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I did a year of evening classes for electrics (2 nights a week) and yes it is easy but I have a mind for that kind of thing. I could have done another year and been a "qualified" electrician, but I would have known nothing about how to go about bashing someones house apart and installing stuff. The circuits and standards and maths etc is easy but the rest takes time to get expereince, but the tools are cheap as in comparison to tree work, so a £60 a day trainee sparks is way better off than an £80 a day trainee climber(if hes buying his own kit as he goes along). Trainnee sparks only needs some tracky bottoms and a screwdriver!!

Exactly what i was thinking of! Imagine trying to pitch that to a fat US film executive!! Or imagine how awful a hollywood version of it would be!

There is absolutly nothing wrong with having celox and using it or anything else that takes your fancy but the whole point of the HSE course is to standardise your first aid knowledge with everyone else. Your green first aid kit should not contain anything extra but you can have extra stuff with you on your person if you want, of course you can. And you can have in house training or discussions on what is suitable for each person. For years my first aid kit on my harness contained Golden virginia and rizzlas!!

No, totally different, thriller, very good. I just like the fact that European movies dont play up to the demands of holywood so you get a better film! This one is french, but the same can be said of the girl with dragon tattoo films, hollywood would never have made them like the original swedish ones. Not seen the daniel craig version yet and not in any hurry either!! Then you can go too far in that direction though and start watching Korean movies!!!!!!!!

BTW, and just to derail your thread even further, I spent last weekend in cornwall with these guys Outdoor survival skills and courses at Footsteps of Discovery We were on a Stag do so it was all good fun and not much survival but a great set up they have there, right up your street.

You might have to teach me how to use it, I am struggling!! Not had much time for it to be honest. I am supposed to call JS soon so I will see what he has to say, I doubt your Chestnut will be high on the list though!

It is not on the sylabus for FAW courses, simple as that.

That was quick! Have you got that love film instant thing? Next up should be "tell no one" while your in subtitle reading mode.

The whole course is pretty average to be fair seems like its more for people that work in offices or factories not for something as high risk as Tree Surgery Its a "first aid at work course" thats for anyone at work, so if you change jobs tomorrow and go and work in an office you have the first aid course. Tree work is not higher risk, it has higher worse case scenario but the risk of choking to death on your lunch is the same in tree work as it is in an office.

Its up to you what you want to use, but its not HSE approved (as he stated) it should not be in your green first aid kit (you can carry it seperatly) and you should now have learned what to do in emergencies and celox is not required. Also, paramedics do not use it, and there must be reason for that. Its something to do with make the wound harder to deal with in A&E, so it might be a life saver if your not goign to be able to get to A&E for a few days, but (I dont know where you are based) but first aid at work is supposed to keep someone stable until the ambulance crew arrive or you drive them to hospital which in most cases shoudl be no more than half an hour tops.

There a big old chestnut at the back (or side) of your house, get the estate to get me to cut it down and then you can make you own in your "spare" time whatever that is. Right, sensible answer: I'm not sure but does the old Bathurst saw mill do chestnut pailings? Or Graham Williams in Tetbury perhaps? (GLC & R Williams)

Thats a good story, and goes to show what we have all been saying for years, except its usually us justifying ouselve to the client not the other way round. I generally reckon I get paid half of what I should be getting, so if I price a job at £500 (and probablly only just get it) I should actually be getting 500 clear profit in my pocket after all other expenses, instead I get the 500 and then pay for everythign out of that and am left with whatever is left. Thats why its so funny when people want to move into this trade becasue they only see the dayly earnings, and forget how expensive a hobby tree work is! Good for you though Dean, I bet you felt good going home that day!

I think your right, but I do own every film he has ever made or had anything to do with (except natural born killers in fact, amazon here we come!!) including rubbish like four rooms and curdled. Generally I think every film is good in its own way, and thats the tarantino way, I just think ingloroius is stretched too far. I watched the farm house scene last night and because I know waht happens the tension was not there, I got bored and turned it off, but at the cinema first time round it was great. But yes its deemed cool to like tarantino films even when they are rubbish! I keep going on about Black Book, its by Paul verhoeven (robo cop, basic instinct, starship troopers, total recall etc) and very much worth a watch, its in his native Dutch (subtitles) and is based on facts (unlike inglorious) and its shocking and moving and very well made indeed. My other recomendation for those who subscribe to love film and can get anything (I dont I just buy stuff on amazon now and then) is "Tell No one" Great film, French with subtitles, nearly as good as girl with dragon tatoo! (not similar in any story kind of way, just a gripping good thriller)

Prussik to rope wrench might be a step too far!! I agree though, pulley based system with a distel or VT would be a good start. Spiderjack will probably scare the wotsit out of you! PLus you will need a ropeguide to get either of these systems working so ropeguid and spiderjack in one go is one expensive experiment!!

Shouldnt that be "shaving Ryans Privates"? SPR is a good film, unless you have seen Black Book!

Really, why so? I have a troubled time with tarantino, kind of think hes a genuis but then sometimes think hes pretensious crap. Resevoir dogs, genuis. Kill Bill, pretensious crap. But others love kill bill. Kill bill 3 is rumoured to be on the cards, with the Black ladies daughter now grown up and looking for rewenge!! Pulp fiction, one of the best films of all time but only good at the time, looks dated now. I think my favourite is Death Proof, but I know its probably his worst film according to general principal.

Its not a great film to watch twice, loved it the first time round though. Best WW2 film? I dont think so myself, but its all subjective. As long as you have seen "black book" then if you still think inglorous is the best ww2 film then thats fine by me.

A few DAYS???

I put my invoice in when I am half way through. That way I'm often paid before I have finished!!

BT don't do line clearance because there is no danger associated with lines rubbing against trees. However it is there responsibility to replace worn out lines and they might prune the odd branch off here and there to facilitate that, but they do no preventative works at all as far as I know .

Time to move on me thinks!! The T22 is a good harness, very robust, but things have changed and there is far better out there. By far better, I just mean lighter and more comfortable, they all do the same thing and its the climber that still does all the work. I am not suggesting you change too much, and you will probably find nothing that lasts as long as a T22 but dont be afriad to try something new. Somethings simple like a petzl sequoia maybe?

So are you going to buy wood in and try and convert it to logs and sell and make a profit? Or are you expecting the wood to be free? Your not in my area but if you were you could have all the Poplar wood you liked for free if you collected it from each job I did.

The company that makes them (or invented them at least) is based here in cheltenham. It started off in the 70's/80's as a bloke called Alan Dick who installed radio masts etc. and the business was called Dick Erections. Very amusing, but when mobile phones started in the later 80's and 90's he was in a perfect position to fulfill the need for lots of new masts for telecoms and the company expanded and went all proffessional, and no longer called Dick Erections!!. So its now called AlanDick, he then invented the fake tree phone masts and really is quite a successful business now, global in fact! AlanDick :: Communication Infrastructure Solutions

I'm sure we have had this conversation before!!

So if you needed monthly payments for being off sick would that continue after you renew the policy? Or does it end when the year is up?