On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:09:08 +0100, wrote:

but that is only when the other hand is
needed to stabilise your stance.

These are Leylandii. Unless you're doing it the easy way, from a
cherry picker, then just climbing there is itself hard going. The
only way I've ever got up one is by using a BT linesman's belt and
ankle spurs. It's just not somewhere I'd feel happy about using one of
the heavy felling chainsaws.