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thinking about the rare scenario where it may be desirable to drop pieces over 1 ton into a rigging line it seems it would be safer to dispense with the lowering device (take it off the tree) and just use a thicker rope, taking several turns around the tree to arrest the fall completely. The pulley block should be good for 15ton, and a 16 or 20mm rope might not snap possibly on a good day.
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that means you have a bath at least once a week?
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thanks for the reply, interesting estimate of 750kg for my example 8ft lump, I haven't looked at the tables, regarding those dimensions, but will check to see how accurate you are. I have seen the ones in the HSE rigging research pdf, but not read the whole 370 page report yet, reading the books first (Art and Science etc) the report looks very educational, but quite advanced stuff in there, formulae etc. Mr Ben (reminds me of being at home with mummy as a nipper) I obviously don't know what I'm doing, or I wouldn't have needed to ask, but hope to find out before it's too late. I guess it's only necessary to do those huge lumps if the timber is worth milling and it's a confined space, also I suppose if you know the free fall for definite and are within limits, it means greater efficiency and profit. I don't expect a job like that any time soon, but want to be clued up, rather than having to walk away because I didn't have the knowledge.
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Crikey, you don't sound like a bloke who climbs up trees with a chainsaw, surprised you aren't already in a care home, no point leaving it till the last minute
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I've just started getting rigging stuff, got the RC2001 bollard. I like the rubbers, so can be used to just take off big limbs and leave the rest of the tree alone for another day. Only thing is, skimped a bit, could have got the biggest one RC3001. Now working load limit is given as 2000kg, what diameter and length of timber (say beech for example) and falling through approx what distance before the fall is arrested by the line through the snatching pulley, would be required to break off the steel tube and cause a catastrophic event for all involved? I would like serious answers, with calculations if possible, along the lines, 8ft length of 3ft diameter beech falling half a meter before the weight is fully on the pulley and bollard. Just want to understand when I really would want a bigger one!
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escalonia is nice and can be cut back hard, I think hedges a bit informal with a mixture can be quite charming e.g viburnum opulus, maybe euonymus alatus, one or two yew in there, whack it all in and wait and see oh and those griselinia littoralis can look nice and elaeagnus x ebbingei, maybe that last one grows slow though, very pretty leaves, option of the variegated ones, or green that sometimes looks like its been done over with a silver spray paint
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what's that about then, you've said on here words to the effect tree work is quite well paid, so why not take a look? Can't you have a month off? Doesn't have to be revving up chainsaws all the time.
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good post. Recently did 38 ticket and bloke there said his one man band boss will get him to sign something saying if he leaves before 2 years or something he will have to pay his boss back the training costs for all his tickets. Seems fair enough - Billy it's your own fault for not being intelligent enough to concoct a similar scheme - can't expect loyalty when time is so precious
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Would cable bracing save Oak tree?
tree-fancier123 replied to Nick Connell's topic in Tree health care
fair play, I guess it's the same with teeth, 'naturally' most of my teeth would be quite decayed by now, but the dentists have filled them and made them last longer -
wow, just need to invent something, or learn the stock market and I can have a garden like that
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Would cable bracing save Oak tree?
tree-fancier123 replied to Nick Connell's topic in Tree health care
there's 20mm stainless steel threaded bar on ebay, but that fork looks pretty far gone, this is what I would call proper tree surgery, as anyone like me can guess, but only like the ones above who've seen loads of cabled trees after storms, can you begin to know how much different hardware can stand up to. Good point also about the wounds occluding. If the wind was naturally going to destroy the tree, maybe the tree is done, no need add a human element and prolong it, grow another tree, doesn't have to be a big tree to be a good one. I can see why people want to interfere and prolong the life of a nice veteran tree, but the big oaks in fields that are still growing with stems snapped and ragged seem to me just right -
24k is loads already, admittedly not enough to buy a nice home, but compared to other jobs after 2 years on the books it's very good. Considering the various accident threads on here, chewed up hands, broken ribs, smashed backs, maybe the fact you're earning ok money already reflects a bit of danger money thrown in. Mind you, how much does a soldier with 2 years experience get? However much you get, spend some of it on non fiction books, trees, engineering, botany, mycology, or stuff in a completely unrelated field - accountancy, the great thing about books is they take so long to read, so you aren't constantly shopping.
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I'm only just getting into heavier tree cutting - I knew of tree workers with injuries and near misses, but some of the threads on here have really brought it home. Many motorbike racers die doing the Isle of Man TT, so it's not that bad tree cutting. I don't think it matters at all if you decide to do something else, so many great professions out there, all a bit risky, even the hansome porn stars sometimes go down with hiv.
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mines a key lock - I think the idea above of steel boxes around the padlocks would at least slow them down. An oversize high security mortice lock (set in hard timber, or welded on) like for a house front door may be doable, not sure if any are unpickable. With the amount of money at stake I would take a few pictures or do a drawing of the site and type of door constructions and go to a couple of good locksmith shops and ask their advice.
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I rent a container and have a squire exterior padlock on it, I would rather have a container where there is a lock welded on and key to poke through. My guess is anyone with a battery angle grinder could cut whatever padlock, be a bit noisy for 40 seconds. Couldn't believe the stumpgrinder story on arbsafe, people with dodgy reg no's make cctv only partly useful.
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quite a stylish website, looks classy, not cobbled together. Only thing the bit on ash dieback - seemed a bit alarmist, sure maybe it will result in 90% death of all uk ash, but this is such a complex process, even the full time research biologists probably don't really know at the moment. Why commit to such an exact prediction? You have 'If you believe you have a case of ash die back on your property please contact us so we can take the relents steps to try and slow the spread' relents to relevant
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someone posted a pic a while back using the blue plastic water pipe threaded thru the loops formed into a circle, not sure what they improvised to hold the ends to close the circle, maybe drilling and something velcro, or just mole grips
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good tip, had some ply for carrying woodchip in a trailer and it started to warp, that stockboard stuff, had I known about it, would have been a better buy from a supplier 'The product is extremely durable, flexible and comes in a 3 thickness's, being 6mm, 9mm and 12mm thick. We are also able to produce 18mm thick' solwayrecycling
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there does look to be quite a thickness of sound wood on that ash cylinder, maybe it wouldn't have failed any time soon. p52 Lonsdale suggests not less than 30-35% stem radius of sound wood, or safety is compromised. Mind you, if someone had offered me the work I would have gritted my teeth and taken the money.
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a nobel prize would have been nice, always wanted to be buried in Westminster Abbey, or have a statue outside the British Library, like Newton. Still, missed out on the noise of the guns and the smell of the gas, so can't complain
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http://http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/large-equipment/85178-home-made-log-splitter-saw-genius.html remember thinking my old van sat outside home with a nice 1.9 diesel just asking to be put to use in a homemade chipper, it's the chipper disc and electrics that are holding me back, need to get my head down and study some auto electrics
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No surprises... Environment Agency Fracking Pie
tree-fancier123 replied to SteveA's topic in General chat
fracking is no worse than building loads of new housing estates - like a concrete cancer spreading out across the countryside. Compulsory sterilization after x number of kids would help, the number x being negotiable dependent on the size of your wallet£, no that's not right -
get well soon I appreciate that tree stems and crowns can behave unpredictably when the weight distribution changes during cutting and lowering, but as always, want to learn what I can from the write up of this. The guy who posted his chewed up hand after one handing a block with a topper so his saw wouldn't get trapped has made me wake up to the dangers, seemed no problem to do it before I saw that.
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thanks for info - good to know for the pops, not done one yet, watching one in a customers garden in the wind, didn't like the look of it. Also appreciate the comment about not if it's somewhere a bit posh
