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the foot ascenders are sold right or left, i have right and if dabbling with srt the haas knee ascender goes on the left. I know full well that the best prussik climbers could show me up, but I like pampering myself. Try a pulley and tape sling on a wrist thickness top anchor. Obviously it wont retrieve like a pulleysaver/ropeguide, but you can try frictionless climbing.

He's never said anything useful to me for treework, but I still love him as a fellow human being. There's no need to call for him to be rounded up in a dog warden van, taken somewhere remote and but rammed with a live eel. There's always the ignore user setting

200 quid would cure it. Zig zag and CT foot ascender.

if you like the technical stuff sex can be about so much more than just genitalia - I could pay someone to make my helmet into a pretend clit and hope I could spread for a looker like Brad Pitt, but it would be impossible to remove every X chromosome from my body Edit - every Y

It would need O licence 6 week checks, unsure tacho

A Unimog must be as close to perfection as exists for tree work in rural areas

Yes Sprinters can rust - my Iveco was bad too, tried to sort it but really needs engine out and treat the lot. Dailys 3.0 litre will tow 3.5ton, can be 3.5 or some upto 6.5 if you dont mind the paperwork

BigJ on here has a nice 4wd Sprinter, it could carry a 6inch tracked machine inside and tow a tipping trailer for logs/chip. I use Iveco tipper, good for 3.5ton tow, great traction on dry tarmac

I've seen plenty of robur cut like that die off - maybe rubra is more up for it. Red or dead

I kind of feel the same - but if you're doing a fun job that doesn't pay enough it can make time off work less enjoyable if you can't afford to buy a nice home with plenty of outdoor space

Thanks for reply - I should have enrolled on Mark Bolams' course CS69: Avoiding gender assumptions in the workplace

it seems to me if her neighbour gets in trouble about the CA birch it will be obvious to the neighbour that the person who reported it was the tree woman up the road, as CA tree law isnt common knowledge. Some people do turn nasty and have a long memory. It doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that your van/car could be scratched with a key, or similar retaliation for dobbing them in , even a year or more down the line. You may feel it's worth the risk to nail your colours to the mast; personally I live in constant fear of other people and would rather keep my mouth shut ?

I was gaffing out often if I forgot to consciously drive them home and look down where I was placing the gaff, (distel euro shape) - I did wonder if another gaff shape is better, eg long american. this post from treebuzz helped confirm my suspicions that it is mainly my technique that's the problem Sharp gaffs are not really neccesary. Ive never seen or had a reason to have them really sharp. Your technique ALONE can eliminate 99-100% of mis gaffs, in my experience dull gaffs are rarely the problem. Twice I have seen new climbers sharpen up their gaffs nice and razor sharp and then, next tree they climbed, place the gaff firmly into the ankle of their boot, thankfully only one of them required a trip to the hospital, the other one just needed to buy a new pair of Vibergs. If you want to climb with really sharp gaffs that is your perogative, but simply pulling your knee away from the tree before you place the gaff, so the gaff enters the tree at approx a 45 deg. angle, will all but eliminate gaff outs. We run production crews, I come out of the tree, pull my rope, then I turn around and cut the tree, and then I climb another one. I dont want to take my gaffs on and off ten twenty times a day...before lunch. http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/gaff-sharpening.24897/ but looking at the angle of euro compared to american, his point about pulling your knee away from the tree may be less important for euro. Distel don't seem to sell a sharpening template like Klein and Bashlin? According to the templates they should be discarded after a certain wear point

re point A - if you don't have this you're more likely to die than a soldier in a military conflict. Fact

I cant accept - you said when you posted the picture of the battered remains of that birch " flame on" so I thought it was an open invitation. Could have shaped it better with a tractor and flail

I find stretching before a days climbing helps, like runners do

Congrats on completing your first tree trim in the clasdic gypo style

or police cars supercharged and nitrous kits with a massive spring loaded hook hinged at the front bumpers and going over door frames and held on a roof mounted trigger, they speed up ram from behind and release the hook which swings down through 130 degrees and plunges into the rear bodywork of the getaway car like in robot wars

is it feasable to construct a largish incinerator on the nearest lawn and transport ash out? - I mean in wintertime is there a way with sheetmetal to burn above the lawn somehow?

it does look good - here's a clip of the inventor demonstrating it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUbGqc6Sf8 he knows how to charge

too much money aint enough money

just been considering this for myself, but nowhere to store it - 84hp Perkins maybe its clapped out, but cheap enough to put some money into restoring https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BANDIT-90XP-Wood-Chipper-Perkins-Diesel-Vermeer-Jensen-Timberwolf/302946087606?hash=item4688fe72b6:g:40sAAOSwa3lb317q:rk:49:pf:0

No - I used the method you described with a sling and a krab at the fork, much better than climbing back through if it's tight, but obviously you have to climb back up to it. Giorgio Fiori must have had the same difficulties as you (From his youtube) 'To make it work well, you must use a small ring ( the inner diameter of the hole is 34 mm ) and the lanyard linking the little carabiner must be as short as possible. I took Dan Curtis' idea and I made a little modification: I added a little rope to the little carabiner and I linked the little carabiner in a different way, so the ring doesn't turn behind the branch, but it releases the rope earlier.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxbkJ9aeF0

if the system doesn't look elaborate enough an 8mm fetching line could be added if using pulleys or rings to slide lumps down on

Impressive - but it sounds like it would take a month of Sundays. Plus the Transit or Dailey suspension to consider. Sorry for the derail. Must be plenty of rapes and murders to discuss, updated by the hour from around the globe