Mark Bolam
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I am going to have a bash at making my own out of the Goretex linings from my old Haix Trekkers. I'll let you know how I get on.
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
Mark Bolam replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I was doing both Rupe! I am getting bloody bone idle in my old age..... -
I think I get that, Drew. I'm going to practise it on a MASSIVE tree first though....
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Dave, I'm normally a 9 UK, but for some reason my Airstreams turned up as a UK 8 1/2, EURO 43. They fit perfectly. I'm loving them so far, and am expecting better longevity than my Haix (see Rich's 2 year guarantee thread).
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
Mark Bolam replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
The guy is a cock, move on. Why are ladders frowned upon so much? 22 Limes crown cleaned in the last two days, and without the trusty double extension it would have been a fair few less. Not your best reduction Hamadryad, but I appreciate the spec was changing like the mercury in a thermometer! -
Excellent. So you managed to fix it then?
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That's because you had them on the wrong feet....
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Noosa, Queensland, 2005. Load of dead trees, still standing, with a HUGE billboard behind them reading something like - These trees were illegally poisoned to obtain a sea view. It didn't work. Classic.
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Why's that Reg? That chunky heel?
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TBH I'd be happy just to put some brushwood through my chipper at the minute...
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Iphone next for me with free upgrade. Meanwhile using a £20 Samsung cheapie, which does the job but I miss my piccys. The Iphone camera is only rated as 3MP, but the quality seems much better than that? Superb. Thought it was gimmicky at first, but now accept that it is the way forward.
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Ditto, but did get mine from Orange Plant! Hasn't been out this year yet mind, bloody white stuff!
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Gaylord. You should have headbutted them all before they got ya! Seriously bro, lucky escape! Glad you got down so quick and OK. I found a nest in a Turkey Oak about 30' up once, got stung once and glazed a prussick coming down (bin). Nest poisoned, tree felled, and the honey we got out the cavity was gorgeous! Sad in a way though, 'cos our little black and yellow buddies are keeping our planet alive!
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Wooooooooooooooh! Get you! Save the planet why don't you? Can't wait till you sort a yard out this year. In Canal Street.
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Shutler, for certain. Lid is to hide his surfy locks...
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Winner for top answer goes to Matt. Stay out of this one Mozza. You want to fell everything to fuel your Kelly Kettle!
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TBH Bob, from what I have heard of your tea-drinking prowess, comparable to mine, if I may make so bold, I think the way forward would be more along the lines of an insulated Camelback.....
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Use a standard strop at the mo for everything. I have a hideous old wire-core flipline with a fixed screwgate crab at one end and a snap hook at the other, with a fixed knob-locker that is really hard to adjust. This was so awkward to use a gave up on it. I now use a 13mm rope strop all the time, including for slippy stem chog-downs, and I think I need to equip myself properly before my luck runs out. I prefer a VT/pulley system for adjustment, but am after your thoughts on 'loose' end. ISC 'twister' or snap? Pros and cons? Is the two-movement snap OK, or is it worth waiting for the three movement which Steve mentioned at the end of last year? Is 3m OK? I don't tend to take down as many 300' Redwoods as I used to....
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Huck Man talk mucho sense.
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Depends how big you are. I have just gone in the opposite direction. I've been Ltd for years, hangover from a different career when I made a lot more money. The big advantage was not paying higher rate tax, worked on a nominal salary and corporation tax payable on dividends. Going Ltd does mean spending more on accountants fees, as there is a lot more work to do. If you are a one-man-band-with-subbies set up like me, and happy to stay that way, I wouldn't bother. If you have plans for arb-world domination, go for it, the sooner the better. Do yourself a favour though. Get some INDEPENDENT professional advice. Good luck with it.
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Oh, and before you get too pleased with yourself, you did miss an opportunity for the first 'naked lunging in sixth form girls cafeteria' shots of 2010. Tut tut.
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Nice work mate. Greased lightning! Sounds like Farmer Palmer has saved you fellas a bit of a workout and all....
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Yes mate. My testicles are slowly re-emerging....
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Always! Total R&R. Nice hurtling down the rapids with snow falling!
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Spent New Year at Elveden Centre Parcs (Thetford Forest). I've been loads of times, to all the CP's in the country (after thinking it would be crap!). Loads of trees, obviously, many in very close proximity to structures. Has anyone done much work in any of the Centre Parcs sites, and do they do their tree management etc. in-house or externally? No angle here (they are all a long way from Kent!). Just interested.
