Mark Bolam
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I honestly can’t remember his name, it was decades ago. I’ll check my paper files and see if I can find a name. It wasn’t the living legend Pardoe! He drove a little jeep thing from memory? It wasn’t you was it?!!!
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On my 38 training I had literally never climbed a tree on rope and harness before. I’d climbed telecomms towers for years, but this was totally different. Day 2 and I’m 40’ up an oak, climbing on both ends of a 45m rope having to tie a bowline or fig 8 every time I moved. The instructor, nice guy, talked me through every step. I was clueless. Suddenly, he pointed out I was completely unattached, his bad. FFS! That was at Plumpton.
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5th, before you lose your shit, further training/assessment is never wasted time or money. You always learn stuff. Getting good people like Terry Banyard or Minty out on a decent sized job is still very much on the radar.
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Huge truth. I’m going back a long way, quarter of a century or so, but I’m pretty sure I was awarded LANTRA for completing the 5-day course? My NPTC was separate, the following week. Just to muddy the waters, when I passed it was a ‘ticket for life’. This renewal bollocks came later on as another cash cow for the training industry. I passed my 31 because I put the chainbrake on every 1.5 seconds. I try not to use it now at all because I’m a tight northern bastard. I’ve actually turned into one of those old pricks that failed the assessment….
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It was a 400’ mahogany. 15’ butt.
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As an aside I passed, but probably shouldn’t have. I was safe enough, but very, very green. I think the assessor passed me because he was worried we’d both get hypothermia, I was that slow. He did warn me I had a LOT to learn.
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On my basic chainsaw course 30/31 there were 4 candidates being assessed. 2 were older blokes who were whingeing throughout about how ‘they’d been doing it for years and didn’t need a stupid bit of paper, they knew it all, blah, blah blah.’ They were both failed after the workshop section, and didn’t make it outside to do any cutting. That was in Newcastle. A long time ago.
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As above Rob. That’s not necessarily a bullet hole. -
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One in Normandy Alex.
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The screen on this works pretty well.
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Would you trade for a few Razzles?
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I think it’s possible to hate both sides equally. They’re both warmongering murdering bastards.
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I think the AV mounts may be slightly worn.
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Homo lover. i
