Fredward

Dan, your vids got me into treework! This one is amazing, was expecting David Attenborough to chime in at any moment, especially with that soundtrack! You will have much fun with this.

Price it high and add in that if they want to shift the wood themselves then you can knock off a hundred quid . Don't get caught out pricing it for a day and then working in the dark or having to go back the next day for free.

At least the log boys will be happy!

Fake logs, fake bricks, fake fire! What was she thinking! Does it actually give off much heat? My inlaws bought a electric flame effect fire, only 4kw?

Unicender, rope runner and bulldog bone are designed for single line without a hitch, zig-zag isn't.

A prussic would probably work fine but you might get into trouble IF you fell from the roof. Trango cinch might be work looking at as mentioned above, I believe it is safe to use in 'single leg' configuration.

Put it under, and position it behind the gaff near your heal, not ideal but works.

I worked at a nursery in NZ when I first came over, it was everywhere, but not seen it since - they called it Gorilla snot

I would have thought you might be alright if you can prove the old tart knowingly deceived you? But proving it will probably be difficult unless you asked her in an email or letter?

Oh you haven't asked them?

How can you accidentally top a tree? Either you or the arborist, or both, could prosecuted, although I'm not sure what to degree under UK law. Have a look at this though, I'm not sure if this only applies to hedges or trees too, but there is legislation against evergreens. Anti Social Hedges?! Perhaps if you trimmed your side into a hedge, then you could ague it's a hedge not a tree.

Haha, I re-read what I wrote and it was not really explaining what I meant! I meant a ascenting on a hitch only is not an accepted method on single line(?). Either a wrench is required or a croll for life support? I'm sure there are people who do it, with a pantin and hand ascender/footloop, but I don't know if it would be encouragble? I meant use a pantin in regards to using a VT and doubled rope, not as an alternative to body thrusting on single rope haha, but your right, that would be fun to see.

Ascending on a hitch only on single line? Why not chuck on a pantin and use that to eliminate thrusting.

Hard to say for sure without a picture of the needles? Not quoting from google are you?!

Great job, admire the planning and organisation involved. Looks like someone had to fork out for a few slings and a new saw too? I don't think I'd sleep too well the night before that job.

Fred Dibnah would have that down before lunch, without any cranes or excavators.

Seems very cheap! Chipper looks very smart with the new paint job. I often wonder what it must be like running a tree business in the more remote parts

Klem over both legs of the rope is fine for ascent, if useing a floating anchor it should be backed up with a stopper knot underneath, and for descents install a figure 8 below the Klem. I don't think footlocking is used all that much outside of competitions, with most 1:1 climbing being SRT based.

Its not very common but I have seen it, and I think other Pittos have similar bud but not hairy or as big?

Well done - I should have got that one, when you posted it I found myself looking through photos for ages and it was doing my head in so I gave up, I knew I recognised it!

Zelkova serrata

Hope he quoted well

I like the idea of a fresh cut at the stem, prise a little of the stem/s off of the wall and into a jar/bucket of water/roundup. Surely thats got to work!

Yeah I guess it's just laziness, much like operating one a chainsaw one handed. A lanyard should improve your work position and make life easier. Admittedly I have forgotten it occasionally but never intentionally cut without it, even with a silky, facing the opposite direction to my rope! Easy to cut your rope/bridge trying to put your silky away. I was glad when I had mine on after cutting and holding on the end of Liquidambar branch - the small branch I was stood on snapped, stopped me from taking a massive swing. I guess alot of it is who you learn from and who you work with. If they have a relaxed approach to safety, then you probably will end up with the same attitude?

In my mind, unless they are managed in an annual programme (with several visits a year), they are never going to be productive as a tree in a commercial sense. The apple trees I've worked on in orchards have been pyramidal form, with a short clear trunk at the bottom. They are not much to look at but it's one way of maximising fruit and minimising unwanted upright epicormic growth. Who wants that in their garden? The main thing clients tell me is that "all the fruit is way up there and we can't reach it". normally becuase they have let a tree get massive and keep lifting it becuase they want to get underneath with the mower. Sometimes they are just too far gone and it's better to remove them but usually they have "the best fruit I've ever tasted", you can only do what you can do, and I think those trees turned out well. I'm not a massive fan of the cartwheel form, but most plums seem to end up like this, becuase of their outward growth. I do try and leave a bit of cover in the centre to slow down the regrowth (more light = more epicormics), but sometimes there is nothing worth keeping. I can see the point the poster made about leaving the long whippy branches to droop down, but thats not always practical. I try not to mess around too much with fruit trees, looking at buds etc, unless you do it all the time you will just end up taking forever to do a job which should only take 20mins. Fruit is cheap, arborists are not, keep the clients happy and don't charge them a fortune and you'll be back next year or the year after!