Bolt
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Loverly popular, you know you love it
Bolt replied to slack ma girdle's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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note to self....... best leave the dogs in the car for this one.......
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maybe thats spelt alkathene?
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air rifle, or a nice whippy length of alcetheyne water pipe
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exactly, whenever I got a hung-up tree, I always got my climbing kit on and cleared all the branches off before coming down and hacking a couple of metres off the bottom. Think of the snedding time thats avoided . ....and if you waste the nasty heavy bottom bit, you avoid all those manual handling issues Them NPTC fellas haven't got the monopoly on good ideas.
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TBH knees are probably the least affected joint when climbing. Hips, Backs, Elbows, Sholders, Wrists take far more of a beating IMO. How many flights of stairs can you go up before it gives up?
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wow, thats a lot of work for a partially windblown tree . winch anyone?
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ARBTALK??? Damn! I thought I was on Mumsnet
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Don't say its rats (bad for publicity) say they are from hedgehogs (who is going to know the difference).
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he did say I could keep the logs though Yeah, right, thats realllly handy.
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yeah, you only tackle a job like that once, especially if you are using your own chipper, and I wouldn't have done it at all if it wasn't for a "mate". :-(
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Is it a C clip, I.e. is it clipped into a grove around the outside of the shaft, if so, insert a screwdriver under it and twist. odds are it will ping off across the workshop / kitchen / back garden.
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fair play, I did say A photo
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depends on the skill / brains / compassion of whoever stacked it and (as once happened to me) whether or not a JCB driver has kindly splattered it with topsoil and divots of turf......
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A photo of the problem might be nice :-) how about getting hold of some pincer type pliers?
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well, here is how i see it... Trees (or plants in general) breathe in CO2, use the C bit (carbon) for making tree, and breathe out the O2 bit (2 bits of oxygen). If bits fall off the tree, like leaves, twigs etc... they rot down, and this process (that requires oxygen) gives off CO2 again. And this will be tha same amount of CO2 that was absorbed to make the twig, leave or whatever in the first place. Once the tree has grown, died and all rotted down (or got its self burnt) ALL the carbon will have got combined with oxygen and re emmitted. I suppose if you use the wood for making funiture (I guess something like church pews would be best) the carbon would stay tied up for a few hundred years more, but this is hardly the big picture as far as the "planet" is concerned. Plant trees cos you like planting trees not to make people who drive SUV's feel better
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I still reckon that logstore should go ahead with his LR90 tipper plan :-) Go on, You know you want to!
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whats this madness? Black and white legislation That will never happen! all the fun is in how you interperate it. if legislation was black and white, why would we need lawyers????? ooooooooh, now there's an idea!!
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Firstly, I do think handing out trees is great, and free trees are all the better. They are fun to plant with the kids, make the area look better, give shade for picnics during bar-b-q summers, and even provide work for future arbs.... but why do people always drag CO2 into it Once the tree dies, all the carbon gets released back into the atmosphere. surely all tree planting "carbon warriors" do is store up problems (if CO2 is a problem) for our kids. If you have something againts CO2, stop burning fossil fuels, its the ONLY way way to affect human related atmospheric CO2. (but where is the fun in that) (BTW, this is in no way knocking Tom2020 , just the whole stupid carbon thing)
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How about Lickham Bottom near Hemyock in Devon.
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Think i'll go for the NEBOSH. Least I get to find out something new. Can't see the point of shelling out, yet again, for more RA and 'this is your duty of care' sermonising. :-)
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20 years industry experiance now stands for nowt (it turns out). What i really need (I am told) is a qualification to assist me in spoting 'non-conformant' working. (pesky young upstarts with their fancy suits and their blueberry cellular radios) IOSH (managing safety) vs NEBOSH (national general certificate) - which is better do you all think????
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If time is hanging heavy on your hands, wade through this thread... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/15234-climbing-near-powerlines.html There is some excellent advice here (like mine, ha ha) but also some superbly lousy stuff to (see if you can spot who) Of course, its all out of date now, as G55/2 becomes more widely implemented.
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First I would contact your local NPTC assessment centre. Ask them to organise you a CS31.4 and a CS32 to be taken in a month or two. If they do, you are home and dry. If they say something like 'computer says no' you are going to have to start wiggling if you wish to avoid doing CS30 / 31 assessments. Once the 31.4 / 32 assessment is booked, I would then only bother with the CS32 training. Takedown is covered by Cs32, the only differece is you are getting the tree down with a winch rather than a breaking bar.
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There is a chance depending on who you talk to, and who you can get to arrange it. But at very least you will need to take CS31.4 first (takedown of hungup trees) as this was not covered in the earlier units.
