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38 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Nice to hear from you anyway!

Hi Mick! I only come here when I have money to spend with people these days... I get enough tree nonsense on the AT facebook group, and boy is there some nonsense on there! 

Had a couple of guys get in touch now, thanks all, don't want to waste loads of peoples time getting 4, 5, 10 quotes in!

Will update if anything changes!

Thanks!

Afternoon all.

Long time no speak etc etc...

Looking for a firm to quote me for some clearance on a site just off the M6 south of Preston.

It's for a new car park and will require a mixture of fell & clear and minor maintenance work of retained trees, with some replanting on completion to suit the new layout, all in accordance with the planning permission. 

I have an arb report [from a lapsed member on here] which I will make available for quoting, but I haven't spoken to them yet.

I'll need copies of PL & EL insurances, RAMS & certs for staff pre-start.

PM me a phone number and I'll give anyone interested a call.

Now the awkward bit; I'll need budget costs back within a week! A detailed quote can be carried out once the project has been signed off but I'm trying to get the whole thing moving at the moment and need a but of cost information first.

Afternoon all.

Long time no speak etc etc...

Looking for a firm to quote me for some clearance on a site just off the M6 south of Preston.

It's for a new car park and will require a mixture of fell & clear and minor maintenance work of retained trees, with some replanting on completion to suit the new layout, all in accordance with the planning permission. 

I have an arb report [from a lapsed member on here] which I will make available for quoting, but I haven't spoken to them yet.

I'll need copies of PL & EL insurances, RAMS & certs for staff pre-start.

PM me a phone number and I'll give anyone interested a call.

Now the awkward bit; I'll need budget costs back within a week! A detailed quote can be carried out once the project has been signed off but I'm trying to get the whole thing moving at the moment and need a but of cost information first.

Thanks for all the messages, I think this is sorted now.

I'm going to retire to bed to sleep off the bottle of red I've sunk this evening now...

Evening all, long time no chat!

Anyway, straight to the chase...

We've got a project on at Hatherleigh Abattoir and I need to get a row of connies taken out as part of the planing permission to get a new roadway in to an effluent plant.

There's half a dozen to a dozen from memory, straight fell, chip can be blown on site, need it doing ASAP. The aroma is not for the faint hearted!

Anyone interested...?

Let me know here, and PM me an email & phone number please and I'll be in touch with details!

Will need written RAMS and the usual insurances. Not a live construction site so no CPCS required..

Thanks guys!

Thanks Adam, Paul and the gang, lot of love in the room!

Court hearing on the 8th of December so fingers crossed! Hopefully life will get sorted very soon!!

Cheers Al! Life goes on though! Hope you lot on here are all getting on well x

Messy divorce, legal battle to stop the kids being moved away, busy in the day job, kids every weekend, Ted took the drawings to see about prototyping it but again, he's got bigger fish to fry too! So in a nutshell guys, that's it. Terminally stalled I think!

Evening ladies. It's been months since I was on here last, one or two fine fellows will know why, my life derailed 'a little' last September....

Anywho, having posted in here a while ago (!) I thought I'd drop in and say hello and show anyone interested what I'm playing with now.

I decided swinging round trees wasn't dangerous enough so I bought some bikes to cheer myself up....

2008 Triumph Sprint ST 1050 on the left, 2011 Husqvarna (who'da thought it eh?!) TE310 enduro on the right.

The Sprint is currently my preferred daily transport now that the sun is out, and I'm cherry picking the local Enduro events on the Husky.

Bloody love it!!

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No one?

Come on chaps, I don't want to do it!

Morning chaps.

Need someone who knows what they're doing to pop in and reduce a Magnolia on a site in Kidderminster..... before the guys on site do it!

No arisings to worry about, can all be chucked straight in the skip, just a simple reduction to get a new entrance canopy on the front.

I'd like to get it done early next week.

If anyone is interested please send me your number and I'll give you a call to discuss.

Thanks

Simon

Photos...

I have a 460 with a 20". The bar I have is the expensive heavy duty stihl one, it's a false economy getting the cheaper one. This bar is so fat and stubby at the nose that it seems shorter than 20", It's also pretty vicious on kickback.

 

This saw is so good, It has a great power to weight ratio. I am going to invest in a 25" bar to make it really versatile.

 

Maybe the only saw you'll ever need?

Great saw, have 20" & 25" for mine, usually lives on the 25" though.

If any new ones are still out there I'd certainly grab one while they are...

Funny, I just posted this on Facebook....

So, day one of operation Vicky Pollard to Victoria Beckham, or 7 days to my guest slot on 'The Only Way to Marbella'..... I may have left it a bit late to go from looking 4 months up the stick to stick thin, but my first semi-committed fasting day has consisted of a nectarine for breakfast, a weight watchers rice in a bag contraption I found in the freezer for tea (which exploded twice in the microwave, how is that even scientifically possible?) 4 cups of coffee with only 2 sugars, 3 quality street, 2 pieces of fudge (ok, maybe 3, but it was rum and raisin so with the nectarine that's obviously 4 of my 5 a day) and a pint of Robinson's. (Is that my 5th fruit?) 15 hours in and I'm already doubting that this diet is going to be quite as effective as first hoped....

I need to shift a bit, and get back into condition... 10 years of sitting at a desk, quitting smoking (I've just temporarily taken it back up again to try to wean myself off junk food, I found the fags far easier to knock on the head bizarrely) and a resurgence in the social acceptability, and hence 'availability', of cider, have seen me put on a couple of stone round the middle and suffer tragic upper body muscle wastage.

I'm 33 next month and just round the corner from finding it virtually impossible to get back in shape so it's now or never for me!

We have 2 full weekend camping tickets for the Cornbury Festival between Oxford & Chipping Norton if anyone wants them. Unfortunately we can't go.

They were £200 each but any offers considered.

If anyone wants them and can pick them up then get in touch.

Be a shame for them to go to waste.

I could next day post them if need be so you could get them Saturday morning if unable to collect.

Not really an Arbtrader thing really but I thought I would offer them to you guys!

Great line up!

Is it one of these?

 

http://www.goldengark.co.uk/

 

(Bought my missus one the other day)

Bet she was thrilled...

Kettle for valentine's day? Always goes down well... Trust me

Joking aside, I want one!

We got dicked with a monthly return we had to do for a year, same thing, fines for non return.

I can't even begin to count the levels on which it wound me up.....

They never said it had to be accurate though....

God love the civil service.

Someone has to....

here is my 2004 DRZ400, im practicing for full bike licence and just getting used to riding it through the fields for now:biggrin:

I used to do the same, but I have to say, get a 125 and do cbt, it's amazing how quickly it drops into place just being out on the road.

I'm going to run around on it this summer and I might well throw some cash at doing the tests to see how it goes before autumn.

If I fail then I'll just do a 3 day course next summer.

Tool mine to AMS today for a service and check over today, had a great ride there and back this morning but it was hosing it down this afternoon when I took their demo bike back to pick mine up. Less fun.

But still fun!!!

So it's not me at all then!!!

 

Ok it's not a dig but if its not setup right then why post it? Ok from an experienced view you can obviously see its not right but what if to the untrained eye someone had copied that thinking its ok to use then suddenly realising after they need rescuing it won't even work? Just an observation and not having ago mate

 

 

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A valid point and worth noting...

It was unfortunately the only photo I had....

That said, it would work like this, but you'd soon find you'd need to throw the rope bag over the other side of the line to get it to run freely....

I,d have to agree with Adam looks potentially difficult to take out the soft lock on the fig 8 under load. Ah wait just had a second look all you would have to do is pay out a load of slack between the fig 8 and hitch then pop out the soft lock the hitch is there just as a back up in case the rescuer loses control of the line somehow.

 

Still it all looks overly complicated and fussy, I loved shebrookes vid so simple but not ideal as no back up. I'd like to see the simplest set-up possible with minimal gear, so far leaving a midline knot for attaching a second system (back-up climbers kit) is what I'd favour just not sure how practical this is.

It's a terrible photo, and not set properly through the 8, it was only set up to show the basic arrangement, and the surplus biner and camera angle make it look worse than it is.

You've got the idea though, tug a little slack through the prusik (and it does only need to be a couple of inches) and flip it over the 8 (it doesn't lock up too tight) and you're away, just push down on the prusik and it runs through the 8, let go of the prusik and it all stops.

It's not TOO gear intensive - snake anchor, 2 biners, fig 8 and a bit of hitch cord - and it suits me, in fact it's basically the same as Adam's second one from the first page - [ATTACH]127189[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]127190[/ATTACH][ATTACH]127191[/ATTACH] - but using a bit less stuff, and I soft lock the 8, which is probably unnecessary. In this one the snake anchor does the job of the anchor rope, bat plate and sling from Adam's.

Once all that is under load from the dead weight of an injured climber there's no way you could pull any slack from the system to unclip anything, also looking at the way the rope is running through the 8 it looks as if that will lock up on its self causing total lock up, or is it just me??

 

 

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No. It's just you Adam

And my terrible photo and slapdash set up

Do you mean clip the tail to the rescuer? To do that you would have to unclipped the hitch from the snake anchor and clip it to the rescuer.

 

Is this what you mean or am I being thick?

Yes, the f8 is still controlling friction from a static point, once the 8 is unlocked, lowering can be controlled through the 8 with the back up hitch either still attached to the tree/snakeanchor or clipped to something/someone else and controlled remotely.

Even if you kept the hitch attached to the snake anchor and pulled the tail above the hitch it would mean you have slack in the system if you were to let go.

No slack, to unlock it you do have to pull enough slack in to unlock the 8, but only a couple of inches, after that it's no different to descending on an 8 backed up with a prusik.

Here's what I use.... Knew I had a photo of this somewhere!

Ignoring the fact that 2 crabs are clipped together (this was only set up for a photo) Snakeanchor round the tree, fig 8 clipped into it and the climbing line soft locked off through it, asymmetric prusik on the tail clipped back to the snake anchor.

Anyone lowering can take the tail with them and clip it to themselves (even just to a loop of cord round their waist if they don't have a harness) and control the descent remotely, and let go of the rope completely if they need to with the hitch as a failsafe.

More than welcome to pop over here and try it if you like Ed.

That looks lovely

 

Good thinking with the throttle cable too.

 

Just got back from the maiden voyage with my KTM, me and Buzzsurgeon did a Vintage enduro up in Northumberland today and it was ace. Flowing and fast with a few more technical bits in and slack check times too.

 

Was a bit nervous as haven't ridden a 2 stroke for over 10 years, and always had been 125's on the whole - don't know what the fuss was about - the 250's just amazing! Think front tyre wear could be minimal but it's not half as savage as I was expecting.

 

It ran great all day, despite me having to araldite a crack in the radiator minutes before my start time (serves me right for last minute fettling - nipped up a rad mount a bit hard ) but it held out and we both got to the end and neither of us lost any time all day - just need t osee who set the fastest test times now

Cheers Chris, it's pretty innoffensive for a 125! Fun to ride, nothing like my old 2t 250, but puts a real smile on my face on twisty back b-roads....!

Good to hear your bike's earning its keep now, would love to have a crack at something similar!

Nice one

 

I reckon before you know it you'll have big test booked

Next summer I reckon, want to take my time and enjoy it!

Did a couple of hundred miles yesterday, all good until the throttle cable snapped at Brecon...! Threw away the sheathing, re-fed the cable up through the frame and wrapped it round the twist grip to do the 50 mile journey home. Bit tricky pulling out of junctions in town...