Will Ayers
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i think its very good of you to make anything at all! i dont care if its been on the floor or the dog has had a sniff... tastes the same to me! i'll be round for dinner soon!
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yeah this is always a bit of a problem... i have an extra long cambium saver to wrap around. or... (this is a bit long winded) you could choke off your main line with an alpine butterfly and decend on a karabiner with an italian hitch backed up with a french prussic to your leg loop, this is a system i picked up from rock climbing but works well in a tree. and for your feet a long sling to step in to is fine!
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bowline, blakes hitch figure of eight. look them all up here on the knot guide Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists Knots Guide
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dont take it to heart mat they are just pulling your chain! i always chuck a harness on in the bucket just for show really... that was a whopper mate!
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i wouldnt know where to start with something that huge! do you ever just take a spin around an apple tree or reduce a conifer hedge?
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we used to just be belayed down to the bottom.... think thats insane? check this out! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agfpctJEa_4&feature=player_embedded]Downhill in a new Suit with Roller Blade Wheels - YouTube[/ame]
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its usually called bridge-swinging i think. we used to do this off a viaduct in wales. two ropes both rock climbing dynamic ropes, and the trick is to run as fast as you can and jump out as far as you can that way there is less impact on the rope as your trajectory takes up the slack. makes sense in your head but not when your up there! interesting weather they binned the ropes after though, your supposed to after a massive fall like that!
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i'd love to wear my softer walking boots to climb but do people not find they get stuck in forks and that they are too slippy, even with good tread? a harder rubber last on the sole seems to give it the grip you need on bark... i can see why the trango's or the krodas would be good, they are good solid scrambling boot.
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i wear meindl air streams for everything, i love the stabillity they give. i have heard of people competing in comps in them. they are heavy but the grip is awesome and because the sole is so solid you can get purchase on a tiny part of the boot. but then again i wouldnt say no to a better boot that didnt have protection in them... i have a pair of winter ice climbing boots that would be awesome, but alas they are silver and bright yellow! and rather expensive! so they stay in the cupboard till it snows!
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love the video! i used this method over a bungalow the other day on the outer reaches of a massive reduction. very smooth! the groundie thought it was the bees knees! how did you get the gear back each time? if doing loads i set up a line the groundy can haul stuff back up to me on. more vids please that was awesome!
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I'm Bored!
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he can't be that good! i trained him!
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when i was at college doing my ND in Arb we were told that allthough Shigo was a great man and did so much for the industry, he has really only written the introduction to arboriculture. in many ways, he got us all thinking along the right lines, im certain he wouldnt mind us changing his acronyms or for that matter completely turning his ideas upside down, as long as it was progression and that it benefitted trees. dysfunction is a far more fitting word, and if he hadn't of popped his cloggs i bet he'd agree!
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todays fells went alot better! oddly pete did most of the big ones:blushing: i do agree though it is lovely when a fell goes so precisely. i was foiled today by a tree felling it 90 degrees to the lean, came a few feet towards the lean from where i was expecting it:sneaky2: no harm done!
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shame you have a hatred for red boots the meindl airstreems are the best boots i have ever owned! they dont stay red... mine are now a browny green colour... but i never wash so.... i smell!!
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things of beauty! i'd love to make something like this for the garden, winter project methinks!
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well.. i tried a bit of this today, hit the chipper with the tips of a little tree (sorry pete), nearly hit the boss with another (sorry pete) and when i aimed to hit a log like you did, i missed and hit another (meant to do that honest pete!).
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im 27 and as spotty as ever:blushing:
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me too!
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"Training for Rock Climbing - Steve Bollen, bit old fashioned these days, but good sections on stretching, climbing (rock) and training in general. " im reading that too! as well as the junk hand me downs the wife has read, just read one called "before you go to sleep", the first 90% is tiresome drivel but then there is an awesome twist. wouldnt reccomend it mind!
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i think cartman it may be the way you have aproached us not the way in which you have been replied to. look on the job section of this forum and you'll see countless students just like you looking for a break, whats more, everyone on here was that guy once so, if they are telling you that your way of going about things is a bit skewed, then perhaps its time to look at yourself rather than at everyone else in search of the problem. i dont mean to say this to shoot you down before you can fly or any other emo rubish but some times a kick while you are down is what is needed. have a read through your original post and just think... is that really what i want to say to my potential employer? if not then dont say it on here, he's probably reading it right now. while at college i approached everyone in chainsaw trousers and asked for work, i'd ring everyone in the yellow pages, and all of the guys on the internet, it'll come good in the end buddy, so long as you dont loose hope. it aint easy im afraid.
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It's time to wake up - and switch to Aspen Fuel
Will Ayers replied to Aspen@AAOIL's topic in Aspen Fuel
cheers for that, its put my mind at rest, i'll go out and buy some today and then let you all know what i think. -
It's time to wake up - and switch to Aspen Fuel
Will Ayers replied to Aspen@AAOIL's topic in Aspen Fuel
so..... im swaying to getting some of this, my only concern is, can i pour it straight in to my old saws and run them or will there be problems with gunking up on the old fuel in the system? i know this was talked about briefely earlier, but i wouldnt mind knowing more before commiting and then having to strip all the saws down! -
i got given a bottle of port after reducing a holm oak over the roof of a house a few years back, when i got home, i looked it up on the interweb and found out it cost £40! well impressed, went down a treat with the pheasant that weekend!
