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Joe Newton

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  1. They're we go! You've one upped me with the full wrap too! What length bar you running on yours Don?
  2. I properly hate having to pull the 66 up a tree nowadays.
  3. Cheers lads. Sounds a bit gay though.
  4. I'd wager the people suggesting these rates aren't the ones paying them. It's one thing paying a shit hot groundy/team leader £160 as a subby, but nobody is getting that on the books.
  5. The reality is somewhat different unfortunately.
  6. How are you wearing the harness. A lot of people seem to wear it over the hips. I think it's designed to be worn beneath them.
  7. If I could only have 2 saws it would be 2511 and a 500i Would cover most things I reckon.
  8. Doesn't work either. If have got loads better over lockdown otherwise.
  9. I remember hearing that one told by James Nesbitt on Murphy's Law some 20 years ago!
  10. Joe Newton

    3120 Value?

    I was just given one for free 🤣 Hopefully it'll do alright for a milling saw
  11. Got the wrench and the chicane mate. I love the Chicane for being able to go up srt and switch back and forth easily. If I'm working ddrt and come down for break I can just knot block my line and send it up to the cambium saver and go back up srt and switch back. Come to think of it I haven't used the wrench since I've had the Chicane
  12. Pretty knackered Beech dismantle from last Friday. Tensioned high line set up above the tree to tie into.
  13. That looks wank Matty
  14. Yeah just buy a pinto mate, or a quickie. Don't be tight with climbing kit. You could theoretically keep the tension in your base tie but I'm not sure why you'd want to. A canopy tie exerts to to half the load that a base tie does. Use one or the other, depending on the task. No need to try and use both.
  15. I guess. He's asking how to back up a base tie with a retrievable canopy anchor. Well I'll just ascend to the branch I'm over (if I don't need to advance) and put an alpine pinto canopy anchor in. The retrieval leg will still effectively be base tied but you'll be on a canopy anchor. More often than not though I'm comfortable working from a base tie.
  16. I don't care how experienced you are at tuning carbs, nobody can tell a 500rpm difference when the top end is revving at 12,000rpm.
  17. I got my first job in arb 11 years ago with CS30, 31 and 38 and I started on £13,800 pa.
  18. 👍 I hope you hate it
  19. Never ran full wrap saws Don, you obviously reckon the ergonomics make up for the weight increase? Also, how can you have all that extra on your saw and not the outer felling spikes? Madness!
  20. I'll buy the BDB if you don't get on with it?
  21. Anyway @Retired Climber, don't sink to my level, but do answer this?
  22. Well I meant "queer" but let's not get into that.
  23. I didn't understand why he was being such a bitch about it.
  24. An opinion that nobody asked for. You mentioned it to sound important.

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