Ian88

Nice Riggerbear, its good work! I enjoy it and its nice to be spending time at the very top of the trees, you don't often need to go that high when you are working on the tree. Your not going to be far from where we were, near newant. We also further south for a week when we started the dougies. The redwood cones are spot on for picking at the moment but the dougies were a bit far gone I think.

I have spent the last month running a team climbing some very nice 50m+ Douglas firs and 40m coastal redwoods picking seeds in and around the forest of Dean. Solid days, rain or shine, living out of vans with a good team, living the dream! My first bit of work in over 3 months after breaking my collarbone, good to be back into it.

Not what this thread was about but . . . its good to hear about other who have had the same injury, nearly two weeks after surgery and I think its going ok but I cant help but worry, will I get full movement back!

Another 4.5 weeks until I am out of the sling before I can start physio, looking forward to that!

Good luck with the recovery.

I am another climber down with a damaged shoulder, smashed up collarbone playing with pitbikes in the woods after work I got put back together nearly two weeks ago, held together with screws and staples now with another 4.5 weeks before I can come out of this sling!!

A little 150 sound like a good idea!

Been damn busy lately, not had time to put up images etc.

 

MS200 in filthy condition, 130psi non runner - now up to 170psi and much cleaner and running sweetly - carb accelerator pump also done to avoid future issues. I also tweaked the squish and did a muffler mod - for an old saw it sounded nice and tight after the rebuild.

 

346XP (45cc) ported and muffler mod, found the crank side seal was leaking under vacuum so new seal on order - that one repair will have probably saved the P&C in time:thumbup:

Great work! my 200 back from the dead with vengeance!

I broke my collarbone pretty badly on tuesday night so dont think I will be getting to play with them as soon as I thought! Barbecue and pitbikes in the woods didn't go fully to plan. Tree climbers dont lend them selves well to being inactive!

Let me know how the 346 is once you have the seal.

Ian

I learnt that the zig zag mk2 looks awsome and I liked it so purchased one🌴🌲

Yep, I had the same thing, after a few ciders I couldn't help my self. You have to come away with some thing new and shiny right!?

Why wouldn't you!?

Big wood!

Yh, it gets me as well, great Harness mind. Not to comfy if you have big saws hanging of it compared to other harnesses.

There are 3 settings on how you want the bridge to be positioned, have you tried playing with these? wont help your problem but you can also put another bridge in there if you feel the need.

New sequoia coming out soon I believe, looking forward to it!

Hi Steve and chopsdaly. Would have been fine to straight fell, just thought it may be a good shout to remove limbs first to stop it gouging the cliff out as it went down. Glad we did as it went right down the face. I would have loved to see how it went down the cliff and how it landed! There was some one else at the bottom filming but some how they missed it, gutted!

Yh mate, I am glad it wasn't windy as well! We were doing the work for a company called Vertical Technology and think the work was for south west water.

A few clips put together from some work last week. The cliff was crumbling away with a water pumping station beneath it. Descaling and tree removal from face before meshing. Just finished just over 4 weeks of trees on cliffs work, not all like this one mind!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzMudR4sPYc]Tree removal from cliff - YouTube[/ame]

Bushnell ones are dam good! I used to have one, until it got nicked. You can almost leave them for a year without having to change any batteries and it pops any clips straight on to a SD card. Quality item and worth the $

I remember from my IRATA training that a toothed ascender can start to strip a rope from 4kn - 400kg.

Yes, go for it, I use one for when I am using srt and also for double rope and its ideal! I use a tree motion for uk arb work when I know I wont be putting a chest harness on.

I used to often climb with gloves but after a particularly hard few weeks I got real bad wrists, kinda like carpal tunnel syndrome, I think it was because the gloves I were using were warn out and not giving me a lot of grip on the rope, this meant I was then having to hold it real tight.

Still have them handy for some jobs but I tend to avoid.

Ha, what a nutter.

A friend of mine did this. What is it with Southampton and cranes!?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaJ5dMlvg8]Crane "swing" stunt Southampton UK - YouTube[/ame]

Erm!

Has anyone considered the eldery couple who were nearly killed by ( I gather/surmise) a motorcycle that was being ridden much too fast for the road/visibility conditions at this junction.

Or their families?

Our motorcyclist made a selfish decision and died directly as a result of this decision.

btw I have good friends who ride motorbikes ...........and fast.

Regards

Marcus

But this post wasnt made about the people in the car, it was made by some one who lost a friend. You could make a post about the elderly couple if you felt inclined!? Its an assumption to say he was going to fast, if its right or wrong, there is no doubt that this is not the place to be saying it.

I live in the village just of that junction, it is a fast road, the whole road is and I have had one very close call there on my push bike.

He must have been a popular guy, the pile of flowers is getting bigger up there.

RIP.

Got a lot of time for this. Nice.

Lovely looking tree, enjoy learning to climb, its great fun.

Nice, lots of toys.

Dr Pepper and a roll-up.

Is that hole not drilled at an angle? I may be wrong but seem to remember some thing like that!? I have a 13" inch one on my 346 so will have to check it out when I next take it of. Nice bar!

I got my IRATA level one six weeks ago, its a great course!

I had a weeks worth of work felling trees of a cliff at night on the edge of the A38 nr Buckfastleigh. It was pretty hardcore work doing 12 hour shifts at night but I loved it. Descending of a tensioned traverse on top a cliff to fell 12" tree with a huge spot light on you feels pretty dam cool!

I am currently looking into how to do more of this work towards the end of the summer and over next winter. It seems like rail line work is a good place to start looking.

With me providing a range of saws and all my own climbing gear(excluding ropes) it was actually much better paid for me than standard arb work.

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