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I think I went on the emergency call out on that job

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It looks like you overcut the bottom of your face, turning it effectively into a step cut as the fibres look cut ?

If you're referring to those little nicks adjacent to the bottom cut of the face then that was purely as a guide for my backcut, they were only very shallow little cuts, just a kiss with a saw

Looks like the middle of the gob has been bored out, leaving only a few inches either side perhaps? That's if it was intentional.

That is correct Joe, big lump of Lime to pull over with no anchor points for winches etc...

Looks like there was no hinge:scared1:

 

 

 

Did it come down as planned?

I thought the photo looked that way, no fibres seemed to pull through but there was a healthy few inches 😉

BMX is mine, not that I ride half as much as I should or used to.

Suffer badly with borer, especially after trimming. You could inject and insecticide seeing as damage is minor so far.

Thanks Taupo.

I did think that may be a viable option

Hi Daniel,

 

The same symptoms ("splits in the bark and white foam oozing out") are described here:

 

https://www.grownups.co.nz/plant-doctor-pittosporum/

 

They blame a borer in that instance and recommend removing the tree, although it looks significantly worse than your friend's.

Thank you for your response Robert.

Oh, that sucks.

I was hoping that a removal wouldn't be necessary. They're good friends and I really don't want to cost them any money, besides they like the tree.

I know it's only a Pitto to us but it's a tree they like in they're front garden to them.

I noticed the link is from New Zealand, would it still apply to the UK???

Daniel.

I reduced this Pittosporum for a friend around 14 months ago. They've recently noticed this on the base.

Is it cause for concern? There is also a little bit of sporadic die back in places within the crown.

Thank you for any help.

Daniel.

Why is there a breed of stubborn "real men" climbers out there, Prussic are horrible, fact. Yes you can do it, yes there cheap, yes it's less gear, and yes you should know how to do it if your stuck, but people wouldn't invent "shiny" things to make us slower or crapper. And for people who say "I can get the tree down faster than any other climber ever, in the history of climbers on this planet with my Prussic, grow up, your elbows will fall off and you won't be climbing very fast for long. "Drops the mic" I'm finished lol

'Mic dropped' made me chuckle. Very dramatic James 👍🏻

Daniel

It sounds fairly typical.

I worked on the rail for around 6 months in the beginning of my career and have to say that sounds about right.

I'm sure we will be corrected shortly though

Daniel.

It was a 35ft pole with a back lean. Bore through the middle to have a more friendly hinge. That was my thinking.......(correct me if needs be as I want to learn, plenty out there who have years and years of experience and tips to pass on!!!😀)

No, not at all. That sounds right to me.

I was just being inquisitive 👍🏻

Daniel

This is one from today

Nice.

You've taken the guts out? Clean, straight stem?

Daniel.

Another one

I'm not trying to flood the thread but I've felled a couple bigger stems recently and been happy enough with the cuts to risk posting the photos.

Daniel.

Nothing wrong with them, but age old question: why so high?

I couldn't of gotten the back cut in if I'd gone any lower. That fence was closer then it looks in the photo

Go easy guys.

Daniel.

I have a friend who is overseas at the moment but returning home to Kent soon. He'd like to begin to train to be an Arborist. Can anybody recommend and training providers locally?

Thanks in advance. Daniel.

CMI are good, much heavier duty than the pantin

Ordered! Cheers guys

Get a climbing technology 1 there cheaper and lock onto the rope so you don t keep kicking out.

Just ordered one, I liked the look of the CAMP Turbo too but maybe that seemed a little too expensive/over complicated?

What foot ascender's are people rating?

I'm fairly new to SRT and I've been using a Pantin for the last 4 months and the spring has imploded, is this just another example of poor Petzl build quality?

Anybody recommend a good book for Australian tree identification?

Can anybody recommend a book for I.D in Oz?

Excuse me if this sounds dumb but I've been climbing with a Rope Wrench for a little while though and have a question.

Where possible I like to use a lower-able base anchor due to the obvious safety advantage but mainly I like being able to decide how much rope trails behind me.

On some situations I've been using a butterfly attached to a crab & pinto as a retrievable top anchor, my question is this, in that configuration is there another way to 'set the tail' other than pull enough over the crotch before tying the midline knot? I only ask because I see that causing problems in retrieval.

Cheers guys.

Daniel.

or just tie another rope to the climb line and then your away to finish the job and retrieve as per usual.

To pull down a retrievable top anchor?