Ledburyjosh

Pinto and a rope wrench or an actual rigging wrench do a lot. A suprising amount of weight is needed for the rope to run.. that would trump a porta wrap in a tree for sizes within its capacity for both Branches and stem. I like it for 2 man lifting jobs to. The wrench can be added to one of the pulleys. Branches lifted up and away by the grounds person then the wraps are taken off and the clumber controls the rope to lower. Seems to work well on pieces around d 100kg or so... maybe more. For a stem though.. I've never thought of a pulley or ring needing much altering beyond what the safe block has done.. that said I've never felt the need for a safe block either.

I agree with Joe. I briefly tried a DMM Boa thinking it'll be a good idea being a huge wide carabiner... it was wank. @Wwallace52590 I just settled with a DMM UltraO. Are you using sewn eyes of knots in your pressing loop? If the later swap to sewn. An Ultra O can easily accommodate sewn eyes, a tether and pulley.

@Pete Mctree thanks. Thats Bob. The go to man for crane removals in Cumbria. He spends a lot of time doing tree work. He good and really nice.

The head on it was crispy, and over the fence and Llama pen below. So dropping branches was a limited option without rigging, which was also limited my 60m rig line, the rigging point would have been about 32m up. The stem and whole Tree was also weighted quite a bit towards where the wagon is sat. So free falling logs would have also been a pain to get them going without tag lines. As well as needing to put a gob in from both sides on the lower half with a 661, which is hard. We also looked at a straight fell, but to consequential should the slightest thing had gone wrong. Primarily an unknown hing quality, it Autumn the lower 1m of the stem was a Honey fungus garden on all sides. So the short answer, a crane had it done by 1330 with no damage or stress and way less fatigue.

A dead fir being removed VID-20260121-WA0006.mp4

Couger non CE, is the one I use with a BDB. I also have tachyon and x static. The Xstatic is stiff and doesn't flatten much which makes it hard work on the BDB. Fine with the RRP, but aren't they all? Tachyon is stretchy and annoying in any length more than 20m.

If work is your thing it makes sense. Stopping activity does do you any favours. For me I'm not into it, work for me is earning money to do hobbies. As such the conflict more as you age.. or atleast I am finding. As someone else pointed out reductions are harder, killing trees amd rigging on spikes is much easier.

Mega well done. I had a go at a gym the start of the year, lifted 120kg and thought I was going to either snap or shit myself...

This is to true.. I like to rock climb to a reasonable level.. tree works limits this more than I care for. For me the out of climbing is in progress, surveying/Consultancy being the option which im tryin to increase.. or sack it all off and train as a sparkie.

Stihl comms fit straight onto petzl lids. The stihl comms are good, but have one major issue, that being when your phone rings (assuming it's connected) it mutes your mic.. so you can be mid way through some important instruction, winch or rigging commands etc, have a phone call and it cuts your mic out. Utterly shit idea. If you do take the call you also still have all the other chat/noise coming into your speakers as well, also shit.

Has anyone ever had a ventile jacket? https://hilltrek.co.uk/clothing/smocks/braemar-hybrid-smock/

I've ordered a couple of frame packs now.. went for the Tatonka ones..

Possible that we can get closer through a FC site, which needs checking out. But still, up to a 1km of walking may depending on where we'll be working..

My Eder winch doesn't fit in a normal pack. That's one of this things that'll need carrying up for some of the work

Has anyone experience with one of these vs the fjallraven one? https://amzn.eu/d/5TkbgwQ Fire Brigade Frame WWW.FJALLRAVEN.COM Stable aluminum frame and support system for large, cumbersome packs or other objects that must be carried... I have a job clearing regen up a fell side so looking for options of carrying in fuel, saws etc in for three day.