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vduben

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  1. vduben

    Groundie

    it sure is, the phones not ringing but im still doing 6 days a week thankfully
  2. oh right:rolleyes: suppose it is a long distance
  3. oh yes!! it just had 1 limb that span out 30ft! also was horizontal cracks in the dead wood on the tension side!
  4. i bet hes got high velocity's in that, gotta be a 22250 or somet similar
  5. 2 pac - r u still down, brings back some vivid memories from notts
  6. you can never be too sure..
  7. vduben

    buying Rope

    haha
  8. vduben

    buying Rope

    true... its not very oftern i will come down tho, i'd sooner have a pee out the top of tree and look like a real pro:drunk:
  9. i have a steel version but its not made by peztle, ive use it for 5 years and still going strong, bit annoying tho when it clips into a bit of conifer on the way up and your patients are short, but as for clipping your strop into it...........................
  10. vduben

    buying Rope

    its a requirement!!!! the last firm i was at started to refuse then i told them i was gonna get burnt and have a week off recovering just because they were too tight..... the next morning there it was:proud: back to the rope tho..... ive only ever had 37m and there is always a branch that you can anchor on lower down on the final decent, ive got a 25m, 37m, 1m and 4m ropes and surprisinglyly i use the 25m most of the time
  11. could you not use a large diameter cord?
  12. they are too short dude, ive got some carbon gekos, the wide face in which you leg sits spreads the weight alot, plus they dont have to be done up stupidly tight to stop them moving around, light too but try befor you buy if its possible..
  13. leave it dude, the tree will wait..
  14. would of been a idea man...
  15. sounds like a nice bloke!!
  16. would of been nice:icon14: went out last night and random people i didnt know were asking how i did it lol!!
  17. maybe i should of done!!!!
  18. he following a tractor doing 20.... i was catching up, indicated pulled out travelled a good 50ft then when i was right next to him he pulled out as if i wasnt there!! tell you what tho it was good fun!!
  19. gutted!!! i was over taking a v6 galant today and he decided to pull out with no indicator!!!!! on came the brakes and for a minuite i could here ballet music in my ears as i spun round and round!!!!! luckly missed his car and went in the hedge!!!!!! but the guy just drove off!! i managed to wheel spin out the ditch!!! and catch him up and pulled him over in oakham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he was blatently tring to get out of it!!!!! but ive got all his details and that so hopefully will go my way!!!!! what a wanker really!! all on the way to work too!!!!!! never mind, gives me a excuse to get a spanking nivara for work and do the valver up a little!!!
  20. im the same but sometimes use my wire strop off my center d's when needed as a short secondary anchor
  21. you measure from the base of your foot to that point i mentioned befor, correct me if im wrong
  22. dog on me back!!! what me mate did to my old corrado he bought of me a few weeks after having all the arches pulled, 9j borbet A's and a full respray!!!!! hes not had a car since!!!
  23. to the point! view from George Walker Tree Care LTD fruity the old x-sport
  24. vduben

    trampoline

    bit of a silly one from a while ago, we even had a truck puling it over but it still went sideways!!! it just wasnt ment to be that day, after doing the trampoline that we should of moved but didnt the grinder then flicked a stone over the guards and smashed a huge window!!!! i was soo imbarressed telling the chap what had happened, but in the end all was good, bought him a brand new one and got the window fixed!! huge lesson learned

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