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I PREFER USING A MEWP FOR TREE WORK, AS MY MISSUS GETS FUNNY ABOUT ME IN A HARNESS, SO WHEN I CLIMB I HAVE 3 45M ROPES ON ME AND I HAVE LOADS OF ANCHOR POINTS (6 FOR ASCENDING AND 8 FOR WORK POSITIONING) AM I BEING A BIT OTT? my apprentice says they teach you to use two, is this just youth filth? or has the boy got a point?

LOL your way off with 30 tonnes mate, more like half that omg have you got your windblown ticket or not, because i would not have severed the stem from the rootplate like that! but i guess if you have an arbtalk account you must know best

Do you know of anywhere that will do a double rigging kit with 18 shackle block and tackle for fishing in the shfinkter

Graham tax rebate

You got any carabiners mate?

i would say getting on a diploma course in arb is the best place to start, there are too many people with all the tickets and no theortical tree knowledge to back it up, these course will provide you with ad quals like NPTC certs, but a good place to start is learning tree ident, basice tree science, p's and d's etc. its no good having all the tickets if you dont know what your pruning and why. short term for a job, yes tickets are important, but in personal career development and becoming a knoledgable arborist, its crucial to learn about trees in more depth hope that helps

MATEY DOWN THE ROAD FROM ME GIVING IT BEANS EVERY WEEKEND SELLING WET LOGS FROM LOCAL FARM LAND, SHIPWRIGHT THROUGH THE WEEK, LANTRA FELLING TICKET HERO AT WEEKENDS, DOES THREE HOURS WORK GETS HOT AND SWEATY SHIFTING A FEW LOGS, WALKS IN THE PUB AT 12 NOON BANG ON ACTING LIKE THE LOCAL HERO TO EVERYONE................................. PEOPLE LIKE THIS DO MY HEAD IN! LIKE TO SEE HIM DO PROPER TREE WORK FOR AN 8 HOUR DAY, LET ALONE A WEEK! HES GOT ABOUT 5 DECENT STIHL SAWS FROM HIS £2000 A MONTH AT THE SHIPYARD, HOLDS THE SAW WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AT THE FRONT AND GOES IN THE PUB SHOWING OFF WHEN HE PUT THE SAW THROUGH HIS PALM! NOTHING WINDS ME UP MORE!!!!!!!!!:thumbdown::thumbdown:

sorry guys, im just farting about because the chap who started the thread goes to college with me, was just talking nonsense to him. but yeah the 550s at college all run 15s but im sure it would handle an 18 i have a husky 268 with an 18 and hes fine, and as the 550 is much newer and i presume built alot better, it would handle it just fine

mate, do you even no about CODIT, axium of uniform stress, reaction wood, fungal vectors and cellular structures, let alone mycelium and mhychorizal associations

i run mine on a 30 inch bar, ideal for ringing up, people think its too big but i say fine

im not getting paid its the customers tree, whether its in log form or money, i just said id organise it for them seeing as i took the tree down. another sawmill said £100 but he also tried to tell me its cedar and not sequoia

also as its not a diffuse porus wood, its no good for tables out of the rings which is a shame as i considered ringing up and sanding and varnishing, but it will just crack.

yeh your probly right, originally the customer wanted the lot cut and split and taken down to his log shed, which is what weve done with the rest of it, but i told him it would be sh*t firewood, and with the money he gets for that stem he could get some decent seasoned logs............... although the whole reason we dismantled it was because he wanted firewood.

shame, the colour is awesome