Ian Flatters

I can see myself buying that too and it weighs less than a tirfor.

I was apprehensive about buying it as i couldnt get over to see one in use but in reality ive realized how much ill use it as it can drag as far as your rope will go. Also i think it will make a good ski lift in winter.........

So i gave the winch a test in an ideal location (dry woodland) Very impressed. I used it to turn 90 degrees a welley stem 26" at base and cut it at 20ft 18" Moved it with ease. Then we had to fell a dead sycamore, so normally it would of been climbed but we decided to just fell it into 2 large hollies to hold it up then winch it clear, again did with ease saved a good 30 mins of climbing work. Plus Tom up his first Monkey puzzle and a large pile of chip from it, to say i underestimated the amount of chip would be an underestimation....... twice the amount i thought, lucky for me it was a 25min round trip form the yard.

Cheers, Yeah its all skinny 6m lengths so i was thinking of using some small slings 5-10 through the cone onto a rigging plate then onto a skyline to keep the dragline out of the marsh and mud. The bigger drum reduces single line pull down to 700kgs.

Hello, I havent ever used one so cheers for the advice on what to look out for, i got the bigger drum too to increase speed...... Why didnt the cone seem to work well? I really appreciate your advice as like i said i havent used one, also have you ever used it as a skyline-dragline setup?? Ian

Yeah, there spending loads of money on it as the amount of sediment build up is currently quicker than the extraction rate. 1T in a single line and 3T doubled up, going to see how far it will pull a tree tomorrow as im in a dry woodland tomorrow. Might use it as a mini skyline but will film the lot to see how it works.

Go into settings and find the icon which has the camera then a number next to it, you can by clicking change the time length, for trees i find 10-15 second great for quick jobs and ones that are all day 60 seconds. So once you exit the menu setting scroll through your modes, camera, film, countdown until you reach the icon with a number on. Press start and away you go. Now editing, Add the pictures to your computer, open whatever editing program you use, import the pictures to your project, id advise adding your start intro first tho. If you can edit the import value to 0.50 seconds so the pictures flow, add music, credits and your done. Hope this helps Ian

Well mark, the Monkey puzzle got this name by some tall hat wearing Victorian who said i bet that would puzzle a monkey, but then the same person told me that one of their old jobs was to put the cherry on top of bakewell tarts....... The winch is for a felling contract, the site is too wet to extract with machinery or horse except by barge fitted with a winch, but then that starts at a day rental of £500.00 so the winch works out a lot cheaper. Really keen to test it out on some big timber especially excited to see how well the winch works on ragging brash out for those long drag jobs. Also thinking of attaching a pulley on the back of the truck to see how that works.

A few from today and the new shiny winch!

Nice filbys full of floating reed beds too!! The rivers already 3" above the ground level in a lot of places due to the high tides from the recent full moon and 3" of rain that fell on saturday and is now filtering into the broads. I will get a picture of the barge even if i have to take the other barge 1/2 mile up river!!! But yeah, horrid working conditions so much so i even ruled out horses, so winch, skidder cone and hope it will work, failing that its a mini skyline setup.

Indeed it is, yeah when our diary's match he comes up to Norfolk for a play. When we move onto the next section for thinning i'll take the brage down to the piling area, something like 80,000m3 of sediment will be pumped into the area from the broad to re-build the lost land.

So we started a project to create 640 6m alder poles for a broad restoration project in Salhouse as part of a multimillion pound broads restoration program. We had to have 140 poles out and ready as the original contractor who won the tender pulled out as he couldn't do it for the price he gave. So i said id give it a crack and had 3 days to sort and complete phase 1. Ive bought a portable winch from proclimber but there was no way it would reach us before the first phase needed to be complete, so call in the boys, Arbtalkers Dan Curtis, Neil Frost and Tom Rawlings. Dan and Tom completed a large oak fell in a stupidly quick time so came to boost numbers. All 140 poles were skidded or lifted to the extraction points by hand But we do get to link up with some cool kit like a £500,000 hiab barge which has a raising and lowering ability so could get right onto the riverside. Really looking forward to saving a lot of effort with the winch now. I'll keep adding pictures as the project unfolds.

You know what i mean

yeah like the hub but looks more stable so if required the spider leg can run above the plate. Apparently this is what the key selling point is on it. I mean 360 rigging dimensions rather than 3D

Still awaiting one for testing from Rock Exotica uk, Really keen to use it for 3D rigging rather than single limb balancing. See how it compares to the DMM hub

hahaha EXCELLENT! that digger driver has some skillz wiv da claw.

Nice one James, congrats to you and kimmy.

Quality video there, great work and rightly said the groove armada tune makes the footage flow. Defiantly in my top 5 Arb videos i like to watch.

On long ascents are you using a pantin? I just lift the RW up in those cases as the pantin holds the line taught enough for me to ascend the line. Also if you hitch is biting too hard it might be your hitch being too strong thats the hindrance? Just a few thoughts off the top of my head.

I have the ally prototype tether, great on a hitch but not great with a LJ.

haha tom cut a small chog off on the oak and it destroyed the dilapidated fence panel. Oh i mean as tom said "did you see that giant eagle attack me and it made me loose my grip!! Mental" Personally i thought it was a great excuse

Yesterdays Stunt fell, Thuja across the garden, close to the fence we smashed a few months ago working for next door...........

I'll see what i can do when im back form Ireland in a week. Just finding trees is one thing, ones that are awesome for SRT is another. (because climbing a normal reccy tree is too easy:001_huh:)

Welcome to the start of your road to being a "single rope junkie"

cheers Rob, its much easier than it looks after a day competing when you find its all about fast small steps around about 38+, i will pop up all the results when i get back from the irish open next weekend. Oh and paul, next year im making you have a go!!!! The view from the top is amazing especially across the whole show ground!