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All the lumps in the picture I posted are spoken for, my girlfriend is a wood carver and she'll be using it. Some of the lumps may be milled, the rest will be carved into spoons like the ones below. It's the main stem I'm interested in knowing about, unfortunately no pics at the moment though but it is hollow

I will get a pic of the cross section up to where I got to chgging it down tomorrow in the light.

To bump an old thread - I might be able to get my hands on a large walnut stick, lovely heartwood colour approx 3' diameter. Problem is the main stem is hollow, so unlikely to be much use for milling. Does this mean the root ball is also no use? Picture attached is the branch wood to show the colour, this wood is all spoken for its the main stem I'm interested in knowing about. It's due to be dug out with a 20 ton JCB in the near future...

How often do you realistically need any climbihg device to be midline attachable? You put it on while on the ground, climb the tree, come down and either leave it on or take it off? Just asking really, I don't think I've ever felt the need to remove my zigzag/spiderjack/hitch climber completely from the rope during mid climb?

As per title really, anyone else into nice pens? I decided just before Christmas that I was fed up of plastic biros, and brought myself a parker jotter ballpoint for the truck and a vector rollerball for a "nice" pen. Since then, I've added another jotter ballpoint, a vector fountain pen, a Lamy Safari and a Cross Aventura to the fleet, starting to feel like I've got enough now! On the plus side, I haven't been obsessing over chainsaws or climbing kit since. I'm trying to resist exploring the world of bottled inks, but the dark side is calling

I don't use a zigzag myself, but I've seen a few people attach a small tape sling from their bridge to the bottom krab for ascending, allowing them to get a good arm length pull from under the zigzag

For £250 I'd be very tempted to look at the highest Echo model I could get for that. They seem to raved about on here, not tried one myself yet but my next saw may well be an echo. Have a look on the forest and arb website, I suspect you'll get a better warranty and more bang for your buck.

Ladders, spikes, mewp into the top, srt with base tie to access at least...

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It's not the tidiest solution, but you could put one leg of the friction cord between the cheeks of the pulley on your lanyard to free up some space? (I know I've seen it done with both legs, but that was on skinnier cord - doubt it would work on silverstreak). With your main line hitch climber is probably the best solution - however again, if you don't want to get one straight away you could get a tape sling or short prussik, put that between the eyes of the pinto where your spacer currently would be, and clip into that?

A top handle saw strop or similar length webbing sling, larks footed around back handle and an old carabiner clipping it to top handle. The sling it over shoulder and off you go. I dread to think how many miles I've carried my top handle using this method, works equally well of ground saws and a MSA 160 is pretty lifht

You boys think you've had it bad... The customer today only gave a £50 tip, and on the way back to the yard I lost the lid to my second favourite pen. May as well pack it all in!

Just put another small krab, d shackle or the like onto the metal loop the strop goes onto?

Even with a swing cheek Mark has a point - once prussik is cut, the whole body weight of the person being rescued would potentially be on the pulley, so removing it from the krab (swing cheek or not) would be pretty hard in a rescue situation.

I don't use a wire core flip line, so if I ever need rescuing you can cut as many ropes as you need to bud

Didn't think of that, I stand corrected

If you have a prussik on your lanyard you dont need a cutaway... it's only if you have a rope grab or other mechanical device on a wire core when a soft link is a good idea!

Hi all Just interested in adding to my list of people in the area I can call on when I need an extra pair of hands. Especially those with cs38 aerial rescue or with a tipper for the bigger jobs. Anyone in the area interested in the occasional day, send me an email on [email protected] or give me a ring/text 07882 101819 Cheers Joe

I've been using one called invoice simple seems pretty good

Hi all, I would make this a poll, but don't know how to on the app! I'm in a bit of a dilemma at the moment, and interested to see how others work. Basically, my other half wants to get more involved in the business this year, helping out with chasing up contracts, doing admin etc. I'm all for it, but there's one problem... For the past 5 years or so I've always had a paper diary which goes everywhere with me in the truck. When I speak to someone on the phone I can still look at it, it works where there's no signal or battery, I'm a bit old fashioned. She now wants to link the calendars on our phones together, so she can see what I'm doing each day and add things. I like the idea in theory, but I'm struggling to give up my paper! I don't want to be constantly copying stuff out, so that's a no go. So, who here has tried online calendars? Did it work, or did you revert to the old fashioned way? Best app that will work between an iPhone (hers) and a Samsung (mine)? Cheers!

Personally, if it was that wet eg standing in ditch or stream all day, I'd just wear whatever wellies you find warmest and most comfortable, and not cut near your feet?

As Steve said, 5m or so of 13mm rope for a lanyard, preferably a different colour to your main line Don't forget a climbing helmet as well just in case, and make sure when you rec climb there is someone else about

Most of the big suppliers do a starter kit for around your budget, have a look around. The one below is from Skyland, comes in at £425 with a treemotion light harness that is quite well thought of by many http://www.skylandequipment.com/progressive-climbing-kit.html The only other things you would need that don't tend to be included in these kits is a set of spikes if you plan on doing takedowns, and potentially a throw line if you will be accessing taller trees

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