Where would we be without Arbtalk?

[Mull]

Helped many I’m sure, genuine question, if it’s allowed to be asked.🙄

Edited December 2, 2022 by Mull

[Mark Bolam]

Simple for me, I’d be doing something else.

[Mull]

34 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Simple for me, I’d be doing something else.

Yes, the simple answer Mark👍but what is the question? Guess I’m asking if this site “saved you”?  Or indeed has any meaning in your life? 
 

I appreciate it’s a “ big “ edit!!

Edited December 2, 2022 by Mull

[eggsarascal]

58 minutes ago, Mull said:

Yes, the simple answer Mark👍but what is the question? Guess I’m asking if this site “saved you”?  Or indeed has any meaning in your life? 
 

I appreciate it’s a “ big “ edit!!

I don’t think it saved me from anything, it helped me to understand business better, I read posts, by folk who seemed to know the score and researched what they said, some of the advice I ditched straight off, other advice I took on board. I guess that’s means I think it’s been a positive for me. That’s without forgetting what I’ve learnt about climbing from Bolam.

[Woodworks]

Most likely still be as miserable as sin making furniture as before.

 

I knew nothing about dying logs, required equipment and making charcoal before joining here. 

 

I am very grateful to the Arbtalk community for showing me the ropes 😃

[Mick Dempsey]

 

 

Here (in this particular corner of the internet) I have learnt an incalculable amount about my job.

Our work often exists in a bubble of 2 or 3 people who don’t swap ideas with others because of the way the day to day work plays out.

 

The first time I stumbled across it, I was googling if you could use Ailanthus as firewood, and I found a place where everyone was talking about the thing I wanted to talk about, magic!

 

I remember the first time I saw an articulated loader on here, I think it was Dean Lofthouse with an Avant, I was astonished, there it was! The thing! Exactly what I needed made manifest, from that day I knew I had to get one.

 

I chat about grinders and chippers saws and business, impossible in real life to get dozens of individuals with nearly the same lives and problems in one room.

 

I see the way the bigger outfits take on larger scale jobs and I try to bring that knowledge to my work.

 

I can even get an argument any time I feel like it.

 

The manifold FB sites have diluted the membership of course, but they don’t deliver in the same way, here you get to know people and threads develop and  information is easier to extract.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stubby]

15 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

 

Here (in this particular corner of the internet) I have learnt an incalculable amount about my job.

Our work often exists in a bubble of 2 or 3 people who don’t swap ideas with others because of the way the day to day work plays out.

 

The first time I stumbled across it, I was googling if you could use Ailanthus as firewood, and I found a place where everyone was talking about the thing I wanted to talk about, magic!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You need the Paul Daniels forum Mick ...

[John Shutler]

15+ years of membership.15 years ago i was a climber with an old pickup and a bag of climbing bits. Been helped with my buisness immeasurably and it certainly wouldn’t be where it is today without the input of some.

 

also i’ve met people who i’d class as some of my best friends.

[IronMike]

I met my now good friend @Gray gitthrough Arbtalk, and also followed @Big Jand his exploits with his Logbullet which has ultimately led me to where I am now. Plus I got my saws ported by @crocky 👍🏼😎

 

So yes, I'd say my life has been changed a bit by Arbtalk. Cheers Steve lad!

[Sutton]

There's a deep knowledge base that's for sure which you can't just google or youtube because it's so specialised.

 

Remember what it was like before the internet. Fixing stuff meant paying someone else to do it or having a go yourself but spending far longer on it than one who has the knack. But here it is - all free!