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I saw someone throw a fag out of a car window just now. First thought was killing them.

I listened to about an hour of myself on Spotify on the way to work today. It really gave me a sense of my own importance.

Honestly can’t work out what you’re driving at. Took a video to clarify my previous. IMG_4976.MOV

I still don’t want one.

You can’t touch me. I’m inclusive.

Anyway. You know what's better than all of this tut? A crane. And you know what's better than a crane? Standing on the floor watching a grapplesaw do the first 70% of the job. That's tomorrow. I'll be cross if I break a sweat doing anything heavier than shutting my wallet.

Bow only to reason.

Three strand bridge, Protos and comms, Husky Classics. A blend of battle hardened wisdom and cutting edge technology. Mick Dempsey is the Universal Soldier.

And in real terms, if success and failure in negative rigging is coming down to a few inches of pre-tension or belly reel-in that a Hobbs might give over a dumb bollard, you're too close to the edge. Do it a different way.

Underappreciated post of the thread. The other half of it could easily be that the UK isn't the PNW. We have shorter, spreadier trees, two inches above sheds. Lifting makes a big difference here. Can you do it with a Hobbs? Yes. Would you rather do it with a sailing winch? I would. I've lifted bits of trees in the UK with: Fat groundsmen Loader Truck Petrol capstan Hobbs GRCS I've owned all of them at the same time. Besides a small advantage on constant heavy negative rigging, the GRCS does what the Hobbs does, and more, better. Cost isn't a factor. Buying new, if you can save $2500 for a Hobbs, you can save $3500 for a GRCS. There are also cheaper sailing winch devices than the GRCS. Second hand, I paid less for my GRCS than I did for my Hobbs. Addendum: No, I obviously haven't owned a fat man as a chattel. No, I don't want to read your leaflet about bullying.

Rational but gay.

I am extremely pleased to see products like that on the market.

That Dawinchi Hobbs lite is €3600.

The forked stick to slide the hitch up in the video on the other thread looked like a big help with one of those.

I trust he's also presented you with a shopping list?

Matty. Say 500kg of tree needs plucking. Manually is twenty rigs of 25kg. That’s the climber doing twenty tip ties, twenty cuts, twenty rope retrieves and something like forty moves. The groundsman does twenty grips and pulls, twenty unclips and twenty walks/flicks. Geared lifting (GRCS etc) is one rig of 500kg. For the climber, one tip tie, one move, one cut. For the groundsman, three wraps, one short battery gun or thirty-second hand crank. Haway.

Good luck with the injectors. Daunting job but £110 will be cheap ruling-out and mechanical education. Unless you mangle it. And what's the first rule: Don't mangle it.

How much have you used a GRCS?

It's only pre-tension though. Better than having nothing but easy long lifts are a multiple of pleasure again. The other major thing is that it lifts a huge amount but so what. You don't often need to lift a huge amount. Trees don't weigh much. You're better off lifting moderate weights comfortably and conveniently than being able to lift the earth, an inch at a time.

Aye. Not mega engaging but the subject matter is useful.

No. I'm not really into drugs. I drink because it's normal (and brilliant) but have never been especially curious or felt like I'm missing much. A few enthusiasts have said I should try shrooms for the intellectual/philosophical perspective they apparently grant you. One, very amusingly, after a few hours experiencing me said actually don't bother, you're already pretty much there, which was nice of them. What are the cafes like then? Dens of iniquity?

I'm thinking what I'd write but in the meantime you might enjoy 10:07 onwards of this. I like his big socket addition. I'd definitely do that if I still had a Hobbs. Ratcheting cranking will be a gamechanger on it.

I've not started drinking yet this evening. Greenmechs are still shit though.

Covers it in the first nine minutes.

That was my first thought.