Dionysus

keep it! even if you just use the harness for a bit of rock or rec climbing! do a couple of small jobs for family and it will soon pay for itself.

i woulda climbed it! hahahah only joking... looks like a crap yer pants number, wonder how he got that single stem that was left down.

ive snapped 3 lengths of yale xtc spearmint, was an old climbing rope in good conditiong then used for pulling with a ford ranger, snapped all 3 times in the middle of the line, nowhere near the knots. (which were running bowline and bowline on a bight.) not much of an experience but it counts for something

RIP Peter Philip Brian, could of happened to any one of us on a normal day, really makes me think and helps me not be complacent on the saws. my thoughts are with the family and friends left behind, must be hard to take in.

lol i loved it myself, not sure about that one episode where they auditioned the 2 climbers though, they were pretty scary!

180 years old! no way is that over 200.

well done mate, its never as bad as it seems the morning before assessment, generally all my assessors have been quite forgiving and just picked me up on bad habits etc. 39 next! work positioning is crucial.

ive got my cs 30 31 and PA 1 and 6 and an NVQ level 2 and first aid at work cert, all free courtesy of her majesty on an apprenticeship. my boss paid for my cs 38 assessment and my cs39 short course as a result of the apprenticeship.

go for the apprentice route! ive done it and it really worked for me, just keep ringing every company you can find, ask them if they have ever thought about taking on an apprentice, and tell them all the college fee's are covered by the government if your under 18. so they just have to pay your wages and provide ppe.

id say go for the waldlaufers myself, £148 from fr jones if i remember, well worth the extra money for the goretex lining i think.

using the top of the bar is tiring man! and the nature of the stem, and some of the bulges meant i could only get a nice work position in some places, which meant sawdust in the face, it was ok at the bottom, no wind at all, but up the top there was a strong wind coming off a park nearby.

to be honest i didnt find it all that bad, the smell was nice all day only bad thing was i had the wind blowing into my face, so my visor got filled with sawdust from underneath, you can notice me spitting after every cut in the vid, it was terrible had me gagging and all sorts.

haha that 'groundie' is my manager and head climber at the company he wears muffs and sunnies out of personal preference, i myself prefer the security of a lid, the saw on the 2nd vid was a 361 with a 26 inch bar, sounds a bit clunky cos the groundsman likes to take the depth gauges down on it.

sorry for the grainy camera phone video, also its been through 3 different programs to make it to youtube lol, i got let loose to chog this down at work my manager lowered the brush then let me have a crack after lunch. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkm8mdyTPTI[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHtWwW_UC8Q[/ame]

cheers for the rapid reply stevie, nice one.

anyone? ive got a load of sideways videos from my phone, i need to rotate them, preferably in browser form without the need to register.

are those eucalyptus logs you've got seasoning on the lower right hand side? how do you find em to burn?

these tree climber boots dont have the gore-tex lining like the waldlaufers and airstreams, but other than that they are just as good a boot i think, you just have to keep putting polish or dubbin on them.

only lowering rope ive seen spliced is a big block pulley spliced onto a rope for tying with a timberhitch.

nice work steve, i could only ever dream of running a speedline job that smoothly nice after pics too, subtle work but does the job.

i went with yale vulcan and yale cypress to match the fiery and green themes.

i agree with you whole heartedly grizzly, im happy to just be in a job in this current economic climate. i think climbers deserve a higher rate of pay than a groundsman because it is 'danger pay' so to speak, but climbers are also of a much higher skill level than groundsmen. i think it is the skill/experience level that judges what salary you are paid, i know sub contracting climbers that ask 120 a day, and should be getting paid 90 a day at most because they just arent that good. my boss says if your paying a climber 150 a day that they should be able to undertake any work you ask of them. personally i have only worked for 1 company during my year and a half career so far, so i myself dont know whether the grass is greener on the other side, im just thinking to myself at the moment, is this what i will be getting elsewhere. ive worked my way up the wage ladder at this company, going from a 20 pound a day brush dragging apprentice to what im on now, but im far from complaining because i have very good hours which make up for the slightly lower salary.

hey all, had a really nice day on the friday, i was doing a aerial rescue demo with andy mead and james howarth over on the speedclimb beech if anyone seen it, nice to chat to a few bods from the talk, also met will lee who is an amazing carver, and he told me about his mate who half ripped his eye out stumbling about drunk the night before, niccee! unfortunately didnt track down hamad, but ohwell, talked to quite a few of the city of london guys and their new apprentices which was a good chat, and i bought meself a ropeguide my best memory of the show has to be bullman telling me about the timberwolf thongs (didnt even know they existed), and steve SWB singing the home and away themetune at the top of his voice in the thickest scottish accent ive ever heard.

lol lets just say this! hi flex do burn easily

lmfao yve we will be expecting a picture of you modelling the timberwolf thong.