Mark Bolam
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Definitely not for me. There's no way I want a record of all the lies and bullshit I tell my customers.
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Calm down. It was at a Prezzo. They’ve probably just got the shits.
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I was trying to be polite you old bastard.
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Thanks mate.
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Seriously, I’ll be going for the Paramo Velez smock. Loads of good advice on here put me onto them, and further research has been really positive. The fact that the boss of Go Outdoors has 3 Paramo jackets and Ray Mears sells them would be good enough in itself, but Gary’s bar story was the clincher!
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Update on this. I have totally ignored everyone’s advice and gone for a few of these from Tesco for £1 each.
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You’ve got it arse about face Stu. Never try and release under tension, you need to free up some slack somehow first. I appreciate that’s not always easy if you’re upside down and inside out on a branch walk! Also, always close ascenders when not in use. It’s a pita if your rope gets snagged in them accidentally. I have the CT’s as well. They can all pick the rope to an extent in certain situations.
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Looking for work Australia
Mark Bolam replied to ed_carrigan's topic in International Arborist Forum
Where in Oz do you fancy Ed? Its’s a canny big place! There’s a lad used to get on here wanting staff in WA, but that was power lines I think. With your credentials I wouldn’t think you’d struggle to find work pretty easily wherever you go. Don’t go to Airlie Beach though. You’ll spend more than you earn. -
You kept that quiet Dan. Was that you doing barrel rolls over Biggin Hill earlier this year? Nice one.
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2nd rope for me Joe, as the lads have said, enabling standard Ddrt rescue scenario. Take it up with you or have it sent up.
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That would have been the dream mate, but would have eaten into my Peroni, sorry, profit margin. Dan did take my tent though, so it will be up before my arrival at dark o’clock next Thursday. I forbid you to talk to him until it’s pitched.
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That’s Mark Broadley Mick, he knows it. He’s good ballast though. Stein 3:1 prussik pulley worked really well today in tensioning up some biggish stuff. GRCS would have been awesome.
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Pub at 4.30. Peroni’s went down quickly.
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Biggish conny today. Tip-tie-tastic. Some big stems negotiated straight into the hopper of Mark Broadley’s Bandit. Danny Mac up top. 15m3 of chip and a load of heavy. Stump left high as agreed because it was full of brackets and fencing.
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The thing is if I tried that it would probably end up in a tangled clusterfuck with a big dead limb suspended at exactly the half way point with every rope jammed solid and me turning the saw on myself.
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I think there's a lot of time been devoted to a situation that realistically isn't going to happen very often in UK arb. I'd love to be creaming off massive laterals into bomb-proof drop zones with cunning Coos Beach inverted Swedish jump Dadio dogtooth bore cuts on a daily basis, but the reality is you'll wipe out Mrs. Cunningham-Forsythes favourite petunia bed and get a bollocking. Every tree is different. There is no catch-all for every situation. Go small, and go home.
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Cracking solution to a bitch of a drag mate. Great use of that spar tree. ?
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Are you saying they probably shouldn't have worn their GRU t-shirts then?
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Just crack on. Neighbours complaining are what muffs are for.
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Road trip! Road trip! Road trip!
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Seriously mate, sounds a bitch. I know it’s elbow related. Cortisone shots helped my tennis elbow massively, along with physio and changing some work practices, but they aren’t something you undertake lightly, or often. Worth getting a decent physio to have a look.
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I eat pain for breakfast. When I'm in France.
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The new French stuff Honeys have is pretty nice. Think is Cuisson (sp?). Tiny splice.
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First I’ve heard of it as well Bill. Sounds like a load of old Yank bollocks to ‘secure your position in the global marketplace’, but it’s free so you might as well go for it. Apparently issued to ‘all registered businesses’, whatever that means.
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Obviously I'm lying, you muppets.
