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  1. tree-fancier123
    looks high did you choose a rope lanyard rather than wire core, reason for preference?
  2. tree-fancier123
    high energy vid there, liked all the synthesizer messing in the track too what is going on at 1.05 - with the climbing ropes? Is it from two distant anchors to aid balance?
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    shouldn't worry about it - if you've had enough, do something else. I gave up welding after getting fed up with all the dust and fumes, now happier doing gardening and ocaisional trees. Whatever other work you do you're clearly at the top of the climbing game, so could keep it up on the side if you wanted, bit of weekend work whatever.
  4. tree-fancier123
    looking good, how much refueling of saws is needed to section that pole down?
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    so they just grow slower up north
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    I've been using Echo SRMF-250 L, on it's 5th year, only for mowing and lawn edging, just changed the plug and air filter after 4 years and bodged a repair on a stretched throtle cable with a cable crimp. The Echo is good on fuel and always starts - its a light gutless machine for grass cutting, or maybe bramble. It's not really man enough for meadow grass I use a Stihl 490 for anything needing more grunt. Spoke to another gardener who has a kawasaki on it's 14th year, had a shaft replacement. Oh sorry, this Echo is only 25cc, maybe they do a slightly bigger one
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    how much for above with swivel inc post to UK?
  8. tree-fancier123
    when light availability is akin to 1,500 foot candles and temperature is between 28-35 degrees Celsius not checked any plant biology books, but surely the range doesn't refer to air temperature, or what
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    2009, wow, good to know it's not all done and dusted
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    if it's not near any dwellings who could hear noise a battery powered angle grinder would probably go through any padlock, even the three hundred quid ones. A lock where most of it is enclosed (like an industrial mortice lock may be better), hire some snipers and leave a chipper out as bait somewhere to clear a few
  11. tree-fancier123
    good thread - was just thinking how slow evolution works compared to the length of a human life - wonder when the last discovery of a 'new' species of tree was in the british isles? Must have found them all hundreds of years ago.
  12. tree-fancier123
    in need of rescue Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree | Life and style | The Guardian
  13. tree-fancier123
    £800 - sounds low, but there are loads of idiot newbies like me who will make a loss just to get some experience - you are also competing against them, and if you have to ask you deserve to take a bath on it anyway!
  14. tree-fancier123
    house repo - my worst nightmare, well flat repo in my case, hasn't happened yet, but I'm stringent on it. PAYE, subbie, contractor owning machinery vehicles etc. All can go bust - just don't pamper yourself with unnecessary crap until you own the roof over your head
  15. tree-fancier123
    £55 wouldn't be bad for an apprentice, sure someone on that with a family would need benefits, whatever care homes are even worse for it, and they don't even get to climb
  16. tree-fancier123
    I can't see how this got onto the minimum wage. If a subbie gets 100 120 a day, for 220 days, minus say 3k a year for expenses, ppe, chains, etc, surely that's still way over the minimum wage?
  17. tree-fancier123
    thanks, I'm sure all older machinery is excellent value if you're good with a spanner
  18. tree-fancier123
    cool, thanks
  19. tree-fancier123
    Yes, http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Forestry-Tractor-Forwarder-Skidder-Valtra-/201342922210?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ee0f92de2 only seem to be able to save about 7 or 8k a year, so if it's still on in five years I'm getting in
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    just the thing, saw a tractor with roofmount on ebay for 45k, is that how much you need to spend, or would that have been at the top end of second hand?
  21. tree-fancier123
    if you want to win the comp, do more, give yourself over to it, learn what devotion means, you want it to be like your training for the olympics get the best headlamp and go out into the woods in the dark and don't stop until you've only seven hours left to catch some sleep. It's like in Topgun movie, not all the flyers got to shag Kelly
  22. tree-fancier123
    The £100 - £120 day for someone who can cut a tree down without damaging anything, seems reasonable, not a lot more complicated than hedgecutting. Max £4k invested. Someone who is a fast climber, knows tree biology, is good at reductions, even on the biggest trees, and knows which decayed trees can safely be climbed, that is maybe one in twenty working climbers - the top rates are for them, coz no one else can do their job.
  23. tree-fancier123
    you don't HAVE to go, you WANT to go
  24. tree-fancier123
    I spent 1200 in Honey Bros the other week and that was rigging kit and aluminium gecko spikes, nothing wrong with your budget, unless you want GRCS, smartwinch etc. I just got the Stein RC2001 bollard, about £230, DMM small impact block, ISC small block for redirects, or small rigging, rope isn't much £100 for 50m 14mm. Also got some 12mm for a pull/tag line, and a 30m length of 8mm for a fetching line for zipline pulley. Steel carabiners and 20mm width rigging slings. The kits are ok too. I would have got the larger Stein RC3001 block if they had it in when I went. With your budget you could have the Stein RCW3001 with a little winch to lift the branch tips. See the Stein RCW3001 thread, about £750
  25. tree-fancier123
    good thread, interesting range of prices, what sort of tonnage of firewood will there be if none milled? My guess 15 ton.

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