Gary Prentice
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Sorry, I should have checked, I'm sure there used to be an email address on there. I'm fine, yourself? I imagine it's a little warmer where you are.
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Positively balmy then? Hovering between -1 and 0 degrees at the moment.
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Have you tried his website? If not, drop Mick Boddy a line at Symbiosis Consulting.
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It's just come to my attention that Rodney Helliwell passed away on the 23rd of February. There's a small piece here about his background http://www.rodneyhelliwell.com/background.php and the announcement is also on the Hortweek website (sorry no link)
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Haytop Country Park - Tiny Fine no Deterrent
Gary Prentice replied to Arob's topic in Trees and the Law
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Most tree protection is implemented because of the benefits to the local area (I know things like carbon sequestration go further but..) So where is the encouragement to the legal departments to prosecute contraventions? They take the time and risks to prosecute, then any fines for the contravention go to central government. Wouldn't it be more reasonable that the monies raised (the penalty for the crime) were kept local - ring-fenced by the LA for new planting and managing the existing tree stock? There may be a TRN issued, but that's peanuts compared to the local loss where a number of mature trees have been lost. LAs get to keep, AFAIK, all the money from speed cameras - why not for TPO/Felling Licence contraventions? -
35 years back we were using harnesses, a leather Whillans or if you was really luck a troll sit harness - no leg loops. ( Although some of the olders lads had started climbing without) Ropes were yachting kernmantle type construction or three strand stuff - no prussic loops or shiny aids. The twenties packed up when it rained unless you kept them ticking over. No saw strops, just a carbine hook tied to the handle to clip into the harness while moving about. Every-one spiked to the top of the tree before setting an anchor, bull ropes were hemp or sissal, and wouldn't take much the way in shock loading - the first time I used a topping strop the bull rope just snapped! And no lowering aids, one wrap or two round the stem. No chippers, no chainbreaks, no autolocking carabiners. AV mounts were shite, saws were heavy with little or no plastics. We've come a long way...
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You shouldn't worry unless the gaffs are meeting in the middle of the stem! Then it's getting skinny
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Spent all day trying to get to falling and fallen trees, on roads that are just about drivable. On the the plus side, we’re no longer a bit quiet.
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Ya soft Jessie
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So good news, sort of. It's not a lot of consolation, but four weeks is a very small percentage of the rest of your life. Let it mend properly, even if you're gnashing at the bit to get on and do things, and reduce the risk of complications later. ATB Gary
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I heard that she didn’t so much dislike the name ‘Blondi’, but drew the line when you kept calling her Eva.
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They’re dogs Stubby! Should have gone to Specsavers mate
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These two are the only ones not moaning about the weather
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Speaking louder normally works
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I ain't been to a good lynching for absolutely ages...
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Of course you would have. Silly me
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Are you talking about Nathan or yourself?
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Just for you Khriss I’ll post a wet pussy.... when I can get the cats in from the snow
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You wanting to perve some erect nips
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Chris, I think that the risk profile Jon mentions may only be available via the phone app. For a small fee you get subsidence, land slip, running sand and a couple of others as a pdf. it might be downloadable for PC or Mac, I’ve never looked. Edit: I’ve looked for the mortgage course in the CAS website but they don’t seem to be offering much currently in the way of courses. Does anyone know if this is likely to change?
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That’s a shame. It’s real hard to get a reputation and to make contacts when you start up. Are you sure that you’ve done everything possible to get known and to be seen as an asset to companies? I know that personally I’d have regrets if I’d had to stop something I’d enjoyed and thought that I could have tried a bit more. last time I free-lanced I said to a company that at the end of the day, if they didn’t think I was good as I claimed they didn’t have to pay me at all. I’m still there ten years later! Keep your kit if you can, keep trying to establish yourself and do whatever else in the meantime. I washed dishes and waited tables in a restaurant in the evenings at one point, when the work wasn’t there.
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Whats your multione loader doing today ?
Gary Prentice replied to digaholedumper's topic in General chat
Get a better operator next time -
He's used to it
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So his bone spur has got better?
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It snowed. Britain came to a standstill.
