tree-fancier123

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

if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem - knuckle down and try to invent something, if you can't think of anything else I'd like a kit so I can run a PTO chipper off my 90hp transit and a similiar kit for 140hp Iveco. Under 2k delivered preferably

According to their website Beaver Plant have the A340T for hire, so someone interested in buying one could possibly go to their yard dragging a big conifer along the road and stuff it through their one (for a small fee) as a demo. 2.4 ton, so under 3.5 ton on a trailer https://beaverplant.co.uk/index.php/hire/wood-chipper/beaver-plant-jensen-a340t-tracked-woodchipper.html

may not be horrendous second hand for someone who already owns a suitable tractor a smaller leap from a 6" Timberwolf would be a 9" machine, e.g one of these big tracked Jensens like you have mentioned - this one seems reasonably priced at eleven thousand plus tax https://www.globalrecycling.eu/equipment/jensen-a340-track/

you were asking about tow behind - but this video shows a nice setup I've not seen used in UK - a big PTO chipper (ideal conny basher) behind a trailer behind a tractor - how is the chipper powered - I mean does a PTO shaft run under the trailer and only get connected when stationary or what? https://youtu.be/aTMN0XFZTrM?t=93

nice job above with concrete sleepers greenheart is one of the best timbers for piling, but expensive

if you're worried about brexit, just ask to be paid in bitcoin - sorted

you may have already checked the old threads on it, I remember a few people discussing it at various times https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/72240-arb-pro-software/ https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/106381-arbpro-software/ this last thread mentions they were jacking it in, maybe someone bought them out?

using his judgment as to whether or not it will support?

thanks - someone in the comments notes that it does need the climber to rely on the ascender for life support, I have done this once with a Petzl basic and it works fine, but they do have a point, manufacturers are always covering themselves saying ascenders should be backed up.

this to me is one of the hardest things climbing back up through, but with SRT and a retrievable re-direct placed above the crotch you're dropping through, some climbers seem to put the tail of the rope over and descend through the crotch on a loop, Dan Curtis had a good method (from back in 2014, bound to be several others around by now) https://www.facebook.com/dan.curtis.50309/videos/238027773045433/