wolverine death grip

[Stephen Blair]

this is when you are on your spikes and strop, sconning down a dead trunk.(i served my time on dead elms)and you slip!you XXit yourself and grab that tree like a "wolverine death grip"this is the best description we came up with after a few magners.Has anyone else got any other sayings for the goings on in our job?

[Andy R]

the method used when branch walking can't get you out far enough is known as the "TREE LIZARD"

[gibbon]

Tooth Smacker: Sending down a lowering pulley on the rigging line while your mate holds the other end off the ground.

[Amelanchier]

The Sloth - the way newbies branch walk by hanging under the branch (and when I say newbies I happily include myself in the past tense).

[Stephen Blair]

"humping the tree" beginners with a prussik.

[Mr Ed]

I made up a new saying today when a willow epicormic poked me up the nostril, puncturing my sinus and poking me in the eye internally. It was something like

 

AAAARGGGGHHHHHH!F*CKINGHELLARRRRRGGGHHGHGGGGGF*CK-F*CK-F*CK ARGGHHHH!

 

It only works if you spurt about half a pint of blood everywhere at the same time though.

[Stephen Blair]

I made up a new saying today when a willow epicormic poked me up the nostril, puncturing my sinus and poking me in the eye internally. It was something like

 

AAAARGGGGHHHHHH!F*CKINGHELLARRRRRGGGHHGHGGGGGF*CK-F*CK-F*CK ARGGHHHH!

 

It only works if you spurt about half a pint of blood everywhere at the same time though.

 

my eyes are watering just at the thought of it:scared1:

[treedave]

optimum working temperature has been attained - it's about the time when the sweat is running into your eyes and there's still a pile of brash you can't see over.

[Amelanchier]

Its tenuous but a guy I used to work with used to shout 'heads' when chucking bits down. If there was a bit of woodland nearby, and he couldn't make the chuck to the chipper, he would bin it down into the woodland shouting 'habitat'...

[Albedo]

Why has Mr Ed got peter's avatar, or is it just my puter playing up again?

 

I hope your nose and inner eyeball get better soon Ed, thats the worst poke in the eye I've ever heard of.