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  1. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a billhook to sharpen. Having seen a hedge laid for the first time today, I’m entering a competition tomorrow.
  2. Just based on what I’ve seen. Less than you but still some. Plus I’ve never encountered anyone anywhere near as bullish about them as you are. You must have some golden touch.
  3. It’s OK Mick. Nearly home and dry. Unless… Avez-vous fait réduire un bouleau entre 1990 et 2027 ? Vous pourriez avoir droit à une compensation!
  4. Maybe so but on birches, what’s to know? You cut them, they rot.
  5. 😄 Yes then. 🫡
  6. Have you mysteriously found yourself recommending more fells than prunes in the last couple of years?
  7. Getting paid twice when it’s rotting to bits and needs to come down in five years.
  8. Got up early to go to a hedgelaying competition. It’s my birthday. I’m thirty six and a half.
  9. Dempsey and Connor Kyle JonJoe New on facebook. Only Dempsey doesn't also sell horse tack.
  10. P.S. Would I cut and chuck everything below your orange line? Only if I wanted a lot of exercise, more risk of dropping something and the job to take longer.
  11. There’s my first thought. Pair of rings at the top, using both tops. Three strand through the crotch bottom right to keep the stem pulled a bit towards centre rather than just leverarming down and left. Could pull more right with a ring/tuckbehind at the red V. Groundsman operates tail at A. You operate tail at B. Obviously you’re constrained by your drop zone, groundsman etc but bigger pieces can be gentler rigs than smaller ones. A small piece butt tied and caught negatively might be jerkier than a large one tip/belly tied with butt weight keeping the butt down. Obviously this is a small tree and you could get away with doing it any old way but get your eye in building rope angles, strong shapes etc on small ones. Right. Someone else suggest a different way. Point out the downsides of mine. Let’s all get better at rigging.
  12. Good start I’d say. Groundsman or DIY rigging? Where’s the best drop zone?And estimate how many cuts to piece it out below the orange line. I’ll do a sketch in a bit.
  13. I meant sketch some rigging lines on it. Put it in your other thread if you want. I can see how I'd probably do it (from what I can see/guess from your photos).
  14. Nice tree. So you cut and chucked all of it besides that one rig you showed us?
  15. I'd have put money on Mick saying that. Robocop on hold btw. Finishing season seven of King of the Hill first, I tell you hwat.
  16. You're a talented photographer because that looks tiny compared to how big it looks in the video in your learning rigging thread.
  17. Down. Even without the rot you've found, they've got a short life anyway. Quick livers and quick diers, pioneer species. They usually get to about 14" and then snap off or die. That's how I soften the blow to a client. Right then. Rig with mother. How are you going to do it?
  18. AHPP

    ArbDogs? Pics!

    He'll open the cavity walls if I hide food so that's not happening. I have an even clearer than usual day tomorrow so a big walk for a great reset I think. I now retire for another beer and to throw the squeaky elephant (replacement for the squeaky reindeer) for him.
  19. AHPP

    ArbDogs? Pics!

    I'm tickled you think I go to work. But when I do, he comes with me. He's with me basically all the time. That is quite a lot of watching me on the computer atm though. Pheasants are perfect timing. I'm getting fat even if he isn't. Hiding food round the place sounds like the last thing I want to do, since eating food found round the place is the last thing I want to encourage.
  20. AHPP

    ArbDogs? Pics!

    Sailor's been a difficult housemate recently. Howled while I was (upstairs) in the house earlier. Hasn't done that since I got him. Now just got back from the shop to find he's tanned half a pat of butter. It was my biscuits the other day.
  21. This lot are great. Like a much easier 65daysofstatic and a much better Sigur Rós.

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