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Based on my posting here, do I lean to the left or right do you think?

I've haven't had any dealing with the TO before. I've always had clients do it with me feeding them tech info like species, sizes, diseases etc. I'm open to doing this guy either way, i.e. either he makes the 211 notification with info I give him or I make it on his behalf like a grown up business. I not sure I follow you. Try different words please. I'm currently recovering from a brain injury from just wrangling with the mess that is my dad's old iphone.

Mark, can you explain what you mean by the felling licence route please. I skimmed the doc you linked last night. That and odds and sods I think I already know suggest it's that you apply for a felling licence that, if granted, overrides any conservation area (and maybe TPO or specific planning permission conditions) restrictions. You do this even though the garden I'm talking about is within a domestic curtilage and would normally be exempt from needing a felling licence, even if I went over the x cube per quarter (where x is a number I've forgotten). Have I got it?

Ah. I thought you meant the crown the fallen tree was hung up in. Didn’t rewatch for similar reason to yours. Can see your thought process but it’s a bit optimistic. Anyone who’s consciously assessing his anchor point strength compared to his breakaway system strength and building in factors to allow for underestimating etc isn’t doing the job like that anyway.

How?

Ask your mum.

I'm getting approached for more principal contracting so had better start to learn this kind of thing. Looked at a job the other day. Two acre garden in a nice village for nice people (£££). Conservation area. Trees are spread around half the garden. 1. A clump of softwoods, couple of nice ones, one 2' DBH, mostly multi leyland/lawson. 2. A boundary with a couple of small oaks, one poorly, one not, a couple of hollies and some scrub. 3. Some kind of yellowy specimen lawson. 4. A mess of a willow. 5. A pair of stikas or some other kind of christmas tree. He wants it all down. There's nothing really, really nice but there is a good amount of it. About fifteen trees and a load of scrub. It'll make the place look different. I'm not doing it dodgy. I'm aware of people having got away with tree work in the village that wasn't 211 notified but that was much less work and much better hidden. This is pretty visible, there's plenty of it, there could be a parish councillor behind every blade of grass. How do I get him what he wants? Is there any merit to 211 notifying bit-by-bit? He's an incomer and he's wanting to do some house extending etc too. People will be suspicious of him.

Do watches count? This is my everything watch. Didn’t wear one for years. Feel naked without one now. Orient. Top ish end of the low end automatic. Very happy with it but bezel not especially easy to grip. Has fallen out of a tree at least once. I sometimes take it off to chip with my gravity feed machine. Wear it mechanicking. Wore it waxoyling the other day. Have a selection of straps, mostly broken from the washing machine. Just got this one because I’m a gay icon.

"Children," according the same government who are happy to use them (Children Act 1989, s 105). Child soldiers if you like.

Like this but older car and driver.

I saw a lovely old Merc estate on the M11/M25 merging sliproad the other day. I saw it in my right mirror and thought, "What a lovely car. I bet it's really well insulated and serene in there. The driver must be in an oasis of calm." Which they obviously were because they did exactly what they looked like they were going to do, smoothly coast into my path. I performed an evasive manoeuvre and followed it for a couple of minutes, watching it casually try to kill a few other people. I took the first opportunity to pass it so as to not be stuck behind the inevitable accident, which would also present an opportunity to eyeball the driver. "I wonder what kind of bigot I'll be today." I thought. Middle-aged Chinese woman. Didn't see me. Could have been a statue. Yep. That fits.

I'm not happy.

OK. Weight estimate? I'll say 8 tonnes off the cuff.

Walk us through that. Sling where? Cut where?

Yep. I get you. They don’t have the speed so specify the chain to make best use of the torque instead. Like making sure a boat has the propellor that best suits its engine. Look forward to chain results. If you remember, could you tag me when you do please.

I read them.

Shows the setup IMG_5076.MOV Shows the execution IMG_5077.MOV

MEWP would have been worse for anything other than setting ropes without disturbing anything. Unless it's one with a lot of sideways, you're putting the boom and carrier in danger of being hit. And even if it is one with a lot of sideways, the basket still risks being hit. So potentially you go down with the basket or get rattled to death in it when a crown comes past you like a train going off a cliff. Climbing, at least you're tied to another tree and can swing out of the way. I'll often make a cut without being lanyarded in so I can swing out of the way or even be conkered out of the way. Better than being fixed there and smooshed in slow motion. But, from what I can see from the video, the best way to do the Cheshire road tree was from the floor. Step cut it and roll/pull/walk the butt until it falls.

The opposite according to the ropelabs link a few posts up but I follow your point.

For having a hitch eye either side and not shifting the pull away from the spine of a different shaped biner. Yep. That makes sense. The reality is that it doesn’t matter but if it makes people happy, great.

It doesn’t matter. It’ll be the difference between 150kg of chip and 225kg of chip.

More to the point, ask whether you’re doing it the best way if you need an ejector seat system. It could be that it’s a worthwhile risk so crack on like that but do always ask yourself. And be prepared to change your mind. “I was wrong. This is too sketchy. Let’s change plan.” Congratulations. You’re now cleverer than you were before AND still alive.

Cable ties. And/or just take it off entirely at the critical moment.

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