Rich Rule

Who’s been doing that Chris?

What is your thoughts on the matter? Are you all for preservation of ivy or removal?

Something like that. 🤪 Strangest day of my life, so far.

Speaking from experience. I used to contract to a firm that managed the gardens and open spaces of a museum in South London. They also had a nature area, completely left alone apart from major deadwood over the footpaths. They got an Ecologist in quite a few years ago to plan and manage works on the nature area. We heard he was a friend of the trustees, but I am not 100% on that. His recommendation was to leave all IVY for habitat. Which we did. The problem with this is is engulfed the place and shaded out lots of the areas under the trees. It (and more importantly IMO ) cover over lots of unions and defects in the trees and for a few years these defects went unnoticed until a number of big failures. Stems failing and trees going over into the neighbouring properties and this led to uncovering further urgent work that needed to be done. Of course the Ecologist had recommended the use of heavy machinery to be non. SO we were left with large trees failing onto properties in South London. We had to try and make safe without heavy machinery. The whole thing was a pain in the rear end. After a number of very costly claims I do believe (IIRC) they had a different outlook toward the Ecological consultant.

Jeezus must have been an old school raver!

No. Job and knock is going home when you finish the job not working to a set number of hours. In other words you graft hard to finish the day a bit early and then have the rest of the day off.

If you have tennis elbow related pain. BUy yourself a Theraband flexbar and look up the exercise called ‘the Tyler Twist’ on YouTube. To fix the problem is much better than masking the problem with Cortisone. Although it does provide relief.

Thanks. Just sent you a PM.

Man I feel your pain. April 23rd 2021 I clipped my finger with a circular saw. Actually clipped is an understatement. I severed nerves from 4 fingers and did 5 tendons. Ended up in Aand E and had 4.5 hours micro surgery and over 200 stitches to repair. The first thing the surgeon did was explain I would probably never climb again. I had scored the bones and they were really concerned the tendons would fuse to the bone and my finger would be locked in position. I was doing physio every hour I was awake to prevent it happening. This was 3 days after surgery. Fingers are still numb and the cold is a bitch but I have been back work a while now, usually 3 days a week. But full time back climbing in May. I am back doing a bit of Muay Thai and BJJ. I wish you well in you’re recovery, there is hope yet. Good luck. As they say, pictures or it didn’t happen…. Trust me this happened in a seconds lapse of concentration. The last picture is how it looked this morning. It is still very stiff in the mornings but warms up ok. It depends on how much work I have done the previous days. IMG_4909.MOV

I think the whole point in stuff tethers was to avoided the flop. It might work for you but it would be like using the RW Mark 1 with that coloured bit of cord it came with.

One of the guys I used to contract for had a saying... Less jaws, more saws!

Haha, just realised I was getting away with myself and gave myself another year. I am 47 at the moment, 48 in September. I have been climbing 20 years. Started in 2002. Worked for a couple of companies to cut my teeth and went freelance after 2 years. Did a stint at Greenwich Council as well, nearly didn’t make it out alive on that one. I would have slit my wrists if I had stayed much longer (Not literally). So boring and unchallenging, it felt like a step back from the previous 18 months. I will add though I was fairly fit in those days.

But there are many climbers who are stubborn. Let’s face it, we all are to some extent. You have to be stubborn or deranged to get up a tree in the wind and rain and finish a job. The point I am trying to make is there are many climbers who have ruined themselves and their own stubborness hasn’t helped them. ”Prussis works fine, don’t need the mechanicals.” “Been on a Blake’s for 15 years, my elbows are screwed” We all know the type. The industry has advanced in equipment and techniques. There is no need to be screwed by 40 years old these days. Use your brain and ditch the Prussic/Blake’s, body thrusting etc. There is some thing out there for everyone. BTW in answer to the original question I am 48. Still climbing, had a couple of injuries the last year. Not tree climbing related . So when fully fit will be contract climbing and my own work 5 days a week.

Coppice is at ground level. Pollarding isn’t at ground level.

Secateurs. Powered Felco’s and silky. Lime trees with 2 years growth.

We did this job a couple of weeks ago. Swedish Embassy in Oslo. I have done these trees 3 times now.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=leather+satchel+type+lunch+bag&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images I kind of remember what you mean. My old fella had similar. Anything close in the link above?

No worries. When I needed to go to the hospital. I was cooking and cooked some frozen fish, unknown to me the knife broke and a shard of the blade came off. There I was eating my dinner and suddenly a stab in my throat, I thought it was a fish bone then I glanced across at the knife on the side to see the blade damaged. I did the pissheads two finger salute and threw up what I had eaten but it didn’t help so I went to AandE. The referred me to another hospital for a full body MRI to see if the piece of blade had pierced my intestines or stomach lining. As I was leaving I had to pay for the treatment even when I showed them the EHIC. That was when they explained that the Health service system of paying for the first 2000 Nok or treatment and anything above that is covered by the state.

I didn't say it was. I referring to the point you made regarding the total cost of medical care is covered, which it isn't and never was, it states it in the article you posted. I just gave a couple of examples, 1 I experienced and one a customer had experienced.

I bought mine after chatting to Nod. I was moving to Norway shortly after and was trying to get bits and pieces so I’d be sorted when I arrived. He said it had just come out and was designed with Srt in mind. So I bought 60 m and have enjoyed climbing on it since.

Did you read the link you posted Mark? Travel insurance has always been the case and the EHIC didn’t cover everything. I used to contract in Norway (One of the countries on the EHIc) and one day had to get medical treatment whilst I was there. I still had to pay the costs. Even when I explained I had the EHIC they said I had the same cover as a Norwegian resident. Which is that there is a certain amount payable for medical treatment and then once you hit a limit you are covered by the state. Travel insurance would allow me to reclaim that portion back. Also the EHIC would cover emergency treatment. If you had an ongoing issue off the accident, ie broke you back skiing. You would be covered for the emergency treatment and not the ongoing care. also if you required repatriation that will be extremely expensive. I had a customer once who broke his back skiiing in Norway. He was covered from the EHIC for transport to and from hospitals as he needed to be moved but then was in a situation where he needed to be flown back to England. That part alone cost 21k in GBP. Luckily he had travel insurance to pick up the costs.

Both are pretty narrow though. I got the Voyager from Samson about 4 years ago just after it came out. Very nice rope and still climbing on it these days.

Judging from the context of the post, I would presume he was commenting on the thread starter. He was quite specific as John mentioned near the beginning of the thread that he didn’t descend on a Blake’s but a Fo8. Again, the clues are in the detail.