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New Israeli Battle Dressing, 6-inch Compression Bandage on eBay! one of these and nothing else..whats the point of having a couple of plasters and a triangular bandage dangling off your harness?..it all falls out when your climbing anyway!

stick to your guns Fella's..we will fight them in the Beeches!

stantons are knocking out Stein plasmas with muffs and visor for about £55 mate...but only in blue...the clear visor fits in under the mesh visor and a a bit extra - £15 I think. I find the helmet gives me a sweaty head..too much foam inside it. Both of my sons wear them and like them though.

1. an oak that was too unstable to rig, this lump was MEWP'd off and rolled down a bank wiping out a newly restored wall...oops! 2. Wet road, rushing to get on site and the biggest ditch in Essex 3....Well the customer went out and I was pushing ballistic nylon....

shame to disturb the hornets...can't you monolith it high enough to retain them?..in winter..with a MEWP!

they're handy on those windy days on section fells when your sawdust filled eyes feel like they are full of porridge the next morning. They scratch up VERY easily, just stick a new one on every 6 months, it won't break the piggy bank.

hee hee!. Whilst crown lifting a row of Balsam Poplars in the South of France, a French bloke said to me 'what are you doing up there?...we just fell them!'..not much call for arborists in that neck of the woods obviously!

agreed. crack on matey

are you sure its not a dog egg?

indeed mate, but I've always said, if you keep things professional when talking about other firms, but customer always things more of you. We are working in hard times, but we just keep doing the best job we can for the best price we can do it for. I take pride in every job I do, the people that employ benefit cheats and work uninsured, with no tickets etc etc can't take pride in any job then do.

do you do tea and biscuits for visitors two-men?

your right mate!, I mean underpricing of course. Although one bloke round here asks the customer who's quoted and for how much and just puts a cheaper price in:thumbdown:

ten years ago, 75-80% now about 50%...undercutting is rife in this neck of the woods, if I don't get the work..I freelance (not on the ones I priced though!

agree with everything on here,but how about reducing a conifer hedge?. I am pretty good with not using a saw one handed, I put time into work positioning to avoid it when I can. I rarely cut and hold on any jobs, but how about Conifers?. Your average Leyland hedge blows everything out of the water. Cut and hold/cut and chuck is the order of the day and as for secondary anchoring....forget it. Tree surgeons sleeves and chainsaw gloves might help a bit, but I know many people who have cut themselves over the years working like we all do in this way. Another example, would you use a 6 wrap prussik to back up a lowering device/fig 8 or munter hitch on a type C 3 man rescue?....in training/assessment yes, in a real life rescue when seconds count...I personally would not. Best practice is the standard we should all aspire to of course, but price driven work practices will always make us take a line between doing everything by the book and getting the job done in the time allowed by the job-price.

me too, tried every trick and different combi in the book. They get stuck, they get tangled..but they are just SO handy all the same. I love/hate mine.

theres a bloke down our way with a photo similar to this one on his website!

just go for it mukha, be careful who you work for..plenty of tree firms out there with no EL insurance and also plenty who will take advantage of new blood. Talk to some people in the area and get a feel for the 'legit' companies. Good luck mate

a fantastic night, slightly marred by Paul Mcartneys last live gig (apparently the Macrahanish British Legion have since dropped him since the Olympic performance). Perhaps its time he concentrated on veggie burgers?

well, I hope the build up is worth it..going by the Husky top handle offerings of the last couple of decades, I'll be pleasantly surprised if its a match for a 200t/201t. Also Husky guidbars are as much use as a handbrake on a canoe..best get rid and put an Oregon on asap...

Right, at risk of upsetting apple carts, what aspects of best practice/regulation in climbing do you ignore whilst working?. I find many climbers I work with or for choose to ignore lots of things taught in training. At the very worst, I see climbers freeclimb to their final anchor points (we used to do this on street trees 18 years ago ). There are other aspects of training which just don't fit into the ideal training perception of the working lives of rank and file Arborists. How many of you actually record your personal LOLER inspections weekly?...not many I'll wager (I know I don't!). How about using a flipline and your lifeline/sidestrop together whilst actually spiking up stems (I don't mean to 'changeover' around stubs or branches)......a great way of spiking your climb line. I also know many climbers who don't use a secondary anchor whilst working (although I have found that a secondary anchor makes for much more ergonomic work positioning during cutting). Also, using side D-rings above you chest height during changerovers/getting into a tree?...we all do at work!. Lastly, justifying climbing a tree instead of using a £400/day MEWP...if the tree is unclimbable..yes...otherwise the cost of the MEWP is justification itself...in reality someone else WILL climb it. Refresher training...again, many disregard the recommendation of 5 yearly updates...especially as were all biting the bullet during this long term recession. So, my question is, what do working arborists and Full time trainers feel about the concept of 'best practice' and regulation, particularly the WAH regs, moving away from what we all do, day in, day out to earn a crust as arborists?

did you ask him where his speedo's were?

good to see Gary's dodgy knee's have improved to the extent that he can perform Olympic standard lunging...well done that man!

bump...can anyone help out with this fella's?

My swede likes to be in a Petzl Ecrin Roc..nice and cool in the summer and tough as old boots

that settles it then...when the EU army come thru the tunnel to seize our MT's, we'll just march to Dover and form a square...Huzzah!