Mark Bolam
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Try and glean as much info as you can from the initial call, and vet the jobs a bit before you start. Obviously you need to look at every job, but it’s pointless wasting time looking at non-starters. ’My tree is very small’ - Explain that you have a minimum charge of £150 or whatever, they may be expecting it to cost £30. ’My tree is too close to power lines’ - Call UKPN, they don’t charge. I saved a 12 mile trip this morning chatting to a lady who wanted some birches reducing, I told her to call me again in the autumn.
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Facebook business profile vs personal for clicks
Mark Bolam replied to DTaylor's topic in General chat
The tossers who join every ‘local’ group even though they’re from miles away is one of the worst things about Facebook. -
This is from when Mick’s loader broke down.
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It’s almost worth putting up with for that final release Gary!
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Maybe mate. I’ve lived in cities and didn’t rate it much, I’m too much of a hayseed.
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You’d be like a beast in a cage, I reckon.
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I had a couple which really sorted out my tennis elbow, along with rest, physio, using a clasp and changing the way I did things. Very much a last resort deal I believe, though.
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Northumberland Hampshire (or Hampshire/Dorset border) Cheshire
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Not Kent.
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Private pension is the only way forward really, like it or not. At least you’re young enough to get going with one Patrick.
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I get you now mate, and I agree. The problem is the government pension scheme is completely outdated. You were meant to retire at 65, live for 5 more years, then die.
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Brilliant Patrick, because the pensions are free aren’t they?
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My mate Danny Mac has had great success teaming a hitch with a Chicane. I like that tether Tim, which one is it?
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Stop being an arse. There are much better systems out there, for not a lot of money. Your set up will work, but it’s nowhere near as efficient as it could be. Your life mate, you crack on as you see fit, I don’t sell the expensive stuff. Ask Khriss for for a pic of his set up, he obviously knows it all. Ignore @Rich Rule, he’s only a cutting edge, forward thinking freelance climber with a couple of decades under his harness. What could he possibly know?
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That’s not a stiff tether, it’s an inefficient piece of shit. Try a real 4SRT stiff tether from Treekit, or better still splash out on a Notch Fusion.
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I don’t for one second believe that claims for tree accidents have gone up much. No one who is doing real arb can have just PL, it’s impossible. Most have PL, EL and tools on one policy. Blame the thieves.
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Yes, I’ve been cut off as well.
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Rich Rule makes some very good points about advances in tech. Us old gits spent years thrutching up on Prussiks and Blakes, sometimes in mid air. One handing O2O’s, then humping tons out on our backs. Hopefully, brain engaged, ascenders, SRT, mini-loaders, mini-toppers etc. will result in a much longer working lifespan for modern climbers. It will always be hard graft though.
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It’s truly sad mate, but I sort of agree with you. It’s like me turning the heating down a couple of notches and putting an extra jumper on while watching my 476 Chinese neighbours burning tyres. Like this electric car bollocks, just transferring the filth and rape of the planet to a different continent. How many of these ‘green’ twats would buy one if they had to store the used batteries on their own property?
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Conservation Area Churchyard TPO Tree Inspections
Mark Bolam replied to Paul Munds's topic in Trees and the Law
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Shut it computer boy. It’s a conny, it deserves a slow death.
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@Dan Maynard put me onto this one from Pfanner. Type C, nice and cool, but with added shoulder protection. Waterproof as well, which is a bonus.
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The trick is to start out as pretty slow and unproductive like I did, then you can keep it up for much longer.
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About 9.15 normally.
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The most important thing is to carry on buying 32” waist chainsaw trousers, no matter how massive your belly gets. A visit to any of the shows will back this up.
