How old / average age

[Joe Newton]

A decent groundie can save ur body massively! My 9 stone groundie keeps me fit As due to a recent manual handling course refuses to lift anything over 25kg ie 90% my rings and branches! We don't have a flying capston so I regularly make him

Fly cause he forgets to wrap round the tree then have to drop down and cut up the bit being lowered! I think like at Alton towers their is a minimum height ride groundies should have minimum weight 15st plus!

 

 

Your right that a decent lad on the deck can make life easier. Yours doesn't sound that decent though!

[Macca]

He has a degree and started as a climber but turned out he was scared of heights! He has no drive eats cake for lunch! I tell him 2 tins of tuna will make u stronger! But at the end of the day I hate cleaning up and chipping so canny grumble too much!

[Joe Newton]

He has a degree and started as a climber but turned out he was scared of heights! He has no drive eats cake for lunch! I tell him 2 tins of tuna will make u stronger! But at the end of the day I hate cleaning up and chipping so canny grumble too much!

 

 

I'm scared of heights. I get trees down quicker because if it!

[Macca]

Fear = mistakes in my opinion! Once u learn to trust ur tip then the fear goes! + swinging back into the trunk doesn't hurt too much!lol

[peckerwoo]

drinking low units of alcohol! Pecker come Friday I drink my weekly allowance I'm sure it slows me down but if I wasn't drunk I would be out splitting wood or something depleting my energy for Monday!

I`m just sayin that mac cos mrs pecker dont like me drinking thurs nite till monday mornin anymore

some good valid points tho, cod liver oil (7 seas liquid not cheap crap capsules) and good quality glucosameine will stabilise your joints, not improve them unless your <25, but theirs most definitely a "young at heart" attitude to longevity in all things climbing! maybe a lot of us lived in tree dens when we were 60`s n 70`s kids?

can we have a part 2 thread on weight?

[Windthrown]

I sold my Bandit chipper and stopped climbing when I was 52. I still rock and mountain climb for sport (weenie stuff), but no more climbing trees. Bad back & reactions getting too slow.

[silky fox]

At least you are still keeping active...shame you don't still climb. There are so many systems to allow you to climb trees with less impact on the body.

[Billhook]

Here is a bit of inspiration for you all. He is one hundred years old and still competing in downhill ski races, but listening to him being interviewed is educational.

Still cycles 17 miles daily and goes off in a high powered motorbike and side car saying anything less than a thousand miles is not worth dressing up for!

 

[Isabelle68]

Think i need a kick up the arse after watching that!!!

[Billhook]

Think i need a kick up the arse after watching that!!!

 

As the interviewer said ". How can I go home and sit on the couch and say I am too old to do something when I know that Lou is out there, ski racing down a mountain somewhere aged one hundred"!