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Joe Newton

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  1. Joe Newton
    Yeah, just drop it down the end if the garden, would ya?
  2. Joe Newton
    Nice work Ian. Why the short window? And what's up with the TM? I'd be looking for a deal there.
  3. Joe Newton
    I like my wrench more than my Mrs. What's yer point?
  4. Joe Newton
    Or just ascend with the wrench and don't bother switching to ddrt?
  5. Joe Newton
    That, and the extra force tearing out an anchor point if the system got snagged. If you're really too old, fat, lazy or generally knackered to get up a tree buy one of them wrapt or things. I've been pulled up a tree by 3 burly groundies before, for funsies, but I'd never let myself or entwine get winched up.
  6. Joe Newton
    Not smart at all.
  7. Joe Newton
    For some reason it only works for me when I don't need a throwline. I.e. When ladders and a quick scramble to the top would be just as quick. Give me a tall tree where the first decent branch is 40' up and that throwline is going anywhere except where I want!
  8. Joe Newton
    Gwan Jamie! Heavy lump that!
  9. Joe Newton
    Yeah I was climbing. Not to bad for the lads either. Most of it got roped down next to the chipper. Monday will be more fun when I crash down the garden side
  10. Joe Newton
    That's the one.
  11. Joe Newton
    Yeah that's a sod. No such drama here though. Rigged the roadside stuff onto the pavement. No tidy up, just lean the fence panels back up!
  12. Joe Newton
    Started a big Monterey Cypress dismantle today. Gotta be 5' dbh. I'll get pics next week.
  13. Joe Newton
    Thanks for posting. So far I've been using base ties for access then isolating my tip with a pinto butterfly, and getting a groundie to untie the base anchor. IMO base ties (and even lowerable base ties) are fairly pointless anyway, considering the associated risks.
  14. Joe Newton
    I'm guessing the original phrase was "i rest my case"
  15. Joe Newton
    Back in my day we had to climb 200' elms with nothing but rope braided from our beard hairs, whilst fighting the Gerrys off with our silkys!
  16. Joe Newton
    Simple really. The potential increase in sales to be made by making it midline attachable are not enough to justify the expense of completely redesigning and re manufacturing a product. Think about it. What percentage of potential buyers decided not to get one just because it wasn't midline attachable? It didn't stop you, or any other user! Fwiw my hitchclimber is midline attachable. Still stays on my line 90% of the time though!
  17. Joe Newton
    What I was getting at was: Say you wanted to make £3k a week for your team. You'd rather do that in 4 days rather than 5, right? So if you're inundated at £600 a day, you put your prices up to £750. You lose 20% of the jobs you were getting, but you're still making the same money.
  18. Joe Newton
    Matty, I use the cheap file guides that clip onto the files. I'm fine with angles but like you find myself putting a bit too much hook on. These work a treat and cost a tenner.
  19. Joe Newton
    Yup! A cynical person might think they were after our money!
  20. Joe Newton
    Surely if you're doing 30% less work for the same money that's a good thing?
  21. Joe Newton
    I got on the wagon by accident once. Miserable place, full of dull and miserable people. Got off at the next stop. Vowed never again. I've just been given my 1000 days off (the wagon) token.
  22. Joe Newton
    I just spat my beer out!
  23. Joe Newton
    Are you using a loop or an eye to eye? I'd buy a length of cheap church cord and try some different knots. swabisch prussik works well.
  24. Joe Newton
    Hahahaha!
  25. Joe Newton
    Armor Prus and Cougar Blue are both made by Donaghy's. I think Nod at treeworker can source both. Might be a bit dear though.

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