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Does the spray paint cause damage to the tree? Because if there's more risk of damage trying to removed it, would a better solution be to spray paint over it the graffiti with a spray can that matches the bark.

I did mine with Millhouse training. They do cs30/31 courses at different locations in the northwest, depending on demand. Training consultants for agriculture, arboriculture, forestry, horticulture and rural industries by Millhouse Training Services throughout the North West including Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales

Yes, that's how they would get the reindeer urine, also the same snow eating method was used for getting high off the shaman's pee, after he ate mushrooms or some other psychoactive plant. I am lead to believe that it is the origin of the phrase 'never eat yellow snow'

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I managed to do it by placing the whole chain break cover in a vice and using a small crow barr in the lugs, in the way that people are describing using a screw driver. The straight end of the small crow barr fitted in-between the lugs perfectly and the hook end made it easy for me to get leverage and twist the lugs to operate the chain break.

There is a torc screw in the rings that you can undo, there are 3 potions that you adjust the rings through. use lock tight on the screw when you put it back in. I still had to get a shorter bridge as well.

This is good advice about IT band issues, and the correct stretches. The best damn IT band stretch ever | b-reddy.org

If you lack mobility in the hip or shoulder, the spine becomes the hinge and compromises its stability, the disc can press on nerves. I feel my sciatic nerve in my calf, back of the hamstring and in the gluteus, I tried foam rolling, stretching etc, it was only when i started using a baseball for active release on either side of my lower spine that I managed to make a difference. Now I have learnt not to compromise my spine, the sciatica has mostly gone away. If you watch this, you might get a good idea about how our spine can hinge and put pressure on the nerve structures. Mobililty Wod Principles

I think the most legally secure way you could physically deal with it, would be if one of your operatives is up a tree/or on the ground using a saw, another group worker could go over and attempt to remove them from the area. You have to watch how you do it, and especially how you describe what you did to the police, should it come to that. The procedure should be the same as someone entering the work zone, requiring you to stop what you are doing. But if you are 'mid-way though' a decent, felling a branch, rigging down a section and someone is attempting to assault you by throwing a missile, it's reasonable for a member of your ground staff to push/eject the offender from the work zone. The important part is 'IF you are midway through' otherwise you will just have to stop what you are doing and wait for the police. Once you have stopped work it may be more of a civil matter of self defence, but you cannot psychically assault these scrotes in the course of doing your job, unless you do it very carefully. When the ground worker attempts to stop them, he should only push them out of the danger zone, IF at that moment one of the offenders attempts to physically assault him, or If the ground worker has reason to suspect that the offender is about to assault him, then the ground worker is justified in using self defence. The ground worker is justified in using force, as a matter of self defence for the other workers who are midway through a dangerous action which they cannot stop.

Tendonitis is a symptom of a problem further up, usually the muscles are too tight and the tendon is the weak point. Warm water is good advice to heat the tendons, fascia and muscles so that you can stretch them, deep heat type gels don't really get that far past the skin. Ultrasound is really effective for treating the symptoms of tendonitis, but you must find the cause. It could also be a muscle imbalance, strong muscle on one side is too tight and the weaker muscle on the others side is constantly stretched, this affects the tendons and ligaments too. Ibuprofen does stop pain and can reduce swelling, but it also inhibits the fibroblasts which are necessary to heal and strengthen the tendon (part of the inflammatory process) In some regions you can now self refers to an NHS physio, without having to go through a GP, have a look online at your local NHS website.

it's not so bad in the cold weather, but a few hot days in summer will soften the plastic, you could always build a wooden box to support the tank.

Would it be better to organise the employment forum into sub forums for separate regions.

The police are not interested in investigating anything under £1000, they won't log it as a crime. by the way crime is down 10% BBC News - Crime in England and Wales down 10%, survey shows

I'm see why it might cause offence to some, and equally why most men don't mind at all. I don't mean that as a cop out, it's probably good to have a discussion about how far can the advert go before it is offensive? It's something advertisers need to consider, would you have that advert on your business card/side of your tree surgery van? It's one of those images that just passes under my radar, we are that used to having images of women attached to products that, half the time I don't even notice, unless it's those pictures of the women holding the chainsaws. That catches my eye. I just don't think the advert or the image is any good, it looks cheap and it could cause offence. I think it would be far better get a chainsaw sculptor to recreate a far more beautiful and image of a woman to demonstrate the quality of the bars.

Interesting views in the thread, kind of what I think the program makers were going for. Yes, unfortunately the way the program was produced will sadly only encourage other people to attempt the same thing. It was sensationalist and dwelt on danger, what they failed to show was the high level of training that makes James Kingston, one of the countries leading parkour practitioners, that's his day job. They did mention that he does parkour, but they didn't show who he really is or the true level of his ability and the amount of work and dedication that goes into this training. I've met James, I've trained with him, he's certainly not a nutter with a death wish, even if thats how the program makers attempted to portray him, he's not a thrill seeker, a kid who's just messing around, he is a highly trained athlete who has spent many years mastering his discipline, by training with the Worlds leading parkour practitioners. By not showing this fully, the program makes will encourage unskilled people to do the same. No-one who has attained his level of skill can be reckless or of unsound mind. The last thing James would want to do is die or get injured, because that would prevent him from training parkour. Parkour may look dangerous to people who don't train in that field, just as tree surgery looks dangerous to people who have not spent years training and learning the correct techniques, as well as having the experience of assessing the level of risk. The program makers did not show the level of ability that James has trained to, and that's why untrained thrill seeking kids will attempt to do this for a bit of fame. They could just as easily make a documentary in the same style about Alain Robert, by ignoring his climbing ability and simply focusing on his personality quirks and his climbs. As for walking along a thin bar at height, every month James will do miles of walking, jumping to and balancing on rails. Even if he were to slip, he would quite easily catch the beam on the way down,(as you would have seen in his gymnastic bar work, or scaffold movement, if that had been shown) because that is what he has trained to do. Hanging on a beam or bar at high level is only a mental challenge. In climbing or parkour people train hanging from walls, bars, rails all the time. 2 minuets is standard with both hands, 1 minuet single handed. When you train it regular, you increase your grip strength, your ability to tolerate lactic acid build up, and develop the mental knowledge of how your body works. You can feel when you are getting tired, you can feel the half way point, you know when you have just ten seconds left. If you know you can hold a bar for 2 minuets then what is 10 seconds even if it is 1000 feet in the air? They also have an in-depth understanding of surfaces, what type of surface is grippy and what type of surface you cannot hold. What's different about hanging off a bar 10 foot off the ground? 100 foot, or a 1000? It's really just a mental challenge at that stage, having the right approach to control fear by knowing what you and your body are capable of. Just like working in a tree, operating a chiansaw is dangerous at ground level for an unskilled operator, when you're up in the tree the risk level is higher, when you factor in rigging, power lines and other dangers how close do you come to death each day, why do you put your families through this? The things James will attempt are carefully planned, he won't do something for an adrenalin rush, or peer pressure, he does it because he can, and he won't attempt anything beyond his level. If there is something beyond his current capabilities then he will train towards it and do it when he is ready. I'm not so sure about the Ukrainian chap though, I can't speak for him. Most of the factors are within his control, yes, there are external factors like wind and rain, but he would not choose to do things like this in bad conditions, sure a sudden gust of wind could come from nowhere, but he is competent enough to catch a bar. There are far more external risk factors that cannot be controlled in tree surgery, even just driving a car at 70mph on a motorway is incredibly dangerous with all the factors outside of your control. Is Lewis Hamilton an idiot, because he does something that would be incredibly dangerous for an untrained amateur. Is it different when you are cutting a branch at 20 foot or 40 foot? sure maybe it was when you were inexperienced. For a normal person or even just an inexperienced tree surgeon, climber or parkour person height changes are scary, but you build up to things slowly over time. James Kingstone is up there as one of the worlds top parkour athletes. They may not earn the money and recognition that an average footballer gets, but the amount of training that goes into their work is of the highest quality. The reason the original crane climb video became viral, is not because some kid just climbed a crane and hung off it with one hand, there have been videos like that on youtube for years. That video became famous because of the way the video was filmed and put together, it really is skilfully shot and put together in a way that really captures the challenge. So in conclusion, you're not wrong to dismiss him as a nutter, an idiot, or someone with a death wish, because that's exactly what the program makers intended. Sadly this will lead to unskilled kids or drunk young people attempting this. This is some of James work And a short film giving a glimpse into some of the control, techniques and training that go into his movement.

Well not quite gas pipes, but a friend of mine had some very large poplars taken down in his back garden by some traveller types who did the job for a fraction of the price quoted by professional tree surgeons. For the next five years his garden would flood every time there was a few days of rain. He suspected a blocked drain, eventually he had a company come round and to to unblock it, but they said they couldn't shift the blockage. So he had to dig down to where the blockage was, before finding out the drainage pipe had cracked and collapsed in, hence the constant flooding. Although it cannot be proven, that it was caused by them. It was in the area that the 'travellers' were chugging down extreemly large sections of the trunk, (they had no rigging kit) and if they had of used a rigging kit it would have to have been the most heavy duty one money can buy for the size of the wood they were dropping. This was a few years before I started tree work, so I didn't know any better than he did at the time.

Another good one from full metal jacket, which is quite relevant to our trade. "You Climb obstacles, like old people Edit: damb filter, rhymes with Duck

With gold at £24,000 a kilo, a tu-32 would be worth £648,000 not including the wire

Talking about housing the London, Cllr Robert Davis said “What we really need is affordable housing, not just social housing, for people who are in their first job, have just got a basic, simple job and a salary of £50,000 to £80,000 a year.” [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVecHGaCz5k]West End Extra: 'A basic simple job' - YouTube[/ame]

How about this technique.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgyQQGPZwrk

I don't know where you would get a new cylinder, there are companies that will rehone and sleeve the cylinder for a price, but it usually is best only if you've got a new piston so that they can do it right. The most important thing is to know Why the piston became knackered in the first place, was it Run Lean? or did you buy it like that? If you don't know what caused the piston to become knackered in the first place, then you may well be just putting a new piston in a saw that has a fault, so the new piston is going to end up the same. Thats why sometimes the best option is to get a new saw, one where you know the history.

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Chainsaws do have their uses in certain circumstances at close range when surrounded, but the noise would draw more zombies. Also fuel may be an issue, and parts. for short range, the gerber, silent reliable, no parts or fuel. a chainsaw for emergency use, when you need to cut your way out of a room full. maybe a bow and arrow as silent ranged weapon and finally a shotgun for emergency use, a common calibre one so ammo can be found. Our other main asset is the ability to climb, we could construct an ewok village in the trees.

Pressure cookers work really well on a log burner.

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