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  1. Benji MacNab
    Looked like a good job, its a biggie.
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    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.
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    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 -
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    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]
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    Found this at same place - http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/images/upload/115982-petzlarbor.pdf
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    Some other forum did an article on the Sequoia - http://www.treebuzz.com/buzzofthemonth.php
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    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.
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    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.
  9. Benji MacNab
    Excellent work Jamie. Tony, are those 'split tails' for Blakes? if so they look a wee bit short?
  10. Benji MacNab
    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.
  11. Benji MacNab
    I have seen grown men almost reduced to tears when attempting to split eucalpytus by hand.
  12. Benji MacNab
    I always wondred about spikes breaking, there not really ppe, just a climbing aid thats all right? Not included in LOLER examinations are they?
  13. Benji MacNab
    Improvising my friend...improvising. We are at our best in testing times. Its exhilirating, you against nature and your own mind.
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    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?
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    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.
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    Anna, When I first started to learn treeclimbing, I had to go myself as it was difficult to find anyone else who wanted to go. I used to spend about 3 hours every weekend and whenever possible at nights during the summer months branch walking, ascending, footlocking, throwbagging, spiking etc on three 100ft beech trees in a secluded spot in a local wood. It is important to find trees where there are no hooligans wandering about drinking alcoholic beverages which is commonplace in Scotland. There is something very liberating about climbing big trees yourself, it sharpens the mind and helps you focus - no one is there to rescue you, so you are 100% thinking about the climbing. If you do decide to go yourself take things very slow to start with. Good luck
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    Chinese car makers obviously dont care about making their cars safe. This was a 40 mph crash test. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Swzbt76wBM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Swzbt76wBM[/ame]
  18. Benji MacNab
    Your very militant
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    Ok, thats cool, but England is the smilie with the turquoise bow in her hair -
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    Face it BigA, its over, the world is moving on, the British Empire is finished, such a cruel and exploitative approach to meddling with other countries and their people was never gonna last. Be positive.
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    Dont worry, we'll always help you if you need it. Scotland would never leave England to suffer at the hands of some 'foreign' aggressor. Remember Britain's entire nuclear capability is up here. We'll keep it safe for you.
  22. Benji MacNab
    What does this statement mean exactly?
  23. Benji MacNab
    I have some sympathy with people who move into new houses unaware of the tree issues. They normally look at the house at night because they cant get a day off work. During the day, in the winter the leaves are off the trees and the place can feel brighter. Then comes summer and if its a Horse Chestnut or Sycamore the sun is blotted out the sky. TPOs are a guide not the be all and end all. Its not always easy to defend TPOs when the qualitiy of people's lifes are effected in a negative way. I have talked many a tree officer into removing an overlarge TPO'd tree which is far too close to a house.
  24. Benji MacNab
    I charge £50 for visits like that. Covers my fuel and time. Sometimes I charge more depending on distance.
  25. Benji MacNab
    Be very careful my English friend, there is something very pernicious and ugly about an Englishman when it comes to discussing other races. You are teetering on the edge of the precipice of racism. Dont jump in feet first, its too deep and the currents are strong. I'd like to remind you all it was an Englishman who invented the term, 'Foreign Muck' to describe people not from these shores.

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