Joe Newton

20251128_120126.mp4 Best demo I could manage from today's little apple "prune" 🤣 Apologies for the shaky camera work, was trying to pull my rope out one handed.

No no, you knot block the cambium saver when you set your tie in point. Work the tree and just come down a you like, then retrieve.

I'll try and grab a photo. I use it "back to front" from the conventional MRS setup. Knot block the small ring with a retrieval tail. Then put the retrieval ball on the working end on the ground to retrieve from the ground. The key benefit is that i can drop through as many natural redirects as I want and still retrieve it easily, which you can't get away with using a quickie or similar.

Well Jesus H Christ 🤣🤣

I'll raise you. I've gone full circle. I predominantly climb SRT but use a cambium saver as my top tie.

Oh shut up @Mesterh. That's not helpful. Neither is that. Call his mum a slag instead.

Thanks for the update 👍

May as well get them in before section 2 gets blended into section 1...

He'd still need his basic cross-cutting tickets. Felling small trees and aerial rescue would add value too. We can get into the murky waters of tickets being a legal requirement if you like, but not many firms will take on a new starter without them. Re: the GRCS. Fantastic bit of kit in the right hands. I wouldn't entrust my safety to a novice with no understanding of rigging operations though. There are very few people I'd have rigging for me with a GRCS without direct comms, which you did mention. We've all got towing entitlements now mate. Anyone can tow up to 3.5t, which is a bit worrying. Mark is spot on though. Experience driving larger vehicles and towing would add extra value easily. I'm not far from Oxfordshire and I'm my opinion, a groundsman who is competent with a saw, rigging and good work ethic would easily be charging £150 per day self employed. Works out at £35000 per year based on 48 weeks per year. Not saying you can demand that straight away but you'd be there within a year or two. Add in an aerial rescue ticket and basic climbing kit to add a few quid onto your day rate. It'll be an evolution.

I can't tell if this is AI or if Kram has stepped his game up.

Damning judgement from an Internet addict with no industry experience.

Now now, Stuart. Try not to get too upset because someone in the Internet disagreed with you. To me it's simple. Buy a few at a time and replace them when necessary. It's worked for me.

Poor analogy. If I really enjoyed that car because of its market leading performance, I wouldn't begrudge spending a tenner and 2 minutes of my time every year on replacing said bumper. If I were that aggreived by it I could buy a different car I suppose.

I feel the same way when my 2511 runs out of fuel/oil. Why should I have to pay to refuel it? Echo have stopped answering my emails.

When you did your tree climbing/ aerial rescue course were you not taught the importance of understanding the manufacturer's guidance? You could make something completely idiot proof. The universe would just create a better idiot.

Rich, if I asked you to climb a decent sized tree with the RRP on "ddrt" you'd tell me to jog on. Great SRS device but not designed with MRS in mind at all. From the comparisons I've seen the body and links look pretty much identical in size to the ZZ. I'll wait a year before buying one though. Let the keen kids do the product testing for me.

Well personally I do. It's nice being able to teach/refresh aerial rescue knowing you're not exceeding the WLL of your kit. The amount of PPE items that put "single user" as their WLL despite meeting the testing criteria for way more is frustrating and lazy, in my opinion

I share your frustrations Alex, really I do. Any device might need additional friction added for emergency descent with a casualty, depending on the load. It doesn't specifically have to be with the use of an approved device like the wrench. From what I've seen it looks jerky under decent with a casualty.

What are you objecting about?

I'd imagine because worth a 200kg load the device would work much better with additional friction, but a 70-80kg climber would be fine without. Almost like they've thought about it.

I really like the WLL of 200kg. They've put some thought into that.

Don't argue with the grown ups mate

Jesus christ you doddery off farts need to get a VPN for the odd occasion you fancy thumbing out some toothpaste

Valid point. I don't think the firearm system in the UK is perfect by any stretch, but to make concealable firearms available to anyone for the purpose of self defence is a steep downward spiral in my opinion. I'd love to be able to use a registered pistol for the purposes for target shooting mind.

Alex, I like guns. I like pistols. If I lived in a place where handguns were commonly carried, I'd carry one to level the playing field. In the UK concealable handguns are essentially restricted to police, armed forces and certain RFDs. If you open that up to the public every knife crime becomes a gun crime. Can you tell me the last time a mass shooting was carried out in the UK with a handgun? I'm not aware of any since Dunblane, but i stand to be corrected.