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  1. tree-fancier123
    total 4 18mm ropes on it, should be good to hold 20 ton or so if the anchors are, sounds like you incorporated a good margin of safety
  2. tree-fancier123
    I think £12 per hour is an admission you don't know the trade. As long as you know enough and are keen to learn there will be plenty of pensioners looking to save a bit on the annual mower service, sharpening hedgcutter blades etc. Just advertise it, at £15 or even £17 free collection, delivery. I appreciate you want to undercut to get going, but I wouldn't take a £1500 Honda mower to someone who said £12 per hour. I'd think they had been on the Youtube vids and got a socket set for xmas.
  3. tree-fancier123
    so it's 250 for a few hours, but in another recent thread at least 3 guys saying they've had chippers, saws etc stolen and lost £15k, £30k etc, plus all the worry and anger to live with. When you use thousands of pounds of gear that could break down or get stolen you need to take a lot of money on at least some jobs to cover it all
  4. tree-fancier123
    part of someone's life that they'll never get back
  5. tree-fancier123
    I guess it all depends on police budgets, but in this case there may be prints on the steering wheel and drivers passengers doors, so if they bother to check and either of them have been done before with prints on record
  6. tree-fancier123
    wow, very confident moves there - I like to climb beech - don't know how guys can manage them in the wet though
  7. tree-fancier123
    These thefts are so costly it made me wonder if tree surgeon firms would be better clubbing together for big communal yards where they actually pay for a night security guard.
  8. tree-fancier123
    Barcham have some apparently, although maybe not as big as you'd like listing says out of medium, but large in, about 300 with the vat https://www.barcham.co.uk/products/prunus-victoria
  9. tree-fancier123
    a 30" deck cut and collect seems a lot to ask of a 180cc engine, same size is used on many 21" mowers - it is having to do nearly 50% more work on a 30". I expect it cuts low if the grass is already short. I think it would be worth losing fuel consumption to have a Honda GXV270 on a big pedestrian mower. If I need to replace my HRH536 hydrostatic I would try the new hdrostatic Viking with single handlebar, similar price, but would give it a go to see if it's any better in the wet. My old Viking 7 series is better in the wet, but only cuts 30mm, the new one will do 25mm, some customers like it very short.
  10. tree-fancier123
    Doing a doctorate? The world if full of people who want to use their intelligence to avoid low paid manual labour. Saving Private Ryan is a good movie for the DOWN DAYS. An emotional hell in the brain isn't quite as bad as watching your buddies get mutilated by machine guns as you walk up the beach on D Day.
  11. tree-fancier123
    I like this mid line knot for a base anchor if not all the rope length is required
  12. tree-fancier123
    how about this type of thing?
  13. tree-fancier123
    I thought it could only mean the base anchor leg up to the base of the canopy, then lanyard in let some slack out and do a butterfly on the base anchor leg and a quick link around a branch, leaving the base anchor on below it as well
  14. tree-fancier123
    nasty, does seem a good idea if using a base anchor when dropping big timber to get the base anchor temporarily converted to canopy anchor once up there, if in rare case it does get hit, at least it's only the rope
  15. tree-fancier123
    I use this one, suppose by bending the rules you mean going up without bothering to back it up with a klemheist or prussik, of course if it isn't backed up there is no way of baling out when you reach the hornets nest. The double handed ascenders are probably bulkier to carry about in the tree than a rope wrench, tether and haas, so that method seems better - zigzag already on, just a knot to untie. I think it takes a lot of practice to work a tree SRT, I'd have so many redirects it would be a mess.
  16. tree-fancier123
    I take it you mean the danger of tracking/winching too far and crushing the climber at the top, and/or hitting obstacles on way up.
  17. tree-fancier123
    If there was room for it, would it be ok to put a pulley at the bottom of the tree underneath the climber and zigzag and feed the tail of the line through the pulley on tree base to pull the climber up to a high anchor point with a tracked chipper etc?
  18. tree-fancier123
    It would be good to have midline attachable when you can isolate a big limb high in the canopy of a big tree, then go up on double handed ascenders and two foot ascenders, or foot lock if that is even possible in chainsaw trousers, then once at the anchor, lanyard in and fit the zigzag.
  19. tree-fancier123
    so the tractor has the winch on front links and front pto? crane on top, chipper on links behind AND towing trailer, or is it another trip for the trailer? Looks good anyway, can't stick a stump grinder on there too somewhere?
  20. tree-fancier123
    thanks for taking some of your precious time to make a comment, maybe the question did demonstrate a poverty of thought. It is a tremendous privilege to be able to interact with highly skilled timber fallers such as yourself.
  21. tree-fancier123
    New one on me, can well believe it, did see a conifer badly fire damaged from a garden bonfire too close.
  22. tree-fancier123
    that is a good one, I usually take it to the tip when I've done my transit, worth keeping hold of a bit
  23. tree-fancier123
    I did realize petrol vapours - nearly burnt a customers face, so stupid he was poking fire with stick, I sloshed a bit on and stepped back, he didn't step back. I was thinking more on an unlit fire from a distance e.g slosh it over unlit fire and a trail on floor to 6feet away and drop a match onto trail, or forget the trail and throw a lighted something or other 6 feet to the fire. Probably better to use firelighters as suggested
  24. tree-fancier123
    2 people saying lay branches same way, never ocured to me, good skills
  25. tree-fancier123
    sound good

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