's topic in General chat
Personally £60 a day for an employed groundsman is ok. You've got to remember a freelance groundy may want £80 BUT he doesn't get sick pay, holiday or bank holiday pay so he has to cover his costs and on top of that he has to cover wear and tear on his kit (trousers and hat a least). So £300 before tax a week ain't too bad at all for grounding in my opinion. -
3 Stage Ladder?? Is this one of those new inventions like the 'Wheel' Although my throwline skills have helped you a couple of times, not even a 3 stage ladder would of got you a nice anchor point on the orrrible Sugar Maple we did. But might have been a considerable amount quicker on that poplar from the other day.
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A lot of practice! Took me 11 years to say that i can hit (7/10 times) a target i want. I create a loop but prefer to throw it from between my legs and both handed. I also went up a footy field and aimed for the center of the cross bar, threw it 20 times and worked out i throw off to the right by about half a meter from 40 ft away-ish. I always aim to the middle of the branch im aiming for, and a meter max above it and normally get it over. Even if you go higher or lower you can normally thread the lines parallel and get climbing quick. ALTHOUGH some days i can't even hit a target the size of a bus:blushing:
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Yep, what rupe said. Makes the change over a bit easier and quicker. No undoing the crab sliding the eye in then re doing the velcro. Just un-clip change over and re-attach. Although i would recommend having the crab the other way round to how i had it in my video. Just better to have the gate in the open space rather than close to the running end.
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:thumbup1:Came out nice Neil.
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It wasn't just taken down for the wood:001_tongue: I think it was 'Money fungus' Or 'Few grandius' it was in decline and near a power supply line for a hospital ward:thumbup1:
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Today i spent all day slicing this up:thumbdown: Client wanted it all as firewood as he had sold it to his mates, which left me a little bit confused as im pretty sure i could of sold the lot after it had been lucas milled for a bit more. Oh we did have a really well kitted out lunch room it had a table and stools:001_rolleyes:
