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  1. Treetom15
    That’s a lovely job there mate, shame you’ve sold it! Was that something you built yourself or did you mod a tipper back off a transit etc?
  2. Treetom15
    Thanks very much mate, pictures are a big help! Luckily my truck is stripped down at the moment as I’m doing a good bit of work to it, so I’ve plenty of time to fiddle and play around!
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    That was exactly my thinking. I found a transit tipper back complete with ram, electronics and everything I needed for £250, I don’t think it had the alloy boards but I can add those. It’s mostly how/where to mount the ram in the back of the truck, I’ve seen how to fit to a single cab but my issue is how much room the double cab takes up
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    I don’t suppose you have any pics of it do you? Sorry I know it’s a long shot, just desperately looking for more info about ram fitting etc!
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    As the title suggests, I’ve recently bought a crewcab truck-mk3 Toyota Hilux. The chassis and cab is sound, but the tub on the back is a bit rough. I’m torn between stripping and welding the tub, or out my efforts into making a tipper back. The idea was always to do a tipper eventually but I’ve only seen people convert the single cabs? Looking for info on placement for the ram and tipping gear, I’m obviously aware that a crewcab won’t hold as much, but I think it would be a good addition!
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    Don’t quote me on this, but when I looked into it the max working load of the big ISC block was the same as the small DMM block, so I just went for the DMM. Much better build quality, better finish, bearing are smooth as. Not the sort of kit that wear out every year so may as well buy the best you can afford!
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    @monkeybusiness have spoken to the driver and the company, they are providing me with a quote for a hire lift and a contract lift, which will be what I book! Thanks for raising that point mate, like I said the planning of the job is not something I’ve had to do before so I’d rather get all the facts
  8. Treetom15
    I will speak to the operator tomorrow and clarify this, as you said if it is a hire and something was to happen I would rather have the backup of the company the crane and operator came from!
  9. Treetom15
    Good point, thanks for that! Will have a chat with him tomorrow, he does a lot of crane work for the arb guys in my area so he will know the score
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    I’m employing the driver and machine for 1 day, so a contract lift I think? As I said, I haven’t organised something like this before, it’s usually a case of just show up and do as you’re told haha!
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    As the title suggests, I’m looking for advice as to exactly what I need to have in place for an upcoming job. I’ve done crane work before but always for a company as an employee or a subby. Basically I want to make sure I am all properly above board as the job is in a built up area. I am properly insured (Tree Surgeon Insurance Services) but I want to make sure paperwork is all up to scratch. I’m aware I will need a generic RA for tree works, a site specific RA on the day and a method statement for works. I’m basically after advice from people who’ve done this before, and anyone who can point me towards some templates (I’ve found the method statement one on the AA website?) Any help would be much appreciated! Tom
  12. Treetom15
    Not a subby here, but I’d say that’s a pretty shitty trick your employer is pulling. If you’ve booked out 3 days for him, and he clearly has enough put on the job, why not pay you guys for the last 20% Worth of work on the 3rd day-early finish, everyone’s happy, and job gets done. If work gets cancelled out of their control then it’s a different matter and that’s the risk being self employed, but the only thing he will encourage like that is people will drag the jobs out longer because they want their day rate!
  13. Treetom15
    I’m after a new set of spikes, and the Kk’s look brilliant-like the carbon distils but a touch cheaper and come with the foot ascender. Only question I have is, has anyone on here bought any and had to pay import tax etc on them? They’re about £330ish, just checking if any big tax sting will make them lass good value! Cheers
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    Is there a video on how to use this thing? It looks awesome. There may be somewhere online but I’m not sure myself sorry! If I remember next time I use it I’ll grab a vid ?
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    For about 3 weeks I was convinced they were the worst boots I’d ever owned, my heals were in bits and they wouldn’t soften up. 18 months later I’m totally changed, so long as you look after the leather with proper boot wax mine have lasted great. I’d say they’re probably 70/30 climbing/ground and once they bed in they’re nice and light, and the soles are nice and narrow for climbing in. Nearing the end of their life now but if they make it to 2 years I will definitely buy more!
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    This is my go-to canopy anchor- So long as you remove your climbing system from the rope and remember to attach your retrieval ball it’s a winner. Just stick your rope thru the saver and put an alpine butterfly with a ‘biner in the other side. Zero friction to retrieve, easy to set and so much safer than a base anchor EDIT-the “live” end of the line (where your friction device would be) is on the RIGHT, just to cover my own arse ?‍♂️
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    I know it kinda defeats the purpose of making your own, but a petzl chicane is about £115 on FR Jones, might be cheaper in time vs money?
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    As daft as it may sound, utility arb (?) might not be a bad place to start? I worked for a company who did 60/40 utility/domestic arb and due to the nature of utility work I got plenty of time climbing, and quickly! Plus company’s are always looking for guys, and the money isn’t bad. Lots of small 2 man band style company’s are just after that 3rd man to drag brash all day, nothing wrong with that but not ideal if you want to get stuck in and learn!
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    Spot on. The amount of guys I’ve worked with that have never signed or filled out a RA before starting work is mad. Also when you see the state of some of the kit people are happy to climb on it is truly worrying, there are SO many things the AA could be concentrating on to make our industry safer, rather than adding complications to an area that doesn’t need it ?‍♂️ Hopefully 2020 will bring some better understanding of how to create a safer work environment for everyone
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    Does it seem daft to anyone else that we have to run 2 separate climbing lines from the same bridge? My treemotion harness (like many others) has a 10mm rope bridge, so surely it’s fairly irrelevant how many rope systems you have if the point they are attached to is the same?! Obviously you get round this with the TM evo but not everyone uses them.
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    Saw this the other day and it was a timely reminder just how vulnerable you are on a Basel anchor- There is too many factors that can cause a base anchor to fail- falling branches, sharp items on the anchor point, increased risk of the anchor point in the canopy failing, inexperienced ground staff damaging the base anchor.......
  22. Treetom15
    As said above-a foot ascender is a good investment for either srt or ddrt ? I would offer a suggestion re the rope wrench-i would say it’s definitely worth buying the proper thing, however if you decide srt isn’t your thing, you can always use the rope wrench coupled with a dmm pinto rigging pull to make a rig’n’wrench, amazing for lite rigging ?
  23. Treetom15
    I’ve got Drenaline and it’s good for both, although no one seems to have any at the moment! Yale kernmaster is my fave but it’s 11mm so “technically” too small for a zigzag
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    Good point RE insurance claims, although now they’ve brought in climbing on 2 ropes at all times I don’t know how any of us would fair in an incident involving srt/ddrt if we weren’t compliant with that ?
  25. Treetom15
    From what I’ve seen, other devices (rope runner, Akimbo etc) seem much more popular in the USA and as they don’t have to be ce marked for over there I can see why they wouldn’t be in any rush to make them available to a much smaller market ? zz & chicane is ce marked, do you need it to be ce marked for your employer?

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