Joe Newton
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Depends who im working with. If you send me out with a bunch of mongs who'd rather lean against a wall and watch me work or run down their phone batteries then like fuck am I going to come down and help them do their job!
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I was very annoyed that they retrofitted the new buckles to the original style harness. I recently bought one of the last older style tm harnesses because I didn't like the sound of the new buckles and the bastards have fitted them anyway. I've had to use zip ties on the tail of the straps to keep them from loosening
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Only inbreeders and communists buy Marlow XTC is a solid first rope, go for it. No point spending loads until thou know what you like.
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Who are the Arb Association to say wether or not we should be working? Their initial advice was in contradiction to the government's. The AA are not an official governing body, why anyone would turn to them for guidance over the government advice is beyond me.
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Isn't there something you can do on the 660s to open the oiler up more? Something about a pin that can be pushed in?
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So you're a sole trader? You must have earned something?
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Ltd company? Been paying yourself a wage?
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I'd imagine quite frequently.
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Do you find people often regard you as a prick?
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Get your ground tickets and aerial rescue, then find a decent firm to learn the trade. If you put in the leg work with learning stuff yourself you should become competent within a few years, same as most other trades I imagine.
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Bollocks. You can earn a decent living cutting trees, have a mortgage, family and spare cash too. You'll have to work hard to become a decent climber, or else get some experience and start up doing domestic jobs to do well though. Tough to earn decent coin as a groundy.
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Any examples of this?
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What tyres are people running on their pickups
Joe Newton replied to Rwhiteheadfirewood's topic in Arb-Trucks
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As above. You'll work on date of entry into service rather than date of manufacture. If your LOLER guy fails stuff based on date of manufacture you should challenge him on this.
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What tyres are people running on their pickups
Joe Newton replied to Rwhiteheadfirewood's topic in Arb-Trucks
Cooper At3 have good road manners. It was important for me as I didn't want something that was great of road but shite on tarmac. I'll probably go for the knobbly coopers next. I reckon BFG are pretty much trading on their name nowadays -
When I was a kid we had proper child abuse!
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Cos the ammo is heavily controlled?
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UPDATE/CORRECTION re.'HSE Alert - Zig-zag failure'
Joe Newton replied to Stephen Arb Association's topic in Climbers talk
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Ooh aren't you tough! "Usually"? How many times have you had to refuse to cooperate?
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Yup, book me in for three days and I'm billing you for three. If I get the job done faster I can do something else for you on you with the spare day, or if you have nothing else on I'll start SRT home and get paid.
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Good enough for me mate!
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Why the two toppers in the basket Don? Dual wielding?!
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What's wrong with cut and chuck? They look tiny!
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Gains from a muffler mod wouldn't be measured on a tachometer. The benefits are quicker pickup and more torque, not higher rpm.
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For a ground saw to run a 12" bar a 181 is a fine saw for a third of the price
