Mick Dempsey
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Interesting idea, would get very short shrift from most wives I reckon.
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Arboriste grimpeur: métier/passion. | Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Ce groupe s'adresse à tous les passionnés d' élagage qui peuvent passer des heures devant le catalogue sda en se pignolant.. . aléluya la bible. Bad one here, but we can learn from it. Guy lived and is still in the game so I feel ok posting it.
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Are the powers that be a different species?
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Still lighting ours every evening, I don’t stack it up overnight though.
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Love these rants where the poster hints at the whole David Icke/lizard people thing, but stops just short. In other words Don’t go full Moonbat Never go full Moonbat
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I’ve put a big loop with a bowline at the end (poor photo, difficult to see I know) I will girth hitch the branch (is that the right terminology?) the snap the Krab on the zipline.
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Yeah, that’s a gibbon -
They’ll do for my purposes.
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Nice one, before he got the crane, more interesting vids then.
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
I have noticed an uptick in this sort of thing in 2023. -
Rattled out half a dozen for some Douglas we have to do soon, no trunk wood just branches. August Hunicke eat your heart out!
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I think my most obvious mistake is to have a Krab at both ends of my home-made slings. Impossible to get any sort of tightness in a cinch. One end should be a loop of rope/bowline type thing that you pass the Krab end through.
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Yes, I’ve seen a video of Reg Coates doing that.
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Any chance you could get a pic of one?
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Yeah, rhythm and quick cycle turnaround is key on making zipping worth the effort, so complicating it with blocks etc. is a no bueno. Height is key, agreed.
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The slings/strops are a fixed length, not enough for a clove hitch.
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Yeah, I was a bit harsh on Daffs. Heres a still from Dr Zhivago from the famous scene, apparently filmed in Spain, which I wish I never found out.
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Tulips are really the jewel in the crown of spring flowers. Daffs are all well and good but a bit monochrome. Stuck a few quids worth of assorted bulbs in November, then you get this..
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Do you have krabs both ends of you zip line strops?
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I don’t do a lot of zip lining, but maybe I should a bit more. The other day I was using the technique on a leaning acacia over some chicken houses. It went great (sorry no pics) I went up, took the rope and strops and zipped down the branches rigging them behind forks so they were securely held. When it came to the logs on the way down it was a bit more fraught. Problem is you can’t get tension on the log, so it drops and you have to hope the strop catches the log, I cut big slots in the logs to help it hold, but it doesn’t overcome the fact that the log is in free fall for a couple of feet and could escape the strop. I ended up holding the strop tight and pushing the log off with the other hand. It went ok, no dramas. Is there some way of cinching it in tight, something obvious I’m missing that the cool kids do? TIA
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Nice weather for it as well!
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You can be over-insured.
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They’re not trees Mark, they’re Leylandii.
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I know you run a serious biz. Thats all legal though is it? You’ve run it by a lawyer?
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How’s the payback over 2 year thing work?
