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Aye. Good gruel vibes. Delicious though. Bit of leek wouldn't have harmed.

Bacon skink. Have some potatoes of indeterminate breeding that aren’t good for mash or chips so made a chunky slurry as gaia clearly intended. Bacon, onion, chilli, garlic, salt, pepper. Cream cheese and the starchy water for the slop element. Thyme for a bit of sweetness. That’s the next few weeks sorted until the pheasants come on.

Racist.

Use your arbsurplus lengths for deadeyes, ring deadeyes etc. Before you know it, you'll have a good arsenal.

On weight, the fluffy bits of trees generally weigh less than tree blokes think. And you still underestimated it. Not by much but you still came down on the wrong side so get out of that habit. Be wrong the other way. This should be your main wake up call. You haven't built, "What if I'm wrong?" into your strategy. You need to or you'll break something expensive and look a twat. Worse, you'll be a twat. Small pieces = small problems. I've rigged the world and in your example, I'd have still gone a few feet higher and done it in three or four piffling pieces. Those pieces could have been slung up so you cut and catch one, see how the rigging point feels, cut another, make sure it's still OK and so on. You can do things like bundle a few up and lower them in a loop, then pull the loop through and have your rope back. No-groundsman tactics. If you had to to take it in one, you should have involved the main stem to strengthen the final rigging point. I generally look for a main point in strong, central wood and a redirect over the best drop zone. You'll find those points in honestly 95% of trees. You were basically only using the redirect point. Weak without the context of a main point. Your current learning style reminds me of me. I got by on wit and feel and I got by well but what I didn't do was engage in the analytical and theoretical learning early enough. If I'd devoted some effort to the stuff that looks like bollocksy compliance from the get go, I'd have got better, faster. MBL, WLL etc is more than just bollocksy compliance. It's real and important. And it's also pretty easy once you decide to learn it. Now is a great time to decide to make your rigging decisions unimpeachable. If you work by yourself, you're going to have to learn some natural crotch (and other up-tree friction tricks). You should learn it anyway. It's a key skill. The rope for natural crotch is 3 strand. Get some of that first. Owning a length of 16mm double braid without the rest of the skill, people and ancillary gear to utilise it is just spending £150 to look like a billy big bollocks tree man with a heavy rope bag.

@kram Not sure if you didn't see this or did see it and ignored me because you thought I was going to bray you over the head with whatever you said like the prevailing sentiment of this thread. Did in fact have something constructive to add if you're interested.

Mick, at home, wearing this, protesting too much.

Nearly as bad as ivy.

From memory, English Braids isn't the strongest. I use it because I like the colour. What's the £75 one, Joe?

Someone post the most uncut footage available please. I can't be arsed wading through the waffling journos and portagriefs. Though while someone finds that, I might remark that it looks (from the crap video I've just seen) that it's a fairly open area. Park a car on him and save everyone's hearing. Right. Let's see a video.

A competitor 50% of your age with 80% of your knowledge.

Danke

Yes, please.

I meant the training schedule from the awarding body, describing what's on the course and what competencies you have to show to pass etc.

Can you post a link to the course details please.

I can almost be bothered to go and take the back off the saw to see how it works. Almost. Tell you what. I'll finish what I'm working on now first and become a chainsaw manufacturer another time shall I.

I forgot the injector didn’t have an airflow butterfly on it. That’s yes, quite critical for a bolt-off, bolt-on swap. Video of a 500i injector for anyone who’s never seen one btw. IMG_5984.mov Now ask me why I have one on my windowsill…

Interesting. What's so different? The injector bolts on and off like a carb. Is there a separate air inlet? Any sensors on the exhaust side?

There's got to be something wrong with it up the business chain because the saws are great. Remember when the car makers were worried about microchip supplies?

Approved.

Last one before this thread can get back to the usual business of being a sewer. Slightly vacuous interview but lovely jam at the end. Arturia analog synths are cheap and fabulous btw. I had a Microbrute that I sold to the synth player in my band. She then fcked off to Edinburgh and refused to sell it back to me. Last time I asked her about it, her girlfriend (black, lesbian, black lesbian) was wanting to learn something so they could play together. I very, very much want them to move to a nice little village and strike fear into the hearts of near neighbours and the parish council when they see the mixed race dyke couple move a drum kit into Honeysuckle Cottage.

I'm on a bit of an electronic thing atm (more dnb). Some guy on facebook hooked me with some really tasty live drums.

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