Joe Newton
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God help her!
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Back door birches? I have a similar sounding DVD under the bed.
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I figured. If your going to take your groundy's word on the matter, get him to stand directly underneath you when you come down. He might rethink his answer then!
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I wonder how many of our other halves really know how we feel!
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Huh? Sure you meant me bud? I'm rubbish at peeing contests anyway. I don't mean to point out the bleeding obvious, but stopper knots to tend to eliminate the risk of falling off your rope...
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If I called my Mrs that she wouldn't be paying! Lizzie just counts herself lucky that a Valentines day is one of two days that I don't pee in the shower.
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Ah, you see, when the gaffer sets an example like that he can hardly complain when his staff follow suit! Glad you had a good day, sounds like you enjoyed yourselves!
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I've done this more than once, the bugger is it's always at the top, when I have slack in my system, and I end up having to cut my spliced eye off. The bright side is I get a new side strop. This thread could correspond to a current health and safety thread on here...
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Get off yer phones and do some bloody work! Sent from the transit, with a mouthful of burger.
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I haven't given mine a proper chance yet but for big saw work or SRT they're good. Could do with some padding on the shoulders though.
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I'd imagine lighter, cheaper and easier to set up.
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What saws and bar sizes are you running in the vid?
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark at "Large X Rigging Ring"
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That's the one!
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I think I know what he's after. A small rod that clamps onto the end of the guide bar to allow accurate boring once a pilot hole has been drilled. I think it was Delabodge who posted the video. I'd be curios to know if it was custom made or bought.
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This
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I can 't, I'm employed. Fact is employed or self employed, I won't work if I don't feel like I can do the job without requiring a rescue. You're right though, commercial clients will know what you should be doing, and expect you to dot the "i"s etc I never climb on a system that isn't lowerable. The 660 is always next to the base, running with the chain brake off.
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I agree with both. Ideally yes. We don't live in an ideal world however. Practically it's unfeasable a lot of the time. Like Treequip reckons. If I do myself a minor mischief I can get myself down. If I proper do myself at 60', and can't get myself down, with an arterial bleed, I'm buggered. I'm not against the idea, but I do wonder how far I'd get in this business if I only climbed with another competent climber on site. (FWIW - I know unqualified people who could rescue me more efficiently than a lot of lads who have their 38. Qualified doesn't mean competent.)
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By unqualified I assume you mean qualified up to 30/31, but not 38.
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It is by me. Depending on the job of course. Big trees, we tend to have all hands on deck. Smaller stuff, not so much. Why don't you ask every subbie climber to raise their hands if they've climbed without a competent climber on the deck... ...This month.
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You won't like it. Terrible terrible saw. Still, buy one anyway and I'll do you a favour and buy it off you for a fraction of the cost
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Perhaps ideally, but if that were true of the real world then contract climbers for the most part would go bust. No firm is going to sub in a contract climber when they have a trained climber on the team, just so they have a spare rescue climber.
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My thoughts exactly. Every time I have to take the karabiner off the rigging line gets shorter by a foot or so!
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Ha it's certainly a beast! It was pulling 190 when you did it, I think, I'd be interested to see if it's gone up any now the pistons well and truly bedded in. I'll send it your way at some point for a check up on the carb, since my little 211 has been misbehaving anyway. Hopefully it's shagged and I'll have an excuse for the Mrs to get a new one.
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Cheers, that's settled then Just so I'm sure, you put a husky bar on a stihl, and suddenly it shaves 4.5 seconds off its time!? I've got you porting types sussed
