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good idea, gives them a second chance, although if you let them live they may be so bitter about the disfigurement they go do something even worse, no haven't got a clue really, people spend their whole careers trying to understand the criminal mind, must be interesting, perhaps in the future they will just alter the embryo

So Cougar Blue is coming out as the best rope chosen by SRT workers, I guess the highest climb ( in south uk ) is 140', so unless factoring for lowering from base anchor (seems extravagant), then 60m SRT is as long as you'll need? Although if base anchoring with a bigshot high anchor the longer rope seems worth paying for, perhaps a seldom used 80m one for a monster tree and 50, 60m for everday. Of course established folk often climb with hired help present to take off the base anchor and allow it to be converted to a top anchor and save rope length that way. I guess that very high top anchor means dropping a throwline to the ground for retrieval if the tree is not coming down?

mk6 transit, not sure about others - maybe the door locks could be changed for these Ford Transit, Custom, Connect Drivers Door Upgrade Locks- Transit Hykee Lock Upgrade- Garrison Locks also loom guards behind the barn doors to stop the loom being cut. Apparently the remote key signal can also be 'cloned' somehow by theives, but security companies are now offering a (claimed) modification to prevent the wireless key remote signal being hacked. I've only spent about £25 on the loom guards so far for my MK6, but after reading this thread about the Tibbe lock I am starting to worry a bit, maybe the £80 lock per side replacement is worth it. Plus whatever cost the remote signal mod is. I gather the MK6 also has a weak spot on the quarter light / mirror. But if a cable was cut there and there were deadlocks on the doors they couldn't take the whole vehicle (without smashing the window presumably). So maybe it's £400 ish I need to spend. Can sympathise with that bloke who was jailed a few years ago when he shot intruders on his farm - regardless of their troubled upbringing etc my (possibly a bit nasty) view is genuinely in favour of eliminating anyone caught in the act of breaking into a van. No excuse for taking someones livelihood. Burn a few thieves at the stake on prime time TV as a deterrent. No, that's not fair, a quick painless removal is appropriate.

this thread and Arbtalk in general have really helped me see how the pro's work - huge capital tied up and a clued up team getting the big trees done in a day or two. I quite like climbing the little silver birch etc in gardens, but these big tree firms allow you to tackle the monster jobs. Would like to know the finance business side of getting rid of the waste - do Premier (and similar big operations) give the chip away, or sell to power stations? What diameter branch wood is chipped and what is deemed worth the time to save? With the jobs of a whole line of Leyland Cypress, Lawson etc is it more cost effective to just chip the lot and get away quick? I see some big PTO tractor chippers pictured earlier, must eat whole connifers - just have to try to explain to customer that it does still have to be £200 even if you're off after one hour.

find the run, get a half barrel trap in - or leave it in peace, either way in a hundred years who will care? There may be a way that trapping a mole could have rammifications that lead to World War 3, but can't get my head around it.

Looking at how the RCW 3001 is constructed one solution could be to use a separate Harken or other good self tailing winch e.g Lewmar on a separate strap above, or below? the bollard with 20 feet of rope separate from the rigging line with a rope grab on the end, maybe a bit of extra clutter but cheaper than the purpose built LD2 by 50%

Thanks Nigel, 2 things I think are not optimum about the Stein RCW-3001 are that the friction hitch removal after tensioning must add a few seconds compared to a rope grab type system and secondly the winch unit itself looks inferior to the Harken on GRCS. Other than that I have to say as a complete system for £750 or so it is a great buy for someone like me just starting out. Spending £2600 on a Smart winch LD2 would mean less for big chipper or Sunday roast, whatever

I'm after any thoughts regarding using a separate winch (harken type) strapped on the tree above a separate bollard for tensioning the line prior to cutting, as Hobbs, GRCS etc. In the Stein RCW3001 thread Clearview trees has posted a picture of the set up.http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/rigging-roping/78774-new-rcw-3001-stein-3.html What I want to know is - if the separate winch is used to tension the rigging line what method(s) would enable that tension to then be transferred to the bollard to avoid shock loading the winch? I understand the smartwinch LD2 LD2 Rigging-System has a rope grab, so the winch can be swapped for the bollard under tension, to avoid shock loading the winch when cutting huge lumps. The LD2 product solves my query, but at £2200 + vat. A separate winch and bollard can be had for about £1000. But how to fabricate or improvise a rope grab to transfer the tension?

Agree - my mum knows someone doing time for causing fatal crash - investigation found they were texting at exact time. I got a nice big sliding mitre saw, easily take your hand off, so why not do a week's course at least before being allowed to plug it in?

How many boards could the Mongols hoard before the Mongol horde got bored?

Lovely song and ropework looked good fun - someone who couldn't afford a mewp could also learn scaffolding - l bet a skilled person could get some rig up 60ft in a couple hours

not married! can see what I'm missing out on though, never mind. handy thing for a long ascent. so is there a way of tensioning with a winch separate from a bollard and then transferring the tension to the bollard to avoid shock loading the winch? I mean not like smartwinch or GRCS, but either a petrol winch or a separate harken etc straped on above a bollard?

he was very skilled in cutting the tree down, why is he compelled to listen to that crap?

bet he didn't learn that lot overnight a portable petrol winch shown at about 5 minutes? Is the rigging line tensioned with that and then taken off, or stuff just dropped with tension on it?

As much as the market can bear.

It's only 20% of anything over the allowance £10k, not saying that 70 a day net is alright though National average wage 26k so they say, wrong having to compete for housing with super remunerated types, bring back Stalin

Clearview trees has a good solution posted on the Stein RCW3001 thread, he's got a bollard strapped on and a separate winch £600 straped on above - only thing is if you use the winch to tension how can you transfer the tension to the bollard below to avoid shock loading the winch?

I've been looking at those too, not got rigging ticket yet, but trying to suss it out. If you have a bollard Stein RC3000 etc, can you not just get a tirfor on the tree below the bollard and use an ascender, (maybe a hitch is time consuming)?

And if you ever find yourself driving over 30 in a 30, head for the nearest police station and report yourself

An aluminium tripod ladder is handy for that sort of thing, mine is 12'. I would have had a 16' one, but a bit more cumbersome to transport. You do have to buy some stuff to do the work - or you could make your next harness from a couple of webbing slings.

If a reasonable size ad is £25ish in your local paper, just try that maybe they'll do a deal if you block book a few weeks in a row. One or two calls a week soon builds up, if the first ones start asking you back. Don't cut and move heavy trees in August heat unless you are poor.

like it, no messing about

if its not too wide maybe the steel loading ramps from a big Ifor plant trailer would do

wow - one of the best vids I've seen on here. Bit of rope and ingenuity and it's doable without a second mortgage. Are many trees like that with a decayed trunk but top branches looking good? There was a thread a while ago about a climber bottling a big lime with a root plate lifting up in the wind and a guy replied saying he was in Germany and his mates were asked to spike a tree like one in vid, then he refused and someone else did it and half the tree tipped and broke up while he was lanyarded in, fubared his leg, no more climbing

a bit of a run out of anything else to talk about thread, whether people communicate well or don't communicate at all isn't up to them - there's no such thing as free will, just nature doing it's thing and we are lucky enough to witness it for a short time how about some plans to build a 10" diesel chipper, or mini skid steer? Surely the components don't add up to £35k and £25k respectively.