5thelement
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Neither.
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It’s never too late, you just need your luck to change and it won’t if you retreat, I’ve trained climbers in their sixties to do bat survey work. If you go on the LANTRA website it will come up with all the training providers running courses in your area, dodge the colleges, they are limited on timescales for courses and in my experience are quite often mediocre.
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So they never change or clean the bearings, just keep adding grease, there’s the problem then.
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I mostly only use Husqvarna, all my modern saws have a grease point in the stub. Maybe they need to grease them more regularly then to prevent problems occurring?
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That’s a shame. I don’t know anyone up that end of the country sadly. Loads of work in Kent, you could be in a course in weeks and working the next day in Chestnut coppice. There are several competition hedge layers that I trained in that area too who might be able to offer or know of hedge work. PM me if you want any details.
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I grease mine on all my saws once a week, never had any failures or issues in decades.
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Stinking wet Poplar.
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2 rope climbing are we sticking to the rules
5thelement replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Climbers talk
I am talking about employers/companies allowing climbers to work on one rope and leaving themselves in the firing line for court action in the event of a serious accident. Out of interest, since the HSE implemented the changes, how many serious accidents have you heard of where the two rope working was proven to be the cause? -
2 rope climbing are we sticking to the rules
5thelement replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Climbers talk
I am pretty sure these two where involved in demonstrating to the HSE just how safe and effective climbing on one rope is, but to no avail, the HSE had already made up their minds. No one, including trainers and assessors pushed for, or welcomed mandatory two rope working. The end of the day, climb on two ropes or one, it’s up to you, and up to you to explain in court why you made those decisions in the event of a catastrophic injury or accident. -
They don’t tend to slip out if you back them up with traditional wedges. I only use jacks if felling on steep terrain where the jack can be positioned in the lower/back part of the stump to prevent losing too much quality timber.
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I am pretty sure it was David Cameron who said that a Syrian refugee in the Uk costs £68,000 per year to the taxpayer, as opposed to £1500 in Foreign Aid if they where helped in their own Country.
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How can he not remember with who, where and when he did them??? Not to worry, if he actually did do them he will have LANTRA certificate of training for each course and a LANTRA ID number that you could use to ask LANTRA to send out a new set of workbooks, they will charge you as he will have already received them previously. If he hasn’t got any of this information for you to reference it’s unlikely he actually did any of the courses.
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My mature Horsechestnut tree’s defoliated in late August due to the drought conditions in France, the Walnuts held on till the end of September, Belgium has experienced a similar prolonged heatwave.
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2 rope climbing are we sticking to the rules
5thelement replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Climbers talk
The Forestry Contracting Association proposed a similar course of action for new UK forestry workers, the HSE where all ears until FISA rubbished the idea. -
Definitely Walnut.
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The single tree is under guidebar, so 15”. It’s aimed at the Woodland Trust, RSPB type volunteer or gamekeeper who just needs to deal with an individual blown stem, not what we have to deal with in a genuine wind blown situation with large trees. You book the course and assessment that you need and don’t need to do both.
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The new single wind blown ticket is not what you think it is, it is aimed at estate workers etc who have to deal with the occasional small tree that is blocking a bridle way etc, hence you can do the course with just maintenance and cross cutting. The multiple is the proper ticket that you are familiar with, needing the medium tree ticket as a pre requisite.
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2 rope climbing are we sticking to the rules
5thelement replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Climbers talk
He probably stopped climbing around the time you started, so not really that long ago. -
They did away with the single wind blown years ago, it’s one ticket now.
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The NPTC Assessment covers single, interwoven, snapped out tops, uprooted and multiple stems.
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Just the bore down in front of the hinge to extend the length if the fibres, I’m not convinced about the sharks gill portion.
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Ive seen this cut done many times in Munich. Mostly on backward leaning Oaks that where being winched, not seen it practiced outside of Germany.
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Experienced UK climber in France: need more info
5thelement replied to Domstrees92's topic in International Arborist Forum
Have you got a French or EU passport, or are you looking down the work visa route? You can’t just rock up here to live and work without the above anymore. -
It will dry by the fire right enough.😂
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I know two guys here in France who bought saws for milling, both the dealers set the saws up with solid nosed bars, I hadn’t seen one in years.
