Mark Bolam
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Love that pic, but they would have fallen a couple of floors at most, not 700ft! They were amazing though. 3 guys in that pic are Mohawk Indians, who apparently have no fear of height genetically? Cool vids Bareroots. I still love a bit of freestyling low down, but wouldn't climb leg breaking stuff now!
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I used MEWPS (mainly 34m Brontos) pretty much every day for 9 years in a previous career and only ever wore a harness when instructed to twice on two sites. The operators hated them and never wore them either. That's just the way it was. They all had horror stories about guys being killed because they were wearing a harness. I wear one now in a MEWP, and if I did a lot of MEWP work would buy a full body harness with a rear attachment point and use a longish lanyard so I wouldn't even notice it in a shift. You're right Dave. Too many short cuts will end up in the shortest cut of all.
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BTW did Shutler had his baseball cap on?
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I'm keeping out of this one. I can't slate others for taking shortcuts while I'm still doing it myself.
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It is a cracking stadium Paul, I often go past it when I cut across the A50 to get from the M1 to the M6. Shame you've got them red stripes mistaken for black ones, mind. I'll get you some pics of a proper stadium when I'm home next month. It's called The Fatcockneybastardsportsdirectjjbdixonsportsnikeadidasshameonthetoon Arena. You can't fit any more trophies in our cabinet. Not since Lord Lucan and Shergar started hiding in there.
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I've heard of a £130k quote from one of the price comparison sites. It doesn't surprise me. On comparethemarket.com the Post Office quoted me £15k for my 06 Transit. That lad should have given them a ring and accepted the quote for a laugh.
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I have met many Arbtalkers face to face over the last few years and can only say that they are generally an even more drunken, deluded, foul-mouthed, gluttonous, morally bankrupt group of reprobates than I first feared....
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Need to get that one Jack, have read most of BB's stuff. Might buy my Dad it for Christmas and borrow it off him!
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Goodnight all!
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Cash only, I reckon they don't declare most of it.
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A couple of weeks ago we were heading through the tolls at Dartford on the way to Centreparcs. We were behind one of those new Range Rover 'Evoque' things. It became apparent that the posh young guy driving it didn't have any ready cash on him once at the barrier, and we were by now boxed in behind him. A crossing official wandered off to get a form. I was keen to get on holiday, so I jumped out and offered him £2 and a business card (you never know!), to which he thanked me very politely and we all got going again. Today I received a compliment slip from his company in Leeds with a 'thank you' note written on it and a crisp fiver! Made me feel good all day!
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That would swing it for me more than cost (within reason!). I would also ask if they are happy to use soft rigging rather than chains. Get pics!
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(Re The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy), Just picked up all three in Tesco's for a fiver! Should keep me going for a couple of nights.
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I reckon Ross Smith was closest, but it was gay porn....
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Some of the bigger companies will price just to cover wages of employed guys, or even less. It happens in every trade in tight market. Thankfully I'm not one of them. Eddie is speaking a lot of sense here. Keep your prices and standards high, otherwise we're all in the shite. Also remember it is possible to lose out to companies who might approach the job more smartly and efficiently than you did, and they still make a tidy profit. I'm not often one of them! I won a £2k job once because everyone else opted to dismantle some Oaks because of an LV line. I spent a bit more time on the quote and discovered it was obsolete. Straight fell-tastic! Some of those blokes probably still wonder how I managed to undercut them by £k and leave the site in 4 days. Play the long game, fellas.
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Give us a clue ELG. Has anyone been even close?
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Easy Matt! You'll get us all banned!
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When the tall dude behind you is fisting you and you can't even feel it?
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Stubs are better than flush cuts for sure. They do seem to produce bunches of epi, especially on Oak, but that would possibly have emerged on the butt if a 'correct' pruning cut was used? My main reason for disliking them is their ugliness, and the fact that all amateur ladder merchants seem to use them, rather than any perceived harmfulness to the tree. Probably just my mild OCD kicking in again!
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Steve found out you were American, but the UN overturned the ban?
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Not really. Where's the Stella?
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Great find David. That fella on the crosscut probably pulled the train back onto the track before starting his second shift down the pit. When men were men indeed.
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Unwrapped - McVities chocolate digestives, ginger nuts. Wrapped - Kit Kats, Gold bars. Home made - rock buns (I know that's not really a biscuit). Don't start treating me like Dadio.
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Orange Plant for me as well. Excellent service and prices, and their sharpening is spot on (proper hollow ground unlike certain companies....
