High Scale

Yesterday, Saturday, I was down my local football club watching my eldest lad taking part in his football training. On one side of the pitch are several former pollarded Willows that have been left to grow to a, in my judgment, a fairly dangerous height. So there I was watching my sons football skills when I spied a guy with no PPE wielding a Makita saw cutting the tree from the football clubhouse roof. Naturally I was expecting a easy "You've Been Framed" 250 quid, so I went over to do a little cell phone video recording. I finished recording when I got a ugly stare from the saw operator, I quickly returned to my sons football match with a casual air of innocence, five minutes later I was approached by the football club chairmen who asked me why I was filming his guy in the tree, I replied that I was waiting for a accident to happen and was horrified at the risks the cutter was taking. He then asked me if I could help them out and that they, (The Football Club) have set aside a budget to have the trees cut back professionally. Sometimes, it pays to be a nosy bastard.

I have not had one HSE site visit, ever, well maybe once, but that was in Northern Ireland so that will probably not count? My friend has had a site visit but didn't even get a request for his LOLER records.

Groovy tune. [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v_GbUWnx7Lk[/ame]

Nor I.

Odd that when I did my loler course I failed the American made harness provided for inspection by the course provider because of the lack of CE marks on it, I was told that that was an incorrect decision and that the harness could be passed as Fit For Purpose! Now, tell me is one of the top training providers in the country giving out the wrong information?

I took the the Knives from one of those into my local saw shop for sharpening, you should have seen their faces.

Hope you can post it, sounds good.

Haha, thought so, easy for you though.

What is it, Pop?

Lovely frosty pics.

Nice work Anna.

Tomasz the Pole, slaying tree at Cabot Tower, Bristol.

Do you think that conspiracy theories are invented to keep us from knowing the real truth? Now that's a conspiracy theory. Or is it? Chortle.

I am not ex- forces but your post is oddly familiar. It's called psychosis, I believe?

Vivian Westwood, kind of.

Maybe you should design your own clothing range then Anna.

I have, though not in the flesh, so to speak.

I have tried earplugs but find them really annoying, they block off far too much sound for my liking. Anna, have you tried not wearing a bra?

I wash mine once a week then iron a nice stiff crease down the front of each leg.

You mean the moon is not made of cheese?

Deva, second career as a photographer looming for you.

No, that's not a bad idea.

“Kindly inform Major Heyward that he has little to fear from this General Marquis de Montcalm in the first place; and scant need of a colonial militia in the second because the French haven’t the nature for war. Their Gallic laziness combines with their Latinate voluptuousness with the result that they would rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.”–Gen. Webb, Last of the Mohicans

I worked with a young climber last year and couldn't believe the speed he could get up the tree using foot locking, I however, am hopeless at it but I do use a Pantin for trimming work,DRT, it saves my arm which is in constant pain for some reason.

Tockmal, interesting to see you using a staged photograph for you're avatar. I agree with you about George though, what a arse, he thought that Big Brother would give him a conduit to the youth of this country, how naive was he not to realize that his arguments would be silenced by Big Brothers producers and how even more naive of him to think the youth of this country would even give a sh*t. Ever read 1984, Tockmal?