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Mark Bolam

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  1. Mark Bolam
    Maybe those lads will check out arb courses later. My mate just sent me this.
  2. Mark Bolam
    Fair play Jamie.
  3. Mark Bolam
    I had two 17 year olds dragging for me this morning and I showed them this. They are researching arb courses this afternoon.
  4. Mark Bolam
    Thanks for your input Chris and Jules, I’ve been living in the dark ages a bit!
  5. Mark Bolam
    Were the blades flat ground instead of hollow ground perhaps? As Jase said it makes a huge difference to a gravity fed machine.
  6. Mark Bolam
    B985DVK - my parents VW Polo from when I was about 10! I keep a picture of my current reg on my phone so I can remember it in car parks etc!
  7. Mark Bolam
    Memory is a very weird thing. I can forget names within 30 seconds yet recite Pogues lyrics perfectly from 30 years ago. There’s a few on here that I’m sure could contribute a lot more than I can, but I can’t remember who they are! Age is a factor, of course, but I don’t think it’s as simple as old age = bad memory. There’s a lot more to it than that. I’d value the opinion of the Village Idiot, but I can’t seem to tag him? Appreciate it if someone could, I’ll forget tomorrow! You’re not alone mate.
  8. Mark Bolam
    And I’ll bare my arse in Burtons if that hasn’t heaved. (Sorry to go into ‘80’s speak).
  9. Mark Bolam
    I’d apply for a fell under a 5 day DDD and await response. Get on the phone to the TO tomorrow.
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  11. Mark Bolam
    God knows what it’s loading, pic was meant to be attached. Touch wood it wasn’t anything I was looking at last night.
  12. Mark Bolam
    Didn’t know you were on the Petzl RW rip-off Joe. Macca loves his, teaming with a hitch at the mo. Keeping us busy, though. Why overload one Transit when you can overload two?
  13. Mark Bolam
    @Tom D
  14. Mark Bolam
    Nor me! Bloody cedar phone....
  15. Mark Bolam
    As in base tie the retrieval leg Joe?
  16. Mark Bolam
    No mate, it’s a cedar.
  17. Mark Bolam
    Slight tangent but I heard my first Cuckoo yesterday. Quick diary check showed 3 weeks later than last year, to the day. Pretty much in line with the bluebell ‘show’. Still bloody cold at night.
  18. Mark Bolam
    Glad you get on with them Paddy. Same set up as mine. Pound for pound one of the best investments I’ve made.
  19. Mark Bolam
    Metasequoia?
  20. Mark Bolam
    Alec stop ruining this thread with your good sense. Thank you.
  21. Mark Bolam
    You’re forgetting my USP Mick, I speak Hindii and Urdu.
  22. Mark Bolam
    Define success? The companies that make most money aren’t run by arbs. The best arbs I know, genuinely, usually have next to nothing. I’m just aiming for some middle ground! I’m not a hippy, but for me being happy means you’re successful.
  23. Mark Bolam
    The truth of success is in between Mick. Some companies local to me are successful simply because their web presence is good. Their tree work is awful. Steve is redesigning my website as we speak because it’s so dated. I get by on word of mouth now, but missing creamy local jobs because of my lack of web presence annoys me. Incomers to the village want that shitty fir gone that old Maud who used to live there loved. 1 week in and a company from Maidstone rinse it in a day for £1100 with two blokes. Because their Google presence is good. I’d be mad to not want some of that action! Unfortunately some of my best customers prices are tricky to nudge upwards.
  24. Mark Bolam
    This is what I mean about RJ’s. Everyone with a brain knows m specs don’t work, especially on oaks. You might have an 11m limb with all the action at the end so you can’t drop crotch. Hence seeing so many shite ‘rollards’ about.
  25. Mark Bolam
    RC your weight increase reflects mine pretty much exactly through my climbing career. I generally think reductions are pointless though. Someone has just dropped over a grand on that tree Joe did (very well) just to make it look prettier. It hasn’t helped the tree at all. I know he would agree. Climbing in non-ppe with a silky is always fun, but the voice in your head telling you the physical graft involved just to please someone rich and ignorant whose house has been built in the wrong place isn’t.

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