Mark Bolam
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I would have been dripping sap, that's for sure....
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Agree you should pay your dues on the ground. Always feel the best groundies are climbers, and vice versa if you get me?
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I'd have safety shorts on though.... Skillfully done with no messing I thought. That butt held it's size right up to that treble. Can't imagine a 100' odd off spiking in that heat though.
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Big tree. Nice PPE!
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Having a brain fart, what's the name of this knot.
Mark Bolam replied to FlyingSquirrel's topic in Climbers talk
Short tail = quick death:thumbdown: -
Having a brain fart, what's the name of this knot.
Mark Bolam replied to FlyingSquirrel's topic in Climbers talk
Don't climb on that mate! -
Does anyone else use the Stihl key-ring lumber man instead of a fairy, or am I just ultra sad?
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You can only dream Phil. That was Mick stroking your inner thigh..... Top night lads and lasses. Band were ace, but a bit loud in a cosy venue like that. Arb kareoke next year?!!!!!! Thanks for organising Phil. Good work fella!
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Otterburn mate. Posh Geordie, me.
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Step cut, crack the limb off, chuck it, be too lazy to cut the remaining bit of the step cut off. Half a peg isn't strictly accurate, but I can't think of another way to describe it.
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Go for it bro if the ISC grabs it sweet. BIG stopper knot though, and would give me the willies on a big TD! This AP thing is insane about the CE approval etc. I now know two climbers who have had their AP hitch cord LOLER approved. I would knot go back to anything else!
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Sean do you not think the regen from a 20-25% red would totally ruin the character of the tree? I'd go fence all round and warn the power company. Poles can be moved more easily than a tree like that! Glad noones talking felling though mate!
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Dean, Always tile under if possible. Drilling is neater if you have decent kit. Then, when you have learnt this, and realised you are not a tiler, get your mate to do it, who is, and do his trees for him. Glad you haven't submitted any post recently about starting a nuclear war with a tile-cutter or something...
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Light reduction = future bag of sh**e IMO in this situation. Tough call though, with the public access and power line issues. Over to you MonkeyD.....
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I think SOME pegs, left for strategic reasons, are OK, you will all know of certain situations where they may help. Know where they are, and why you left them. In my situation it was my own fault I had needlessly left 1/2 a peg because I was rushing. A straightforward 40' stem (with very few dead spike limbs left) is a one climb job requiring no pegs to be left. Stupid mistake. I know what you are saying about a peg saving you mate, but your flip line will choke around a smooth stem before you hit the deck. Trust me. Just dig the splinters out of your chin! Neck fine, slightly tender spot that I intend to pour multiple pints on tomorrow night at the SE Arbtalk get-together to heal. Rich Rule and Mick Stockbridge to buy me my first beers for failing to point out to me that I am a work-shy blunt-sawed Geordie layabout who can't be bothered to flush his pegs.
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Is it ever going to stop raining?
Mark Bolam replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
I hear ya bro. My climbing kit is starting to smell like cat p***. Belter today in Kent, mind. -
I thought EL was compulsory because when you are climbing there has to be at least two of you?
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Busted! I never leave pegs....
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Nice David. Beech?
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Immodium would be a better bet! Top stuff John.
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I know some of the fellas on here are pretty vocal in warning others about the dangers of leaving pegs on a stem (no names Huck!) and here's a classic example why. Chogging down a very dead Macrocarpa stem yesterday, p***ing down of course, and bark coming off in sheets. I'd step-cut a 3 inch diameter limb on the way up, but was rushing and hadn't flushed the 1/2 peg. Moving down the stem I gaffed out and the peg slammed into the side of my neck. Hurt a bit and left a bruise, but could have been much worse. If the peg had been longer and smaller diameter it could easily have punctured my neck. Take heed. Slow down. Don't cut corners. Don't leave pegs. And STOP BLOODY RAINING!
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Awesome John. Had one sit on my shoulder once on a course at Cragside in Northumberland. Think he was after some warmth 'cos it was in January! Love seeing them about when raking up.
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Dickies do some excellent leather fleece lined gloves, great for thorn work. About £8. You can use them on the ground easy enough, but are too cumbersome to climb in.
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Big Man - what's the crack with gloves you can climb in?
