Mark Bolam
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From what I can gather it's a film about gang violence, which is attracting violent gangs to go and watch it, with obvious consequences. Usual third world suspects.
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Twin line working on “SRT”
Mark Bolam replied to Arboricultured's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Totally job dependent re the top tie mate. Definitely isolate if there’s much chance of a base tie being compromised. -
Twin line working on “SRT”
Mark Bolam replied to Arboricultured's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
A massive advantage of SRT for me has been the easy setting of high anchors. This takes that straight out of the game. I appreciate your sentiment, like, but I’ll stick to using two lines for jobs when it helps me. -
If you’re just dumping the chip and the customer is moving it that’s fairly simple. If you’re just dropping the trees and the customer is moving them to the play park then you are chipping them, then that’s a different game entirely.
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Have you been getting your lass to tie you up again?
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I don’t understand the question.
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Joe would definitely buy something if he could leave it on his harness for the pub after work.
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I think what Stevie is getting at is that you shouldn’t be putting yourself in that position. I’d be picking the place to fell it where it did least damage, and if they didn’t like that idea I’d proceed on to the next job. No climber owes his life to some prick who lets his trees get so dead and crispy they can’t be climbed.
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That's the one Paul. The OP was never heard from again.
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Riding the hook is the best thing about crane work.
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Good to see that Ger is ahead of the curve on HSE compliance.
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Accredited Agent Schemes (planning submissions)
Mark Bolam replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
Bargain. I have signed up. -
Quite a while ago, obviously. When flares were still in.
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I've now got a worrying image in my head involving Mick, a queue of blokes, and a blow up doll, sorry, dummy.
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Turners eh? My experience pretty much reflects yours.
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Two good posts, pretty much saying the same thing, albeit it in slightly different terminology!
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BALI are a really good organisation, and I have some involvement with them and contacts there. Having said that, I agree with you wholeheartedly. The whole thing seems to be a constantly goalpost-changing clusterfuck, which is putting professionals off doing things right. ROLO/LISS/CSCS/CITB/YMCA/BOGOF is just a confusing mishmash. Arb seems to be an afterthought. CSCS don’t even seem to have it on the menu as such, although I think we have established that we can’t argue anymore that we aren’t part of the construction process, especially site clearance. There doesn’t even seem to be much correlation with SSSTS/SMSTS. I’m generally a fan of tickets, they separate the wheat from the chaff and cut the nomads out of the food chain, but they need to add value and really mean something, and last a while. If I want to pay money for pieces of paper that don’t last very long I can go to Tesco and get 16 rolls of Andrex for £3.99.
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Good post Marc. @monkeybusiness regarding 'Mark Bolam - what are the potential changes you’ve heard of? Good or bad?!', pretty much as Marc and others have said. BALI want everyone's card to be relevant to what they are actually doing on site. The catch-all green cards won't cut it for much longer. Blue skilled operative will be required (we are skilled aren't we?), and a team will need one of them to hold a Supervisor's card (someone has to be in charge). More information here - LISS/CSCS WWW.BALI.ORG.UK
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That’s about spot on mate!
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Gotta love these arb ninjas, just waiting, poised to strike. Probably sat in an A-Team van with their saws on tickover. They must be shit hot.
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It won’t get you a CSCS card Ben. You have to do the ROLO course (1 day) as well, and I’m pretty sure all that’s about to change. Again. I blame Brexit.
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Big fan of short sessions where you can see they are still interested in learning, then end it, have a break and let them have a fun walk and be a pup.
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Nellie is doing very well so far, but short blasts of training aren’t a full day in the field for sure. Definitely won’t hurt her to see what it’s all about, but I’m not going to work her full bore too soon.
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Looking good Wayne, cracking positive start. That lead is interesting, where from? First shoot day last Saturday and it was very weird without Dutchie. I was going to take the oldest pup (15 months) at the back end, but I might chuck her in a bit earlier and just keep her on the lead to see how she does. That would also mean Ruth could do some solo work with the young pup, because as Stubby says you can’t train two at once! It’s great having Weaver’s whole story on here!
