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    the climber is my mate who came to make the job safe after my brain fart - I had choked a line at the top and attached the branch stub via a sling and poorly tied prussik (like I said above only 2 wraps) took up the slack, lanyarded in and proceeded to cut, clipped saw and went to push piece off branch collar ready to lower myself using the prussik (instead of one of those aerial friction devices), to be clear I wasn't trying to snatch it, as the piece was below the rigging point, no slack and (I thought) it was locked solid on the prussik until I wanted to let it down, however it swung to the side and ( i think) also slipped about 18" or so down the line before gripping, by which time it had twatted my ankle, which I rested on the rung of a ladder in a carefree manner. I feel sorry for me a bit, but Sean who typed a few bits on here - Christ
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    I was an amateur who got what was coming to him. Trying to self lower on only a two wrap prussik(not enuf wraps for a start) feet on a ladder, the list goes on you get the picture - timber ropes agony Entenox gas - doesnt block it when they try to reset an ankle for temp plaster- squealed like a wimp - blah fucker
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    'A thatcher is clearly taking hazel rods on an ad hoc basis throughout Cocksedge Wood and because it is in shaded areas, the cut stump is rotting and potentially killing each coppice stool where it dies back.' I'd have been more worried about someone with a see in the dark logging horse nicking the ash
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    I've seen a small area with massive alders and ash, any windthrow just left leaning at all sorts of angles, not a single footpath, ivy nearly to the top of most trees, ferns and surprisingly not all that much bramble. I imagine this is what the dinosaurs knew as home, long before the mammals with opposable thumb and forefinger. We aren't the only creatures that manage woodlands - once a beaver gets to work the woodland can be considered to be under active management.
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    Couldn't find a photo of anyone using an extended ladder tied to a tipper with the top of the ladder unsupported in free space, but did find this excellent image originally posted here by johnp
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    So you're too poor to buy a MEWP, too unprofessional to hire one. What you can do if you can park under the branches and have an open top tipper back is somehow secure the base of ladder to tipper floor (working on it) then ratchet strap ladde with it leaning to top of tipper frame (or possibly top of trailer ladder rack) extend ladder full 27ft and climb ladder into thin air without it supported at top. Disaster waiting to happen, or may just help clearing out around bt lines. If no one was watching could even lanyard in at the top and use a polesaw two handed. Tree Cutters Guild Approved Contractor.
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    Nice work if you can get it - and you can get it if you try
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    any superpowers thinking of invading Canada and nicking their oil + minerals should do it now, while the Canadians are all stoned on cheap weed
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    hopefully there will be plenty of gardens with trees more than 35m from the road, or he will hoover up all the work, what I've been messing with today - a leaning ash over sheds and fences would have been gone before I had bagged an anchor point
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    that's a CGI fake though - they've even mashed up the company name - the Boston Dynamics one is today's engineering
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    order the full self driving package and a Boston Dynamics brash dragger
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    I occaisionally use the 131 polesaw for siding up the top of a high hedge, I know the innerds werent designed for the clatter. If they made a heavy duty extra long reach hedge cutter theyd probably want a grand, so people prefer wobbling on steps. The 87t on a 40" blade is already enough to side up 8 or 9 ft , so the 131 can just clatter along the very top
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    My 490 started juddering and giving a scraping noise from the sealed box. I had whacked the homulching blade on some thicker stems and thought I would have to pay the hundred odd for a replacement. My one seemed to cure itself working on low revs - stopped vibrating as bad and grinding clatter noise stopped. The pinions and other bits, Stihl special tool not much of a saving on a new gear head assembly. If you google 'beg for manuals thread' and join Arborsite and post a request, someone may be of help with the illustrated parts list and also the service manual, or maybe someone here can help. It shows how to replace the parts, should you want to try. Also if you get the gearhead part no from L&S Engineers they are somtimes cheaper on ebay, people list random parts to clear
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    good point - last public play area I laid ~4 cube of chip on had to be from supplier who had paperwork to say they had done a drop test on the chip and was passed as suitable for that. Too many fines in it and it's probably not fit for purpose. Always research papers on the subject for those who like information overload
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    There is a hidden danger of having a breakable link at the lanyard adjuster and finishing the dead tree then forgetting to remove the beakable link, going up another tree and hanging off said lanyard with cable tie still on the adjuster - well it did say stupid and brave in the other thread
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    Thinking about it I do understand the comments about why would it need to be reusable? As a suitable sized cable tie could be on the the lanyard adjuster, so only needs one per knackered tree. No great environmental waste of plastic
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    The anchor trip adjusting bar could get knocked while working, making it harder to release. Testing the setting and Duck/insulating taping it firm may help. The comments asking why you'd want reusable, surely if its just a thin cable tie and you cant fell the top out in one it will need one for each position until the dead stem is low enough. No way would I want bondage grade cable ties, the thick ones probably hold 200kg
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    Yes Screwfix are nearly always dearer for branded tools than Ebay or Amazon You need 1000Nm because fasteners are often corroded or overtightened requiring a nut busting torque way higher than book torque. I suggest this - cheaper than the blue RR and done my Transit hub nuts ~450Nm. The world turns, or if you're bit dopey like me sometimes and forget to check the direction before pulling the trigger - the bolt head shears off.
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    something involving velcro maybe, or a cable tie looped on itself as a breakable connecting loop between the lanyard karabiner and a second karabiner to the bridge or side
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    if it's only 1/2" dia stems the 4mm thick mulching blades are good - best on a more powerful brushcutter or clearing saw. I use FS490. Haven't tried one on my strimmer, maybe an FS130 or similar would just about have enough grunt. The great thing about mulching blades is the whole lot, brambles saplings is mashed up and just goes down flat and dissipates, usually no need to rake and burn or tip. Mind your eyes and teeth, there is a special guard for mulching with the clearing saws, but I've worked on low revs and risked it without. Hit a hidden object and blood and guts everywhere. Like the farmers who died flailing hedges. Much safer accepting less money and flipping burgers
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    ha ha - keep on hearing about these hats, so had to do a bit of research, apparently handy to stop telepathic people getting inside your head! I think 1/8" lead sheet would keep out the electromagnetic waves better. An early allusion to an "insulative electrical contrivance encircling the head during thought" appears in the unusual 1909 non-fiction publication Atomic Consciousness [2] by self-proclaimed "seer" John Palfrey (aka "James Bathurst") who believed such headgear was not effective for his "retention of thoughts and ideas" against a supposed "telepathic impactive impingement"

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