Jason James Gairn

It wasn't that long ago that Germans weren't climbing trees and loads of UK climbers found themselves there. Now look at em. Very cool. Wish we knew more about the job. Lots of people doing nothing on that site.

That's funny.

Brilliant stuff! Cut and pasted? Hope not as its a great quote.Hi all. There's been a lot of cutting and pasting on this thread, which despite the egotistical and justifiable motivations of the two obvious ones,is cutting and pasting some one else's ideas helpful and lazy in equal measure? Eloquence can sway an argument even when its borrowed eloquance. But does eloquence have greater merit than honesty? Badly enuciated truths V's Articulate lies? I speak from the point of view of someone who came late to learning and stuff, reading writing and the other two. I think motivation is a useful question to level at any two sides of an argument. Who is set to gain the most from the logical conclusion of their ideologies? Whats the Polar (no pun intended) worst case scenario if the other is right? I was always rather in awe of `Stinky' et al when they were underground or up in trees trying to save trees from bypasses. Nothing to gain personally except pride and satisfaction. But a whole lot to lose. The `road builders' on the other hand had deals within deals all profiting from the wheels of industry. Are there examples of respected sceptic experts who lose dramatically from their point of view? I want to use my car more. I like it. I like flying, foreign travel, i like plastic widgets, I'm lazy and hate having to recycle. Not real suffering I know, not next to Darfur. I gain nothing from my point of view. Slytherin house on the other hand, want the quiddich cup and an X5 to bomb around Hogsmeade. Cant fit this grammatically frenetic post into a nut shell, so I'm gonna leave it there for now. Muttering as I go.....

Looks like over rated singer Fish from over rated soft prog band Marilion.

There's too many variables. every individual job dictates the man power required. There's no rules. Often i feel we are over manned, but this is usually on jobs requiring more guys for H&S reasons than bad planning. With a 2 man gang, who's watching the climber when the chippers running and visa-versa? The only safe way would slow the job down to a snails pace, unless of course you are lucky enough to have the chipper next to the tree.The three man gang is a classic for good reason. Its a synergy. I've seen some 1 man gangs, and not just on small jobs. Cripes!

Sympathise with you Dean, I'm a binge drinker too, so hangovers hit me proper hard. When I'm still sober enough to know I'm blind drunk (I know) I throw up. Don't get trapped by the stigma, its great! Then you can consider if you want more or not. Best not. I drink a pint of water, a sachet of resolve or Alka seltzer and take a bucket to bed, ha ha more puke. Alcohol is great isn't it? Next day I feel better than I would. have. PeteB was spot on I reckon with the Vitamin c. Oh and more water. I once drank half a bottle of Tequila without a hangover, fluke I think. that said, It is the golden emperor of booze for sure. I've been away.

There's the saying..the best groundie is a climber. this sometimes is the case, particularly when you have non vocational groundies who don't understand what the job entails. Most of the time the speed of the job is determined by the speed the the wood can be processed by the ground crew. Not always of course, but especially with take down jobs. I dont think the opening comment is true universally, but have to say the best goundies I've had have been climbers or ex climbers. there has to be a lot of empathy between the two elements of the job, sometimes this has to be instinctive, almost telepathic. I hate having to shout from the top of the crown how to do the job on the ground. The best crews are pretty silent (other than the million db's comming from machinery) as everyone knows what to do. I'd like to see the CS 45/46 (whichever it is) become a compulsory unit. I'd also like it to be very tough indeed to pass it.

So if I see someone being raped and I do nothing, Iam as wonderful as god am I? Sounds abit lazy to me, not to mention devoid of courage. Lu Lu land nuts babble.

There is no god. there are no little green men there are no faries at ther bottom of the garden. There is just pain and suffering hypocricy hatred and war. What if the good samararitan had taken a leaf from the good lords book? Where would morality be then? IMO religeon is a form of mental illness. A wide spread illness. We shouldn't need religeon to guide us to treat others with respect and love. The threat of eternal damnation can be no part of morality, or the free will Spoken of here, is somewhat reduced. I don't mean this as an insult, but as a hypothesis. So please dont take it as such. It is after all my (and millions of others) opinion which I am allowed to hold.

It's not nice if some one is in pain. But that was Darwinism in action. If he couldn't work that out before hand then, he does deserve the consequences, not from a moral standpoint, but one of biology. The chap concerned was an idiot, by that i mean the dictionary definition of the word, not a judgment.

both the `3rd day' and this are two of the best tree vids about. Brilliant stuff. Inspirational even. Thanks for posting the link Highscale. Thanks to Angus for bothering to film in the first place. Can't see one of our LA paying for a job like that.

Trust you to find my Achilles heal Lee. That man makes me vomit. Please put warning on it next time. Songs from second rate musicals from 1987!!

Great noise at 1.12 but way too many notes for me. Holger Czukay from Can said the reason why guitarists like Steve Vai and Eddie van halen play so many notes is because they can't find the right one. I'm no fan of technique for techniques sake, I'd rather have apoor musician with loads of imagination than the best musician just showing off. Eric Clapton comes to mind as someone who ran out of imagination around 1969. The Stooges were awful musicians but created an apocalyptic sound from their hometown of Detroit. I'm digging the Butthole surfers again at the moment, and enjoying some of the maths-rock bands like battles. Also grooving to early psyche garage punk from the states like the sonics and the monks. Dig this!!! well before Iggy or the pistols! [ame] [/ame]Buy everyone loves Iggy on here, so here he is. My Hero [ame] [/ame]

Yep your right not the whole festival. But rock and roll dont need no power sation dude.

Glastonbury festival is run off WIND turbines. There's pleanty of them Electric new fangled guitars there. I love most instruments, Acoustic or otherwise, but particularly detest ones that dont progress. Folk instruments are the worse offenders.

Music is about communication, beauty, love anger etc etc. My reference points on these things, these emotions are contemporary. I live now. Sure the instruments of the past, particularly folk instruments sufficed at the time. many a great rebel or love song was performed with the pipes. But just from a sonic point of view, the electric guitar is way more dynamic, thus a great communicator has a considerably expanded vocabulary at his finger tips (so to speak). Bag pipes for the tourists and Mogwai, primal Scream,Malcolm Middleton are for the Scots. Scotland the Brave!

Before the invention of the electric guitar or the jet engine there was the bagpipe. Hooray for progress. Here is the true sound of contemporary Scotland. The Scots folk sound from the pipes has echos in the guitar sound here. Mogwai are Scotland. The greatest sound is that of fender jazzmaster distorting and feeding back through a ruptured vox amp, in small club in Detroit. It's Ron ashetons guitar on 1969 on the first Stooges LP. The sound of A tornado flypast, splits my head in two every time. the female orgasm. these are sounds of great power. Sound is vibration, vibration is energy, energy never ends. Be careful with those Britney records folks. turn this up really really really loud or use headphones. harmonics never sounded so messed up. [ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hr07D0a9izk[/ame]

I know theres a few conspiracy theory fans out there. This ones one of the best and many of you will have seen it. But for those of you who havn't.......enjoy. [ame]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change+recut[/ame] It's an hour and a half long so get a cuppa first.

Yep. been there done that. As you know Dagmar from our previous encounters. Agree totally about it being healthy. Takes a man (no offense) to learn from the opposing viewpoint. Me, I'm still talking to trees. Don't even piss up the ones I'm about to climb. And for a pragmatic and logical soul like myself, thats virtually witchcraft.

Empty your mind of unnecessary clutter. Move methodically and ensure you are positioned correctly, secondary in place etc. Be really sure of the terms that will be used. It might be helpful to run through what you are about to do in your mind first, like a little movie in your head. Be really sure to do exactly what your supposed to do and not show off. Finally, use the force. good luck chap.

makes me quite cross. I'd love to hear about any muslims that find it ridiculous too. Have you come across any?

French commune? tell me more. agree totally with short term govt. point. Unfortunately, any long term policy would mean unelectability for any party. Mainly because the electorate is so short sighted too on the whole. Explain the `carbon footprint' irrelevance. I don't know what you mean.

Do you know what? I didn't know that. I had assumed that it was a society based on Feuds. Like Northern Pakistan. AK 47s and all that. Lots of shooting up each others villages.

No No No No. Not feudal. peaceful. Nature dose not plan. In some ways cyclical bit also progressive, not for technology particularly, but maybe for man?

It's the powers that be that would have us believe that all is OK and dandy with oil. So you agree with them on this very important subject. You would only be accused of racism if you were being racist. So dint worry as you can see how to avoid such name calling.