Mick Dempsey

What do you do? Do you have the money to replace them? Stuff is not get more temperamental, it’s becoming less so. The 020 is over 20 years old, it’s a 35cc engine what more do want from it?

Thought of a better one, Triumvirope. Marlow ropes, you can have that gratis.

You mean Neptune’s Trident rope? Of course!

I preferred using the new Solar Flare device, coupled with the Salamader rope linked up with a Saturns Ring I’m now climbing smoother than a greased up tree snake.

Silver maple if I’m not mistaken, very prone to fungal infection through large cuts. Wood turns to pulp very quickly. Very much a fast growing/fast dying street tree.

He said it blocked him up good and proper. Tbh he was a mess when he visited here a few years back, massively overweight, 3/4 bottle of whiskey a night and 40 cigs minimum a day. Travelled with a small suitcase just for his medication.

My mate in Australia had a botched back op and now is on fentanyl (iirc) morning noon and night. Says he couldn’t move without them.

No one is going to take offence. I remember raising this subject on a yank forum and being shocked at the painkiller use, but especially by the casual and widespread use of anti-depressants in the US.

Ps, going through this thread has made me feel a bit better about my painkiller consumption if nothing else. Some eyebrow raising stuff on here.

Four or five years back I had restricted movement and pain in my shoulder, couldn’t raise it above level at all. Did a bit of research, 99% sure it was a frozen shoulder. Anyway, I struggled on, climbing become increasingly hard. Turned up at a job one day, put Igor on his lead before opening the van door as usual. Unbeknownst to me he’d seen a cat an took off like an Exocet, the shock as he reached the end of the extendable lead wrenched my unprepared shoulder and the pain was so intense that I fell to the ground and nearly blacked out for a couple of minutes. Eventually I got up and the groundy retrieved Igor 20 meters away barking at a bemused cat on a gatepost. I thought I’d really done some permanent damage, but as the day wore on it seemed ok, as the days and weeks passed I realised it was effectively cured. It seems sometimes they put you under a general anesthetic to manipulate and free a frozen shoulder, I just skipped the anesthetic. Funny how things work out sometimes.

That’s very sad Stubs, I’m glad my old man went in 2014 (not glad but you know what I mean) before all this stuff.

I reckon Boris is toast, now the Tories are turning against him, they’re going to lose the next election with him, they might think it’s best to cut their losses, bin him and try and salvage as many seats as possible, maybe even stay in government with someone else.

Not telling!

Can’t see it myself, this question makes Pete 08’s seem well thought out.

We got another one..

Spot on Pete.

Maybe you have to keep a range of premium saws for the pros to keep the prestige element going, even if they’re artificially expensive. I remember reading how Maculloch eschewed the pro range for the more profitable homeowner models, then lost the caché of the pros using them and faded into obscurity.

I’d never tie just into the ladder, through the ladder and into a branch stem maybe.

Hmmm, not done too much research since October by the look of it. Stop using the word ‘chopping’ that is not terminology that chainsaw pros regularly use. You’re not using an axe it’s a chainsaw. Snedding is the term for de-branching a fallen tree. Did you pinch the saw at all?

Clearly, but tell us about your experiences and we can explain and enlarge, open the debate, we’re not just a free resource that’ll do your research for you. You're after stuff from us but not contributing anything yourself, what were you doing with the saw? Did you notice anything that made you think ‘that seems dangerous’ Did you get any training? Quid pro quo Pete as Hannibal said

Still at it Pete? Have you taken the opportunity (since you last asked about this in October) to use a saw? What saw were you using and to do what?

Buy cheap, buy twice as the saying goes. Get a MK11 Husky 550.

No bamboo, ever. They say it stays where it is and won’t get away, but you’ve seen Jurassic Park right? Nature finds a way.

The biggest colds I ever caught were with conifer hedges.