Paul Smith

and what a good post it was!

What's the tree done to you?

Sparsholts RFS is twice the price of my local college!

: You should eat everything you shoot!, apart from Foxes and Corvids

Well done Arbtalk! keep the information coming!!

You know there will be a sequel!

Try this http://www.climb-art.com/english/spider.htm

Access all the way, save my energy for later on!

Spiderjack 2?

Anybody Know who's selling the spiderjack 2?

There may be a slim chance I can get some of my mates to send some back from Afghanistan. It will be a slim chance it get used quite a lot, not sure of the brand name.

The Englishman in France An Englishman is having breakfast, in Paris, one morning (coffee, croissants, bread, butter and jam) when a Frenchman, chewing bubble-gum, sits down next to him. The Englishman ignores the Frenchman who, nevertheless, starts a conversation. Frenchman: 'You English folk eat the whole bread??' Englishman (in a bad mood): 'Of course.' Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) 'We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to England.' The Frenchman has a smirk on his face. The Englishman listens in silence. The Frenchman persists: 'Do you eat jam with the bread??' Englishman: 'Of Course.' Frenchman: (cracking his bubble-gum between his teeth and chuckling). 'We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam, and sell the jam to England.' After a moment of silence, The Englishman then asks: 'Do you have sex in France?' Frenchman: 'Why of course we do', he says with a big smirk. Englishman: 'And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?' Frenchman: 'We throw them away, of course.' Englishman: 'We don't. In England, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into bubble-gum, and sell them to France.'

Alex, did you ever do the article on the spiderjack? Thought about trying the Lockjack but not sure if the Spiderjack may be a good alternative?

The new CAT tornique may be available for the charity donation, I will have a word tomorrow.

Ladders, love em! Top way of gaining access and conserving energy! Might even try them on some small trees where you would smash everything using rope access. Well done Cerne

Fair points, you would still save his or her life, The rest is up to Accident and Emergency! We should still have a good First Aid box with a Flap Sheet which contains postcodes grids Emergency telephone numbers etc. If we plan for accidents we will be better prepared if we have one.

Thought about the lockjack, mixed reports. The main draw back seems to be controlling decent, just a touch ends up in free fall!?

Nice pic!

Use a strap on, I mean strap a pod on! great bit of kit.

Exactly! tried the VT, finding it hard to get used to!

Was sure it was 3.5 as it was Ex Leccy board!

Deans post on first aid kits got me thinking about the fastest way out of the canopy. I am currently using OP with XTC + with a swabishor distel and hitch climber. I find on long pitches in binds badly. Thinking of changing to a VT but for emergency's thinking of carrying a fig 8. Any thoughts?

Checked the gross weight of my utility 110, gutted only 3050! need to rethink now

Dean an excellent reply! I would just like to add a couple of points. By applying a tornique you have made the decision to save a life! If it needs a tornique(arterial bleeding, spurting in time with the heart beat) then in my opinion the casualty would probably bleed to death without the use of one! An average of 4 Minutes and you could be DEAD! We more often than not are no more than 20 minutes from a hospital by which time a trauma team would be dealing with the casualty. If you remove the tornique you risk the loss of even more blood and the possibility of death! In the worst case scenario the casualty may not get treated for an hour which could mean damaged tissues below the tornique and maybe even loose a limb, but the casualty would be alive! our job as a first aider is to save life and not try to worry about possible infection and other minor issues. Torniques can only be placed on limbs and as Dean says Knowledge is invaluable, learn about pressure points and how to arrest bleeding. Just my thoughts!