Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?

[Stephen Blair]

Ha ha really, the army is a piece of piss in comparison, In the post Stevie says he spent a good few years digging holes before hand so already had built up the upper body strength needed to make a good climber.

 

Climbing 100ft metal dusty ladders in the coal boats with no harness and using a shovel in 1 hand and holding on with the other in the dark certainly helped my strength!

I was like a racing snake

I'm just naturally an angry stubborn rageing maniac that's got a cute aim to please smiley shell.

Can't let the tree win, it's was Matty, war I tell you

[MattyF]

Beasting is tongue in cheek Wes, but lads still need to learn hard graft and not think it's about looking like a arb gear catalogue or turning up on site and saying they are a climber and they start crying when you give them something fairly difficult or want to go home after half a day in the woods ... I'm also more disagreeing with some of Stevies other comments but I'll laugh at him about that

[Stephen Blair]

I'm going to my safe room now Matty, hurt feelings and all that!

[MattyF]

Climbing 100ft metal dusty ladders in the coal boats with no harness and using a shovel in 1 hand and holding on with the other in the dark certainly helped my strength!

 

I was like a racing snake

 

I'm just naturally an angry stubborn rageing maniac that's got a cute aim to please smiley shell.

 

Can't let the tree win, it's was Matty, war I tell you

 

 

Sod that mate !! ... id still be in a safe place if I had to go down in a coal boat in those conditions and not come out!

[Stephen Blair]

It was a great job, warm and dry when it was blowing a Gail and pouring up top the whole winter!

Most of the time it was big spiral stair cases so you just kicked your way down clearing the way for the loader driver to get to his machine they had lowere in when there was only a few hundred ton kicking about the corners.

Climbing the ribs were good, they were slippy as hell. Certainly got me strong but at 20 it's easy to do, it would be a different story now ha ha!

I didn't know what a cafe was back then

[MattyF]

Aye you would be lost now with out a cafe!