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  1. Taupotreeman
    Just a bit more salt on those wounds eh.
  2. Taupotreeman
    You can bet that if you it posted on arbtalk, EVERY man and his dog would have a different theory on how to change the bulb.
  3. Taupotreeman
    Fortunately, our local redneck power supplier has a better line clearance policy than the big city slickers in Auckland so power outages are a rarety down here The down side is having to put sprinklers on every night to prevent everything drying out. And the fact that evrything becomes a dust bowl. Still, aint freezing me particulars off so I shouldn't complain.
  4. Taupotreeman
    BBBBRRRRRRRRRR is all I can say. Glad I don't have to work in those conditions anymore.
  5. Taupotreeman
    Today from my back yard.
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    Sorry to rub it in guys but there's not a cloud in the sky today. Beautiful cool evening so nice sleeping conditions rather than that muggy, stifling weather. Had the lawn mowed by 10.30am and now to finish off my paperwork before I take the mutts a walk. Singlet and shorts weather, expecting around 26C to 28C
  7. Taupotreeman
    Nice bro. After today I didn't have the energy to even get to the lake
  8. Taupotreeman
    It does work just fine on the left, in fact I was told it was supposed to be left hand use only but it just feels unnatural. The cinch works fine, easy to tend slack etc but I just don't like the feel. I'm always going to unclip with my left hand and then have to stop myself. Horses for courses I suppose. I was shown michoacan by a friend and work colleague. Works beautifully. Never seems to tighten up and the only time it's stopped working is when it was gunked up with Doug Fir sap but then everything gave up the ghost.
  9. Taupotreeman
    Got 4 years out of a pair of the Meindles and they're still being used as walking boots and still water proof. Can't kill the things unless I chuck em through the chipper it seems.
  10. Taupotreeman
    I climb mainly on the SJ, rarely on the RW but was taught on 3 strand tying everything from the one piece of rope so can go back to that if everything else if falling down around my ears. Had my main climber today working with just an old school prussic. Asked him if he wanted a micro pulley to help but he was happy as larry just as he was.
  11. Taupotreeman
    I have a cinch on my strop but it's left hand use only and is now redundant. I prefer a michoacan hitch with a micro pulley. Works sweet as. Just the left hand operation of the cinch felt all wrong.
  12. Taupotreeman
    This argument again. Last time I got in to this I was told I was better off getting another job instead of agreeing to reduce trees regardless of the fact someone was going to reduce them anyway.
  13. Taupotreeman
    28C here. Absolutely baking and now in drought warning. Been pouring water down my neck all day.
  14. Taupotreeman
    Looks like Paulownia from that distance.
  15. Taupotreeman
    I now work for council as well as running my own business and I still come in to work and find people (in a Government organisation) reeking of stale alcohol, blood shot eyes and half asleep at least once a week. Granted, some of them are gardeners but they're still driving vehicles etc. The only thing that gets mentioned at meetings is the possibility of one of our guys smoking weed at home and could this be an opportunity to get rid of him. Treequip, I have met and worked with a few guys you describe. Personally I can never understand how people could work after a smoke. In your own time is a different matter as long as it doesn't affect your work. I do sometimes get annoyed at the holier than thou who preach on about the evils of smoke and then quite happily go out and get blitzed on a saturday night, maybe get in to a fight or smash a window or piss up someones car etc.
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    Intersting that the thread title is drugs at work but it's pretty much boiled down to cannabis at work. For the record; I don't like the idea of drugs at work and if what you do in your own time affects what you do at work then I'd have a problem with that. I also find it amusing that (discounting all the legalities or illigalities) many see cannabis as an evil, evil drug but see absolutely no harm in alcohol. Mind you, that's an entirely different argument.
  17. Taupotreeman
    Blew the head gasket on my chipper after neglecting to clean the radiator. Splash out on a cheap air compressor. I found using a jet wash tended to pierce the rad fins if there was any weak points.
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    I was tee total at the time and a couple of mates at college were having a smoke. I turned down the offer at first but had a couple of tokes to try it. I smoked on and off since that first drag, on and off meaning i'd go several years without a smoke and then maybe a year of smoking. I enjoyed having a couple of tokes after a long day and vegging out in front of the TV. Could never work after having a smoke and I could never figure out how people do. I remained tee total through much of my life but started to have a beer (one only) or glass of wine when I gave up smoking weed. Just for the record; I notice that it has recently been legalised in Washington State. I believe it's also decriminilised in a couple of Ozzy states.
  19. Taupotreeman
    Liverpool. Grew up watching Kenny Dalglish, then Ian Rush, John Aldridge etc play.
  20. Taupotreeman
    Back to normal, 26C today. Taking shorts to work tomorrow for a lunch time swim in the lake.
  21. Taupotreeman
    Local primary school was cleaned out of its entire winter wood supply last year. All the kids wrote a letter to the local rag about it. Don't think the culprit was found. Signs have gone up all along State Highway one forest boundaries letting people know that any wood, even wind blow, isn't for public collection. I doubt it'll stop people nicking it but I'd hate to think what will happen if they're caught. Local forestry crews are not the type of guys you want to get the wrong side
  22. Taupotreeman
    I hate it when that film is on TV. I turn over and catch 3 minutes of it during an ad break and end up watching the whole film..........every time. Did you know that it is the most played film on US TV I believe. They recently played it every night for a week.
  23. Taupotreeman
    Some photos would be good pre and post pruning. Might learn something myself.
  24. Taupotreeman
    So we've gone from snow on the mountains yesterday morning to heavy rain yesterday evening to 22+degrees today (70F). My mate in Canada reckons it was 5 degrees yesterday but -24 today. Go figure.
  25. Taupotreeman
    A cheat and a bully.

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