Jamie

I'm glad i gave up at 15 before it really got me. i was an occasional smoker but i was slowly increasing the number i smoked. i git into it through smoking weed, gave that up and the fags followed very quickly. i do have a sugar (and general sweet thing) tooth which i'm trying to curb. Jamie

i cna mind watching an american vid very similar, it had a 200lb weight on a rope, they touched it with a knife and it snapped, think it was caving line though....rope is rope though. Jamie

thats a loooong way down Jamie

we did a site in town where the council were trying to get shot of the rent boys and junkies. the site was littered with hypodermics, used condoms (extra thick), more lube than GB lubricants, gay porn and stacks of human crap. our crawler had a condom stuck between track pads...it wasn't a nice site. Jamie

you'd be looking at atleast £15 a splice and the cord. off the top of my head i don't know how short an eye eye sling would be. Jamie

DDD dead dying dangerous Jamie

Abby st batham (or summat like that, look backa few pages) Jamie

ouch ouch ouch jamie

The gaffer has a few, big uns though. He is based in West Lothian Jamie

make sure who ever takes the photo gets a good un. get them to follow all the rules etc Jamie

dean go from work and you'll be covered in sawdust.....there is your remains of tree Jamie

i'd assume that a carb is either abreviated from carbohydrate or carburetor (my spelling may be a bit off) but he's from ayrshire, not technically scottish kind of a state in it's own right Jamie

bart you're a git....i was eyeing up a few sycamore saplings today regreeting that i don't carry my camera.... Jamie

Reading all that reminbds me of the twins my mate pulled while we both lived in Ayr...... he had some pretty thick beer googles on that night. anyway back on topic, i'll get my niece or nephew in some cutting stuff one day Jamie

ditto, but i always get excited about bud burst time:001_tt1: Jamie

I wonder why noone from Scotland was part of the team climbing 'Scotlands tallest tree' maybe the English could have done there part, the Welsh their part and the Northern Irish their part. you know cut down on all these road miles, reduce our 'carbon footprint'. Jamie

I'd prefer the warning. A few years ago i was stopped as part of a routine random check. The PCs checked the car over and confirmed that the car was fine, until they asked to see my screenwash. i pushed the button and the last dribble of screenwash squirted out. The PC said sorry first of all then went on to tell me that having no screenwash is an offence. I asked if i could go over the road and ask to get some water out of someones house so i could top it up. The PC said he had his targets to meet and i was unlucky. I got a £30 on the spot fine. did i feel safer knowing there was one less criminal on the streets? No. Sure they might catch someone with a vehicle that is falling to bits but it stank of revenue generation and meeting targets. The bad catch is that if they reduce crime they won't be able to meet their crime reduction targets. There was a good program on radio 4 the other day about targets culture in the public sector, but thats off topic now. Jamie

That's really crap. Up here you don't seem to hear of this stuff happening so often. I suppose down teh bottom end of the country there are one or two more folk. Lets hope everyone gets caught up with and gets what they deserve Jamie

if you're using an airline anwhere near it, choke it, then the carb is closed off. take time to sharpen it, a sharp saw shouldn't require much effort to cut the wood. Jamie

cuts timber pront, i'd bloody well hope so Jamie

work methodically, what saw you have makes f**k all difference if you can't use it properly. make sure your shapening and maintence are good then work safe, think through what you are doing don't just jump straight in. Jamie

I like my samson arbormaster, unlike other 16 strand ropes it doesn't millk Jamie

i can imagine it started with a... 'you're never gonna believe this' Jamie

putting some boards down in the attic so i wouldn't fall through the roof i promptly fell through the roof. did a good job of repairing it, when i sold the house to my sister she flagged it up with the guy who redecorated the room and he was impressed. felt like a tit though. Jamie

do your crown knot then just tuck then pass the ends over the first strand they come to then under the second, work round all three strands then do the second series of tucks. http://www.scouting.org.za/resources/pioneering/Splicing.pdf Jamie