Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Yes you can? surely otherwise it would be a free for all, I would think AAAC and ISO be minimum in the case of LA contracts?

if I upset anyone i do sincerely apologise for any innapropriate posting.

It isnt any good dying trying to save somone! lets hope the ambulance was called before the "hero" attempted his radical ascent!

And there was me thinking you lot had a sense of humour, a great deal of dry sarcasm at that, I cant see how any of you can claim to have been in this industry ANY serious length of time without a decent injury of one form or another. It was meant to be light hearted and put a smile on instead of being negative about it, if thats wrong then I will wear that hat no problem. If you can claim to have a long history as a climbing and or saw user without any injury i take my hat off to you, your better men than I, your s~~~ obviously smells of roses and we "proper arbs" shall bow in your pressence and consider ourselves ametuers in comparisom! i salute you whilst blowing a big fat raspberry! LMAO

Few people on this earth are blessed with such a gift, and fewer still find their gifts, this is art on another level. Simply beautiful

I like Oak, ash, hawthorn, hornbeam, pear, cherry, beech, plum.... but My all time wood of choice is those old grey lumps of deadwood that have seasoned for an age on the tree, burn for ages like coal.

This is the details for Employers Liability insurance exclusivley or as well as Public liability? I asume it wouldnt be much different? and if so this makes it clear (ish) that a free lance climber would need his own PL insurance, but no EL as he is a lone trader?

MMMmmm, if they arent "essential" why on earth do they make it a requirment? otherwise it would be a "choice" ALL PPE should be VAT excempt:sneaky2:

I have to confess to trying hard to be more "that" way inclined, they are efficient and clinical but thats not a bad thing, balance i guess, they are a little dry, with the exception of mr Claus!

Nion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article contains Ogham text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ogham letters. Ogham letters Aicme Beithe Aicme Muine ᚁ Beith ᚋ Muin ᚂ Luis ᚌ Gort ᚃ Fearn ᚍ nGéadal ᚄ Sail ᚎ Straif ᚅ Nion ᚏ Ruis Aicme hÚatha Aicme Ailme ᚆ Uath ᚐ Ailm ᚇ Dair ᚑ Onn ᚈ Tinne ᚒ Úr ᚉ Coll ᚓ Eadhadh ᚊ Ceirt ᚔ Iodhadh Forfeda ᚕ Éabhadh ᚖ Ór ᚗ Uilleann ᚘ Ifín ᚚ Peith ᚙ Eamhancholl Nion is the Irish name of the fifth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚅ, probably meaning "fork". In Old Irish, the letter name was Nin, a name which is notable for referring both to a specific letter, and to any of the Ogham letters in general. The Bríatharogaim have: costud síde "establishing of peace" bág ban "boast of women" bág maise "boast of beauty" The glossators of the Ogam Tract and the Auraicept na n-Éces seem to refer to at least two Irish words nin, meaning "part of a weaver's loom", and "a wave". The corresponding adjective ninach is glossed as gablach and used as a synonym of cross, and the word seems to be roughly synonymous with gabul "fork, forked branch", and is thus a plausible base for a name for "Ogham letters", which after all (at least the consonants), look like forks or combs. The second nin seems to be cognate with Welsh nen "roof, heaven", with a meaning of "loftiness", with an adjective ninach "lofty". The kennings are explained by the glossators that weavers' beams were erected as signs of peace. The "arboreal" tradition claims the word as ash-tree, concluding that looms were made of ashwood. In some instances, the association with ashwood, which is best known as the raw material for spears, the kenning was amended to "destruction of peace". McManus (1988) suggests that the word for "forked branch" was applied to the olive branch, the shaking of which in Irish tradition requested an interruption of a battle. The kennings related to beauty, on the other hand, are maybe somehow dependent on the second meaning of "lofty". found this on wiki dont know what happened here but that isnt what I coppied from wiki!

GOOD QUESTION! I wonder if Paul A.K.A AA techie is able to enlighten us here? come on paul we need you input!

What do you/it mean- teutonic catolouging?

my bad

oh i have a few here and there, though i do generaly try to focus my atention on getting images of the classic form of the species as pictorial reference. My aim to provide as detailed and comprehensive a catalouge as possible. I wouldnt hold back on you guys, I am the sharing kind! I have that many photos I spend about 2hrs a week putting them into folders so that i can find what i am looking for quickly, but its a slow slow proscess and I just cant lay my hands on a particular image set that quickly yet. Im still finding errors within my files from the early days when I wasnt so clued up and iD mistakes are something I do not wish to perpetuate, especialy on the eternal record of AT! I am starting to think though that with all this sharing of these images I am in danger of repetitions at a later date!

I got it wrong and have looked at the first post again, at first it sounded like a guy was up a tree and another was felled taking out the tree he was in. apologies for the misunderstanding here. A sad loss, my sympathy for the family concerned. Is there any other info on this other than the basic in the link added?

No S sherlock:001_huh: What I am saying is if the scenario was as it sounds I.e one guy climbing a tree while others felling around him and one said fell takes him out of his tree then this is more than just an accident. IF the scenario is as stated then somone needs to be doing a LOT of explaining as to how even a modest R/A failed to prevent such an avoidable and obvious risk.

That sounds like an accident that should not have happened, who was doing the felling? and who was supervisor?

Ancient woodland is not that well protected, hence the efforts of the ATF, about 85% of AW is not protected, we cant just replace these habitats overnight. replant is not an option in these situations, ancient woodland soils take time to build.

That was a light hearted comment Sky! busting my nads as always!

As David points out being "tree fit" is very different to being "legaly fit" I have a lot of confidence in my ability (thats not always a good thing) but as i get older, I am becoming more "self aware" of mortality! On an average day I dont really worry too much about these things, but with the prolonged wet and icy weather we have had this year Ive given this more thought. There is a fine line that we have to work with in this business, that line is the difference between working hard enough to remain "tree fit" and not working so hard that we work too long in a fatigued state. This is something we need to think about as much if not more than any other aspect, fatigue will kill you, faster than any other fault on your part. fatigue will be what makes you cut corners, fail to control the saw as well as you should etc etc etc Davids point is a very valid one and exactly what i am talking about, i dont doubt that a great many of us are working under similar circumstances. Not all due to the age of our groundies, but ability, experience etc etc Its all too easy to tick all the boxes and "do the right things" but how many of you take this "that" seriously that you go further? Does anyone have any views on this aspect? Would anyone care to be bold and admit, be truthfull about their feelings on this subject and talk about the "weak links" in the/their ariel rescue chain? How do the freelancers feel regarding groundies they may not know? Do you take the trouble to find out what they can do? if they are that good, why are you there?

Your a proper arb now fella, hate ladders, get well soon. me, well 4 minors and a scar on me knee that looks like a shark bit me! So i cant say nowt! does quicken ones learning though, youll not do that again in a hurry!

or better still lets get a bunch of us down there and seek out bats newts and adders, that will slow them down a bit!

are we talking about a sit in! sounds fun!

Thanks for that paul, its good to have a top gun here on the subject. My origional points have gotten lost though. My main concern is thus- On a small firm, say up to four five employees in a gang, in my experiance, maybe completley unique but doubt it. 1 man usually (the most efficient/best climber, ends up doing 99.9 percent of the climbing. What this does is gradualy soften the groundstff that are supposed to be relief climbers if not full on climbers. Gradualy they climb less and less until the only one doing any climbing of note is the main guy (me in this case) Now i dont give a flying whatsot what ticket you got, A good climber is a good climber and its how fast he can get to me and get as down that matters to me. However, how much confidance can we have in our ticketed groundies to come get us if they havent climbed above a hedge in 1 year? With regards to those who seem to be concerned about the cost of an ariel rescue kit and an ariel rescue NPTC cert. Of all the things to complain about cost wise, really? I would like to see a paper trail of evidance for at a minimum a practice day every three months, that way at least those not climbing regular will keep their hands in, and a climbers confidance in his crew maintained

likewise no rush, just keep us all posted on cost avaliability locations etc