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  1. tree-fancier123
    I haven't yet dismantled a big tree, and I'm glad I read this. Free fall cutting techniques we covered on the course, but as a newbie a big heavy limb with a step cut does seem fraught with danger. How much longer would the job have taken to wang off the big limbs in several bits, rather than one risky cut?
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    bought these over trousers for £63 after reading good reports about them on here, maybe not quite as good as the Cut and Climb trousers, but didn't want to pay £150 climbed in them fine no rips yet, big leg zips can be put on over boots HELIKON ECWCS MENS TROUSERS CARGO WATERPROOF PANTS AIRSOFT PATROL MILITARY BLACK | eBay
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    that was my first thought - if it's only holding chain oil can it not be glued up? Maybe a thin bit of ally with the case drilled off and pop rivets with some type of 2 pack compound to seal it all
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    I think he was talking about L6 for the 30% pass rate - I don't doubt the L4 is fairly rigorous too - but not consultancy, degree level stuff like L6
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    this was on ebay a while back, bit bulkier than purpose made, but plenty around
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    I googled this topic the other day 'arbtalk climbing in the rain' been discussed in some depth over the last 5 or 6 years http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/47517-do-you-climb-rain.html http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/3506-climbing-when-its-raining.html
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    the knots you can learn with a bit of rope and the knot guide from the menu on arbtalk, bowline, blakes hitch, anchor hitch, prussik, to get started
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    Ground Anchor,Tirfor/Winch Anchor, Ex Army Unused | eBay I copied this design, went to steel fabricators got 4 foot length 3" by 1/4" angle bar and asked them to burn a 25mm ish hole about 2 inches in the centre from one end for steel carabiner, shackle etc. Was about £15 for angle bar and got 10 road pins, drilled 13mm holes for road pins
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    If you've left Facebook, and feel a void I recommend DIYnot.com forums. Drilled through the electrics putting shelves up - helpful people there soon had me delving into the consumer unit, self amalgamating tape, the works. Or go retro and get a CB radio
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    other end of the climbing rope AND the lanyard, I will practice like that when I see a sizeable branch walk with no high anchor, sounds like spaghetti but ok for a paranoid novice like me. Some of the tips people get out on, don't know how they've got the bottle.
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    If it is £1k plus, would be interesting to see what an engineering firm would charge to make one, if they could do it.
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    sure - I was just thinking what it would be like if he went to re - position the lanyard and slipped with only the climbing line holding, not saying he wasn't working safe, just sometimes when the climbers are a long way out and the anchor is more horizontal than vertical it looks a bit hairy
  13. tree-fancier123
    looks like he'd have taken quite a swing if it went wrong
  14. tree-fancier123
    obviously it blunts the chains, but what methods did you use to cut the beech trunk once you discovered the metal? I mean does it involve making a gob cut and getting an angle grinder in there, or what? I can imagine,not just barbed wire fencing, but even old larger diameter railings and all sorts from a hundred or more years ago, completely enveloped A quote should be firm I believe - an estimate ok room for maneuver - if you work out the frequency of these events and have developed a grasp of which trees could be dodgy maybe add a clause just on some quotes, otherwise customers may feel they're leaving themselves wide open metal detector?
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    The Vondelpark looks a nice space for the city dwellers to get away from the concrete jungle. This book came out before your reference, saw it a while back and thought they could do with this stuff around all the city street trees, quite expensive research needed still, as you've alluded to, but the cost of sorting out dead and dying trees is also a burden on the taxpayer. [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pavements-Integrative-Studies-Management-Development/dp/0849326702/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451757261&sr=8-2&keywords=porous+pavements]Porous Pavements (Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development): Amazon.co.uk: Bruce K. Ferguson: 9780849326707: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VtKL1dufL.@@AMEPARAM@@51VtKL1dufL[/ame]
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    Maybe an extra carabiner - one for prussik to lanyard, one end of lanyard, one spliced eye and one prussik to main line Your course is quite soon - get the tree climbers companion book, a helmet and some waterproofs and give it a blast low and slow, plenty of people pass those courses without ever going up a rope before, but it would still help If you've got any junk to sell for cash, buy a CT foot ascender too.
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    heavy timber there - l bet those ally pintos did take a hammering, maybe there is something in steel big tree, looked scary, good song
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    Agree - important to know how to tie the traditional 3 knot with Blake's for the climbing test, but prussik loop and 2 carabiners is much better than having to untie when advancing the anchor point.
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    If it's only a foot every year on something that size I would have been tempted to wipe a (sharp) long reach hedgecutter over it. I've seen a serviceberry tree about the same size managed like that, looks ok.
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    not being rude, but if you think you'd be doing something so much more appropriate could you at least provide some description and instructions. Maybe even re upload the photo with your suggested pruning. All you've really said is 'my work is much better than yours, but I'm not going into details'
  21. tree-fancier123
    here's one for 500, even if it needs a few repairs down the line, I expect it's good for at least 5 more years Honda HRH 536 Lawnmower | eBay
  22. tree-fancier123
    The Honda HRH 536 hydrostatic four wheel mowers have become my main mowers, I've got a 7 series Viking, but not the newer hydrostatic one it's better at collection on a dewy morning, but the Hondas I use most of the time, because they do the job without needing repairs. Anything hydrostatic is good I reckon, the HRH536 aren't cheap at £1400, but £600 would buy a secondhand one
  23. tree-fancier123
    cool, thanks for the input guys, like the idea of the rigging hub, or even a large ring, handy if you haven't got 100m rope
  24. tree-fancier123
    nice diagram - I guess half a ton pulling sideways at the top of a tree is a fair amount of leverage at the rootplate, but obviously not too much or no one would use highlines. I can see now that pulling the two trees together with the tirfor on the highline may be a bit much, unless each tree was guyed at 180 to the highline, by which time it would be getting dark
  25. tree-fancier123
    thanks, pity about the overloading thing, was thinking about situations where there are neighbouring trees, but not much higher than the intended work position

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