Gary Prentice
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As already said, nothing will stop a determined, prepared thief. You'd think that they would weigh up the risk/reward though, so the more barriers in place the better. Anything that makes thieving more difficult and slower raises the risk of getting spotted and caught, so layer the defenses up
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What's the longest you've spent throwing a throw bag?
Gary Prentice replied to billpierce's topic in Climbers talk
And this is unusual because..? -
With the addition of some pull up bollards to stop them being rammed/towed open.
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Sorry Bill, what looked like a ring on the stalk in the earlier pics - leaking to Armillaria, almost certainly wasn't looking at this photo. I'm going back towards a Pholiota. But still with reservations until I can get to some books. 367afb40a366441603cd16eb1577ad34.webp
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It's still a seat, albeit a very nice one that fits in to it's surroundings perfectly. Nice one Tom Mr J, you're wasted in this industry, you should be utilising your literacy to be selling snow to eskimos/sand to arabs I was last night Stubby, I was(and for very good reason)! I hope my mood didn't offend anyone, more than normal anyway? If it did......tough we're all big boys on here
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"Community benefits?" It's a seat FFS
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I thought you spent time to get educated before forming an opinion? If that's the actual case, surely you're used to end results that weren't worth the research?
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tree forks Scotland - Arb' Association talks..or lack there of..
Gary Prentice replied to ArbMish's topic in Training & education
Really? personally I found him quite likeable, but I think much of the industry are far from convinced about his findings. what is concerning is a tutor introducing his own research as accepted fact to students, before it is accepted and proven by other researchers in the industry -
Out of print now and making good money S/h. download a 20 quid PDF if you want to refer to it again.
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Which part? Benefits & knowledge or not sure about you?
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Cos I can.... but I thought my post was, as a whole, complimentary? I honestly believe that that us young uns should reap the benefits of our more senior members knowledge & experience. You, I'm not sure about!
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No waste transport cert go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200.00 And think yourself lucky that; 1) you're not being hung, drawn & quartered, 2) being deported
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Don't worry about it, some tree surgeons on here will dispute that arboriculture is actually a profession, the law struggles to even define what a tree is etc, so becoming required to be registered as an arborist is unlikely as Matelot changing his opinions on the benefits of uncontrolled immigration
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Hornbeam! jokes aside, from the bark my impression but I've seen very few 'up north' and I thought Arbutus was an evergreen tree? maybe a Prunus of some type
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Get it on eBay, they're doing around two hundred quod- then download the pdf for twenty... quids in ps. If you get stuck on how to pay, download and save, give me a shout and I'll walk you through it.
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You mean that the AA don't have a compliance team of large hairy @rs&# arborists ready to rapidly respond to reports of inappropriate logo usage? That would put me off joining
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That was my initial thought, but as the consensus was something else I kept quiet.
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Way better than ours, which broke both and body fell off, bending the ram mounts £200, £300 depending how much works involved in grafting new steel in to weld the pivot points to
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Ours didn't before ours did the same previously Not too difficult a fix, grafting in new rails and attaching the hinge. We repaired it ourself over a day or two, but I would think it would be fairly pricy to get someone to do it, which is a shame if it's other- wise decent motor. I would get a quote, then weigh up the cost, downtime etc against a newer vehicle. But if buying s/h there's lots of unknowns, so you may buy more issues. We ran that particular vehicle for another three yrs without a tipping problem and it's only currently off road due to an injector/fuel pump problem.
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Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
Gary Prentice replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
When you're cold, wet, tired and fed up, everyone thinks they've made a mistake. But as long as the good days outweigh the bad most of us just keep doing it. -
Skyhook? Asked a newly certificated climber on his first ever conifer hedge re, re, reduction how he'd been taught at college to do them. Seems like they're omitted from the curriculum
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Not just yours, it's pretty much all over.
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Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
Gary Prentice replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Bosses brother in law tipped a tracked chipper out of the trailer doing that. On on the plus side, there was no queuing traffic as there often is at the corner and 'only' the chipper was damaged. -
Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
Gary Prentice replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Worst mistake: Picking up a spare (much, much shorter rope) cos mine was still soaked from the previous day. Climbing a 70 odd ft lombardy poplar, at an airforce base with all my team still working around the corner, to deadwood it. Decided not to knot the tail of the rope and then, when coming down through the canopy, running my prussic off of the end of it and falling thirty odd feet - bouncing off of most of the limbs on the way down. H & S was a lot different in the eighties... shortly afterwards we became an AAAC -
Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
Gary Prentice replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Thought you meant on your spikes! Really couldn't get my head round that Don't that too. Usually get to the top of the stem/first limb to realise my ropes still sat at the base of the tree.
