Mark Bolam
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Skill that. I'd have been about 10 feet further in from the tips on a pop!
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An ART ropeguide seems horrendously expensive, but you can pay for one with one job, and you would never regret buying it. It is your life hanging off that cambium saver buddy!
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It doesn't matter on the job, but if you don't get it right at the application stage (and it is easy to check), it might come across like you can't be arsed. The paper trail in this industry isn't getting any shorter, like it or not. Two lads going for a job. Both equally good, but one can write RA's etc., one can't. Who gets the job?
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I don't get it. If the bark can take the kind of hammer he was giving it with that saw, why not just spike it? I know nowt about Palms, mind.
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There was a thread on this a few months back Rob. Drew B had come up with something similar if I remember correctly. Worth a search in Climbers talk?
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I wouldn't bother Bri. Even if you get serious brain damage you could still get a job working in a bank. Spunk away billions of tax-payers money and still get a nice fat bonus. Happy days!
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Totally agree Woodpicker. Even the dids wouldn't have gone 'a bit over the top' and cut down a 10-15 trees for nothing! Hope he gets fined £20k per tree.
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Mate is out in Auckland (North Shore) for a year, looking for groundie work. Any tips, contacts appreciated. Ass-Plungers have yet to respond to his emails. Are groundies still called groundies in NZ? If not, people may think he is offering himself as a groundworker i.e. digging holes!
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I also used to love it when i was tryin to move to somewhere in the tree only to find out that my bloody stopper knot is jammed in a stupid little v!! Thats the fella! Re the soft link thing, I find that most times I have eviscerated myself with my O2O and need to head for the Elastoplasts sharpish, the cost of a new lanyard is not uppermost on my mind!
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Need to get a bag I think. Has anyone else got so p***ed off with their lanyard getting tangled round their feet/saw/testicrystals etc. that they have taken it off and flung it from the tree in a fit of pique?
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Cracking reduction Josh. You've been practising I see.
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Or perhaps he thought he needed to take a wood for that hole? I'll get my coat....
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Awesome indeed. Great skill. You will never convince me, however, that a straight fell could cause more damage than multiple hits from chunks of timber that size. Fore!
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They could rig it straight down into some of their skips Macca.
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No way. I like a full box.
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It's mental down here in Kent from about 2nd week in December. £30-£40 for six-footers (unpotted). Keep meaning to get my mate to fetch a load of tops down from Kielder when he comes down for the Christmas shoot, but we always get sidetracked...
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Great job mate. Mucho impressive tip work there.
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Fill your case Robert. You could pay for your trip. If you get pulled at customs, tell them you're a pervert who is seriously into bondage.
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I think you don't want to overcomplicate things too early. Learn to tie a timber hitch quickly! Good advice on pulleys etc. - you can lower little bits off bigger pulleys but not vice versa.
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That's justice for wielding the gypsy stick Rob!
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Mix up I suppose. Certainly have some Christmas trees in there.
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Fell, grind and relay footpath would probably work out cheaper than being sued. Subject to TPO.
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And a Stihl MS200T!
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You could always pop round the night before and lob a few bricks onto the roof. 'Bloody little vandals, eh. Should get the birch. Bring back National Service I say. Never mind, won't matter if the roof gets damaged now, will it?'
