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This isn't answering my original question btw. Is anyone sober or not valentines daying the wife?

Ratchet strap where on the portawrap?

I am likewise in danger of misunderstanding. Though probably a few units behind you. Got a photo of what you mean please? I didn't totally follow the last time you said it.

I've always used dead eyes for rings/pulleys up the tree because you can leave your rigging line threaded. I now find myself needing to set up portawrap chokes on the ground regularly. However well I tie a timber hitch or a cow hitch, the knot always tightens a bit and the portawrap stretches up to chest level. Are whoopies/loopies/ultras noteworthily tighter? i.e. If I snug one up at shin level, will the eye stay at pretty much shin level? Or is it more to do with the rope type? My dead eyes are double braid. Loopies/whoopies/ultras are all that hollow stuff, like tREX, which is apparently less stretchy. "tREX is a low-stretch hollow braid rope consisting of 12 strands"

My thinking was fill the yellow box and leave the butt up to be felled once a bit of wood has gone. Plus get Facebook log collectors on the job. I once lost tens of tonnes off a site clearance with about twenty people with cars, vans, trailers etc. Thought it was going to be a nightmare but I was plain with them and they didn’t get in the way of MEWP, felling, tracked chipper etc. “Don’t talk to us. Don’t get in our way. Don’t say thank you. Get your wood and leave immediately.” I’m aware I could be being optimistic. Not usually my part of the job. I’m up the tree.

No. That sounds fair. I went cheap as if I was doing it myself as a scruffy little outfit. I reckoned on £2000/day for ten days for any serious concern, which is your top end figure.

What would your approach and numbers on that job be? Off the cuff, I’d factor in £1500 of climbing for preferably one day, possibly two, worst-case three. Then £4000 for a couple of days of going hard at dragging and chipping. Two crews of 2/3 with transit and chipper that can drag and chip themselves. Then another £3000 to do wood with a skeleton crew over however long. Then round it up for profit. Could be bollocks. In a hurry.

In all seriousness, I do get the advantage of going slow on a miserable job (if it is a miserable job - we still don’t know that the drag is bad). But that’s not what’s happened here. If they could have decked it in eight hours, they would have.

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I’m with Mick. Small practical jokes escalate into bigger ones. Not safe. And you’re not being paid to joke. Time spent doing that is money out of someone’s pocket. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not joyless but workshops and places like tree sites are not places to lark about. Two things I was told at the beginning of my first workshop job: 1. Nobody will ever tell you off for hitting the emergency stop button. 2. Never joke about accidents. People could come running, slip and then there’s a real accident. And it’s just not funny anyway. Both apply to tree sites I think.

Pete would put Cathedral City on that, the savage.

The ****************cin nerve of it eh, Mick...

More amused by the fact that Forestry Journal (and by extension Essential Arb) is a sister publication to the Wirral Globe. I had no idea it was the mainstream media.

Arrive 07:30. Gear in and bollard on by 08:00. Ropes set by 08:30. Five hours on, one hour off takes you to 14:30. Crown should be gone. Half an hour to eat for the last time and get the 661 out. Whinge like a bitch about your back from 15:00 to when the chogging is done. Drive home in the dark wishing you had a better job. Post about it on arbtalk the next day because it doesn't seem so bad by then.

I would. 20-30 rigs for the crown, 5 or fewer for low logs, 3 or 4 high negative catches if that's your thing and then head down for some chogging. 10 minute per rig cycle time for the crown, based on 30 rigs over 5 hours. Obviously the ground has to keep up but I've had 3/4 men with one chip truck keep comparable gardens clear enough. Wood obviously a job for another day(s) but the important thing is that I'm on the sofa by then. If a bad drag, clearly the aforementioned may not apply. Nothing looks especially bad from the video though. Tell me you don't run back from the chipper without telling me you don't run back from the chipper, Mark.