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  1. Stephen Blair
    Mark, 1 word for you. Nonesense! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  2. Stephen Blair
    Where do you get these bohemith machines?? You've got to show us that thing in action:thumbup1:
  3. Stephen Blair
    Congratulations:thumbup1:
  4. Stephen Blair
    Mine wasn't slow motion from 3 m:laugh1:
  5. Stephen Blair
    Not part of the assessment, as for pre tied, look at your kit, check it and trust or bin it:001_smile: I've never had any problems with Prussik loops, pre tied or self made. Now VT, that's a different kettle of fish:laugh1:
  6. Stephen Blair
    What a cool bike!!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  7. Stephen Blair
    Go to the coup and get a dozen old mattresses and make a baracade! It's Rothesay, punt it down the hill Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  8. Stephen Blair
    Nice Enduro Dan, what kind is it?
  9. Stephen Blair
    That's nothing Old Mill! This morning at breakfast time in the cafe, when my French toast with cinnamon sprinkle stuff arrived with my cappuccino, the maple syrup was barely covering the bottom of the bottle! I got 1 piece moderately covered and the other got a little puddle in the middle! Not good, not good at all:001_rolleyes:
  10. Stephen Blair
    Have you put an ad on Arbtrader?
  11. Stephen Blair
    Get another Groundie Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  12. Stephen Blair
    My coffee stop is in Inverkip, in the marina. Cafe Riva if your over and needing good food. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  13. Stephen Blair
    Wait till you get an XBox! With my 2 it was In the Night Garden, it got them sat still from 6.15pm to 6.45pm, finished with a bedtime story and a wee sing song before carrying them up the stairs yawning!
  14. Stephen Blair
    I never noticed your location! I've done a fair bit of work on Bute over the years, some cracking big trees. Next time your over look us up for a coffee:thumbup1:
  15. Stephen Blair
    Ha ha, Clint Eastwood! That answers all the questions really:biggrin: Good video:001_smile:
  16. Stephen Blair
    A top line tensioned, use a short rope on a clogger attached to the top line with a pulley. Attach retrieval line to the clogger or pulley, whatever configuration of gizmos you have to hand. Have a small chord on the clogger to release it, there will be a way of attaching it somehow, again, gizmo dependent. Attach timber with rope from clogger, lift it off the deck and take the slack through the clogger, send it down the hill, stop it at the bottom with something you have or slow it with retrieval line, pull the clogger to release and hey presto:thumbup1:. Or you can do it my way, punt the ring down the hill like Fred Flintsone, I am known as Stevie Twinkle Toes :biggrin:shout at Groundie to catch it!! Steer the timber with the power of your mind while shouting, sacrifice your body? This is by far the quickest and most exciting way of doing it.
  17. Stephen Blair
    Mines about £400 I think. Nfu. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  18. Stephen Blair
    Hedge man,Bens working with big Chippers that eat 12" oak trunks, it wouldn't drop a rev chipping a wee echo saw. Ben these things happen, I nearly chipped my dog once and did chip a full climbing bag with kit. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  19. Stephen Blair
    Bit doom and gloom that Mark. Crack on and concentrate on the 15 ft connies Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  20. Stephen Blair
    I wouldn't be concerned about tickets! Insurance is peanuts now, pay it up every month DD. Get the little chipper. But get a greenmech cs100:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  21. Stephen Blair
    Start long and reduce if need be. I've never found it an exact science. Longs good for going up, shorts good for going down. I just tie a knot in a long 1 if I need it shorter. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  22. Stephen Blair
    Less leaves to attract the bugs and the tree tree can put more oomph so to speak into fewer branches. Most of the elms that are still alive up our way are pollards or high fells. This is just my take on it. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  23. Stephen Blair
    Has it been cut back hard before? Around the 12' mark. If so then that would if helped it. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  24. Stephen Blair
    They cut like butter , but power through as The guys have said, they love to rip . Which is good sometimes as it's like its own little lowering rope:) Reducing it will only help it against DED. The wood is really heavy and the branches are horrible to chip. I'd rather be on a dead 1. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  25. Stephen Blair
    While you had stopped climbing, I hadn't and do it the same way as you remember in 2000. Spikes are better, alloy geckos are like slippers . Harnesses are lighter and fit better, sequoia is comfy and light. I've still got a rope I bought in 98 for big stuff and an orange 1 I bought a few years ago with a Prusik . I've tried mechanical friction hitches, didn't like them, tried VT, didn't like that do stuck to what I know. The best thing to have happened while you have been stuck inside is the invention of micro Chippers. 4", 250kg, wheely bin wide awesome little Chippers. Get 1 of them, everyone has gone all Eco and want mulch and logs. It's easier than ever , good luck Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

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