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  1. forestboy1978
    Not yet. I know some really good climbers local but they are full time so they will work but on weekends and i do quotes on weekends.
  2. forestboy1978
    Thanks man. I don't know what any of these pulleys etc and hitches you are talking about are. i will research. So skint ATm so sticking with prussiks. Do like them though for dangling on a brnach for a foot hold. That wet triple prussic yesterday though. I very nearly cut it off. Just would not budge. I'll never do a triple again.
  3. forestboy1978
    New Forest bud
  4. forestboy1978
    Thanks very much guys. I can't be more of a faff than climbing 50 ft up a wet ivy covered oak in the wind. Or can it????lol
  5. forestboy1978
    Next question lol..... How do one get a cambian saver up a tree and a rope through it correctly with a throw line?
  6. forestboy1978
    Bloody good point. Thanks
  7. forestboy1978
    I'm sure they wont hurt getting a bit wet if they can dry off later somewhere but what about security? I've bought https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001R4BPOI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to lock it to tree
  8. forestboy1978
    And Dempsey before you ask I am not doing the tree today. High wind and rain and my side door on my van is broken and I have to fit a locking mechanism so my stuff doesn't get knicked.
  9. forestboy1978
    The thing that annoys me about this is that the TO said, scew the pruning points. Go to width and height you've been told even if you have to sever branches. Epicormic growth and all that... I really wanted to inside and outside the 14 m diameter and 18 m heights by making nice choice cuts. Get what I mean? Like if I had to sever a branch no where near a pruning point then it wouldn't hurt to do it on a 1" branch kinda thing. Not a previous prune at 6 inches thick with no off shoots at all. I've been reading about xylem and phloem and nutrient transportation and it does NO good to make a thick cut no where near a pruning point.
  10. forestboy1978
    It is reduce to previous points. There are fences and sheds etc around the drop zone. Silky is my main weapon of choice yes. And yes Maria it is a Makita better top handle. It's actually a half decent and safe saw. No cha of kick back into your face with it. It runs slow but it'll cut 1ft branch 40 seconds or so. I priced it high cos I didn't want to win it frankly and figured, well, if I did, then it'd be worth the stress and I can but some needed kit. I cam getting the Husq battery chainsaw. Makita isn't up to the task long term.
  11. forestboy1978
    OK, but not with Dempsey lol
  12. forestboy1978
    I'm in the new forest mate. On the next one. I'm doing this on my own. It's nearly done. 1 more day.
  13. forestboy1978
    If I knew one, other than the guy who let me down then I'd have him in a shot. But i don't want to watch and get paid, I want to get up there and learn. Give me a guy who can handle no BS straight talk, ,good or bad, and will take the time to teach me and I'd love to make his acquaintance. I'm not an asshole, though some would suggest. I just do not mince my words. That's it.
  14. forestboy1978
    And you don't listen at all. I will do/ want to, learn from others. But I also like to get some basics in first on my own.
  15. forestboy1978
    The guy re rescheduled 1 week before start when it was booked for 2 months. I make a point of never relying on anyone. Especially unreliable people.
  16. forestboy1978
    yeah well I will prussik ascend but it's hard work. The ZZ is easier. I just use the lanyards when I have to to get up there but when up there is I'm walking on a limb I don't like I'll lanyard somewhere higher.
  17. forestboy1978
    ZZ for ascension and descension and prussik and lanyard for extra support on weak limbs etc.
  18. forestboy1978
    All I know is I haven't been on this job over a week or I will be getting calls from credit card companies and the like... Just don't know. Maybe I put a cambian up there before starting the job. Please stop assuming I'm lying. I try not to lie as much as possible.
  19. forestboy1978
    Mick I swear I don't know the time scales. CAn't figure it out Im drinking port.
  20. forestboy1978
    No one was around to hear me swearing mate. I'm careful. Thanks. I've worked for the client and his family for 7 years. £1500 btw
  21. forestboy1978
    Thanks man. Appreciate your candour but I'll do it and I'll do it well. It just might take me to my pensioners years. I was limbing walking today though with slack ropes knowing I was safe, even in high wind. No breakages. And wet as hell. One question,,, double prussock or triple? I couldn't budge a wet triple today. Took me an hour to work around it
  22. forestboy1978
    Well that is weird. I have no explanation. I haven't been working on this tree continuously. Customer is a regular so there might be that but I don't think I started it last monday. I think we've done 3 or 4 days on it.
  23. forestboy1978
    Oh and I love the zigzag OMG. Amazing. Any ideas how to lock zizsag ito to a tree so I dont have to re ascend to fit cambian saver?
  24. forestboy1978
    No idea when that video was from we've had a funeral, etc etc. It's irrelevant. I swear to god that that tree work is all me! And yeah it's day 4. 2 days pissing around getting grear sorted. Several hours crapping it. 1 hour today getting a triple prussock stuck in the wet and not being able to figure out how to get out of it and probably 5 times now re positioning my silky and chainsaw. Got 3 hours productive work done today and did more in that time that in the last 3 days on the job. The video proves that when i take the next video tomorrow working on some more crown reduction, that it is me, and you know that, you are just being difficult.
  25. forestboy1978
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ib7l1cjly7g90s5/20181119_140832.mp4?dl=0 That's me talking. I'll do another video whilst in the tree so you can accurately accept how much of a bellend you are. And this may take a while but I'll do a good job.

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