timbernut
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Yes I get that! My daughters ex is a level 2 irata climber and he just couldn’t get his head round how we know an anchor point is safe!
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The only time I’ve had a near miss was when a bit of ivy jammed my lockjack open and I dropped 20’ (from about 40’) I managed 2 grab a passing limb which stopped me but it felt like my arm was wrenched out of socket. Was very lucky
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When I did my climbing course (circa 1999), and on assessment, we were expected to do a pre climb check of one another’s knots and harness, considering you should always have 2 climbers on a team it doesn’t seem too onerous to do this, maybe if we had some sort of level 1 2 3 rules so an experienced climber is always mentoring. Surely this would almost negate the kind of accidents regularly occurring in our industry and prevent people from just jumping in at the deep end post assessment Also we, probably, wouldn’t be facing this ridiculous new system When this thread started,a few weeks ago, I asked the lad we have out one day a week from college if they had started using 2 ropes and he said no...... 2 weeks later it was a yes!
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I’d love one, dear though, think someone on here test drove one and said it felt underpowered
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Cool I’d only seen a short vid of the actual run so thanks for posting![emoji106]
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Was the Valtra not on ice as well?
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As Dan Maynard said last year was a very heavy mast year which was, i thought, in part due to the stress of chalara, we’ve just started felling 400 or so road and right of way side near Norwich, none had seed on when I priced the job earlier in the year
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Yea there’s a few Arbtalk mambas who can’t help it
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Hi Mick, if the piston/barrel isn’t scored you’d get away with just replacing the ring at only a few quid, did it to my 560 couple of years ago as piston was slapping a bit, it was used constantly until a couple of weeks ago when it started racing (sucking air into bottom end from round flywheel when warm). Would’ve thought yours worth doing?
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They’re amazing! Do you make the Damascus or buy blades in? -
Thanks, yep just looked them up and then popped seed out, though the pod looks quite mutated compared to pics I found online!
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As per the title! It was on a magnolia, which had been hacked about last year. Presume it’s fruit, particularly as it appears to be opening?
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Think it’s called fasciation there’s an old thread somewhere on AT about it (where I learned about it after posting similar pics of willow or ash with ‘flat’ twigs), think it’s bacterial
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Was it a versa cut bar? I had one de laminate after an hours use, never had a problem with the older ones tho
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We have noticed the grain is not as fibrous as it was when felling and they break away from the stump sooner, also spoke to a friend who does a lot of roadside work for County Highways and he said the same thing
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If you lay a stick in the gob it pops the stem off the hinge n it jumps forward. I was dubious when colleague first told me but tried it n it works
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Poor old Sean Vary, always being victimised by the lefty bbc for his entrepreneurial endeavours in arb......
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She’s been with us 4 weeks now and is already as big as our patterdale and a real live wire[emoji3]
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Great find Rough, there’s also some beauties at Croft Castle near Leominster, I’m sure some of them are a similar dbh and, apparently, are believed to come from the pocket of a shipwrecked Spanish sailor from the Armada so after 1588. I could b wrong on dbh as it was a few years ago and veteran trees seem to b a bit like ‘the one that got away’
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I have p500, it came I n a rigging starter kit, which paid for itself within a couple of months and definately got me more subby work with at least 2 small firms I do work for, can’t fault it [emoji106]
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Ok ok, I know that it’s best practice to bury the wire properly, which is what I always did when I did a fair bit until about 10years ago but it was on a day rate. But there must be a rough average per metre..... just folded?
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Hi, sorry phone mislaid[emoji849]not being dug in just folded out, didn’t think of that, though of course can make big difference to labour!
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Hi , a friend of mine has asked me what the price per metre is for rabbit fencing (labour wise). He’s not particularly keen on doing it but it’s an ‘in’ for a load of other work that he does want. 1.2 m mesh 4” posts 6” strainers but not sure on the metreage(?)Thanks in advance John
