Ian Flatters

I will see you there

A video of Matthew Warden climbing a pole. Nice work fella [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMDhpGEoCsQ]Husqvarna 25m European Pole Climbing Championships 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

Nice pics as always Simon, always enjoy browsing your uploads on your Photography page on Facebook

In a totally different way to Reg. He creates kit, i just get asked to give it a testing (SRT stuff atm).

One foot angainst the limb and move the other with the pantin up until you clear the object? Or thurn your back on the object and continue upwards.

Sweet

Cheers Ben, its always on of my favorite shows not only because of the camp fire and beer. Although a part of me was sad over the lack of Jive Pony girls this year.

Hi, Firstly thank you if you came and for sticking out some of the worst weather (fri,sat) we've had in a while. So i will give a little ramble about the event and then the results. So the Husqvarna European 25m Pole Climbing Championship was Held at the Three Counties Show in Malvern, Shropshire. The first two days are the Three Counties Show competition and the third was the Europeans, all of which were sponsored by Husqvarna and the carabiners supplied by Rock Exotica. Day one saw some fast times even in the intermittent wet weather with Patrick Hayes comfortably taking the experts 1st place for the day and David Teasdale in the Tree Surgeon class. Then there was the bar a campfire and around about 12:30am i went to bed. Day two RAIN and lots of it!! some sections of the campsite (thankfully not our part) turned into a river. Everyone still went up and times reminded pretty much the same. Big thanks to Chris Wheatley and his belay teams for standing out in it whilst the climbs ran. Ben Lightfoot took the tree surgeon class win in which he was clearly in control throughout the day. Patrick Hayes taking the Expert but given a close run by Grant Gallier who seemed to have some rotten luck in the top 15ft of the climb. So Day 3 and SUNSHINE!!!! the weather broke and the temperature soared (for England that is). Nerves started to kick in with some doing worse times in the first couple of heats and other setting new personal bests. The final runs had a large crowed and even the bird of preys display bird stopped off for a few seconds to watch from the top of pole 2. David teasdale taking the win in Tree Surgery class after being denied the top spot for so long through slips and bad luck. Grant took the Expert class but Patrick chased all the way. The times through the tables are also very close with 5th-8th in Expert being separated by 0.87 of a second and 2nd-3rd in Tree Surgery by 0.25 of a second. If your thinking of having a go give please do, even if its just for a single run or just one day. You never know you might get hooked on it. Ian Husqvarna European Championship Final Placings Expert Category 1st Grant Gallier - 9.89 2nd Patrick Hayes – 10.55 3rd Ian Flatters – 11.42 4th Sam Burrage – 13.06 5th Roy Rudd – 14.04 6th Pete Gallop - 14.09 7th Jack Barnard – 14.60 8th Matthew Warden– 14.91 9th Alan Gallop (V)– 15.29 10th Joel Wilson - 17.89 11th Gareth Sheraton - 18.30 12th Fiona Crozier (F) - 18.41 13th Gage Owens - 19.47 14th George Tipping (V) - 29.39 Tree Surgeon Category 1st David Teasdale – 16.57 2nd Ben Lightfoot – 17.44 3rd Charlie Edwards (V) – 17.69 4th Sam Edwards– 19.02 5th Aaron Peacock – 19.26 6th Tam Stevens– 20.20 7th Louis Barraclough – 21.61 8th John Grieveson - 22.58 9th Rory Brownless - 23.29 10th Lois Milburn (F)- 28.36 (V) = Veteran (S) = Senior (L) = Lady (DNF) = Did not finish

Indeed it was a great day, thanks for all who turned up. Im glad you all enjoyed the beech tree and maybe next time we will focus on the welly as the view from the top is very good. I'll upload the zipline video later once i have a minute.

Hi Tom, no prob I'll stick another one on the truck

Cool, I'll be parked up out front in the transit

Hi Reg, Just wondering why the top was taken out in 3:23 in the other tree in the frame??

Agreed, you wouldn't want the client to fall foul of gross neglect of duty of care. A redirect would of been nice to reduce the load dynamics on that limb although it was a static lower rather than a dynamic lower.

A few from woodfest

Missed the button, poor lad

A great way to start the season Day 1 sunshine, day 2 38cm of rain and day 3 sunshine. It was great to see a lot of new faces entering and the Husky bottle openers were a very useful treat. Thanks to CEUK and The Oregon Shop for additional prizes (and my handsaw, dutch oven and storm kettle) which increased our prize categories. Massive Thanks to Husquvarna for sponsoring the Event and the up an coming Europeans and Worlds this Year. Patrick Hayes seems to be on flying form and the rest of the field need to find form fast to chase him down. Bad luck to Jack and Gage who both seemed to have the worst luck this weekend with spikes breaking and just being unlucky in the climbs. If any of you fancy having a go feel free to PM me on here and i can point you in the right direction. Ian Expert Category 1st Patrick Hayes – 10.03 2nd Richard Batson – 12.40 3rd Matt Thomas – 12.55 4th Ian Flatters – 12.70 5th Roy Rudd – 13.04 6th Adam McClean – 13.70 7th Sam Burrage – 14.10 8th Ryan McConnell (S)– 15.06 9th Gage Owens – 15.23 10th Joel Wilson – 16.81 11th Nick Brookes – 16.86 12th Jack Barnard – 30.24 13th George Tipping (V) – 33.78 14th Paul Stewart (V) – 34.90 Tree Surgeon Category 1st Gareth Sheraton – 16.73 2nd Suter Thomas – 16.75 3rd David Teasdale – 17.46 4th Aaron Peacock – 17.53 5th Daniel Bailes – 18.60 6th Charlie Edwards– 21.18 7th Sam Edwards – 22.87 8th Liam Wilkinson – 24.60 9th Tam Stevens – 24.95 10th John Grieveson – 28.36 11th Dylan Walton – 31.35 12th Danny Thompson – 1.06.46 13th Steven Small – 1.14.30 14th Billy Bates – (DNF) (V) = Veteran (S) = Senior (L) = Lady (DNF) = Did not finish Also: Best Senior Ryan McConnell with a time of 14.84 Best Veteran Paul Steward with a time of 19.70 Up and coming star - Ryan McConnell Most improved tree surgeon class climber - Liam Wilkinson Sprit of the show - Andy Nesbitt Hard luck award - Gage owens for constant slipping pads Fastest newcomer Gareth Sheraton with a time of 15.7

Sunny or rain who knows. But its on for 10am at North Walsham Rugby Club NR10 5BU . See you all there.

Yeah i prefer it too, The reccy climb is on for this weekend!!! I'll bump up the thread during the week. P.S i hear your going to be a grandad.

Hi, Just a couple of recent jobs that we did. One was a river reduction so the tour boats didnt cause a hazard whilst navigating the river. The other was a ring barked Alder over a board walk which was great crested newt habitat so we were told we could only place the material in this 2ft by 6ft area. Not a hard job but made slow because of this. Hope you enjoy them [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZuk4WJBnw&feature=colike]Willow River Reductions - YouTube[/ame] [ame] [/ame]

A few from Pensthorpe in Norfolk

I honestly dont know when it will be out in the UK but all i can say is i personally prefer it to the ZK1

Yes :lol:

No its just Kevin has obviously made things better and evolved it. Its not my place to say and i cant show any pictures. so sorry but it is much better than the ZK1 currently is, Its Kevins product so im not risking him losing any patient or running the risk of someone ripping his hard work off like Reg had with his arb trolley. I was asked by 2 interested companies in the Uk to test it and give feedback, so i am and it is very good. Sometimes on the ZK1 you had some tightness on the hitch this has now been completely resolved as ive been giving it a good testing (hence my lack of videos on the web recently). I recently caught a view of another product for SRT climbing coming onto the market soon which also looks very good. So sorry if any of you think im causing drama but id rather that than cause someone to lose the patient on their product they have put their heart and soul into.

Yeah on the Bure itself, there are two islands that are part of Salhouse broad. We were completing Stage 1 before we take on the mass alder clear fell on the other islands in...............Winter