Rich Rule

Well done to both Matt and Jo. Good stuff.

Good luck mate with the move. All the best to you and yours!

I like spiders, they have character and can become great friends and always obey and respect the house owner. I have one in my shed that I pop out to see now and again. He is easy to find as you can hear him crawling about. Plus, spiders kill and eat flies and we all know they puke and crap on our food. Flies are dirty little insects. I don't like cats!

12" or 14" mate. Leave the 16" to our american friends. Just get a bigger saw sent up if you need more cutting length.

Please don't take this the wrong way but if you aim is to lose weight why make it easier? Just climb with the hitch climber setup and forget the mechanical advantage. Your body will adapt to the technique and climbing will become easier.

Grease the nose sprocket regularly. Other than that superb bars.

Yeah the first picture I posted with the 9mm tenex was just put together for the pic. Never climbed on the accessory biner. I changed it out the next day.

I just use a Lyon tape sling around my shoulders and clip the middle hole of my hc to it and clip the hhaas to that. Just did another one tonight. Bought some 6mm liros and spliced an thimble into it tonight.

Mine... Cobbled together whilst on the lash. Refined whilst sober. Rich

Nice work Tom. Pretty girthy at the but end.

Unlucky MOG. I am sure I'll hear all about it next week when I get to Oslo. Currently in Gotland and headin to Oslo on Sunday. Well done for making it there mate.

Anyone know how MOG got on or Jungle?

Coos bay is similar to the box cut but I use 1 less cut. Compression side first at a 45* angle undercut, then the same on the side closest to you so you form a v in the cut if you can imagin that, still on the underside. You should note where the two cut are in the top of the limb and then power through the top cut until she pops off. It leaves a triangular shaped hinge on the stubb.

I would use the Coos Bay cut. Similar to the box cut.

Why not pull one out of the crafters? There is one in each one isn't there. Tbh mate I would get the stein 2 ton bollard for 40 quid more.

No Al, I think you may have confused me with someone else. I have never had a Uni. Dan Curtis is Mr Uni. I climb on RW and VT HC combo.

Yeah right oh! Haakon copied an old climbing line in my shed. Good work on the trees Mr Git.

Nice Loom band.

Mine is fine Tommy.

Maybe his dream is a deposit for a new house. In order to do that he is earning high and spending low. Just a thought.

The cold winters are not that bad mate. Worked last winter in Oslo. Just gotta get through the weeks and then enjoy the weekends boarding or skiing.

How long are you staying out there for James?

Cougar Blue?

I have told a couple of people in the past that we are clearing for a new Mcdonalds drive through.

I have had melodramatic characters onsite lots of times. It seemed at least on e a week we would get a run in with someone. At that time most of the work we did was removals for insurance purposes and often the trees were owned by neighbour of our clients who were having problems with subsidence. I have had people threatening me or the crew, bad language etc. In the past I have told them my 2 year old has a better vocabulary then them and that I am not interested in listening with their potty mouth running off! That usually gets them going proper. Take the moral high ground everytime. A slagging match is probably not going to resolve anything. Another time I had a camp fella going mental at me for chopping the tree in the boundary down. It was his partners property and was affected by the tree, as was his boyfriends neighbours property. He wouldn't listen to reason and was so miffed as he had planted a load of bulbs in the border the previous weekend. He threatened to call the police and then started fumbling about in his pockets - so ever the gent, I offered to lend him my phone and even mentioned the number was 999 if he couldn't remember it!