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Hi all, have a look at the video, makes me wanna buy one to test the rope clamp as a compact lanyard adjuster. Any thoughts? [ame= ] [/ame]

Hey there, and greetings from Australia. I have a client that has had me reduce her pear annually for the last 5 years. It is in a courtyard, with a canopy approximately 8/9m wide. It dominates the area and she's getting a little over it. It is probably around 18 years old. It has been pollarded by another arborist years ago, but gently, within 3 feet of the canopy edge, and it's a bastard to reduce well as a result without revealing heaps of wood. It loses virtually no leaves in winter, just a smattering of autumn colour. Anyhow, I've reduced a few of these over the years and they seem to callous well. Would I shag it if I made 6 inch pollards? Or should I just remove & replace? She's sick of the size of it but has heaps of coin for maintenance. I've not seen these pollarded properly, only clumsily lopped but they seem to recover. Thoughts?

Hi there, just hoping to be pointed in the right direction. This saw has had a carb kit put in it by the dealer less than a year ago, but the problem continues. Press primer, no choke, throttle set to start position, and 50% of the time, no problem starting. When it does refuse to co-operate, I find the air filter is soaked in fuel. Remove filter, starts no worries. Replace with a dry one for next task, seems I have a 50% chance of success again..... Any ideas? Thanks, Ian.

Thanks for that Stephen, I had considered those options, but the roof panels I had in mind would be folds with sides around 400 or 500mm high, so the heavier walls need not be full height. As for the crud, well that's inevitable, but the functionality and weight saving would - I hope - outweigh having to occasionally clean the channels out. Oh, and thats the groundies job anyway... Thats a cool idea Rover, but dunno if the tarp would survive being smashed with chips and being driven under the occasional low branch

Greetings from Australia, just thought I'd see if I could get some thoughts on designing my new chip bin, particularly from those that use loaders in the course of their work. I have one of these: I run a 9 inch chipper and at the moment have a hastily constructed bin made of timber and roofing iron. Looks terrible, and is too small for my needs. I will be upgrading to a 12 inch in the next 12 months. I want to make a bin by installing (welding) what are effectively greedy boards with some sort of channel/clutch set-up on the tops of the boards, and then install 3 folded sections of galvanised sheet or aluminium that can slide under each other. I am trying to minimise weight (the greedy boards will be steel for durability as I sometimes carry a fair bit of wood) and, more importantly, allow top loading of logs and firewood with minimum effort - ie nothing to remove or unbolt. To give me space for 10 meters of chip (which would max the capacity of the truck), the top of the greedy boards would end up around 2.3m off the ground. So I am asking for any comment on the sliding roof idea, and if I would be ruling out using (hiring) small loaders/bobcats given the height. Any help much appreciated. Ian

I have recently thrown some coin at a dmm swivel - coz they are very, very shiny. I have found that my spiderjack often wants to align itself with the plane of my treemotion bridge, ie at 90 degrees to where it should be. This seems to interfere with the reason i bought a spiderjack - its rope-gobbling ability. Persevering for now, but not sure if I'll change back to a ring or not, it does help with twists but seems to be of no value when doing a tricky climb with two ropes, like where there are no high anchors available and you run a second line through an adjacent tree...

Never touched one, but I have played with a positioner. Is the spiderjack the size of a shoebox and does it weigh 5kg? These are about $480 in Australia, about $200 or so in the old country. Any-one know a way to get reasonably priced shipping from UK to Aus?....... Cheers Ian

A tarp, a big shot and a few throw bags would be quicker and a hell of a lot more fun..

Hey thanks fellas, I'm talking about the rope protector not the cuffs, had a look at the Atraes and Treetools site, couldn't see them. This is it. I got an email back from workware.co.uk and they stock them. Thanks for the replies

Gday, after the sip cut resistant one, not canvas or plastic/rubber. Similar to a cut resistant sleeve/cuff that both sip and clogger do.

Greetings from Australia, wondering if any-one can name a retailer who sells the rope protector (part 1SX2, I think), on-line, found them on two french websites but my french is even worse than my english and my e-mails to them haven't been replied to...... Cheers.......