Mr. Squirrel
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Don’t. Boa and Cobra are shite. As if that shock absorber actually does anything… get on to tree worker and use their bracing would be my advice, so much easier to install and a much better product in my opinion. Also sure it works out cheaper long term. You need to have a few extra bands lying about, sure, but that’ll hardly break the bank.
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I used to. With arborisk 🤔 Insurance companies are such bastards. I hope you manage to figure this out. I read the fine print and some of it is just illogical. My commercial vehicle policy with says I’m covered towing a trailer, but not a machine trailer. So a 750kg tow behind chipper is a no no, but a 3.5T trailer is fine 🤷🏻
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Have you tried speaking to distel? I’ve had spares from them directly in the past. They were really easy to deal with and very helpful.
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I’d also add to keep your steps small.
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To my mind, if you can’t climb and have no intention of climbing I’d just stop right there.
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I think it's eta is November, so presume it'll appear in the UK for pre-orders some time over the next month or so...?
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His heads that far up his arse he probably thinks it is. I used to think he was really switched on and put on a bit of an act. I’ve come to realise he might just be an idiot. A very powerful, deluded, idiot with no understanding or care of his actions and a complete lack of empathy.
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I mean, by the sound of it it’s mostly a British thing… interpreting anything in the Daily Mail as a fact is a school boy error I was chatting to a friend in Germany the other day, he said if anything there’s an excess of drivers at the moment 🤷🏻
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Have a look at wherever you buy kit, you can still buy the old one. The evo is fine, but it’s a heavy bugger. The new front D’s are probably the biggest improvement imo, but again, at a weight cost. They released new buckles and then changed them as they slipped really badly. Personally I’ve no problems with the newer ones. The waist to hip still slips but they always did.
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I didn’t say not to, I was just curious why? Seems extra hassle to pull up and tie off a block that isn’t getting used, and I wondered if it was liable to be damaged by the ring resting against it. Or do you have both so that you can loosen off the ring and use the pulley for winching, or something along those lines?
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Nice job. What’s with the ring/block setup though? It love like the rigging line is going through both?
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And I would have, but my test was cancelled following this announcement. So that’s a problem.
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It's bonkers really. And the hitching & unhitching part will be done at training centres I believe. Except that needs to be done off the road, and the people they expect to pick up the extra work here don't necessarily have the space for it. Not to mention peoples entire businesses have essentially just been wiped out. While in theory it sounds great, I think in reality it's a desperate, ill conceived move that will amount to nothing, if we're lucky.
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I smell a U-turn in the pipeline.
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That’s the crack. They’re also omitting reversing from the hgv test. Sounds like a lot of haulage companies and insurance companies understandably want nothing to do with people who’ve been fast tracked in this manner though. You can’t have a 17 year old rushed through a test like that and now driving a 45 tonne lorry. Sounds like it’s similar with trailers, though it might be legal to tow, when/if these new laws come into force, insurance companies will likely still insist on professional training. Our government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. While it sounds great, it’s clearly a panicked decision and I’ll be amazed if any good actually comes from this.
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😂 Hardly, we've got a massive driver shortage because of leaving the EU, so they're scrapping towing tests so that there are more tests free for HGV's. Just off the phone with a lorry driver who said haulage companies will probably be reluctant to hire drivers who've passed under these new rules too.
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I've got my trailer test booked for Tuesday the 14th too. Would've been nice if they'd given a better idea of when the new regs will come into play as I need to be able to tow within the next couple of weeks.
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To be honest I would do that anyway. They're both expensive bits of kit and it'll be a stinger if you whack it with a big bit of timber. There's some minor play in my winch bollard too. I think that's alright, but harken have a lot of info on winch bollard maintenance. It's not that complicated, and very common place in yacht racing.
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Ascenders are designed to be used on ropes. Don’t worry about it.
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How’d you get on J? I sold my transit custom earlier this year for roughly what I paid for it three years and 65k miles ago.
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Again, familiarity with site history is important. Though you keep talking about how the risks are incredibly low, there WAS an incident at scone involving SBD. Trees throughout scone palace and the events field are now regularly surveyed by a very competent person. I don’t believe this sign was put up as an arboricultural recommendation but more reflects the anxieties of the property owners. Surely the fact that they are regularly surveyed over rules a sign asking people not to sit there? I’d say there’s a higher likelihood of occupancy between someone walking underneath it (which I believe most people don’t, as there’s a banking on the other side) and sitting, perhaps having a picnic beneath it (quite likely as it’s close to the outdoor seating from the cafe. You seem very eager to criticise, which is easy when you’re spouting off on the internet as opposed to putting your name on a survey.
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You're very critical of the sign in the photograph, but are you familiar with the site history? You state in your SBD guide that 'If any of our trees have a history of SBD then we'll manage the risk to an Acceptable level'. So what's to say that this tree hasn't historically dropped a large section? I've witnessed SBD on 3 occasions, but I've never witnessed a failure due to decay first hand. Anecdotally that would suggest that if the risk of SBD is 'mind-bogglyingly low' then the risk of failure due to decay is... bamboozlingly low? I'm not sure what the technical term for this level of risk would be in the VALID system.
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Always have a pair in the truck. Great for big/busy trees where it's a little tricky to see what you've thrown over.
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The fact that you don’t think you could get hurt using a throwing hook suggests to me you haven’t actually used them much or you use them for little traverses where you could just swing. It’s laughable that I’ve often seen you cite industry code of practice or whatever, and yet you climb using random crap off eBay.
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Nope. If someone showed me that and told me they were actually using it I’d beat them over the head with it. Don’t be stupid. It might not be recognised as PPE but it’s certainly used in a such a manner that were it to fail, you could incur serious injury. To the OP, they’re dear for what they are, but very useful when you need one. The epple hook is also a good option.
