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Are we looking at the same harness here? The one I see is is a direct rip-off of a Petzl Avao sit. It is most definitely NOT a fall arrest harness!

Whereas you seem to no longer grasp that cutting / nicking the bridge was EXACTLY the point of the 'safety bridge' in the original post. Your 6 years of tree climbing experiance means that the whole screwgate / self-locker farce is probably before your time. A trip down memory lane..... Once apon a time, tree climbers used screwgates to great effect. You opened in, you inserted your rope, you clicked it shut, you screwed it secure. Nothing to go wrong (except cursing to get the things open after cold wet climbs). When you were very high up, or above a nasty pointy fence, you may subconsciously make sure they were shut - but they always were. One day, a Darwin candidate decided to not bother with the screwy-securey function and took a nasty tumble. Our industry (not the authorities) decided to adopt self-lockers as they 'just had to be safer'. What follows was a spate of incidents and near misses, attracting the attention of the HSE, who advised that where self-lockers were used, it was essential for the user to check thay were locked The End. Not exactly progress is it. Just ask any person who is competent to examine climbing equipment in line with LOLER 98 which type gives more problems. Screwgate? Self-locker? Self-lockers.... a prime candidate for an example of the illusion of safety.

But surely the 'actual second (approved) bridge' is not there for 'added security', it is there to ease rope management, and to assist in good work positioning. For 'added security' I would propose that it becomes second nature to cut with a level of skill and attention so that you never endanger your bridge (or your rope, or you abdomen - all of which are only inches from your bridge!). The harm in a 'secondary back-up bridge' is that it peddles the illusion of safety.

It would appear that you have seen double bridges, and have assumed that they are there as some kind of over the top 'risk-adverse' control measure, rather than being there to facilitate good rope management and work positioning. Having a second bridge for pseudo-safely reasons will do nothing to make using a saw in a tree safer. Good work positioning, and good and well honed saw-manship is what is essential to achieve reducing the risk of using a saw in a tree. Implying that you have made their life safe by adding an extra bridge, WILL simply mean that most climbers take less care with positioning themselves in relation to the saw, and less care of things like kickback avoidance. I have 20+ years of sawing in a tree. My bridge has never once been even slightly at peril. I think less time should be spent pondering second bridges for pseudo-safety, and more time pondering how to gain confidence in the tree. I suggest starting with thinking about work positioning and saw use.

That's very interesting. Do you have any links please? Thanks.

Bob, isn't 'Treementia' when you rock up at someone house, and you can't for the life of you remember why you are there?

Are you considering 'competitive pricing' in order to get market share from established suppliers? Maybe go the other way, and rather than being yet another new-start applying downward pressure to the log market, charge a premium, and rise above it..... [ame] [/ame]

pmsl.

Price it as you would any other job..... It is just possible that the quote received is indeed stupidly high. Rather than saying that they don't fancy the job, or can't do the job, most people just put in a stupid high price and hope they don't get it (Face-saver price). Once quoted though, don't get into any further discussion - they are almost certainly a nightmare client. .......bloody funny if they look at arbtalk sometimes though. How miffed would you be, seeing your proposed job getting slated on a public forum, lol.

Good luck with that. Once the 'orangery' is flattened, there is no chance that the property owners insurance will be coughing up.....

Do you trucks have a royal crest displayed on the side? If so, probably best not to consider chancing a fell.....

But he didn't ask for anyones opinion. He asked for support. If you feel you can't offer support, maybe do something else (like getting off the internet, and interacting with your family (oh, the irony)).

Thank god you clarified. For a moment there you came across as the most judgey of all of the judgey things

Location wise, here are my bets: South coast, Fowey estuary. North coast Camel estuary.

Which is why I generally don't bother to post. lol.