Joe Newton
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Everything posted by Joe Newton
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Doesn't work either. If have got loads better over lockdown otherwise.
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I remember hearing that one told by James Nesbitt on Murphy's Law some 20 years ago!
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I was just given one for free 🤣 Hopefully it'll do alright for a milling saw
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Got the wrench and the chicane mate. I love the Chicane for being able to go up srt and switch back and forth easily. If I'm working ddrt and come down for break I can just knot block my line and send it up to the cambium saver and go back up srt and switch back. Come to think of it I haven't used the wrench since I've had the Chicane
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Pretty knackered Beech dismantle from last Friday. Tensioned high line set up above the tree to tie into.
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That looks wank Matty
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Yeah just buy a pinto mate, or a quickie. Don't be tight with climbing kit. You could theoretically keep the tension in your base tie but I'm not sure why you'd want to. A canopy tie exerts to to half the load that a base tie does. Use one or the other, depending on the task. No need to try and use both.
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I guess. He's asking how to back up a base tie with a retrievable canopy anchor. Well I'll just ascend to the branch I'm over (if I don't need to advance) and put an alpine pinto canopy anchor in. The retrieval leg will still effectively be base tied but you'll be on a canopy anchor. More often than not though I'm comfortable working from a base tie.
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Alpine pinto
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Just a rebranded Atrax, I think.
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The atrax is a dream through the zigzag. Noticeably thinner than the velocity I was using before, despite what the stats say. I can see myself burning through a zig zag every year with it though
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I don't care how experienced you are at tuning carbs, nobody can tell a 500rpm difference when the top end is revving at 12,000rpm.
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I got my first job in arb 11 years ago with CS30, 31 and 38 and I started on £13,800 pa.
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👍 I hope you hate it
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Never ran full wrap saws Don, you obviously reckon the ergonomics make up for the weight increase? Also, how can you have all that extra on your saw and not the outer felling spikes? Madness!
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I'll buy the BDB if you don't get on with it?
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Anyway @Retired Climber, don't sink to my level, but do answer this?
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Well I meant "queer" but let's not get into that.
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I didn't understand why he was being such a bitch about it.
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An opinion that nobody asked for. You mentioned it to sound important.
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I just find it very magnanimous of you that businesses pay you thousands for your opinion, and yet here you are giving them away for free to people that haven't even asked for them! Good for you.
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This is what I'm told.
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No TPO surprisingly. Spec was 3m, but I usually ignore that.
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I didn't wear saw boots or trousers... Sod using a Silky though. A mini topper is hardly a lot of weight to carry. I don't even think it looks better tbf. A lot of money (and graft on mine and @treeman 's behalf) for naff all difference to the client. Personally I would've recommended a deadwood and that's it, but that's the nature of being a contract Climber. My arms were cramping big time in the afternoon. I generally don't hydrate enough and pulling yourself through forks on srt really takes its toll on my grip.
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Cheers Dom. Hardest kind of climbing I get these days.
