Mark Bolam
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Isn't it?!!! Would love to have seen that.
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Everyone hates a quitter Moosey! -
If she comes back with her broken old crack fixed and a full deep clean I'll be delighted. Even if you have brimmed both tanks.
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Two more things. Steve "I hate SRT" Bullman, move the trampoline and fell it. Ian and Philip, get a pub car park. The Bridge Inn at Acle would be handy, although if it spills into the beer garden in Bond-esque style there are loads of kids playground obstacles to make things more interesting.
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Mick beat me to complimenting JP's hinge. Wife-beaters out in March for the Shutler crew, must be a new record? Some top pics everyone, keep them coming.
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Do you want to borrow my wife?
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The best way is to borrow gear with your mate using it. Feel your pain there Ty! (Only kidding Mick!).
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The time has finally come
Mark Bolam replied to Steve Bullman's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Watching Pornhub and drinking Champagne for 8 hours leaves me feeling like that as well mate. -
New breed Huskies are mad for rattling bolts loose! I put it down to the AV's being so good that the movement all takes place within the powerhead itself. Every workshop sharpen/blowout I tighten everything, which takes about 2 different screnches and two allen keys. Maintaining a Husky is very much like making love to a beautiful woman....
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Tidy mate. That could be a real back-saver/moneyspinner on certain jobs. I'm based in Ashford in Kent, pretty sure that's 29 miles from you....
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Totally agree, although I have a Range Rover rather than an Audi.
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It's death on a stick out there mate....
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Do we basically dislike the new generations of saws?
Mark Bolam replied to MudRut's topic in Chainsaws
New saws definitely don't seem as 'built to last' as the older generation, and have had a few issues, but by Christ my fingers know all about it after a session on an older one. -
Buy him a new saw, then he'll feel guilty.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Mark Bolam replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
I certainly wouldn't. It would be a tension/compression nightmare! -
I'm not allowed on Facebook till I'm 14 Geoff.
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Wise words. Geoff, Gary and Mick are all under 24.
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Oh, dents are different Mick. At quoting I always say, it's a big tree, your lawns getting hammered, unless you want to pay £1k instead of £500? They're not usually too bothered after that, although we make good as best we can. Makes me laugh seeing people rigging everything off a big tree, then dropping the butt on a lawn leaving a trench any Tommy would have been proud of in 1918.
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Very, very true. My rake collection is worth more than some of my saws.
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Are cock-shots against forum rules?
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Are they to stop your armchair sliding back?
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Brill-iant! 😂
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It certainly makes a change from people having a go at the pike-ys.
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😂😂😂😂😂
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Training employees.. Fair and reasonable?
Mark Bolam replied to benedmonds's topic in Training & education
I think one of the problems is that life at the sharp end of the industry has a pretty limited life span. Any 65 year-old employed climbers out there?
