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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

good thread, interesting range of prices, what sort of tonnage of firewood will there be if none milled? My guess 15 ton.

In this winch we trust Excellent pictures, job I wouldn't have known what to do. Tractor winch, another thing on the wish list

ace - Dubai looks so futuristic and with those birdmen too, almost couldn't believe it's real. teleporters soon

I thought it was a bit dodgy that the one on now is using exact photos from a listing that ended on the first of march (from a different seller) the second link in my post was of the sold listing - two different sellers, same photo, same machine?

greenmech chipper on now 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper | eBay photo from a listing that supposedly sold 1 mar for 8k 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper not timberwolf | eBay bit of a minefield

Thanks for posting. So sad. I know someone who was knocked unconcious, needed a month off. Got to have the profit, but slower and safer makes sense.

with disposable earplugs

looks good, similar to the Epple hook Freeworker - Ronny Epple Throw Hook Tree Catcher - climb up high!

The 1973 TV series The World At War was reshown a few times in recent years, some of the episodes, particularly those showing the camps, including real german film footage documenting unspeakable things, brought tears to my eyes. Really was hell on earth.

approved contractor scheme seems like a cash generating machine, but at least they helped get the Research For Amenity Trees series republished

It's like rabbits - put them in an enclosure and they'll breed until there's too many for the available vegetation to feed. That's why China went harsh on it, would be another billion over there now otherwise.

been reading this and hoping it will never be me, then yesterday managed to twist my ankle, can hardly walk on it, already got me thinking how I'd be stuffed paying the bills if it was a more serious injury. I think you'd be a good web designer for arb companies if you can't climb anymore, hope you find something soon.

nice new Echo top handle 360TES last year £150 less than Stihl. Does the same thing as my old 200T, just takes a few seconds to warm up. Go Echo!

great, thanks for reply

I've been asked to quote for a low 3' or 4' fence closeboard with capping round part of a front garden. No photo, but is right next to pavement on 80's estate, sort of place where many front gardens have been covered in block pavers to put the car on. The construction doesn't bother me, but after I walked off saying would pop a quote through, got worrying about services underneath, no experience with scanners, and heard on here about stuff costing hundreds to fix. If it's right next to pavement at front of house and I have no experience of services detection should l leave the job? I've heard talk about digging trial holes. If it needs three posts along the front and three on the boundary with next door (not a big run of fencing) then is there a delicate way of digging down around the proposed six or so two foot deep holes? If the hole for a 4" post is supposed to be around 12" sq then to position featherboard at pavement edge would mean edge of post holes goes right up to pavement edge, if nailing rails on pavement side of posts? I guess it would mean hiring a breaker to dig right up to pavement edge? No previous fence just radiused concrete edging to shingle front garden.

my first climbing rope was Yale XTC plus, says on Yale website also makes ideal bull rope, being dynamic can take a bit of shock loading, also mine has done well when climbing without cambium saver, so probably would be great for dropping branch wood through a fork - not the other end of my climbing line though! I pampered myself with the new small cast ISC pulley, green one. Beautiful to look at, even if I don't get much tree work.

wow, at the top of your game there, I'd have been chuffed to have done it inside a day

Pesticide training PA1, PA2, PA3, PA4 & PA6 in Devon & South West 385 for similar google NPTC PA1 PA6 (your location)

must be good to traverse across the tops of the big limbs spread far apart, if the hook can be thrown far enough. 100 euros seems a lot for a bit of stainless tube, but can see the labour saving on a huge open crown like the Black Poplar

there is an older tree surgeon near me who has retrained as a domestic electrician, he must be 60 plus now. With electrics it's do a course for a few grand and register with a scheme, much easier than a gas fitter, which requires working with a qualified gas fitter to gain experience before qualifying. As has been said before, the worst bit is not the climbing, it's moving what's been cut. Get a muscle man in and pay them top whack. Even if climbing is a strain on a sixty year old body, if you don't spend everything when you're younger a three day week should pay the bills. Buying some solid dividend paying shares is my plan, and hoping to be happier than a famine victim

they could open that tree as a rec climb, I'd pay £20 to have a go

Growth Control in Woody Plants (Physiological Ecology) [Kindle Edition] £99 only for the hardcore or Growth and Development of Trees: Seed Germination, Ontogeny and Shoot Growth blast from the past 1971 edition

liked the gorilla vid, seen it before, but on watching it again, made me realize it's not my gear that's holding me back - it's lack of skill and practise. Was going to splash out on a rope runner, or similar, but can see that guy on his wrench is as good as I'd need to be to earn decent coin. Spending another few hundred quid on new gear won't give me his abilities. The book Best Practices for SRT in Arboriculture is a good read, although came out before the new Rope Runner and similar devices. The base anchors in the book are well complicated, but some good stuff on work positioning.

200 for a few hours, makes me drool, must go and find some incredibly risky trees to practise on.