Mark Bolam

You’ve got a mortgage. You will actually lose your house if you go into arb. Anyone who tells you different is blowing smoke up your arse.

No.

Starting your own gig when you haven’t got a clue what you’re doing is a bad idea. You’d also need thousands of pounds worth of kit.

You’re obviously new to Arbtalk Jimani. We’re not meant to have sensible conversations where advice is sought and things are discussed and explained in a logical and adult manner.

That’s insane Jake. Even The Best of Springsteen, The Eagles and Bat out of Hell wouldn’t get me through that journey. Edinburgh ‘ring road’ is hell on earth.

Tie backs for the barn doors, removable tailgate and quickly removable rear ladder bar are also nice features. Double cab pickups are probably mainly found in suburban driveways, and have never been off road. That’s about 80% of the market. Single cabs are for weirdos with no tools, kids or friends. King/Super/Extra cabs seem to tick a lot of boxes, but we are a pretty niche industry, which I’m obviously pretty biased towards. ALL of my farmer mates have double cabs, with an Ifor canopy. No one has ever been in the rear seats. They are usually littered with Farmers Weekly, hypodermic needles, the odd bag of feed, shit stained waterproofs, rusty staples, a single shoe belonging to their wife, a half empty bottle of shit whisky handed out by a fertiliser rep last Christmas, assorted shotgun cartridges, and the odd dead lamb so the dogs don’t eat it.

100% reduction would be my advice.

Looks great mate. There’s some really nice little details on there which I know from experience will help you out. The king cabs really lend themselves to the best compromise for our work I feel. Was it a tipper already, or did they do a full conversion?

Nice one Tom, pleased to hear it, but not surprised! Looking forward to the pics.

The Disco option is how a few of the lads back home are rolling.

I hope you could get your mega-rake in for the clear up!

I would give this a go first, no diagnostic tools required and I don’t think you have anything to lose. https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Husqvarna_Chainsaw_Autotune_Reset

It’s been hammered before, and I would hammer it equally hard again, because the regrowth is really quick. (In consent parlance, ‘cut back to previous’. Probs best to avoid the word ‘hammer’.)

All 3 are the same.

Acer Negundo! Or ash-leafed maple.

I think the big builders are chewing because they can’t trouser as much profit as usual. This government, and Labour, are hell-bent on building 300,000 new homes every year though. I can see a slow-down, but not a crash.

Defo not honey fungus Dave. @David Humphries will hopefully be along to confirm what you have.

Slight derail, sorry Jamie, but who was that American fella who used to come on here, older chap, very knowledgable, possibly insane? Used to wear thigh length boots with about a million lace holes. He invented some spikes that were like a hypodermic needle that retracted? Steve will remember. I’ve been pretty lucky with my carbon spikes for about 20 years. A really good climber called Jon Turnbull was working at Honeys stand at the arb show one year, and persuaded me to buy them instead of the alloy Bashlins I’d taken to the till. Pretty much twice the price, but a decision I’ve never regretted. Swapped out the velcro bottom straps, which were quick but let me down on big climbs. Leather (ish?) and buckles bottoms now. Standard gaffs, tickled with a file very, very occasionally. Gaff out is a technique with spikes problem, not a spikes problem. Newton has long gaffs because he thinks they will help him get up the tree quicker, that’s how retarded he is.

I find that very hard to believe you fat c**t.

They look long on him.

Also illegal here now post-Brexit.

You’re in France Mick. I’ll remind you in June.

10k will be fine in Francs Mick.

You might want to be sitting down with a glass of wine when you get it!