Benji MacNab

Looked like a good job, its a biggie.

My tip of the day. If you need a quick vice for sharpening your saw, cut into a log about 2 inches and use that to hold the bar in place whilst attending to your dull teeth.

Agree, use to love storm damage work, although was always very careful not to rush in as many other fools do. These days I do the absolute minimum to make the tree safe, like tie up to another tree etc then come back on a nice day to finish it up. Too many idiots want to do the whole job and knacker themselves up for the other stuff. There aint gonna be any storms anyway, its just a BS story of the day stunt from the idiotic British media. Like last week it was Prince fricken Harry coming back from afghanistan. Its all BS so it is. This is a storm -

This is such a great song and performance. Leonard Cohen is one cool dude. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf36v0epfmI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf36v0epfmI[/ame]

Found this at same place - http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/images/upload/115982-petzlarbor.pdf

Some other forum did an article on the Sequoia - http://www.treebuzz.com/buzzofthemonth.php

Dodger, a few pages ago you said this: Then most recently you said this: Which is it? 2 years in treework or 30? If you are a troll, your not a very good one. Real trolls have class, its obvious you have none.

Cant find my TCC, but I only tie the Cow Hitch with one half hitch and tuck the tail end in behind the rope thats round the tree, its called a Cow Hitch with a better half. That way looks like they tie a clove hitch round the spliced eye or two half hitches in sequence.

Excellent work Jamie. Tony, are those 'split tails' for Blakes? if so they look a wee bit short?

The peoples of Cornwall are Celts in origin along with their brothers and sisters in Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Wales. So I think it might by expedient of you to nurture a distrust of the Anglo-Saxon Hordes of England.

I have seen grown men almost reduced to tears when attempting to split eucalpytus by hand.

I always wondred about spikes breaking, there not really ppe, just a climbing aid thats all right? Not included in LOLER examinations are they?

Improvising my friend...improvising. We are at our best in testing times. Its exhilirating, you against nature and your own mind.

I spiked the trees as it provides more habitat for pathogens and invertibrates - Isn't that what Ted Green wants? Coronet cuts, spike marks, torn wounds?

Dagmar, If you have a problem with all us whining Scots then surely the obvious solution is to give both Scotland and England full economic independence? Problem solved. As for the Scots being subsidised by the English, it's a London metropolitan tabloid myth put forward by the likes of Kelvin MacKenzie and other Fleet St reactionary has-beens.