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Hope your bodys in good nick! Climbing has a way of highlighting issues your not aware of until your 60 foot up...good luck bud

Thanks joe what tens machine have you been using mate?

Joe- yeah im not even at 10 years climbing yet but i was a gardener before that so it kinda crosses over into heavy lifting repetative strain over the years. I climb on a zigzag,recently went back onto 13mm rope just for easier grip,i do use srt on big ascents but realisticly i could count the number of big trees ive climbed over the past year on one hand. Im in a team of 4, all climbers so we take climbs in rotation which at first i hated but now its a god send as climbing now is causing me grief. I utilise ascenders( ct foot and single hand) as much as possible and use our 150 more than anyone else in the squad. I am guilty of holding my body weight on one arm while tending slack coming in from tip prunes,little ascents etc.I have tried a 3:1 to make it easier to pull myself back in but it takes feckin ages...ive little patience for that. Really tryin as much as i can to ease the symptons but as much rest as possible just isnt possible in our game really is it. Even if your not climbing using chainsaws,draggin feeding the chipper carting logs about aint gonna help rest em much. Thanks for all the comments so far folks Much appreciated

Got tennis elbow in one arm and golfers elbow in the other,its from climbing so i suppose my climbing career is on its last legs. Anyone have any remedies? Ive seen the doctor,takin ibuprofen,wearing the little arm straps u get etc. ANY sort of input would be a god send..its bloody miserable! Tia

Edelrid are doin some good kit right now,decent harnesses and there new spikes get good reviews. At a tenner a pop though for biners that arent triple lock,im not convinced id need em that much

Brilliant!

Amazon do a basic vest for £3, available even cheaper when bought in bulk

Very impressed by that... Looks very labour intensive but naturaly artistic and aestheticly pleasing.

U know what they say about opinions and assholes... Would be a dull world indeed if we agreed on well... anything...

Isnt lying a pre requisite to becoming a politician...

Pm wes d he has a blue pair,seem em on instagram

I think nick clegg would have made a decent prime minister had he not compromised his partys policies and got into bed with the tories

Are you matelot in diguise... You realise farage is a liar,bigot and misogynist... Clearly you dont

We all were orange hiviz t shirts or jackets in the colder months,both have reflective panels to meet EN standards. No one really enforces us to wear hiviz we just do,and ive first hand seen hiviz avert accidents so to me its a no brainer to wear it.

5ft 9,162lbs 9% body fat...yeah im on the small side except my ass-it sticks out with the years of squatting at the gym I find it waist sizes i struggle with the mediums fit in the legs and ass but the waist is up to my tits!

Yes me too stubby...cant handle banks now they seem to have morphed into a sales workshop for the most annoying members of society,seriously i used to go in every friday afternoon but the constant trying to sell me,house insurance,contents insurance,car and van insurance,loans,upgrade on my debit account,credit card blah blah blah...

Obviously climbing takes its toll on the body but as mentioned before mechanical devices,ascenders etc have greatly helped us to make the job more ergonomical. 40 isnt too old,i came into tree work mid to late 30's and i stay fit aswell to keep my body as tuned in as possible. Dont forget groundwork can be punishing aswell,draggin brash,chipping,carrying logs,crosscutting timber,lowering etc all day knocks your pan in. As an"older gentleman" (no offence), your age may actually go in your favour with prospective employers as younger workers tend to take sickies,show up late or fanny around on there phones and generally take liberties when you wont. My advice would be get your cs30/31 and chipper tickets get in with a firm and see how it goes.If in 6 months time your still keen to climb then go for it...or maybe some kind hearted boss will invest in you and pay to put you through it. Good luck buddy

Asda self scan checkouts... Do..my...tits...right...in.. Ask you if you dont want to bag an item after scanning each item...ffs!!! Asks if you purchased a 5p bag then asks how many after you've pressed the no bags purchased button...ahhh!! Need some paracetamol...??? Hang on 10 minutes while some spotty 17 year old drags his ass along to you to type in a code to ALLOW you the pleasure to purchase your pain killers- All this scanning is done at a volume set so high it makes my fillings vibrate... Oh and the best for last... 18p change...yip 1x5p 10x2p's and 3x1p's... F#@k u asda f#@k u...!!!!!

Ive had too many beers to be able to deal with this thread...maybe tomorrow when im sober

Kevin you could call me alot of things but sensitive i aint... You did offer up the pole pruner as an option to which i offered my opinion but lets get back to the original question. Mewps are an option when climbing isnt,although mewps have there limitations aswell-rigging a tree with a mewp is very difficult and time consuming in my experience. Given an option between the two id climb everytime,i just feel more comfortable in the tree than i do in a bucket... Theres also the fact we call mewps poof wagons...so there is a stigma attatched to using em when you can climb.

Dont see why you would say parochial... Perhaps your meaning im narrow minded or inexperienced in using pole pruners where in fact i am very experienced. These were just examples of what could happen when using a pole pruner in that situation. It would seem you dont like being questioned hence you think its ok to poke fun at someone and revert to name calling,almost childlike,for daring to have a different opinion from yourself. I can pretty much guarentee im no twinky,climbing for years and weight training at the gym takes care of that. Im bowing out of this discussion... Its impossible to exchange opinions with self rightous twits with a stick up there ass....or is it a pole??

How would you collect the cuttings? What if the pole pruner got pinched in the cut? Have you ever used a pole pruner at full extension horizontally? If you had you wouldnt see it as an option. Are you aware that pole pruners are very high in hand and arm vibrations Totally wrong tool for the job!

Id have to disagree matty,ive done plenty of conifer hedging where ive had to take alot of the top and waist anchoring in with a lanyard while standing on branches stretching over with a saw or hedgecutter is not great for balance or ergonomic for those of us with a dodgy back and shit elbows. Given an option id always prefer a overhead anchor point,just allows me to attain better work position. I get others have and will see this differently but i really dont see a problem in the op's pictures.

Mk3 zz is great,ive used it for srt aswell with no issues.

I use a footloop so i dont use the built in one matty.Maybe give it a bash just to see if its robust enough to handle it