Sambo
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Very interesting info about electrolyte imbalance! I've suffered some or all of these symptoms at various points in the last few weeks and just drank more water - making me feel worse! Many thanks for enlightening me! By the way, where can you get rehydration salts from?
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I finished college this summer and have been climbing for my new boss about a month. Since then i've been battling with dehydration during work and wondered if anyone else had similar troubles and if people have any ideas, strategies or gadgets for keeping watered down whilst climbing. Also, I thought it would be good to hear people's symptoms of dehydration/exhaustion so others know what to look out for??
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Put 'Sky Hooks' in Google!!
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'Tree Diseases and Disorders' by H Butin is a good one for pest/disease identification - ideal if you're training. I've got the Collins Tree Guide too plus there's a Dorling Kindersly Guide at work which is good for quick reference.
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Screwgate?!
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When studying for my certificate i came across a book called "The fundamentals of modern arboriculture" by G F Beranek. There's a photo of a guy lowering a big lump of wood with a massive Eye bolt in the top of it! Good read - lots of photos of big tree felling in America!
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My Spikes are a pair of steel climbers with twisted shanks from bashlin. The top pad contains a steel bar that curves around your shin and is covered by a thick layer of leather and then a thick layer of felt. They are a joy to work in and i've never had any aches or pains with them! I try to keep the gaffs honed as sharp a possible all the time so i don't have to violently stab them into the stem - they just glide in with only the force of me stepping on them. this must help reduce the stress of using spikes.
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i think there's still a posting on here somewhere about doing the RFS technitian's certificate by distance learning. Wouldn't be a bad idea to get chatting with the guys on here too - a lot of experience flying about!!
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we've just had to replace the springs on one of the transits for the millionth time!! turned 'em inside out again!!
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that's gotta be a set-up!!!!! they felled that directly at the car! look where the gob's pointing!!
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I get worried when i hear those three words together: Cheap Climbing Gear! Keep in mind comfort and support. If you've gotta work in it week in week out you'll appreciate buying a harness that suits you rather than simply the cheapest.
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I wondered if the black helmet might absorb more UV light than other colours - thus shortening it's life?!
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Heat exhaustion, at least someone took my advise.
Sambo replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Picture Forum
I keep a pair of swimming shorts in my kit bag for the drive home/working near ponds & lakes/Field irrigators etc.!! -
I Think that would be the main decider as to what brand of saw i bought. Knowing that the aftersales support was within easy reach! Arborists saw have tough lives and need TLC from time to time!!
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Don't try and suppress your fear to much - the adrenaline makes your mind razor sharp and being a bit scared ensures you work safely and thoroughly!
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How Long have you been in the job mate?? i felt the same way when i started but i'm loving it now!
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Why do you need two spliced eyes on a rope? surely that would make it difficult to get things like cambium savers onto the rope? If you're playing with the concept of climbing on both rope ends I'd suggest experimenting with some knots like the Bowline, Perfection Hitch, or Buntline hitch (with a karabiner) to attatch to the plain end of your rope.
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One thing that used to make my heart sink was looking over to the climber in the next tree and seeing that he was half finished on his tree and i was still struggling up mine! (normally having started at the same time!). Sometimes I thought i'd never get good/quick enough to keep up with my collegues!
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I was always scared that i would accidently flip my pole belt over the top of the pole or cut it with the saw when I was chogging blocks off! I was lucky to have been gotten hold of a really good pair of Bashlin spikes when I started so i've always been quite confident climbing on them.
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First Competition i've ever done - felt very welcome and had a great time! people had lots of good advice and happy to talk and answer questions.
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I just bought a Natanoko for the same reason and i'm glad i saw this posting coz i wasn't sure you could flip the saw over in it's scabbard like the gomtaro. There's also a curved version of the nat. but it's scabbard it straight - can you put that in backwards too?!
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Holding Ton bags open to get stuff in em! - get the poles from an old dome tent, shove the ends in the bottom corners of the tonne bag and it should hold it open enough to get the first bits in then just pull 'em out when the bag's holding itself up!
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Ahmen to that! a forester showed me that trick a while back - almost more efficient than a field vice!
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I like the way this thread was started to inform us of an important issue with some equipment and it decended into anecdotes about people's knackers - haha!
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My 8 year old husky 335XPT has only just died (no compression left). i bought it off of a collegue a couple of years ago I really liked that shape as it suited my cack-handedness better for some reason! Suffered the same ailments as other people have discussed though - dodgy recoil, chain break that would snap on randomly unless scrupulously cleaned! and i must have spent a fortune in replacement rear covers and gaffer tape!! because i'd not ever used a 200T (I'm a relatively new climber!) I was pretty shocked by the difference in power when i finally got one! However, Perhaps Stihl could take some pointers from the ergonomics of the 335XPT instead of designing their toppers like 3 Kilo Shoe Boxes!!
