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Careful with that turn of phrase.
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That is a fycking disgrace.
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Aldi keep moving the cheese.
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peds has his on a sling between bridge and bottom swivel so it's at head height and he can pull with both hands from underneath. He's talking about hand wrap(s) outside of the weighted bit of system.
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Playing devil's advocate, you could even say wrapping you hand under a zigzag is safer. When the links shatter, at least you'll be stuck up the tree with your hand hurting like hell as opposed to on the floor with your spine hurting like hell.
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There are two, overlapping arguments here: 1. If you're going to hip thrust, do or don't wrap your hand. I haven't got a problem with it. It'll reduce grip fatigue and the chance of getting caught is low (unlike rigging, where hand wrapping really is dangerous). BUT 2. You shouldn't be hip thrusting. It's hard as hell and foot ascenders are cheap as hell. They're not even life support so you could buy a chinese one if you really wanted to save a tenner.
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Did you think I was joking about the bathcast?
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I assume the DEFRA visit was for the tree one.
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What’s your degree in, Mark? Poisonous pets an interesting thing btw. Never thought of that.
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We came to the end of my woodworking knowledge two posts ago.
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Get a penknife and go to whittle something. Now scrape with it instead. Congratulations. You're scraping.
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No further risks today but greater further risks in future when it's dead and rotting or has regrown ten tops. Not to mention they'll have to get to the base of the tree again, which was a significant part of the battle. But let's be real. This is probably dolescum work. They'll be competitively doing as little as possible, some just because that's the type of lazy shovel-leaners or malicious-compliers they are and some because they actively want to come back to it and do it again and get paid again. And sod that habitat bollocks. What's eco about sending a team back to do 196% of the work instead of the team there now doing 104% of the work? Nothing. Just a waste of fuel everyone driving back and forth to work when the job could have already been done.
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This is a good thread. I don't know enough to contribute meaningfully but I make most tree decisions with, "Man plans and god laughs." as a starting point. Rob Rainford posted a long time ago about pruning affecting the mechanical characteristics of unions and collections of unions, weight being thrown back and forth, twanginess etc. All about how one thing can have three dimensional knock-on effects. Really interesting. Must find it. @RobRainford
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Do you scrape? I've got great finishes on hard woods, scraping.
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Arsehole curry. It’s the same curry I’ve been eating since pheasant season began except this time while I was butchering birds I decided to leave the arseholes in. It’s a reminder that nobody, myself included, is too good to not eat an arsehole from time to time. And I used red onions.
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I’ve done a couple and didn’t find the spikes/thorns as bad as the internet suggested I would. They were relatively small (young) though. Maybe 15 and 20” DBH.
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I got it before I noticed the spike though. I’m just that damn good.
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I saw (a shortened version of) that the other day and was enraged at the crassness of leaving the bottom half. It took two days to get to it. Just finish the job in twenty minutes extra while you’re there rather than sentence someone to another two days at some point in the future. I’d be cross if I was buying electricity from that line and paying for the upkeep.
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That’s a decent guess.
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The base. Less sure about the spalted bit. Thought it could have been the same because it’s turned and finished but not mega surprised it’s different. I don’t think I’ve seen Robinia spalt. That’s not to say it can’t. I could guess the common spalters for the mushroom but the grain looks too coarse for them.
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That hard one with the thorns? Robinia?
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Silicone, not water based btw.
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It’s a bitter pill to swallow. I’ll keep using the windy gun so the neighbours can hear. It might make them think my van is roadworthy.
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Tesla for tech bro Steve.
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If you’re going to bust by hand, just do the rest by hand or with whatever drill you already have. My pneumatic impact wrench can only just get some of the van nuts off if the cylinder is brimmed. Usually end up breaking them with a bar first. I then only really use the windy gun because I like feeling all industrial. The point of a nut gun is not needing to fag around changing to other tools. I’d say it’s all or nothing on a comparatively small and infrequent task. Get a dildo if you just want to buy something. Milwaukee will do an M12 but you hang around with rugby players so look at Hilti.
