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Grass hopper

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  1. Move the greenhouse and cut away. lol Covered them with plywood , and take small bits each time , I've used a sling to hold the bit I was cutting and lower it down. The best are the plastic roof's with fish tanks under them , smoking area's with glass roof.
  2. Hi Paul , I have good upper body strength , just looking for that right set up , been tree climbing just over a year but many years of rock climbing , when I started tree climbing and done my CS 38 /39 I was showing the blakes and that was it , now looking for the next step , wood like to move a bit quicker up and moving out along branches , jumping from stem to branch , I feel the blakes holds me back. Dose that sound right to you ? Peter.
  3. Reporting back , today I went out for the only hour that it did not rain , I just put a small pulley under the blakes and live just got a bit better , so thank you Adam , I will try more as I get the time. Peter.
  4. It is one of those places you all ways wanted to see and so happy I did. Will return with my twins girls and wife one day and share the magic.
  5. I will be out tomorrow (if not raining) and get back to you and I will take it LOW AND SLOW AND SAFE. Thanks again. Peter.
  6. I was over your neck of the wood some years back 4 day trip , fork Williams , went up to Ben Nevis twice , rock climbing , what a place , it will stay with me for ever.
  7. Well done mate , I can't eat cheese it makes my sick .
  8. That's a good size tree , how long will it take to finish a job like that ? 3 - 4 day's ???????????
  9. You only live once Adam and you can't take all that money with you.
  10. Steve can you make sure the boots are size 8 for me , thanks. lol
  11. Nice one Adam , will do some rope work tomorrow and go for a climb the weekend , thanks again for your time.
  12. Good on you , new year new gear , the only way is up.
  13. Dog Tag , I had a look on your website nice one by the way , did you do that job in KCR Ind est ?
  14. I been climbing only a year , I hear what you are saying Will. It's all the pull my body up the tree.
  15. Hi Adam , a picture would be great , thank U, Hello Dog Tag I'm Living in Dublin 24.
  16. I've tried nothing , the only way I was showed was the blake's hitch, that's it.
  17. Hi lads , so I hope you can help me out , I've been climbing about a year ,and on the blake's hitch , I've had the arm's pulled out of me for to long now , help is needed ,I need to move on , what can I do , not working full time so getting help from other's is hard , any GOOD idea's please help. P.S positive feed back only. Peter.
  18. Hi Vanessa would you like to go for a drink sometime ? lol
  19. Well good on ya Steve , got the chain saw one from Mr. Jones last week , but liking the logging one now.
  20. Being new to the site , have I missed some thing , why would this be deleted ????
  21. True true , nice fire wood , i think , Mr no fire place in my house , God I miss the fire, new house not build with one.
  22. Fake one here , but for you real one's out there , you get to burn it at the end , good on ya , win win.

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