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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

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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.

often seen bogus chipper auctions, when googling the same model photos found to have been lifted off overseas internet ads, or just using the tick box on ebay 'completed listings' the exact same photos used again from someone else's listing a few months ago.

thanks for sharing, that isn't an obvious thing to expect, like a massive version of an archery bow

with recent talk about big beech limbs tearing out and taking the climber a few lascerations here and there is nothing to write home about, personally have climbed in ordinary work trousers in summer, my saw is a newer one with chainbrake, so that helps

Tree Climber's Companion is great - when you go out into the woods or wherever to practice - a throwline and throwbag, with a throwcube is worth having - you've got to really chuck hard to throw the rope over a branch (unless it's low!), but the throwline and weight is easy, just persevere when it gets tangled ( the cube helps). Also buy a foot ascender, guaranteed you'll find it easier for getting into the tree, when you're up there the branches help - you can pull with your arms, and stand on them to go higher, but getting into the crown is easier if you put your weight on the foot ascender, then move your prussik up and reapeat. It is doable without the asender, I just find it hard work.

10 ton log wow, there and back a few times in the transit

ok, thanks

the zip line with multiple pieces attached sounds efficient, and a fetching line to haul it back, good set up. I wonder with some trees, like willow etc the horizontal force on the anchor could be a safety factor when dropping timber into the line.