Jamie

can i ask a stupid question. what exactly is a sink cut? Jamie

i take it back then. I used New England on my climbing course but that was over 5 years ago and only then for a week. Jamie

I loved reading the bourne trilogy. i've read life and limb by jamie andrews and i'm working through Its not about the bike by lance armstrong. I've read 6 of the Harry potter books. very easy reading a no brainer really. When i came back off my holiday last year i was in teh pub with my bike and mates laughing at all teh harry potter fans queing up. i staggered over at 12.15am and bought it and read the final page to the pub. My sister buys me a national geographic subscription every christmas. Jamie

it fell where i wanted it too. The boss and I went to inspect it and it seemed ok. The bark was intact. i pulled a wee flake of bark and half the tree came with it. you can just see the sound wood round the backside of it. It was less than 2 foot from a building and we used 2 winches, one to pull it and one to hold the butt. Jamie

i'd be careful with climbing lines with 2 eyes. As far as i'm aware samson arbormaster is the only line you can splice reliably at both ends. i've never used New England so i cant comment but Yale XTC milks quite a lot. If its multiplait or 3 strand or hollow braids you will be fine though Jamie

I don't think i explained myself properly. What i'm meaning is it wouldn't want a rope tied onto something as sharp. In reference to Steves picture. if it had a circular profile i'd be happy. I mean sharp as a right angle and not rounded. If you change cords often chances are it'll never be a problem but for people who don't change cords often i cna imagine it would slowly abraid the inside of teh knot. Jamie

Yes it is a problem, as far as i'm aware it can't be treated but i'll leave that to the people who have more knowledge. I normally only get told what to do in these circumstances. I've always been told that the Ganoderma genus is one of the top 5 to look out for Jamie

thats because you havn't seen teh world from my eyes. i know everything. And i mean everything. Jamie

its a very sudden edge to have a rope supported on. you wouldn't run your climbing line over a 'sharp' edge would you? Jamie

it looks like a Ganoderma to me, but i'm not a major funi expert Jamie

yeah, you're probably right steve. i'm away to press flowers tonight Jamie

No you've not it hit 21 here the other day. thats pretty good going for scotland. In teh winter our humidity is really high hence it feels colder than it actually is. Jamie

I'd say that pic in your picture looks like a medium sized tree to me Jay. Jamie

it seems alright, i'd want to know what spikes they are, are they adjustable things like that Jamie

I've only bottled one tree in my five and a wee bit years, Here is the hinge, it was rocking around quite a bit and hung in another tree. Jamie

i like that, its the way life should be JAmie

my climbing kit, my wee saw 353g bosses saws, bosses lowering kit, bosses old transit bosses bonfire Thats weekend work sorted Jamie

yes. I'd been up the tree for 4 hours and it was lunchtime and i had a half tank of juice to use before i came down. i came to a big peg on my right hand side. I decided to cut and catch it. held it with my right hand and used the saw left handed. I'm assuming my hand coggled round a bit as the saw stuck so i backed it off a bit and blipped the throttle. i'm assuming a cutter caught the edge of the cut and pulled the bar out of the cut and along the branch and over my hand. There was no pain but i did see white bits. my first reaction was to slate myself using the terms 'Jamie, your f*****g muppet, you f*****g r****d'. I then had to descend the tree in two pitches and head to hospital. I had to wait for 2 days to get it stitched up then 10 weeks before i could return to work. It was meant to be 12 weeks but i was progressing quite well and well i was back at work taking things easy, feeding the chipper left handed etc. I can say from experience that cutting and catching is stupid, I have self rescued myself with one hand, Using a saw one handed in your non dominant hand isn't safe, you're a long way up when you havea hole in your hand, there was no pain (due to adrenaline, or i'm just real hard) and that pain is temporary, glorys is forever and chicks dig scars. Jamie

my biggest fear on spikes is chunking down past branch wcuts, when you can't see where a spike is going. spikes are cool. but then i mainly do dismantles. Fridays tree was a bit scary when i stopped to think. the tree used to be vertical but it slipped a foot or so down the banking. it had stopped itself, a tie back line and take it easy. Jamie

any rubber on those wheels? Jamie

I wouldn't use the harsh angles on the becket of the pully. Jamie

i bet those sumatran lorries take some driving Jamie

rather than post a picture i thought i'd post my photobucket page. it has a range of pictures including where i did it, what i did and some pics of it healing. thre are som epics of the movement that i wa able to attain ater 6 weeks. now all i have is a scar. when the weather changes it tends to ache and if you hold the back of my hand and i wiggle ,my fingers you can feel teh stitches move. tendons take permenat stitches http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c199/treejamie/saw%20cut/ Jamie

nope, everyone has their right to their own beliefs thougj Jamie

anyone hear of this guy? [ame] [/ame] Jamie