Spruce Pirate
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Irn Bru.
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If that's the one up at Drummond Hill then I remember pricing it - I don't think the video does it justice if its the same tree. Very nice job.
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The feel of a tree also changes as you strip it out. Once you're down to just a pole it always feels much more..... wobbly/bouncy/shakey??? I've never understood why that is, does anyone know? Is it just me?
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Yes, but you can still kill yourself falling off a kerbstone and no-one thinks about that when crossing a road. When it comes to climbing, so long as you've got good kit, know how to use it, trust it and can select an appropriate anchor you'll be fine. I still think everyone who climbs should have a healthy respect for heights, and that there is a mental aspect of working at height that most, if not all, of us have to get over at some point.
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I thought Bruder, but same idea.
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I agree, but there's a big difference between 10' and 100' (90' to be precise). Personally I think there's a point beyond which it doesn't make any difference, probably over 60' up is the same as 100' up (never done anything over 100-120' up). I think the biggest thing is to get used to trusting your kit and tie in point.
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It's only a matter of time.....
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With a 110 Hard-Top Td5 I used to get 27-29 regularly, occasionally 30+ (just) if on a long run. Towing, especially if heavy loads, it could dip down to 23 or so. I don't do much in towns, but the 27-29 was generally around windy rural roads and quite a lot of forest road driving, also including a bit of field work and some low box or light trailer stuff, so I don't see why this wouldn't be comparable to town driving.
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I doubt highly if many members of the public consider the safety aspects of sitting under at tree. For one, I work with trees, including clearing up failures and working with safety reports, yet I very rarely consider anything but the shade on a hot day when I sit underneath one. I might give a tree a cursory glance, but not much more than that.
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I like your neighbours too.
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Can any of you Scottish lot recommend me a road :)
Spruce Pirate replied to RobArb's topic in The Lounge
Judging by the last weather forecast I saw, you might be better taking a boat! Depends whether you want to go for speed and efficiency or taking in some of the scenery. I'd go the 702 as a more direct route, but like TomD says Moffat to Selkirk is far more scenic. -
If it wasn't for the other half I'd be living at best in a tatty old caravan somewhere in a wood, and at worst in a cave somewhere. She looks after me brilliantly well, has been dragged across more clearfell and re-stock sites than she'd care to mention and knows more about chainsaws and land-rovers than she ever thought possible when we got together at 17. Hard to believe she's put up with me this long, I'm hoping I can fool her into another 20 years.
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Why not just ask him if he has one and if you can see it? If he manages the rest of the wood he might be interested in taking on the management of your part as well. I think, but others here will know better, that the powerline boys should be doing inspections on the trees along their boundary every few years anyway and doing any remedial work following that. So the trees along the side of the line should be dealt with in due course by them.
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All the above ideas are good - you just need to take longer to fit it all in!
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Out of curiosity, how many trees do you manage (if you have a figure, I imagine its a lot)? I know the figures wouldn't stand up to any sort of statistical analysis, but it would be an interesting bit of anecdotal evidence towards frequency. One failure, or couple, during the summer out of a huge number of trees would seem to be pretty infrequent, especially if other causes can't be ruled out. California is a pretty big state, so their figures would also suggest SLD to be pretty infrequent. Personally I've been in the woods 18 years, although mostly in conifers, and I've only seen it happen once on a beech. My own opinion is that there is probably some underlying cause that we haven't figured out and that Mr Bolam is right, there's not much can be done about it.
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I would, but I'd want to see it first, have a spin in it etc. I would apply the same criteria to buying a car or a saw off ebay. I have actually bought a saw off ebay, but it was described as spares or repairs and I needed the spares and the price was right. I also didn't hand over cash until I'd seen it, it was local. If everyone used a bit of common sense about these things there would be fewer problems. Agree that Stihl and Husqy should be doing more about this rather than concerned citizens.
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Just saw pics on facebook of a boy up the road in the redneck plunge pool - a tarp in the back of the pick-up! Looked very good.
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How do you become a sub contracter and what do you need???
Spruce Pirate replied to John Megson 125's topic in General chat
If you're going to do anything as a subbie you need driving license and your own transport above all else. Said before, but 31 and 39 tickets also really needed if you want to get into climbing, but you could get them once you've got a foot in the door somewhere. You'll also need a lot of determination, getting that foot in the door could be tough. You'll never know until you try though. -
Based on that I would say the Walk-tax is the tool for you, only problem with it is when the thread knots and breaks for no apparent reason. Keep the inside well cleaned out, the build up of "thread dust" seems to clog it up and cause a few problems. I don't think pacing is practical, and if you're measurement doesn't match the forester's he'll laugh out loud when you tell him you paced it. A range finder is OK, but you're going to have to take a lot of measurements going through gullies etc, might balance out with ease of use on longer uniform areas. Be interesting to compare the wheel with the Walk-tax, or even the GPS or range finder
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I'm surprised the wheel is accurate over tussocks, humps, bumps and down through dips and gullies. The thread on the Walk-tax can be a PITA when it snaps and you have to remember to hook it onto something to save it riding up in the air occasionally, but most of the time it seems quite accurate in my experience.
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You will get many different opinions on this, Stihl, Oregon, full-chisel, semi-chisel and so on. Fundamentally, so long as your chain is sharp and kept sharp it should cut it.
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saving up vs financing for new (2ndhand!) truck
Spruce Pirate replied to arbmark's topic in General chat
We're £215 on an 05 plate commercial. Don't know about brand new, but I know a non-commercial 05 plate would be about double that. As far as the finance thing goes, if you run an old truck you tend (or at least I do) to spend a fair bit on maintenance, both preventative and reactive. If you put that money into finance to get a newer vehicle you're no worse off financially, but hopefully you get the reliability out of the newer motor so you're not suffering down time. That said, I'd do whatever I could to avoid, or at least minimise, the amount you're borrowing. -
A modern GPS will record your vertical climb (or descent) as well as distance travelled, but in truth I'm not sure how good it would be to get a true distance doing up and down through every gully. Best bet would seem to be the Walk-tax. Mine came from Stanton Hope for about £80, plus spools of thread. I think they still do them.
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I did none of the right subjects at school, went on to do the wrong course and then drop out of uni....... but then again, I spend all my time in the woods surrounded by trees. I'm always amazed by people who know what they want to do from school age and who manage to actually do it.
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I've had at least one car come through on an all red every time we've done traffic light work. Including a police van! Any more than a minute stopped and folk assume the light is broken.
