Tree climbing kit?

[Kram]

Do you know anyone further away? Travel isnt a problem.

I will need a couple days training for the climbing/rescue ones but Im ready for saw and felling.

 

[mtt.tr]

Sorry missed your comment

Yes, David rossney for ground felling, fantastic chap, brilliant feller

Welcome to Esus Forestry & Woodlands

www.esusforestry.co.uk

 

[Kram]

Great that looks perfect, doesnt have address but the phone is Cranbrook which is only half hour drive away so its local.

Also if your available some time to teach me climbing and tree stuff, I will happily pay something for it.

 

[mtt.tr]

Wouldn't charge, find somewhere we can climb and I'll come any play

 

[Kram]

Essex area?

 

[mtt.tr]

Essex area?

Not bothered can travel
Ideally something broad as that really highlights weaknesses in climbing technique

 

[Kram]

Any forest local to you? Theres usually some huge oaks or beech, if not,I'll have a look on map.
When are you free?

 

[Kram]

While sharpening, I had the idea to see if the bars are interchangeable
Dont know if I cocked up sharpening last time but it cuts much smoother now.

Need to order some 10" 40DL chains as the original chinese one doesnt tension evenly and I dont trust it to stay assembled in a petrol saw!

Work tells me full chisel are better, all of mine are semi, and I cant seem to find full chisel in 3/8" LP type...?

Started topping the laylandi, they folded down perfectly with just an inch or two spare to the fence

Also got some cheap amazon sharpening stones to try. Some variation in size but theyll do, grit appears a good fine one.

 

[Kram]

Topping these took me a while, would be interested how others would go about it. The two stems were very close and entangled and both a slight lean the wrong way and probably 5 meters above the cuts. I thought a normal gob face cut and back cut would have allowed me to push it over but there was no chance. For the left one I had to cut through the hinge and push it. It took a lot of effort to free it.
The second stem also wouldnt go over nicely and I had to cut almost through the hinge whilst pulling to get it to move.

I would guess most climbers would have cut both stems together but at about 30kg+ each I wasnt confident I could control them.

Took a lot longer than expected and so it was starting to get dark!

 

[mtt.tr]

My typical mode of operation.

Set anchor high,
Drop down to the bottom and cut on the way back up.
Strip them completely so will be standing on 4" wood lanyard wrap around the stem twice for stability.

Knock the tops out,
Drop the logs as I work my way down.


This is on spikes I wouldn't do it without.
I have in the past cut gobs as foot holds, but I've only forgotten my spikes that one time.

 

[Norsk]

Don't leave stubs mate.

Sooner or later you are going to be hurt by one or wreck something. Always clean the stem as smooth as you can.

Felling tops individually or together just depends. I almost always fell tops together. What can happen is that one or both tops has relied on the other for support,you remove that support and now they flop around like snoopy's ears.

 

[mtt.tr]

Don't leave stubs mate.

We call them dog dicks.

 

[Kram]

What I ment was how would you go about the topping cuts once you realise they are not going to fold over the hinge and have the weight balance slightly the wrong way? Or tangled... Would you have cut the hingle and pull/jiggle it down and out sideways like I did?
It was difficult to judge before hand as it had ivy covering the tops.

I know about the stubs, they are only small ones and a minor risk in the grand scheme of it. I am recovering from right dislocated patella so having stubs is a great help to avoid stressing the knee.

 

[Norsk]

It's just to hard for me to make a call about how to do something that I wasn't there to see.

I have some horrible stories about what leaving stubs can do. Once I had to cut a guy off one with a silky saw. It had gone in through his palm,smashed his wrist and stuck there. He had to suffer me spiking up 70 odd feet on a single stem whilst each foot fall from my spikes made the stub wriggle that was impaled in his wrist/ forearm.

Irony of the situation was he left the stub for safety when he knocked the top out.

 

[mtt.tr]

What I ment was how would you go about the topping cuts once you realise they are not going to fold over the hinge and have the weight balance slightly the wrong way? Or tangled... Would you have cut the hingle and pull/jiggle it down and out sideways like I did?
It was difficult to judge before hand as it had ivy covering the tops.

I know about the stubs, they are only small ones and a minor risk in the grand scheme of it. I am recovering from right dislocated patella so having stubs is a great help to avoid stressing the knee.

Tbh with experience it doesn't happen so much, I have paused tied a rope on and had the top pulled off


I do know of a chap that broke two ribs on a stub after his gaffed slipped.

 

[8ob]

Trim it out as you go, its one job less when its on the floor.

Bob

 

[mtt.tr]

@Kram

theses are a good price

Tree Solutions Aluminium Climbing Spikes With Long Gaffs Arborist Surgery Irons | eBay

These are sold with Long Gaffs as Pictured. Tree Solutions Aluminium Climbing Spikes.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[Agrismith]

I believe your down Sussex way aren't you. If so you have plumpton college near Lewes. Brisbury college near pulborough. Merist wood college in Guildford and ats have a training centre In Dorking

 

[Norsk]

Can you adjust the length of the shank on those?

 

[mtt.tr]

Can you adjust the length of the shank on those?

mine are adjustable behind the top velcro on the top pad.