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bob

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  1. any tips and hints for splicing high scale this is for you the dog walking crabs are brill for clipping into the eye when finishing the splice and at a £1 they are a must got mine from pound shops
  2. i still have the machine for sharpening the blades for one
  3. i can see the likeness though am not sure about the feet you had shoes on when i met you
  4. moving to horlicks next
  5. i am 40 next year and just off to make a nice cup of tea in my slippers then will get mi pipe out tha nos
  6. how much chip would they use in a 24hr period
  7. if spiking a stem i run the rope over the side of my strop
  8. but we cook on it and boil kettles toast and crumpets,chestnuts and they are romantic and the wifey likes cutting up wood splitting it and carrying it in Wheras i enjoy keeping it topped up
  9. would it be nice to look at? Be a feature? Run 10 Radiators
  10. i like my sugoi but only for dismantles no good for prunning i use a gomataro 300 for them and is a pain in arse to keep swapping i work with 8 other climbers and have not bought them one as they would not be bothered to swap and end up doing crap prunning with them did not think you could sharpen them i have sharpened my hyunchi and seems better
  11. congratulations and well done may it be the first of many if you can master them its very satisfying and theraputic just need to do some whipping i also found it better to climb on after destroying a few and finding that they dragged a pickup up a road with the handbrake on whereas a knot would have snapped
  12. swap it for some maltesers that was my only prsent nothing from the wife
  13. have now done 4 trees that have claimed lives and several that have caused bad injuries They always leave you in a very thoughtfull mood removed the cross of an old chapel steepel jacks wanted £400 but by the time i had done it i would have paid them
  14. how many others have actually printed it off and started reading it I am on page 90 only 280 to go
  15. hope you don,t work far from home then ed or all the trees on your route home would have to be TPO,d
  16. have just been away for a few days and whilst having a meal out my wife caught me checking my p m,s on phone It was between courses whats her problem
  17. i can feel a phone call coming on what about some signage stating cctv due to thefts and police patrols or some such wording or even just private property thieves will be prosecuted
  18. thanks for that was really puzzling me thought it was an alien tbh at first i thought someone had edited my photo or could of been a zipper or summat close to lens iphone cameras are really pants glad i can sleep easy tonight
  19. had to take my iphone up though i did take my gloves off to get it out of my pocket
  20. the assessor would not be able to do refresher training that would be an instructor read your afag guides and best practice does apply ask any EA employee they have to do updates for every cert every 3 years even if they have just done say cs 32 they then may have to do 30 and 31 again if there 3 years are up
  21. i would like to nominate mr ed for the chipper man of the year or the sadist chipper man of the year
  22. thought it would be nice to see some views we get from our trees this was from a nice lime dismantle i did today think my harness had shrunk over christmas as it sempt a little tight this morning
  23. been there done that tipping thing but never gets it on top of the pile
  24. i know 5 that failed first time3 that failed second time and 2 that did not take it again and only 1 that passed first time supposably worse than hgv TBH IMO save a little more and do the full HGV and then your sorted and if ever short of work go agency driving
  25. looks like an exenco to me we had one similar about 21 years ago gravity fed but suprisingly good even on the good old elms

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