Dan Curtis

Yeesh. Hope you get better quickly. What did you do? I'm currently 9 weeks down the line from shoulder surgery having torn ligaments and other gubbins so I know the feeling! Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

Used not to, until my dad ran one of his over. Cost as much as four new dogs to fix his back legs and pelvis. Lived 13 happy years afterwards

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Mine has got a lifetime health plan and £1 million public liability for working. She's a lab, but not a gun so the work insurance is related to what I do and having her on site. She doesn't come out often, mainly because it wouldn't be fair on her, but when she is with me it's nice to have the piece of mind that if she got herself into trouble I'm backed up. The cover includes things like causing traffic collisions etc. Can't remember the insurer, I'll look it up. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

I have a 1960's Stihl 07S, quite a saw to use. Runs fine and takes a man to hold on to it. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

It took a while but I've finally seen a tawny in attendance at the cavity. Seemed the perfect size for it so I'm assuming it may have raised young there, probably a bit late in the season to still have any now. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

Very true. I had a glove snag feeding a Heizohack four years ago. My hands weren't in the feed but in the trailing brash. I was stood to the side, and to my knowledge having passed a chipper ticket twice (don't ask) I did nothing wrong. It was a tight cuffed glove and I was about 8 inches off the feed roller before I could stop the feed. The other operators thought I was just pushing brash, they didn't realise I couldn't get my hand out, nor could they hear me. Haven't worn gloves feeding a chipper since

Totally agree. How many other professions could you get away with assault and expect to keep your job? Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

There are a few of these dotted around a site containing 20 ish mature Cedar of Lebanon. From memory, none of the trees are truly physically barriered though there's the odd bit of remnant fencing lingering under a few. Several of the trees often have cars parked beneath them. True to form, they do indeed drop limbs quite regularly.

Pigs, chickens and cold engine diesel smoke. I still love the smell of a shed filled with diesel smoke on a cold morning. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

He didn't say much at all really, let alone laugh. Rockland broad it was

A couple of months ago I was on my way home from work when I came across a fallen tree blocking the road. I got out and walked up to the house to ask if they knew. The old boy told me he'd wondered why people had been turning round in his drive all day. This was mid afternoon and no one had thought to tell him. As he was well over retirement age I said I had saws I the truck and I'd cut it up if he would clear it. It only took 10 minutes and he was very pleased. While doing so, a lady pulled up and swore at us thinking we'd blocked the road intentionally. A few days later I was walking the dog round a local broad to find an old man who had rolled his mobility scooter off the raised path and down a 6 ft bank into a field. I picked him up and turned the scooter over for him, and set off to get him out. Unfortunately, the gate was locked so I had to push the scooter back up the newly dug bank, took everything I had to get it up there. He refused a lift home or to a doctor and set off on a 6 mile trip home, with bits of bodywork hanging off the scooter Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

No need if you're climbing on a closed system but it might be handy for a tail end lanyard

No, you can climb to industry standards with just a rope. Rope harnesses aren't difficult to tie once you work out what size you are, you can even tie a rope hitch tending pulley if you're feeling really fancy. It probably isn't the greatest for long term working but it's bearable if that's your only choice. I'd never suspend myself from my belt, that would just be silly

Just a rope would get you started if you're going that far Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

Do you think they'll still come out if I start a fire and play a banjo while I wait?

It's not one that I've ever noticed either. The last photo was after several unsucessful attempts, that's a penny and I don't own a macro lens.

Nearly nine months from starting this thread, I walked by the tree today. Since the initial failure it appears that something may have taken up (or resumed) residence within the stem. In the first picture taken at the time of failure, you can just see a cavity on the left of the newly exposed heartwood. Now, the cavity has been seemingly cleaned out, smoothed around the edges and there are a number of what appear to be claw marks below it. My bet is on a Tawny Owl, there's often one in the vicinity. A little bit of investigation is on the cards, fingers crossed I'm not spending my evening sitting in a field for nothing:biggrin:

(I think) Fig galls on Elm, caused by the aphid Tetraneura ulmi.

http://vtio.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Introduction-to-Redirects.pdf

Have a look on Vtio.org.au there is a pdf of redirects for doubled ropes on there Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

I started giving only to discover it upsets a heart condition I have, had to knock it on the head unfortunately. They're welcome to have any part of my body after I've finished using it though

I knew it was on, but the last minute change of venue and minimal info was I bit misleading. I didn't see any info posted on here, the biggest arb networking site in the UK (I may have missed it though). If the pro's didn't know it was on, how can the general public be expected to know? You mention it being a good place for gear and technique knowledge. The ISA are pretty backwards in their thinking on SRTWP, possibly one of the biggest revolutions/advancements in arb in recent years, which seems to set quite a few against them in the first place. Across the pond there have been climbers boycotting events because of this. I'm not expecting the ISA to put DdRT and SRTWP head to head but maybe if they got their heads out their behinds there'd be a bit more interest in their events. I'd have been there this year if I didn't have other things to deal with, I'd like to have a crack at it. Next year if I see it advertised with enough notice, I'll make the effort.

Gravity and ear defenders mostly I know where your coming from but the chances of a helmet being lifted off, pulled backwards off your head and then upwards aren't very likely imo. I've had my lid lifted off once by a tree and I was glad my chin strap wasn't done up in that situation. The chances of something getting hooked in the back of a neck elastic are higher imo and I wouldn't want a hoik from it into my neck.

Ha, no. Doesn't cause me any bother and I quite often forget it's there and go home with it still on. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app