Mark Bolam
-
Posts
30,057 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
340
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Calendar
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Mark Bolam
-
Thanks Baz, I'll call when I know what date I'm heading up. Milk and two please! Mark
-
Bazbro, Are you up near Dinnington mate? If so I could pop in for a chat when I head up home for Easter.
-
Shame, but the right choice I reckon. Lowering dead Pine is not to everyones taste! Hows the replant doing?
-
This is what I think has happened here, Jonesie. I hope I'm wrong and that this is a new initiative. I think we would all have more respect (and slow down) if this was the case.
-
Genius High Scale!
-
Anyone got a new price for this little beast? Bloke I sub for has 2 TW 150 DH's. The old one has always been a blinding machine. The new one (2008) seems really gutless and the linkage is the same kind of crap you get on one of those trailers you can buy outside Halfords!
-
Was told at arb fair that wire was not a LOLER requirement as long as the grab was not adapted. Freefall prevented by good old fashioned stopper Knot! The original wire on the grab is so s**t it surely can't be serving a very important safety function?
-
Have used my mates and found it a good little machine. My concerns about the longevity of the petrol engine have been somewhat alleviated by some of the responses in this thread! Didn't they used to do a diesel engine version but discontinued it for some reason?
-
St. Peter comes rushing in to heaven. "God, there's 200 pikeys outside the pearly gates demanding entrance!" God thinks for a moment. "I'm not having 200 in here, but they're not all bad. Go outside and tell them 20 can come in." St. Peter goes out to break the news but comes rushing back in - "They've gone!" God says - "The pikeys?" "No" says St. Peter "The f***ing gates!"
-
That sounds like the one for me when I have ripped my North Face to shreds! Got a nice Swanndri shirt as well, which is still warm when wet, very tough but weighs nearly 900KGS and smells like a sheep. I can't work with a hard-on.
-
Like the sound of this new Stein. Splashed out £90 on a North Face Circadian Paclite Goretex last year, which is excellent but is a little on the flimsy i.e. tearable side. The black one (I got olive) is £130 for you fashionistas.
-
Great bit of kit apart from that stupid little bit of wire snapping and sticking in my fingers now and again. Wouldn't like to be without one now. Remember your stopper knot!
-
Ditto. Great book, and it's cheap! Gerry Beranek's book is also excellent, but it's not! And Tana Mahuta has buggered off to NZ with my copy... About our lads coming home and Luton, agree with Jason. I think we are all united in our opinion on this one.
-
Ditto
-
Global domination thanks to arbtalk!
-
Am I being edited here?
-
Doh! And her no. is 01563 524013.
-
Dealt with Jennifer Smith, Kilmarnock (?) NFU. 01563 524013. Mention Arbtalk and Stephen Blair, SWB. He should be getting commission!
-
No way. What really happened was
-
Just got my insurance quote from NFU in Scotland. Shrek's Wee Brother put me on to his branch up there after a lukewarm attempt at a quote from my branch in Kent. As Stevie says, I thought the total quote was the monthly payment at first! Nice to know some things are changing for the better. Cheers SWB and NFU !
-
Sound good, but my Haix Trekker Mountains are Goretex lined and I have never had wet feet in them. Pity these aren't. Shame they couldn't have made the HAIX logo a bit bigger! They should be paying us for wearing them with that amount of advertising!
-
Lovely job, mate. How old is the Oak? Did you plank it green?
-
Oxford council used to do a climbing test, lead climber set a few targets in a tree, candidates had to reach each target in a reasonable i.e not superfast time. One lad failed because he spent ages trying to make massive throws with his rope rather than just making steady progress. Fly up there on your spikes, smash the head out with a 66, come whizzing down like a dervish and start quaffing cider from a stash of cans in your climbing bag. Job's yours mate. Seriously, good luck with it!
-
Yesterday's job. Brush burnt on site, cracking weather, early finish. Bliss.
-
Has anyone ever made a film about the tree game? Could be a blockbuster - honest, heroic tree crew take on evil developers who are threatening to bulldoze TPO'd Oaks. Really fit female tree officer for love scene. Loads of close ups of gear clunking and clicking on. Belting tunes on soundtrack and big saws ripping up all over the place. I reckon Bruce Willis could play me. Or maybe Russell Crowe
