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haven't seen this one ... awesome vid and good ol peter rodseth swinging around 6o odd meters up getting the ride of his life .... such a cool video cheers mate.

that was just an old bracing bro and i didn't dare cut it out as it was too dodgy with that leader over the house, the other two lines are my anchor and a rigging line. Dont make it too complicated i say over complicating things can lead to headaches also having a brace in there should be avoided as it can get in the way when your lowering . If its possible to have someone with you that has good experience that will be invaluable , they can give you tips when you are unsure of what to do next:thumbup:

disagree , go hard mate and make sure you think about things before you cut e.g. swing , drop distance , forces , direction . I agree with rigging the back part off , when you climb up set your anchor and block then get everything off you can do without rigging then have a play around with smaller bits down low and swing them around , as soon as you start it will be like putting puzzle together and you will get a feel for things It looks like your main worry is the glasshouse but don't get to focused on that make sure that the bits you drop wont break anything at all , its easy to forget other things when you have a main focus :thumbup: Doing it is the best way to learn mate put up some pics when your done

Well said

cant retrieve from ground if its tied up there

depends if there are targets anywhere along the path of the speedline and also on how large the bits are your cutting, remember that dropping bits onto a pretensioned line is dangerous so unless your 100 percent sure..... I would say rigg off with it attached to both then pull cut peice up and then tension line. It can be time consuming and fiddley. on the other hand if they are very small bits maybe you could get away with attaching slings straight to the zipline but having a tag line on there cant do much harm as it means that you can retrieve the line quickly and if something happends and a bit gets stuck hanging over a roof its easy to retrieve Different options but hard to say without seeing job ... is it worth zip lining at all ?

I think that it says specifically that it is for Ddrt mate:001_smile:

it wasn't posed haha:blushing:

started back on thursday after three weeks off doing nothing physical and had this as a friday job..... classic ,rigged everything .

second that.... my o p is not holding up to well with my rope guide

For SRT access all you need is three ascenders and a rope or even less i think i saw a guy on youtube using his footlocking strop as ascender and he threw his lanyard over his shoulder and clipped it to his hitch climber for a chest ascender. SRT is not SRWP, I am very surprised that more people do not use SRT for access into trees i think after fifteen meters footlocking it loose the efficiency, if i have to ascend anything 16 meters plus i will tend to throw for srt (unless its a perfect footlock line and then its all for practise) although it varies a bit from tree to tree . access lines are so much more efficient then climbing up a tree imo.

Two different versions i Believe

yeah bro i cant speak german a but all my work mates speak english so they are helping me out , I'm comming back to nz for a holiday late feb if you wanted to catch up for a beer and a yarn mate , could tell you what its like

Pinus armandii ?

art all the way 3 meter Highlight XP-e through positioner and a 4 meter wirecore xp-e through positioner

well said , the attitude towards trees over these ways is much healthier and there is less of the rush chop bash type thing its all about quality and getting the job done correctly , get your destruction skills up in nz and then come refine your climbing and pruning over here... definitely the best decision i have ever made career wise although i would recommend learning the language as i came over here with knowing f a , you can get by with just english but i think the full benifits of th country will be seen if you can speak the language

i have only been here for just on four months, luckily i have my girlfriend for all that as she is german . The german people love bits of paper and like structure , where i am working now i did not have to do any papers regarding my work as my nz certs where analysed by an insurance company and they said it was fine to transfer straight over and get a german cert. if you can speak german you are definatly at an advantage , insurance was very easy all you need to do is call a company and then go to the "Rathaus" which is like a council building to regester yourself and show them your british passport and then scan the bit of paper and send it to your insurance and it can be organised in less then a day . banks ........ where do i begin , nothing is done over the counter it is all done by mail so it takes a week or two to get sorted so ask for all your internet banking etc on the first visit or it will take a life time for all to get completed. working... you need to go to the "Rathaus" and ask for a special bit of paper (cant think of the name off the top of my head ) and it will not be a problem as im assuming you have a brit passport. my drivers license transfers straight over from nz so i think that your brit one will too just need to go to a driving place to get that registerd also. I have great workmates that i can socialise with and also my girlfriends groups of friends but i dont have a grasp on the language so I'm busy at night school trying to learn. if you want to do it and know where you will move to then you shouldnt have any issues finding something . arb is very specialised over here and is one of the very very jobs that i don't think should be hard to find . i think that if you have experience in arb work they will hire you but there are two types of tickets .... handsaw climbing and chainsaw climbing so your employer will want you to get your chainsaw climbing cert if your qualifications at present do not transfer over, this is due to insurances etc . comming from nz to Germany i found that the health and safety side of things here is quite similarly structured to nz ( from what i gather so far ) but some companys may be different. hope it helps mate the forestry side of things i cant really tell you much about sorry mate but if you want to do it theres always a way

I am working in arb over here now mate , came over from nz with no job lined up and got it sorted pretty fast feel free to ask any questions and i will do my best to answer. great attitude towards tree care here

I stand corrected mr murray, quite an in-depth look at it

secured footlocking with two static lines is drt and footlocking the tail is Ddrt

also have had my nz certs approved and now have a german cert also , i would not recomend if you don't have certs as this is a country run by paper insurance and more paper feel free to ask any questions

hey guys i have just done the move from nz to germany and have a full time job over here so any questions you want answering just message me.

how long have you had them for Drew ?

looks like a Ficus elastica

we use the triangle cut in nz for euc limbs etc which are prone to splitting out or if we want to drop a large limb straight down without it folding. The theory of this is due to the triangles shape and how it holds longer then a straight undercut. I am no expert on the matter but with having the shape hold longer it alows the peice to 'pop' off instead of fold like a face cut of an undercut . With the triangle cut all three have to match up perfectly and the top cut must be fast for it to be used safely and effectively