Rupe

Just start riding and stop thinking of what you need to buy before you can start riding. So many new excersise ventures start and finish with buying new gear. You dont need a new saddle until you have done, lets say 5 cycling trips out on the marin. Hows that!

Freinds of mine doing work like web design and such like would all be sacked instantly if they took work for themselves that they got offered while on company time. If I ask them in the pub to do something for me then thats different. Still a sackable offence, if the company found out and were of the mind to get rid of the person, but less likely to be found out and much less dishonorable.

It might be how some started on thier own but its still an instant dismissal offence for Paye employees, i.e. no warning required, out the door instantly. And you dont need to sign anything to say you agree with that or not, but some employers might get you to sign something just to make sure you know exactly where you stand. Of, course if you dont get caught its ok, same as anything else. The for non paye i.e. self employed/labour only/subbies call them what you will, there are no regulations to abide by but the employee can simply decide to not give you any more work if you keep making new customers for yourself while on his time. The honorable thing to do would be to act as a representative for the company you are working for, hand out a business card or price it yourself and give the boss the required information so he can send a quote. This of course should be rewarded with a percentage bonus providing the work gets done in a timley fashion, i.e. if you price it half a day and it takes all day your not going to get a bonus and future pricing that you do might not be taken seriously.

Cheers. Got full results today 1500m swim (no wetsuit makes it slower) 29min 51 41km bike 1hr 17:08 and 10k run in 45:07 !!! Very pleased with that run time and thinking it might be short of 10k but I'll take it!

Like that pat! Did my second Olympic triathlon yesterday. 2 hours 34minutes so ten minutes improvement on the last one. Lake was so warm it was no wet suits which was scary but ok in the end. Won't do another of that distance until next summer, so looking to get under two and a half hours by then.

Still looking for some local who might be interested in this. I dont need climbers and I dont need people who list "own saws" as if thats going to be useful. Good references more important than chainsaws of which I have plenty and they are a tiny part of the job that needs doing. As said before I dont mind if someone has recently got climbing tickets but this is not a climbing job. Im a very small arb approved business working in exclusive areas of gloucestershire and am looking for presentable people to come and help out.

Is this for TPO trees? If so then I agree, all works to TPO trees need to be for a reason of safety and/or damage prevention, not for "I want more light" reasons. If its for tree in a conservation area then I disagree. They can only prevent works by issuing TPO's, conservation areas are just places where you need to inform your intent so the LA has the opportunity to place a TPO if they choose. They cant say if you can thin or reduce a tree or not, they can only TPO it and then make the conditions in my first paragraph apply.

I'll give it a go if I get a chance, but if you don't tighten the spike much then it will open easily and achieve nothing (maybe make the shock loading worse) and if you over tighten it might not open at all. Yes, thinking about it, dropping an extra few inches of line into the drop might increase the shock, or maybe it will step the shock out into separate sections. Easier to manage it in one go I think. My mind has to envisage stuff! So, I've now figured that shock loading will be the same but separated into"steps" the number of steps and if you exceed the force for each knot then you move onto the next step, depending on the number of spikes you put in. So as the shock increases the next spike un does from the rope and the rope goes slack, as it takes up the slack the next load of shock is applied. I don't think this will absorb any shock, all it will do is delay it and let it out in steps which might be hard for the groundie to control. ,??? Just thinking out loud. It's worth trying.

I think the only way is to put what the customer wants not what you want. That's easier said than done. I may have been doing tree work for a while and I think I'm ok at talking to customers but putting it down on a website is hard.

I do like it Ben. No criticism from me. Mine has a budget of 300!! I'm sure yours would be in the 1500 range. My approach it's going to be to have no tree surgeon speak in it. This is proving difficult but I'm convinced that most client have no idea what we are talking about most of the time and there's little point trying to change that.

Should it say "for trees" that require careful dismantling ? Otherwise it implies that the tree removal service needs careful dismantling. So, "are you looking for a safe tree removal service?" might be plenty.

Also just noticed this. Sorry if someone mentioned it already but this sentence makes no sense. "Are you looking for a safe tree removal service that requires careful dismantling"

Its very good! Your Mrs is clever. Do you know what a site with that much going on might actually cost to be made? I'm in the process of doing one, and it will be on the cheap (like me!). The main issue I had was finding a designer who I could bare to speak to. Most are within seconds of a punch in the face in my experience. But mine is looking quite plain so far, and yours does have a lot going on. Not sure that makes yours better but I think a web designer woul dcharge a fair bit for it. Also, I think you need to be careful, your site is written for tree surgeons which is understandable as you sub contract and do loler etc. but for private work a lot of it wont make sense.

Might they not release and over tighten, never to come undone again? I think the bollard/skilled groundie are the best/only shock absorber needed, plus the increase in length (as you mention) might mess up the groundies control.

Not me, taking it easy for a week after the triathlon last weekend. I helped out marshalling at a small taster triathlon yesterday and that was tiring enough. Few beers after and will try and get out on bike today.

Ah, so lack of space meant partial out riggers and a 100t set up at zero reach? I thought you meant that at the set up reach you had 100t, which would be massive! Still, 13t picks is pretty good.!! Yes, more pictures.

Set up for 100ton!!! What size were you actually lifting?

What's the rated strength of your 7mm cord? Are you just using a Prussik on a single line? Or a doubled line?

Lucky you. My sister lives on Paxos which is the tiny Island just south of corfu. She has lots of Olive trees, they are cool!

Its nothing to do with withstanding friction, its the stretch in the rope that a problem. Rock rock is dynamic so it is designed to absorb falls. We are not allowed to fall becuase we use work positioning, so you need a nearly static/minimal stretch rope for work positioning. Rockclimbers will say you need a prussik diameter of less than 70% of the rope but thats because they would use prussiks on a single line for emergency ascents only. James Bond used his bootlaces on one film, and thats fine as a last resort! But we use the rope differently, doubled into a loop, so the weight on the hitch is less and you dont have to have such small diameter cord, and with some hitches likes blakes you can use the same diameter cord as the rope. But you simply cant use rock climbing rope for tree work. Not so much because of any industrty best practice or "rules" of any kind, its simply too stretchy so when you pull yourselk from a to b you are pulling the stretch out of the rope before you go anywhere which is pointless, inefficient and will sap your energy.

Is there anybody who's good at hedge trimming available in north wilts for a week in august? Does need good experience and skills with a hedge trimmer, but equipment supplied (single sided trimmer) and there will be hardly any clear up, just trim trim trim and then some more trim!! Easy ish job, with minimal shrubbery in the way, just lots of sides to to, on a quality well looked after (by me) load of hedges. My normal guy is injured so cant trim but he will be there doing clear up and quality control, and I do the tops. Good rates for the right person. Please pm me.

Wise investment! Seriously the increase in power is amazing! You have to teach yourself to pull up with the back leg at the same time as pushing with the front (thats what turbo trainers are good for, drill sessions of just pulling etc) but eventually it becomes natural and you will fly up hills that you used to struggle on.

You don't need pump and co 2? And a spare tube is better than repair kits. You can repair at home. Cleats are good. They nearly double your power, especially up hills. Sore toes might be due to poor shoes? Cleats and poor shoes will still hurt but decent road shoes that fit should be ok.

You should be able to get a pump holder that mounts to the side of the bottle holder so you still can use the bottle holder? Or go for co 2 and ditch the pump. Proper roadies carry pumps etc in Jersey pockets. Nothing is allowed to ruin the look of the bike! I think that's a bit extreme, I have a pump infringe bottle holder and a small pouch under the saddle with tube, levers and multi tool.

Upton on severn. Yes, lots of people carry co 2 with a tube and maybe levers (defending on how deep your rims are) all bundled together and taped onto seat tube.