Joe Newton
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Same here. We will always get people who go for the cheapest. Usually on dismantles where the end result is the same. For pruning work we get a lot because were better than the majority of the competition
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Bloody perverts. Just weird, that is.
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Just get Ally Geckos They are the best on the market for not much more than normal. There is a huge difference. For me it was the difference between waking up in agony in the middle of the night after dismantling a big stem. I've just spent two days on the same fat chestnut stem in my geckos and I'm now dancing around the kitchen to Phil Collins.
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I thought you held the record nowadays for "quickest service time"...
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Yeah they do
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Why is a flipline a must? I've used one perhaps a dozen times in my career.
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Yup, couple of smallish takedowns. Only been a couple of days but do far so good. Seem sturdy.
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"Words can't bring me down..." -
Need a spoon?
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Dunno mate, even I can look pretty from the right angles on a Facebook photo...
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Must get expensive day to day! That's a thick sandwich. I just used to take 2 tins of mackerel in tomato sauce each day. Tasted bad, but was cheap easy protein. A week of viral gastroenteritis put paid to that routine.
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It puts the chain oil on the skin orbit gets the hose...
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Hmm, I can tell if a bar needs dressing without needing gloves, or surgery. Maybe I'm magic. Go figure, geniuses.
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If you don't debur the bar often enough it can cause bits of the edge to break off in the cut. You can tell if it needs deburring by running your finger along the edge of the bar.
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Nah he just doesn't post the conny topping on council estates
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I think "flab" is part of the problem. Too many fat climbers with blue badges on their saddles! I've heard about your prussik antics. If I had to revert to one of them I'd be no faster than you mate.
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Basically Jon they're not tough enough to endure the rigours of climbing in some cases. They shouldn't be being shock loaded as they suppose the climber. Yes. I think there is only one instance though where a climber has been injured. All I've heard is second hand info though. This device attaches the climber to his line. There are plenty using them with no problems mind.
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I need to see this.
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I can't tell if you're being serious Tim. I want one though!
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On the basis that I'm safer using a topper one handed than I am using a ground saw one handed! I think perhaps I'm just being obtuse!
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I one hand a saw every day. On that basis a top handle is much safer for me
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£250 a day?! Bloody hell! Still, when you consider that a climber turns up with a grand (minimum) worth of kit, tickets costing in excess of 2k, a trade learnt over years of experience, and performs a highly skilled job which can be quite hazardous, damn right, we should be on more than a plasterers day rate!
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I ring the bell and say "all done" while leering at their chest/crotch (depending on gender). Most just want to get me out of there ASAP.
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The melted chain brake is typical of having the saw dogged in to timber, so the gas cannot exit forward and is essentially deflected by the wood back at the brake handle.
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There you go Wayne, you can shut up about it now... ...until they arrive and the colour don't match the boot
