Alex Reid

very jealous mate really like the look of that shame i pay so much for insurance where i live! can barely insure a wheelie bin for risk of it going on fire!!

proper cringed when that first started! was relived to see there wasnt blood everywhere would have passed out on my chair i think lol

sun was still up when i rose out my pit at 3pm regretting the heavy session last night as i cant sleep now i just hope the weather carries through till tomorrow!

the parents tried to talk the family inot a plastic tree this year saying, it doesnt drop and doesnt make a difference. I am proud to say i soon put a stop to this and will be colecting the real tree this week

A very tired nurse, walks into a bank, Totally exhausted after an 18-hour shift. Preparing to write a cheque, she pulls a Rectal Thermometer Out of her purse And tries to write with it. When she realizes her mistake, She looks at the flabbergasted teller And without missing a beat, she says: 'Well, that's grea...t....that's just great... Some asshole's got my pen!'

I have used those plastic tracking pieces before when i worked at a local flower show the field they were on was very soft and then it rained so as you could imagine it turned into a mud bath all the pieces came adrift from one another with the trucks and such like things driving over them! I took the 6 tonne dumper accross which the guy who owned the tracking said " it will be fine its taken heavier before" so i drove accross it fell through the tracking and got stuck, then got the JCB to tow it out and the other lad got that stuck turned into a disaster cars and vans stuck everwhere. Personally i wouldnt use it!

it isnt mine but i used a 1940's 4 stroke saw required 2 men to run it when new i think it took about 4 of us to keep it going. It belongs to college i will try and get the video of it posted on here. It was MASSIVE!

lucky lucky fella! I bet he was clenched sat in there!

sorry to hear that, its a horrible feeling!

I got a petzel sequoia harness, Gecko 45m rope, 3 Karabiners, a pair of buckingham climbing irons and some 11mm rope for my firction hitches, a 3.6 marlow split tail and a husqvarna carry bag for it all. Thats it off the top of my head I may be wrong but i cant check because its all at home. Needless to say I am very happy with it all

what you have said there does make sense but i have never and i mean NEVER handed a piece of work in and it has been right first time but thats the beaty of a ND you get the work back and have another stab at it, IMO you learn by your mistakes I tend to go off on a tangent with my answers and thats where i go wrong and to be honest it was a rare ocassion that i handed a piece of work in on time! But next year i have promised my self to knuckle down it it and get it all sorted, stick with mate i promise you that your course will not fail to disapoint, if you are in the Nd group at myersocugh in croxie park i have a good friend their on the same course and it is very good as far as he says! best of luck with whatever you choose tho!

thats very true but I wanted to go down and make sure everthing was what i wanted and it was a day out for me and my old man! could show him a little of what i do really! Or learning to do shall I say. Luckily I dont have to pay for Disel and its in a nice part of the country! Just pieceing it all together now having lots of fun for a Saturday makes a nice change from going and getting rather slosshed!

I am a student at the myerscough centre in preston, i can say that i havent experienced the problems that you are with the tutors. But i can understand where you are coming from with the whole teaching in a way you understand but i was lucky that i got two days a week practical which was a great help to build on what i learnt in the classroom. The theory tutors give you back what you put into it, well thats how it seems to me, I could have tried harder on my theory side in my first year and it showed in my assignments to be honest with you and plant idents was a nightmare! But looking back there was a few things i could have done differently like my attendance and the amount of time i put into work outside the classroom etc etc. The one thing i would say is that I also have dyslexia (which i am not using as an excuse) but the support i found to be not as good as possible but again they have an awful lot of different subjects to cover with what knowledge they can take in. I'd stick at it personally it will get eaiser with time belive me and thats coming from me a person who had no experience of tree work before i started the course!

A quick one to recomend buxton's in staffordshire! I went down today to get a climbing kit and the guys there were especially helpful and a fella called Andy was top notch! got everthing i wanted and more, as i am sure most of you have been there before but incase they browse the forum great job fella's! alex

of course they do but it is all in proportion to the amount of people that work within the indutry! i think there are about 10 million smokers in the UK and there certainly arnt that many arb workers and foresters!

I am coming from the other side of the point being 20 years old in november just gone and not having kids myself. I was a boy who was taken to football practice and hated, golf which i disliked simply because it seemed pointless (with my mum now shouting over my shoulde saying it was what i wanted we shall agree to disagree i think). Motorsport from an early age simply because it seemed dangerous and fast which was great in my eyes. And of course thomas the tank engine which i loved unitl i was about 10 (strange i know but still i'll continue) All i wanted at my young age was a JCB in my back garden to tear the place apart! and it never came, luckily i had an aunty and uncle with horses, tractors and a milk float as he was a milkman which then made my weekends complete as i got older. this is where i found my love of things that go extremly fast, anything dangerous and the great outdoor along with my dad doing vintage car hill climbs from a young age as well. Now turning 20 in november it was the first time that me and my dad went out together in his vintage car to the VSCC lakeland hill climb with me driving for the first time! And i have to say i couldnt have had a better up bringing if they tried! what ever you do your son will thankyou as long as he is happy and you are happy then its a recipe for great things!

i would rip your hand off for this mate but sice i am going into hospital in the next week i cant, but good luck with finding someone!!!

either way would you love to be one of them nosey people living near by watching the job get done from you bedroom window camera in hand when that happened! as long as your not in the house it lands on that is!

aye my borhter josh went to watch it in manchester on saturday nyt he was texting me whilst it was on he said the atmosphere was absoloutly sublime! wish i was there i have to admit! been folowing the ultimate fighter series on the tele but havent been as impressed by Kimbo Slice as i was hopeing

It would sound very tempting but considering i have just woken up to a letter saying I now have an operation in 2 weeks time i supose this whole job search has become a little pointless lol oh well thank you all very muhc for your responses!

ooo cross dressing during the week sounds abit different for me i tend to save all that sort of stuff for the weekend but hey, shame your a little far away to be honest but cheers anyway

anything at all please maybe alex

I can see what you mean about the better unstanding of arb but as for merits and distinctions the dont mean everthing! I have a distinction* in engineering but that doesnt mean i am any better than someone with a merit when it comes to actually using a centre lathe for example it just means that u had a better understanding of the paper side of the course. Now i myself is on a ND in arb and i'll be honest not all of my assignments are distinction standard but that doesnt mean i cant use a chainsaw in a tree or climb just as well if not better that someone else who has solid distinctions all the way through. There are a few who would be classic examples of this on my course. As for the weather and such like other things there aint nothing better than getting up to ur waist in mud when you look at ur mate and cant stop laughing

Hello Everyone, I am 20 years old and I have not long finished my first year at myerscough college on the National Diploma and i am currently in the middle of my placement year. It has proved tricky finding full time work but i would like to thank everyone who has given me what work they could up to now who i know use this forum! I am looking for work in the northwest area but would set my sights further afield for the right placement! I have NPTC's as follow: CS30 CS31 CS39 Climbing and ariel rescue Manually fed wood chipper operations I do have a full UK driving lisence But I also have a BTEC first diploma in engineering at Distinction* if that would be anyuse i dont know but i thought it would be worth writing down anyway! If anyone has anything helpful it would be most apreciated cheers alex

ouch looks fairly cosmetic tho glad you are ok thats the main thing! not fun running into the back of things! how badly dmaged was the artic? hope you dont hurt too much tomorrow tho!