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not sure what you're talking about... I don't often work with cranes and haven't put out many videos with cranes involved. I can only think of one... this one:  

You guys don't get it... COrprations, banks, givernments and war profiteers are going to do evil things that offend the spirit... 

You were criticizing Americans' lack of safety... Those young men gave up their lives fighting to protect England. Don't disrespect their sacrafice by blaming the government or corporations. Apples and oranges... There is a price to be paid for such disrespect...

I AM well aware that Roosevelt committed treason by withholding information about the jap attack on Pearl Harbor from the Pacific commmanders. IMO the US government is the largest terrorist organization in the world. The IBM and fuel sales don't surprise me a bit. IG Farben became Bayer profitted from turning loving people into soap... The level of evil in the world is far beyond the average imagination.. Looks like the human race is about to take another ass kicking at the hands of pure evil... 

9 hours ago, MattyF said:

Only idiot is you Daniel , I've watched some truly utter dangerous and stupid videos from yourself over the years.
In this country we have a highly regulated , trained and equipment checked industry ,loler, nptc's are required all on all sites, along with the safe practice and guidance inline with current regs .. whilst I might not agree with a lot of it I have always felt it gives a lot of British arbs a an edge and why are death toll is know where near your levels.

YOUR grandparents weren't complaining about American's lack of safety,  which some call bravery, when our young men bled the ocean red storming the beaches at Normandy. Our young men went to fight and die , not to protect their homeland,  but to protect yours. Many making the ultimate sacrifice,  never to see their loved ones again.  You'd be speaking German if it weren't for the bravery of Americans. You ought to be crying for it not criticizing it.  That and our can do attitude.  We got the job done, no matter what it took.  You couldn't have.  

And while you're at it, say a prayer for the 25 million Russians that lost their lives in Ww2

They took the tip of the Nazi spear which in large part spared you. 

You sound like a bunch of women... 

A perfect example of fixed viewpoint.. you're so well trained you can't see the world from another point of view.

You feel safe and comfortable with your rules.  That's the box you're stuck in. If it works for you fine. To me that makes you a bunch of pussies... that and the fact that you don't have the sense to see what's happening right in front of you 

1 hour ago, scottythepinetree said:

You think climbing on a nicked line is acceptable?

Which do you think is more dangerous, a slap of a branch or a climbing line failing? What if he shock loads the line (which lets face it, the guy seems really likely to do) through either a fall or getting tangled up  and dropping a branch onto it?

Also, I get that you feel attacked and are therefore verbally retaliating like a petulant child, but calling people pussies isn't going to get the response you seem to be looking for (from me at least). I've been around the block mate. Over 20 years in the business. Long enough to remember that video of yours knocking out the top of a large broadleaf  and watching it go completely arseways. Whatever happened to that video? Seems to have vanished. Know the one I'm talking about? Tied off too low on a crane and tipped over after it was cut (the head, not the crane). Would you say that was more stupid or less stupid that this video?

That's a perfect response from an idiot. pure stupidty with 20 years expereience. that was a planned hinge failure.. the tree landed right in the lawn, missing the fence and other trees it would have hit if it it came all the way over against the lean... That chess.. you're playing checkers and don't recognize the game becasue it's so far over your head. You saw the failed hinge and thought I lost the tree to the lay, but it was obvious from the setup that there wasn't room for it to fall straight back. It fell right into an open yard. FIT PERFECTLY!

A technique I have used and video taped multiple times. Heavy leaners or failed tree need to be pulled up straight directly against the lean. ONce they have been straighteneed out, they can be felled to the side or allowed to fall to the sideweight. The pull line turns into a right angle retainer line... I;ve had to explain this and other advanced techniques to dumbasses like you for years... it's way over your head and yet think so highly of your knowledge and experience. 

The tree fell 90 degrees to the hinge and landed only 5 feet away from the fence.. It's pretty obvious that the tree would have taken the fence out if it had continued on the hinge. So you've outed yourdelf. Criticizing Trevor for the nick in his line when he pulled one of the worst rigging moved ever is like telling someone overdosing on heroin that their fly is down.

Yotube pulled that video for copyright violations for the music I was using so I had to use their music and repost:

2 hours ago, scottythepinetree said:

Clearly damaged climbing line. So he either doesn't check his gear before he climbs, or worse, he checked it and didn't see this as a problem.

Darwin Award in his future, I think.

This is exactly what I mean by a bunch of pussies... you're criticizing him for using a nicked line when he put his body right into the only path the rope could go when the piece moved into the rigging then proceeded to pull the piece right into himself after using a snap cut and finishing with a hand saw, when he simply could have stood on the other side and made quick work of the cut. That was pure stupidity of a high order which is rarely seen or survived in this business, and you're talking about gear checks...  

Most suburban arbs pay to haul the wood.. the big straight timber on the west coast being an exception. In my marlet we are mostly taking down trees that have problems and are not even saw logs. When we do come by a few decent logs the trip to the mill is 600 or more so the loads are hardly worth hauling. And usually the guys that do the hauling want to get paid on both ends. 

Too many know it all comments by those that only see from their fixed and limited point of view (that's not directed at you)..

Old American saying you don't hear much anymore.

"there's more than one way to skin a cat".

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

There’s a guy on Instagram called Travor in Trees, he’s a contract climber.

He divides opinion a bit to say the least.

 

Anyway he fooked up a bit of rigging, all his fault and spent a couple of minutes berating an entirely innocent Nate on the ground crew.

That's nothing compared to this 6" from death rigging  

starts at 11:35

8 hours ago, Pete Mctree said:

The US sawmills will not take timber with any basal flare, hence the high cuts on some trees. 

What are you smoking Pete? Cause you're spouting pure nonsense

you sound like a bunch of pussies

Here's one that may seem a bit controversial if anyione cares

My girlfriend lived in England and she knew right were he was from. When she told m he ws from Manchester she had a big on her face... I didn't pry!

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On 02/03/2020 at 08:06, Gary Prentice said:

Next time you have any sort of medical procedure, take a new prescription etc - look at the data you're given. Most possible/potential adverse side affects are  statistically broken down, but in almost everything there is a very low (1-2%) of a reaction resulting in death. 

 If I took that attitude towards tree work, thinking that a 1-2% chance of dying from any particular cut is low and therefore it makes sense to make that cut, I would have been dead a long time ago. 

Another way to look at it, is if someone was pointing a gun at you and said, don;t worry there is only a 1-2% chance of the gn accidentally firing, would you ask them to point it elsewhere?

Voixx killed and estimated 60,000 people and 140,000 heart attacks in the USA, with some estimates that consider longe term effects being far highr:

Now, a study of 1.4 million people in California shows that those taking Vioxx had a one-third higher chance of having a heart attack than those taking other painkillers.

David Graham, of the US Food and Drug Administration, and colleagues concluded: "An estimated 88,000 to 140,000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease probably occurred in the USA over the market life of rofecoxib [Vioxx]. The US national estimate of the case-fatality rate was 44 per cent, which suggests that many of the excess cases attributable to rofecoxib use were fatal." The results, published online by The Lancet, will be seized on by critics of the pharmaceutical industry as evidence of the failure of the drug regulatory system to protect the public. Dr Graham had earlier estimated that Vioxx may have caused up to 27,000 heart attacks but the new study caused him to upgrade the estimate by five times.

Doctors on both sides of the Atlantic have warned of a public health emergency over other painkillers in the same class, known as Cox-2 inhibitors, which could also pose a risk.

A report in The New England Journal of Medicine last October said studies since 1999 had repeatedly indicated a danger with Vioxx. Drug regulators made Merck include a warning in the drug package but never ordered a definitive trial.

Professor David Webb, of the clinical pharmacology unit at the University of Edinburgh, says in The Lancet: "It falls to the manufacturers, under the careful review of the regulatory authorities, to provide evidence that this class of drugs is safe."

new cut, at least it sounds like a proper hinge

This video is called... "I love fat hinges"

Though I neglected to mention this in the video (which is not public), we did strap the trunkup above the cut to keep it from Barber chairing

I did.. sorry if that wasn't clear

Here's a post from the tree house.. wondering what you all think about it:

Almost every American has been brainwashed about how great a country we are and how the founding fathers were like saints walking the earth. After I read "Bo" Gritz's book, "Called to Serve", I didn't sleep for a week. There is not much evil that this government does or could do that would surprise me now. But it takes waking up from the brainwashing, which most would rather fight for. It's like being de-programmed from a cult. It's extremely hard to shatter those belief systems. And they don't die easily. Once you wake up, it's hard to walk around pretending everything is OK, as 600,000 Iraqi civilians die at the hands of DIck Cheney and company, or 3+ million peasants in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos die at the hands of Henry Kissinger. Or the 1/3 of the population of East Timor that died at the hands of Ford, Kissinger, and Carter. And the countless deaths throughout South and Central America at the hands of Oliver North and many others. Bo estimates in his book that the US is responsible for somewhere around 50 million deaths post-WWII to 1992. Then, of course, there is Aids, which if you believe that it came from monkeys, see the above on brainwashing. That man-made virus killed 1.7 million in 2004 alone.

Then there is West Nile virus and Lyme disease, made on plum island, US biological weapons base, the Tuskegee experiment, the abandoning of POWs in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and the assassination of JFK, Bobby Kennedy, MLK Jr, and the Oklahoma City Bombing, and 911, genocide in the American Indians, and stealing their children as a tool of cultural destruction, which happened until the late 1970's . CIA drug imports to shatter inner-city communities and pay for their black ops. mind control, sex slave experiments, the separation of children from their parents at the US border, slavery and the imprisonment of black males post-emancipation as a means of continuing the system of slave labor, the racially biased application of the death penalty.

And that's mostly just the non-controversial stuff. I would include vaccinations as a means of child abuse, and the suppression of new energy technologies and cancer cures. If your buttons are getting pushed here see the above on brainwashing.

It's interesting that according to the poll, there is a good bit of variation on perspective on the subject. 

On 13/02/2020 at 17:08, Pete Mctree said:

To be honest there does need to be a shift in training, however introducing a new technique to replace another which replaced another is just a continuation of the old bullshit. 

The shift needs to be towards teaching the whys as well as the how - that means educating people to make good decisions, which is easier said than done. It is simple enough to teach generic or even niche teqniques like yours Dan within a simple training framework, but to teach the choice of technique, reasoning behind them and subtleties of the work is the holy grail and is not addressed by any traditional training I have ever encountered and probably never will.

GREAT POST!

10 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

It’s nothing knew, it’s what you do when you can’t be arsed going for the correct equipment and it’s a combination of fear, luck and skill! 

People call me lucky or crazy because they lack both the skill to perform such an advanced technique, and the imagination to conceive that someone might know something they don't.