Graham

You could have a look at the mushroom growing thread:001_smile:

Keep cutting that hinge when they start to fall.....but not all the way through!

Dryad looked everywhere for his saddle.

I was only joking, nice meet a chap though who has experienced the curtains stuck to the widows [frost], I have.......and I wouldn't change my experiences for anything..right Graham?

Yeah I know. You had curtains!

Cheeky bastid

A little kid then

Keep up the good work. It's good to know the EA are now allowing this when at one time it was as quckly to the sea as possible.

Yes and the Dove and Churnet.

Is that Bentley brook?

I'm just about old enough to remember '63 as a little kid.

The hamlet where we lived had no mains water...just a pump in our field. My Dad had to thaw it every morning by setting fire to straw around it, carry water to the house, water horse, pigs and chickens then cycle to work 4 miles to work outside all day. Evening was a reversal of this. One log fire and all windows frozen up in the morning.

I can just remember seeing water hens frozen into the brook that flowed by the house and walking up it.

Now...2" of snow and the !"$!1!in' country is at a standstill! Eeee..that's nothing

We have a magnificent Cedrus libani (Ceder of Lebanon) here in Worcester. Every time it snows we’re up there with brooms dusting it down. Luckily today it’s the dry powdery stuff that brushes off easily, it’s the wet, heavy snow that’s the killer for these trees (and it’s a bugger to broom-off!)

Yes it's usually the early and late snow which tends to be wet and heavy. This is nice powdery stuff...no good for snowmen:001_smile:

so much for retireing mate, get it felled for lunchtime. show the whippersnappers that grandad still packs a punch:001_smile:

(i mean no offence by this graham)lol

Well I must have been feelin down. Nothing like a big old veteran to fire you up. What's retiring:001_smile:

Charlie. I'd certainly be interested in looking at the tree. Never had one that defeated me...but there's always a first:001_smile: Be good to keep an old black pop going

I'm half an hour from Ashbourne.

How bored do those kids have to be to try that!

They need another outlet for their energies.

Clay(ey).

Depends on the organic content of the clay.

How old's the house? Many old properties were built on minimal footings or just corbelled brickwork.

...and the waters of wormwood were inhabited by sirens of great beauty and inebriation

self medicating my moonshine due to EEC absinthe husbandry subsidy cuts. That downturn hits all of us.

A devotee of the Green Fairy. I climbed a 5' wormwood.

If I stop climbing, I will either have to stop eating half the stuff I enjoy , or start going the gym ,

 

Or worse still become one of those huge fat ex-climber we all know

 

Think I'll just keep climbing thanks

Good idea. I'll just carry on till I fall out of my tree. I won't be seen dead going to the gym:001_smile:

First time I've seen this thread too.

Big decision to move on. This has been flying around my empty head for a while but I can't seem to let go. At 52 with over 30 years climbing behind me what do I do?

I've always striven to do the best work I possibly can and shudder when I see some examples of work around the country...one of the reasons I persist in climbing! Until this year I haven't felt any slower or less proficient but the accumulated bumps, breaks etc catch up.

So when do you call it a day and step aside and what do you do?

The Stones at their best with probably one of THE best songs of all time. Lisa Fischer is pretty sexy too.

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It's there but it ain't very big:001_smile: as theactress said to the bishop

does commerical insurance cover 24hrs a day 7 days a week

Certainly no restrictions on mine.

Been with the NFU for years...£400ish on L200 and never questioned it.

Now had a quote for £250 from one of the comparison sites. Just have to check out cover is the same.

There has and always will be "more than one way to skin a cat".

Exactly. My observation was from my experience.

This isn't meant as a criticism but an observation.

When I came into this industry I worked with some fallers who had started their careers in the 40s...axes and crosscuts etc then on to saws and powered winches.

They felled some big leaners and I never once saw them put a backcut in first. The cable was tensioned, tree was faced and then backcut. If the backcut needed adjustment then the winchman was instructed by hand signal to do this until the faller was happy with the tension.

I can teach you the basics in a day....the next 50 years is up to you:001_smile: