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  1. Chris5128
    I hit two today both buried about 3 inches under the cambium. One at waist height the other just above ground level. I assume there was a wire fence there at some point. But that's the first time in months so just one of those days.
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    I see, cheers for clearing that up. When you said court I thought you were going to say that srt is actually against some sort of regulation. I didn't think about the the insurance side of it to be honest.
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    Why would people go to court over it? I'm employed and use srt on most trees. I never actually asked my boss just brought a wrench and played about on it until I felt comfortable. It's no more dangerous in my eyes then drt. I do think it would be good to have a separate industry standard qualification as it is different to doubled rope.
  4. Chris5128
    Yeah you can. if you download the lot it's going to take up some serious space, so I've spent the day steaming it then I'll probably download a couple of parts take it out, and do a little rec climb with it
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    Just watching this now was a bit sceptical at first because I hate spending money and didn't think I'd get much out of it but the blokes great both with his own ideas and explaining other people's. Well worth a watch weather you've been doing srt for 5 minutes or 5 years
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    About the same size and climb on a tree motion everything on it can be adjusted. Took me a while to adjust everything correctly but once I did its a amazing harness
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    Yeah im confident with it. I'll go srt worse case scenario I can always swap to hitch climber
  8. Chris5128
    Happy days sounds easy did you get the job in the end?
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    Yeah I'm sure it'll be fine I know I can climb. I'm just used to working for the same people everyday so your sort of get into a rhythm. What did you have to do for your nz one? I'm not really sure what to expect.
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    I've got an exam coming up in a couple weeks for an opportunity to work abroad. I'm more nervous about it then I probably should be because I'm from a small island and I'm thinking big fish in a little pond type affair. Has anyone ever done a test like this before if so what was involved in it for you?
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    Why would you be cautious with srt. The only reason I ask is because I've got a climbing competence test to do in two weeks time and I was going to use my rope wrench as that's what I climb on everyday now. The test is for a big opportunity and I don't want to throw off the examiner/interviewer by climbing srt.
  12. Chris5128
    Big shot. to be honest more often then not im base tying it then isolating my top anchor point when I get up there. Once I've got a good top anchor I get one of the boys on the ground to untie the basal anchor I also coil the dead end of the rope if it's a all day job just keeps it from getting dragged all over the worksite with the brush and it's easier for the groundies if they're not having to untangle it.
  13. Chris5128
    This is the way I've been doing it before I got the pinto pulley. Just make sure the gate of the carabiner is away from the trunk to eliminate that slight chance of it opening itself if in doubt chuck another one in there. Or even a steel mallion with a small spanner attached to it.
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    Wow I've just brought a pinto pulley purely to have on my srt anchor that's unnerved me a bit now the whole concept of that style of anchor was eliminate rope on rope wear. (Also I wouldn't climb on that rope anymore weather it would pass loler or not. It would always be on my mind . It's a ball ache to pay for a new one but for the sake of a 100 quid it's not worth hitting the deck over)
  15. Chris5128
    Getting it up and running was ok it was trusting and double checking it that took the time.
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    the bear. An Alaskan malamute with a lot of energy and a lot of fur. Coming up to 5 cracking dog (until she malts)
  17. Chris5128
    No sadly not there was so much going on everyone was busy on the ropes which is a shame really because it came down so smooth.
  18. Chris5128
    Yeah exactly that. lowered the stem onto chogs. There was a hell of a lot of weight which was why I was nervous but both pines had 2x 18mm lowering ropes, grcs, 2x Impact blocks, some Isc heavy duty pulleys and some hopes and dreams
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    all sorted few bouncy moments but came down smoothly in the end
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    I think 2 grcs's will take it but I'm definitely nervous about it I've been to look at it on 3 different occasions hoping I missed something the first 2 times. If there was anyway I could I'd just cut it at the base and drag it down with the tirfor but sadly that's not an option. I've done trees like this before but with the help of a crane.
  21. Chris5128
    took the fence down today there's stuff like water pumps a pond and other general fun stuff underneath. My plan was grcs in each of the pines nibble away at the euc take as much weight out of it as possible then try and lower the trunk down the path (drift rigging it).
  22. Chris5128
    I've got this eucalyptus to do. It all has to lowered due to targets can't the cranes anywhere near it but I do have 2 grcs's. I have a plan and am pretty confident about it but I suppose I'm just seeking some reassurance or find out if anyone would go about differently. Cheers guys
  23. Chris5128
    I shortened mine on the second climb. Cut the stitch on one side and just re-tied the knot. If you replace the bridge the new ones don't come with the little red stitch.
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    Took about 3.5 hours. Started at the top, worked a section all the way to the bottom then came round anticlockwise. The job spec was to reduce it enough to get the sea views from upstairs windows. To be honest it may not be perfect but I was well chuffed with it. most people on this forum have done more years then I've done months and with the amount of users on this fouram i think it's good to get the feedback. You can't improve if you don't know what to improve.

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