Mick Dempsey

Prince Andrew in the news again. That bloke could end the monarchy, absolute clustercluck

It’s appeared on the BBC website in the last hour.

Where’d you read that Stubs?

I don’t think you’d struggle for work, especially as a climber, qualifications or not.

Little chainsaws.

Mor euc, some cedar (maybe)

Motorway work is hard graft.

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I know right?! even at 61 I’m still trying to get into the habit, one day I’ll be able to do it gunfighter style like @Rich Rule

Best thing about the 020t was the easily removable baffes, instant power boost (and eardrum punisher) 200t good saw, but limited lifespan, sought after by industry newbies who think it’ll turn them into Instagram heroes.

Au contraire, I went into a rental machinery repair shop the other day. Courant had a little stand there, a couple of harnesses, a range of biners, some other bits and bobs, I bet you it was sale or return (the shop only pays for what they sell) I picked up a prussik and a tool holder thing you stow your saw on your harness. Pleased as punch with my couple of bits.

Some krabs, some rope and a few prussiks, just for emergencies and an old impulse buy.

All poplar, last one possibly a lombardy poplar.

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Tell us yours..

@AHPP Whilst I wouldn’t call your views on employment infantile, they always strike me as having more than a whiff of a six form common room about them, simplistic, poorly thought out and mainly articulated to look edgy and to try to get in the Goth birds knickers. Everyone being self employed may, at a pinch, work for something like tree work. But most businesses, manufacturers of things like cars or furniture or whatever, need stability of a workforce, especially the skilled ones, some kind of guarantee of work and therefore money……an employment contract if you will. The advantages are the company can press ahead with projects, reasonably secure having a stable workforce, on his side the employee can look to the future with some confidence, borrow money, have kids, buy a house etc. It’s mutually beneficial.

That’s a good example of what I consider counter productive work. Setting that cedar up for losing limbs.

There’s a video thing that Lawrence Schultz does, google it. Lots of peeps say it’s really good, you’ll have to pay, but either way you’ll have to put your hand in your pocket.

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I suppose I asked for that!

In the mid nineties in my first year in the job I worked with a 55 year old, he didn’t like me much and the feeling was mutual. On one rare occasion I was allowed to climb we had a decent size oak to wreck in a bit of woodland, he let me do it as it was easier for him to ground on this tree than climb as there was no clear up. We used three strand bullrope as rigging rope in those days. Repeatedly walking round the tree to gain friction would have been a ballache and time consuming, so to avoid doing that he cut a nearby Holly down to two feet and left two or three side branches to a foot or so to create a natural porta wrap. If you’ve ever tried to uproot a Holly you’ll know how resistant they are to being pulled out and he knew that. Big branches and lumps bombed down on the rope held fast by this stump, with wraps round a branch or two of the Holly to add friction. Is there a point to this story? Maybe not, but at a push I’d say that there’s not much new that hasn’t been done in one form or another since the start of guys working with ropes and trees. Except for the pre tensioning/lifting of loads with the devices I’ve already mentioned, guys were dealing with the rigging problems we faced, and dealing with them in different ways before we’d drawn breath.

Oh yeah, he said it. Onto the bonfire he goes, who’s next?

Yeah, they’re good, easy to install, seem robust enough for all but insane loads.

Rigging rings/topping strops, not really a technological leap is it?

Apart from the GRCS and the Hobbs I see nothing new in the rigging market since God was a boy. Everything else solve problems that don’t exist.