Buzz
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I haven't the patience Linda ! Good luck in your new job BTW
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What's wrong with you guy ? stick it on an Ifor Willams trailer and tow it back job done
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I am excatly the same, ecspecially when you have expensive kit. However i do let my groundie use a saw when necessarry
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Lol and think were all a little worse for wear that night !
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Frig knows i haven't a clue, to stay in the rented house i'm in to keep a roof over the kids heads at weekends i need to earn at least 25k + I love arb but not running my own biz, there's no way i'm beasting myself contract climbing or working for someone else so i just doon't know. My back ground is countryside managment and inland waterways so i might have a look in that direction.
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I had the exact same thing a couple of years ago, the site manager was rather peeved when i told him the young inexperienced 360 driver had problem cost the site 10k in skips While we did the rest of the work he was supposed to be scraping the site off and had not a clue. It looked like telly tubby land after he'd done with piles of spoil everywhere mixed with green waste. He was the groundworkers son and i think they'd stuck him on the enabling works to keep him out of trouble. He must have cost them a fortune LMAO
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Phone hasn't rung for 8 days now and it was ringing well up until then which suprised me. With the mog hit again i could really use a buck load of work in front to work out of this hole again but it isn't going to happen. Had two jobs cancelled due to insuffcient funds which is better than them getting me to do the work then not paying i guess !
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I can still taste Lee's stew mmmmmm
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That would be telling
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A VT does take time to get used to at least a couple of weeks of constant climbing and tinkering.
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Got mine from Honey's.
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I agree a personal first aid kit on your harness probably is as much use as tits on a fish however i have one on mine. I never used to but i just figure everything helps. Knowledge is the key as has been said before, i like to constantly make sure i can drop out of the tree quick if the poop was to hit the spinny thing. Pete's accident opened my eyes as it was the first that's happened to somebody i directly know and respect as a climber. I think alot of the 1st aid at work courses we do are naff for the situations we may find ourselves in.
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Here's one
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Yes had enough mate.
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Cough splutter ahem lol
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Tree hopper or Tree flex. Anna's has tried lots and the treeflex has won the day for her.
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Dean since the engine problem on the Mog when i had the injectors serviced i got to Atkinson Vos on 70.00 worth of diesel I run on white now because it's such a cash flow killer filling up the bowser with 1000 ltrs of red. On domestic work i do 30.00 to 2 days work and travel upto 20 miles from base i was really suprised at the fuel i use which makes a change lol. A landy just wouldn't cut the mustard for me with the ammount of big takedowns we do and the fact i'd have to but a towed chipper. Looking at anyway i can to reduce overheads though.
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Smart, where abouts are you based mate ?
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Ed just get some caddy pads for those spikes mate, makes them so much more comfy and the velcro works well providing you remember to double in back when you store them else saw dust sticks to it like *** to a bear.
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Trouble is Dean at the end of the day we are a service industry, and not an essential one at that. Sure if it's dead dying or dangeroues people will call but i've noticed pruning work drop to nothing since Christmas. Clients allready view tree surgery as expensive, they just will not have it done if prices go up as much as we'd all like. I'm fed up with working for just a meagre living and not making any profit so I'm getting out later in the year. Seems as soon as you get on top bang something else goes wrong.
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When you write out a new post scroll down to manage attatchments and click on that. Then click browse, search the pics out and upload. Max of 5 a time. Remember to 'Go advanced' rather than use quick post or you won't see any options. Sometimes it takes a while or plays up if the pics are to big in which case you will have to re-size them. Regarding work I'd write an e-mail out and send it to all the AA aproved contractors in the country, time consuming but probably worthwhile. The reason I suggest AA contractors is that they tend to have bigger ongoing contracts and seem less effected by the economic downturn than the rest of us !
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Yeah I was waiting for that as well lol !
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F16 a yankiee one from Northholt in the 1st pic and a RAF Typhoon in the last two pics.
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Lots of fighters going their acceptance displays yesterday which are more impressive than the ones you see at the public display after they have been edited for health and safety. F18 super hornet, F16, the last flying Vulcan, a Typhoon and a Hawk where all playing yesterday. Snapped a couple of pics nothing special....
