Adam Bourne

All done festa...... Good luck with it mate could well be a handy app to have ..... Do you know how wide your idents will cover mate Europe, America ect?

Filmed in the middle of fxxxing nowhere.....Love it..... Some different filming that's for sure, I take it, it will be on 18 cert ....

Never posted on this thread before Paul but love it.. Always keep reading it though! you do love your breakfast don't you...... I've had the carbon geckos now for ten years and I love them, I do find as rich had said that the base is quite chunky and is a slight issue on greasy limbs, but saying that there. Are ways round it.....I have had a pair of zermatts for nearly 2 years now and they have a slightly deeper instep which makes that issue some what better..... Just dropped maisy of at pre school while Alex is at work now going for my breakfast and quoting a couple of jobs then back at 12 to pick up moo (maisy) and then cook some dinner for us 3 ..... I like Mondays but I would be rather climbing.......

Haha Ewan it didn't go..... I was up a hybrid poplar and it was bloody windy......it was ok for a start until it bedded it self in and then it would not grab at all:001_huh: I pratted about with it for a while then gave up and tied a VT instead..... I'll give it another whirl one day but not looking like I'll be making it my first choice that's for sure mate....

What cord have you tested with the Aries andrew? My lock jack is on my Aries at the mo but I fount 10mm OP with a HC Knut set up was best for me..... Now it's on my tachyon and I'm running HC VT, had a go with the spong last week and it was.....................lets say........different.

I think it looks quite meaty, and a nice gesture to stick one in the Xmas raffle.....

Well put James....

Sorry for delay mate. Make a loop as in first pic then bring the tail of your line through to form another loop and so on . Hope this helps buddy.

Second that mark awesome:thumbup:

Check out this thread my friend... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/41098-hitch-climber-o-rig-system.html

Great little video Giorgio ... And a nice little bit of informative conversation between you and tim....

Cheers mate, look forward to sharing it:thumbup1: Haha opinions may vary. No Tuttle, the lap top has been smashed and the only way to recover the pics and videos is to use the hard drive

Haha nice one ted, I'll tell him to get it done, else we won't hear the last of it will we mate Yes mate and very costly, I have a friend who is a wizz with all that stuff and is going to try receive it all back of the hard drive some how.

Hi there arbtalkers, For those of you that don't know me my name is Adam, and yes Bourne is my second name, I started being interested in aboriculture back when I was a little nipper, say about 7 or 8, my old man was a climber and worked in house for Lincolnshire county council then became a county tree warden, then eventually going at it by him self, taking on an array of tree work hedge cutting and grass cutting, I started out working for my old man when I left school and I loved it! No chipper no shiny toys just a 4x4 a trailer, some 3 strand bungee rope:sneaky2: an old sit harness and so blue polyprop rope for rigging:blushing: My old man wanted me to do well and every chance he got to tech me things he would and boy if I did something wrong did I know about it..... Being shouted at was,.....how can I say? Well put it this way it help drill things into me and he pushed me hard and it made me tough. Made me think, made me look at trees from another angle and most of all made me the climber I am today. After he decided to retire from being self employed and me at still a young age to take on the business he decided to fold and go work for someone else, I went to work for a friend of mine and dads who had 3 guys working for him 2 climbers and one of the best groundys I have ever come across, after being there for a few years I learnt a heck of a lot, and to all our surprise the company was taken over, and now I was going to be on a very tight learning curve, the lad who had taken over new and used some of the best sub- contract climbers in the world at the time and made me feel like a young lad at his first day of arb college.... after a couple of years I moved on to another company for personnel reasons and that's we're I made my break, I was working along side more talent in the tree industry and we shared tricks tips and fount out new stuff for our selfs and became a great team:thumbup1:, after being there for around six years and taking on new staff and letting others go a was what remained of the original cast, the boss at the time decided to sell the business to a local man who I ran the company for him for a couple of years until I decided to go self employed and open up shop for my self, mainly sub climbing and getting in a bit of work for myself, it's been a very entertaining 3 years alone now and yes I have struggled and yes I have felt like quitting, but I will never quit until the day my body says I have to..... Now I am not saying that I'm awesome and the best and yeah employ me I'll get 3 jobs done to the next guys 1.......because I am not....... I have been shown to climb and get the job done precisely, efficiently and most of all safely... Arbtalk has also done wonders for me and meeting new people, learning new tricks by young and old, and being able to share my ways views and opinions is what makes me enjoy being an arborist even more.... So after nearly 15 years of aboriculture and now 30 years old, and still loving my job, I have a wonderfull fiancée and a gorgeous daughter, who now I wake up for each day, and take them to work with me in my heart just to remind me what I have to look forward to when I get home, ( ok maisy's tantrums not so much). So what I plan to to with this thread is to make a video of the day in a life of a middle man. ( not an amuture but far from an expert). As some of you know but some do not, i lost all my footage from my old computer along with 1000's of photos I was going to use in my rigging thread, but I have started a fresh and am getting them stocked back up.... I have some video footage of a view jobs and the video is coming along nicely, I will be releasing a trailer to The Man In The Middle hopefully mid October so watch this space and hope you enjoy what's to come both for this thread and the rigging thread... Thanks for taking the time to read..... Adam

Nice one Morten, I added my last Response as I felt it was important to say that using rope spliced or knotted direct to the saw was a very bad idea, and as you quite correctly put it does not have to be direct to the saw it is possible to have a weak link.... Adam

Why above and not below Paul?

I really detest......oh that's let the light in hasn't it.... That was well funny mark......

Will post some pictures for you later mate...

Could you explain your answer? Splice from ? Saw lanyards have to have a low breaking strength for safety reasons. It needs to be able to break, not long ago a climber was killed through using something with a to high swl and he was pulled out the tree along with his anchor point when his saw was trapped in a limb he had cut off....

Sorry here is a link. Weaver Bungee Tool Strop 1.3m

Weaver bungie, very long lasting and strong too.

I think that keeping a thread to a level where it has a mixture of views is the key, the thread last night was un called for and was aimed and discriminated on a poor level, now had he started a thread asking what people's views were on his subject then maybe the out come would of been different and could of turned into a good banter and opinionated thread, as it happened he started the thread on to many negatives and it received a lot more negatives because of the way he went about it and it was closed....... If people are not interested in things then they more than likely will not post, arbtalk has a massive variety of threads to enjoy and get your opinions across without the need for threads like the one 10 men put up last night..... Steve was right, a complete embarrassment to the forum.... .

Nice and simple daisy chain what you don't use, or get a chalk bag and stick the loose inside out the way, keeps things neat and stops it from snagging on things...

As you say! Why? But on another note should there not have been some saw dust floating in the water?

Pathetic thread...... Grow up and let them get on with it, if you can't help the young un's, then let someone else........did the lad out of collage under cut you on a quote or something? It's business, makes the word go round, puts money in lads and gals pockets for food, bills, extra training, nice shiny toys, Banter??? Wtf! plain and simple discrimination........opinions vary