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The red ones? I have a pair, get a thumbs up from me too. The grippy seems better bonded than on the usual dipped work gloves.

Any time David! Don't place too much emphasis on the calculation itself though It's more the justification of 'managing' risk with statistics and probability rather than facts, which I'm interested in. I can see the value in qtra's output, but I'm just curious as to how it would stand up if, or when, something goes wrong, and someone is killed by a low risk tree? Which it could, because people win the lottery all the time.... What is the next step if qtra throws up an unacceptable risk? What if the qtra has been done wrong? For what my opinion is worth, from what you've said and i've seen, it seems like a well thought out system which will do what it sets out to do in a straight forward way. But as a 'general public' as far as this is concerned, I like to question the systems which are supposed to protect my family.

I have a couple of rock o's and a couple of pirates, really nice crabs and like you say, their auto lock feels really nice, I much prefer it to all the welsh ones which unlock toward the opening...

Doesn't take much to get the hse out.... We had them crawling all over one of our sites for months after some tosser phoned to tell them we we were roofing with no edge protection. We weren't, but they weren't to know the call came from a mentalist. And once they're there then they have to be meticulous in their checks to protect themselves..... Imagine how I would look if they just popped their head in and then by coincidence something happened after they left....? Don't worry about it too much, just be safe!

I've got a s reg L322.... But it's on a private plate! I did however see a few w plate 300tdi 110's advertised a while ago..... I think they were r.o.w spec though.....

Shock horror.... Eurocrats AREN'T as clever as they convinced themselves they are....

I was just being a sad pedantic knob....

Td5 came in on a t plate

I think Marlowbraid has a 3 strand core, double braid has 12 strand core. I have some of the Marlowbraid, nice cheap lowering rope for a portawrap...

Sadly that's the only solution I think....

Problem is the type of customers who buy from these people are usually no better than the scumbag vendors....

I hate them with a passion, my wife had the microsoft one at home and nearly got taken in by it, it was only because she phoned me on her mobile at the same time that she avoided it. I get a lot of no win merchants, my pet hate. I had one last night, APM advice [if they call let me know and I'll give you ALL their details!.... in a scouse accent 'I'm calling about the accident you had in 2011'.... 'SH*T! I had an accident?!?! WAS I OK?????....... Don't EVER phone me a again.....'

Tuesday 19th Feb going from Tenbury Wells to Woolacombe [ish] [crack of dawn] & on to Fowey [Fowey by 9am, jumping in with someone else @ Exeter-ish]. Wednesday 20th Feb Woolacombe back to Tenbury Wells. In the Range Rover, no passengers, lots of room in the boot with the seats folded if anyone needs anything delivering / collecting.

We're funding this crap... Reading it through, ha! surprise surprise, there is no scenario for firewood! however, it would appear that a receipt with a small amount of information on is going to be sufficient documentation in the highly unlikely event that a domestic firewood re-seller ever gets into trouble. It sounds like they are targeting more the exotic hardwood market and large scale processing. On the basis that the firewood all us little guys use / trade in is home grown I don't see an issue. If you are importing container loads from eastern europe, or further afield, then you will perhaps need to ask for better documentation from your supplier, then copy and pass this on when you sell it on. No big deal, but an utter waste of time and money by eurocrats to come up with this bonkers system as usual.... surely the countries which benefit from the illegal timber trade will just find a way to fabricate the necessary paperwork to conceal illegal logging anyway.

Check the linkage is all intact first. Drop a prop shaft off and with cdl disengaged it shouldn't drive. Engage low 1st gear and feather the clutch in while 'stimulating' the cdl lever.. It should start driving as the diff locks up. If the lever goes full throw (take the gaiter off to determine this) and doesn't engage then you may need to look at the transfer case next....

Presumably because middle class man doing 35 in a 30 is unlikely to beat them to death from behind with a shovel and bury their charred remains in a shallow grave at the edge of the local woods....

On an S it will indeed most likely be one of the last 300's, assuming new when registered. 200 engine has bare rocker cover, 300 has black soundproofing cover over it. You might need to crawl underneath and get someone to jiggle the linkage to work out what's wrong with the cdl. Presumably you can get low box ok? More likely to be linkage than transfer box itself....

Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings David! I take your point, but what is your opinion of this example? A VTA of a veteran tree at the main gates of a busy public city park has determined that a tree has a structural weakness, for instance a cavity just above a union. This damaged limb projects 5m at 15 degrees and in full leaf presents 6m2 of surface area to the prevailing wind. The limb has a diameter at the union of 12 inches but the cavity has taken out 30% of the section. The remaining wood is healthy primary growth green oak. (This is where I'll have to get a bit more vague, I'm no engineer!) a south westerly wind of 30mph will exert a force of 1.5kn/m2 on the sail end of the limb, giving a force of 1.5x6x5=45kn on the union. A healthy 12" diameter piece of oak is capable of sustaining a force of 80kn (I've no idea, structural engineers have tables for many green wood strengths) but we've lost 30% of this capacity, so the remaining timber is capable of sustaining 56kn, therefore, structural analysis has determined that in these conditions the limb is safe. If the wind speed doubles, the limb will fail. But if the wind speed doubles and also comes from the south east, the force applied to it will be minimal and the limb will not fail..... So a set of easily defined management parameters - with a clearly defined danger zone - can be established It's just a question really more than a suggestion, I'm not qualified to claim I know what I'm talking about (I design by eye and then get my engineer to prove it for me!), it's just curiosity! And ref the dice, I was only making the point that it's statistical rather than factual, and I don't like statistics or probability. I like fact and justification....but that's why I'm not a gambling man... Simon

What's the asking price and what would the cpo valuation be? If the two are close, take the money (for your benefit) drench the place in land mines (for everyone else's!) and move on with your life. No agents' fees, no collapsing chain to worry about. It's commendable to worry about the future use of the land and try to prevent it becoming this most heinous of things, but don't bog yourself down with it or feel guilty, it's neither your fault nor your problem. The land will be there long after whichever scumbags take up residence have rotted down gone to hades.... Taking their caravans, and the bleeding heart liberal sympathisers who insist on encouraging them, down with them.

That's OK then! I was overthinking it! Thanks Dave! I have a couple of lengths of cord with prusik loops & biners on which I keep in pouch on my harness to use for false crotch redirects if there's nothing handy. I do like the pulley & cinched butterfly though, will be using that, I'm a big fan of midline attachability.....

How can you have multiple 'retrievable' redirects Dave...? Surely once you've pulled one through the first [or last one installed depending on how you look at it] ring/pulley it won't go back through the next ring/pulley the butterfly comes to...? And why do you recommend a base tie? That's my preferred set up anyway but I don't see how this can allow you to create multiple retrievable redirects... Thanks for being patient with me!

I'm right on the periphery of this, an interested bystander. I assess only more immediate risk using the similar likelihood & severity scoring system in construction, but there's one thing I noticed I agree with which I want to wave a flag over, and that's prediction by probability. A numerical 'acceptable risk level' based on odds is, in my view, practically meaningless. If a tree is structurally compromised, simply assessing the 'probability' of failure is something of a fallacy. Tree hazards could actually be far more accurately 'quantified' in the same way that buildings are structurally designed. Afterall, it is for this very reason that we don't look at a floor beam when designing a building and decide on it's suitability based on a subjective opinion on how likely it is to fail and how many people will be crushed to death when it does. A 1/6 probability of rolling a 6 on a dice means nothing, other than how many 6's are on a dice... you could roll it 6 times and get a 6 every time, or 6000 times and get no 6 at all. If a tree has weaknesses, why not assess it properly, just as an engineer assesses my building designs....? No matter how 'roughly' it was done it has to be better that using the same sort of process used to fob off the HSE when working at height? For instance we could surely calculate at what speed and from which direction the wind would be coming from which would most likely cause a given tree to fail when in full leaf surely....? And that would give a REAL set of parameters against which tree management could be carried out.... When that young woman was killed in gales recently, had the trees been assessed mathematically and structurally rather than statistically, Kew could have known to close that area until the forecast winds had died down... I accept that you can't do this everywhere for every tree, but surely it would be preferable to have a PROPER set of accurate management tools based on real structural principals rather than the language of bureacrats, for critical trees in public spaces.... Anyway, I'm off back to look at pictures of trees and shiny stuff....

What specifically don't you like about this Dan? Is it because it's on a stem rather than horizontal limb and could end up with components cross loaded...? This set up really appeals to me for the lack of gear needed and the ease of retrieval..... It may be coincidence or it may be intentional, but both the images Ben posted show fixed sided pulleys rather than swinging side plates..... Is there are reason for that....?

Thanks I might try this arrangement this evening:thumbup: Thinking revolver....

Well done, really pleased for you! Uni is not, and shouldn't be, for everyone. The problem with current policy is that the labour plan was to make EVERYONE middle class, so they urged us all to go to uni. It's for that reason that you were so unhappy and we have some lazy bitch in the news refusing to work in poundland in return for her benefits because 'she has a degree'. If only there were more people like you in this country who have some drive about them!