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I'm done. The cart is before the horse, backwards and by the sound of it, upside down.

Public Liability covers everyone working on the job for causing harm to something or someone else. It's what will pay for the car you hit, the shed you damage, the window you break, the dog you kill, the driveway you smash...it doesn't cover you or your workers for injury.

Here we go again... Dude, it's called 'Priorities'

Ha, good ones guys!!

Ha Ray! I lost count of the small trees I cut down with a machete, when I was an apprentice I worked at an old Fortification, I got sent down into the moat every day to clear out invasive trees, the chainsaw they had didn't work, so a machete was it...that and a lot of the landscape guys were...

When loading a truck, send me up there with a sharp machete and I guarantee I'll get at least two loads in one go, learning how to swing a proper English machete as an apprentice has served me well, not having a chipper!

More than one of us have told you to get rid of the rollnlock ascender on your 20' lanyard safety tie-in. You have a perfectly good friction hitch on it, you don't need the mechanical device as well, especially if the lanyard is used doubled over a branch and back to you. You have lots of very...

Jose you don't need a second complete climbing system if you have your primary climb line and a reasonable length lanyard. If you feel the need (which does happen from time to time) then as someone else suggested, use the other end of your main climbing line. Or go up with your wire core as...

So the blue rope setup is your secondary lanyard, that you also use as another tie in, correct? The carabiner with the red gate is on your side D correct? If so, you do not need that CT thingy in addition to the friction hitch. All you need is a plain micro pulley there behind your friction...

It was a sub job...not my client. Reduction of a row of white cedars on a boundary by a pool. Three day job. It was a false TIP juust hooked over a tiny stub and it got stuck. I would have had to spur up to get it. It was before Big Shot days and you all know I can't throw...and it was in among...

I still have about $150 worth of friction saver left stuck in a tree in Bermuda...a carabiner, a nylon loop and a small pulley. It's been up there now for about 4 years...

I always used ring and ring friction savers. I actually got fairly good at installing it from the ground, patience and bouncing throwbags on both sides was the key. I also found that even if I didn't get my ideal TIP with a FS from the ground at first, at least I'd get one close then it was...

Ok...indeed! When you fire up your throwline and it comes back down having threaded its way through several branches, in order to install a rope saver/friction saver you have to isolate the line around one branch with a clear drop on both sides. You can do this by pulling the bag back up and...

IF people don't understand what you are trying to say...they will head off onto random jibber jabber until we get back on topic! Take the time to phrase your questions and replies more clearly, then you'll get constructive feedback :)

Mate, I hope you weren't sharpening while sitting where your chair is...or if you were, how did you get the correct position to file the cutters from the proper direction? Turn the saw around and lean over the engine... Stump vises are very handy though!

Give you credit Jose, you persevered till the end! Sounds like you have better options for next time though, less effort on your part and less wear and tear on your gear.

You said you had 10 hrs. into it...times that by what you are worth per hour...do the math. No-one would pay me $600 to get rid of one stump...

10 hrs to get it out! $600 at the going rate...and who's going to pay that?

No way I'd do that stump for $120 without machinery. Figure your labour costs, at LEAST one chain probably more (the dirt and rocks will destroy your chains)...$120 would be gone in a heartbeat. I usually do trees to 'just above ground level' if the client wants stump removal as well...

I remember when I went on a climbing course early in my career...I was black and blue and hurt in so many places I thought I'd fall apart. But dammit, it was too much fun to give up. Work smart, not hard...learn what labour and effort saving devices and techniques you can use, make your day go...