Old Skool Cool

[Buzz]

Getting fires roaring using the exhaust on the saw lol

[Mozza]

"I" was the lowering device........"Can you hold that" "Errrrrrrr, yeah i think so" all on blue poly prop rope, Still got the scars on my hands and ended up more than a few feet up a tree before now!!

 

 

To be honest id rather have it old skool, i enjoyed it much more

[Mr Ed]

My Dads fleet -

 

[firewoodman]

i also remember the nylon 8 strand multiplat for climbing,

sisal for the toolstrop,

i think it was polyprop for lowering,

bale twine to hold up your trousers,

and if all else failed use your 3 strand for all of it!!!

[bob]

where we going today

not what are we doing

dead elms them were the days

barrow atburn harness then a troll manchester ball breaker

 

SCREWGATES

spliced prussiks from 3 strand

taught to splice on climbing course

manilla lowering rope

24mm pollyprop although shyhuck still has his but tbh so do i

[AJarb]

Worked doing xmas trees a few years ago alongside a danish guy. He told me that an old boy he used to work with on the trees drank Calsberg Special Brew dawn to dusk. When the company he worked for told him H&S wasnt going to allow it anymore he had to stop. His productivity dropped by half and within 2 weeks he was back on special stuff!!

[firewoodman]

i can still splice 8 strand after being tought on my climbing course in 92

[Buzz]

Ed, as your in an old skool mood get those pics up of the very first tracked chipper in the UK

[Johny Walker]

I found my first harness at the bottom of a box in my fathers shed a few weeks ago. Grey GT belt, 2 belts of webbing, 2 front d rings, 1 tool ring and nothing else.

 

Hehe. Remember falling off a branch and your harness would end up under your armpits?

 

the gt what a great harnees for its day i rember whatching burn

[Mr Ed]

steel screwgate biners taking chunks of flesh out yer fingers

 

dead elm sawdust like blasting grit down your back and pants

 

going back out of an evening to check the fires

 

going to the pub for lunch

 

Going to the pub for lunch WITH the contracts manager

 

Sealing a price with a handshake

 

Dad going to the bank at the end of the week with the takings in cash

 

Going to find a phone box to make a phonecall