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  1. Rupe

    Beech Trees - Simply the Best

    Beech trees every time for climbing, as long as its dry your boots stick like on gritstone. And not to bad for TD's heavy yes but usually nicely laid out and easy to rig. Pic is of the biggest TD beech I've done.
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    Two Brits in Euro Master!

    And Phillipa won the ladies!!!!!!
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    Two Brits in Euro Master!

    Jon wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stu fifth. Well done to both, UK very well represented.
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    Two Brits in Euro Master!

    Well three actually! Three UK climbers in the Masters!!!!!! Jon Turnbull, Stuart Witt and Philipa Allen Sureley we'll have a winner this year! I know that Johan Gustavson is in the mens but not sure who else, non of the usual suspects made it.
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    Its Judge on the Telly!!!

    Thats some quality editing by the BBC! They were there (Brussels) filming for full two days for that footage. If I remember correctly Alistair McGee wore the helmet cam while demoing the work climb, that footage is then edited into Jon Turnbull's climb.
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    European Tree Climbing Competition

    What, us as in you and me Mark? or us as in Arbos? See you in Cirencester this weekend?
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    European Tree Climbing Competition

    According to wikipedia, the park is described as "In the night remains, unfortunately, a place of dubious frequentazioni".
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    Tonka Tuff does it again!

    [ QUOTE ] what, what, what.......... Americans have no clue what you just said. The most confusing time in the US was when our government tried to go metric(it's a great theroy, just could not get the "dumb masses" to change) [/ QUOTE ] When I buy new tools, wrenches sockets etc, the...
  9. Rupe

    motorcycle as an estimate vehicle

    I've not read this whole thread but I'm just adding my experience on this issue. My old boss bought a Ducati ST1 or 2. Its a sports tourer, but to laymen its a flash red motorbike. He used it for quotes (bids) as he said it saved him time in the traffic and was economical ish to run. He'd...
  10. Rupe

    re-direct pulley.

    The size of the redirect pulley would depend on the angle of the rope going through it and of course the load weight. Generally though redirects are usually used to guide the branches away from the trunk and/or into a suitable landing area. By the time you get to the larger (heavier) wood there...
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    re-direct pulley.

    I have a couple of ISC 50Kn gold pulleys on loopie slings, very quick to set up.
  12. Rupe

    Video: Hanging from saddle

    So even though Ekka has been removed, my above post comes out as re: Ekka
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    Video: Hanging from saddle

    what?
  14. Rupe

    Blue Band-It

    I use mine on everything, definatly worth having. Especially if you use a hitch climber.
  15. Rupe

    May 1st.

    Hooray Hooray the first of May. Outdoor ******* starts today!!!
  16. Rupe

    What rigging gear do you use?

    I Only have one GRCS (so far!) 60m of 16mm stable braid. (long enough to spread the load through various pulleys, or to transfer to another tree) 45m of 19mm stable braid. 50m of retired KM111 for speedline, and light wieght lifting/lowering. various bit of old climbing limb, for retrieval...
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    Retrievable doubled rope redirect

    Here's an old picture of another set up to add to the list. I don't think I ever used it except for testing it works ok, but like murph's system (which is genius!) its quite a complicated set up with rope everywhere. More recently I've been using the M technique with much greater results. The...
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    My new Hobbs H2

    So what rope were you using to lift the chipper? And how easy is it to lock it off on the Hobbs?
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    My new Hobbs H2

    [ QUOTE ] The conifer was actually a deodar cedar and I was tied in elsewhere. [/ QUOTE ] Cedar? So even heavier than if it were pine or conifer. Good work, and no wonder your tied in elsewhere, I wouldn't lower pieces like that off my anchor point/stem.
  20. Rupe

    My new Hobbs H2

    3/4 is a big fat rope Reg! Were tied in to the same point that those pieces were lowered from? I'm talking about those big pine heads, not the gay poplar chunks!

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