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First pics, agree with Kev - Weigela. second pics, the flowers look like a Deutzia I've seen before.

Mohammed Atta and the others in the Hamburg cell are often overlooked when people discuss 9/11, they were westernised, rational (to a point) and well educated. They took flying lessons in the US for about a year then with the help of a few soldier types from the training camps in Afghanistan they hijacked planes and crashed them into the twin towers and the pentagon. They took their orders from Bin Laden and the 'planes organiser' Khalid Shiekh Mohammed.

Cheers for the response Reg, thanks for the more in-depth explanation questions - so its primarily designed to be used in the tree where the trailing end of the rope can be pulled up quickly, stored easily and be kept out of harm's way during rigging or freefalling situations where branches or sections of rigged timber might get caught up in your line? Also the climber could hang the bag up in the tree and just pull out the excess they think they might need when working around that area of the tree without having to keep leading the trailing end over various branches/stems etc time and again? Lyon bags - from what i've been told - primarily used by Industrial Rope Access/Caving/Canyoning people who might be hauling many ropes (colour co-ordinated) and equipment (kept dry when not in use) up to an anchor points well away from vehicles etc. Like you say a general use bag, albeit a very good one from my experience. As you say the other climbing rope bucket bags for treework are pretty useless in the tree. cheers .

Thanks for the info, will be in touch.

great job Reg, making our job look very easy yet again, looked like wet/windy weather for treework, glad it all went well for you. Outrigger placement in the first pic, rear left outrigger - half on the path half on the grass, a good idea? Lyon make very similar (waterproof) bags with shoulder straps, will the Stein bags come in two sizes like the Lyon bags? one for climbing rope one for rigging rope etc? Also the Lyon bags come in loads of colours so its easy to co-ordinate what ropes you need with the groundies, currently using about 6 different ones at the moment, any plans to have different colours? Will the Stein bags be cheaper than the Lyon bags?

Whose servicing Jensens in Scotland now?

what kind of protective gear do you guys use and was the sparring done on soft mats, wooden floor or concrete ground? do you wear jeans, jacket and boots etc or sports gear during the sparring?

1 - arrived at client's house to remove a 30ft storm damaged Bradford pear, knocked on her door, as she opened the door the remaining crown of the tree just broke out at the stem and crashed onto her Toyota Rav. She blamed us despite the fact i'd only walked up the driveway and the other guys were sat in the truck. 2 - was carrying out removals in a woodland garden, we felled a couple of trees and were all standing talking about who was gonna chip etc when a 50ft dead oak in the neighbours garden failed at the base and came crashing through the fence into the area where we were standing.

only watched your vid chris, very good climb that was, good problem solving on the limbwalk

Well done Chris, looked like a good day for treework.

had a look at the books........ Mitchell's guide - T.T. 32 is a hybrid of Western Balsam Poplar (Populus trichocarpa) and Eastern Balsam Poplar (Populus tacamahaca) Hillier's Manual calls the tree 'Balsam Spire' (P. T.T. 32) (P. Tacatricho 32) the 32 might mean clone number, not sure? Philip's guide mentions a fast growing hybrid of Populus nigra (Black Poplar) and Populus deltoides (Eastern Cottonwood) called Populus x canadensis 'Robusta' but I can't find any pictures of the underside of the leaves in the books or internet so not too sure about it. .

looks like a hybrid black, possibly TT32....very common around Glasgow, any pics of the whole tree?

fungi hama............fungi kicked it all off

yes, we'll start at the beginning if you like - Nature is thought to have first occurred about 4 billion years ago

Hamadryad Posts: 8,318 the time spent making those posts could've been spent with nature, reading this post, your about as far removed from the natural world as you can be

Agreed Hama, why though, does someone whose so interested in nature spend so much time in the artificial world of the internet? there is nothing natural about this place, if you genuinly like nature you should remember to get out more or it may just pass you by.

your right into nature arent you Hama?

is that because he's inclusional?

Steady, I wouldn't wish them a bad day for gods sake. to be fair, the wedding is a welcome break from all the news about people getting bombed or shot, also the alternative to the Queen as head of state really is vomit inducing - imagine it - President Blair or President Cameron.... either of these two as the figurehead of the UK is not a welcome thought.

The issue of the Scottish Wars of Indepence is totally irrelevant Jon:001_smile: but nice try mate

Not quite Mr Stockbridge, not quite sir ...........the fact that people defend a family who take money which we've earned so that they dont have to work - basically a kind of finely spread out form of slavery, and at the same time proclaim themselves as being somehow higher than the rest of us is something that I will never ever understand.

Mick, the Royal Family dont care about you, you think they'd lend a hand when your doing one your hideous Leylandii reductions? would they hell, they'd laugh at you son, they'd say, 'look at that peasant, what a hellish life he must lead' I on the other hand....would help you out with that Leylandii, cause I'm a decent person unlike any of them. .