Vespasian
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scrunched up cardboard, chop a good bit of kindling and throw in a few thicker pieces of kindling on top...add the heavier wood after minute.. Its not rocket science is it?.. though you might think so with some people, had a visitor ask me to make him a cup of coffee and he'd make the fire... came into the living room and there he was bent over the fire with a lighter trying to get the damp logs going... what you doing?.. errr, gettin the fire lit... you never heard of chopping the woood in bits I said.. don't mither he says, it'll be reet... Listen, I says, you need to make some f*ing kindling first to get it going. went outside for minute came back in the thing was lit, how do'you manage that I said. used some of your mentholated spirit you use in your camp stove...
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Yea, sounds good to me, no problem with that. I was thinking along the lines of someone doin it for its own sake... Pollarding a tree and hacking away at the branches, that sort of thing...
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Yea, I understand what the fellas talking about, insects an all that.. But the point I was gettin at, is, aught it be done in the first place... I mean, its a bit of a cheek to talk about encouraging nature on one hand why on the other you run amok through the woods with a chainsaw... Don't get me wrong, for the most part I don't give a monkeys what people do with their own tree's, but don't pretend your doin the tree a favour by hacking it in bits..
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Joe Newton Do you know what you're talking about?... what are the benefits I'm missing?..
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Ecological benefits!!!!... all I see is a butchered tree and someone spinning it to make it sound like you done the tree a favour.. I feel the philosophy aught be, cut the tree down an be done, or thin it out..
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chop a branch off and practice on the ground.. though for the life of me I can't see any good reason why anyone would want to do that on a tree...
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Not so fast, boundary lines can be poorly recorded.. drawn in error or some such.. I'd suggest if a boundary looks like a boundary, IE mostly in a garden then thats the boundary.. common sense comes into play...
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Agree with everythin you said.. people have bin made soft these days.. what should be a micro adventure has bin turned into a nightmare scenario of falling ice sheets and hurricane gales looking to flip you off the nearest precipice.. I remember once at the top of Snowdon havin a fully kitted out "expert walker" berate me for climbing in a tea shirt... You could freeze to death she said.. Yea, course I could, I'm at the top for ten minutes before I set off back down, I doubt I'll be freezing to death in ten minutes flat...
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I like that..
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get up the pig track, done that in the middle of winter, and done it in howling winds. I used to go there knowin it was rough weather.. its a welsh mountain, not the rockies...
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listen to some of these on here LOL anyone would think Everest was being attempted.. Get to Snowdon, see how it looks and if needs must do the pig track, clampons and ice axes, hahahahah... Oh why your about it, don't forget the oxygen...coupla sherpas maybe?..
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Or as I used to do, get a few pair of bicycle clips.. Now, goin back to hemming trousers up, only a complete numpty would imagine that hemming up those trousers would ruin them for the purpose they were made. As to manufacturers and what they have to say.. every heard of liability?... Course they gonna say don't interfere with their products.. But we're talking about hemming up a pair of pants.... What kind of moron thinks hemming up a pair of pants is gonna endanger someones life for gods sake?... get a grip man..
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Treequip the fella wants to take a bit of material off the bottom of his trousers... He ain't lookin to invent a new pair of the things.. If your asking me you're just being picky for the sake of it... there isn't any evidence that taking up the trousers an inch or two will have any ill effects on how effective they are... Now unless you're an expert on these type of chainsaw trousers, I suggest you come back with evidence as, all I can see are nothing but opinions... And, why we're about it, who said the fella uses a chainsaw any different than the one shown in the safety vid?...
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Anyone ever tried mountaineering boots for tree climbing?
Vespasian replied to samiad's topic in General chat
I climb in what I have on at the time, usually a pair of running shoes... I recon a pair of boots might be just a bit to clumsy for my liking.. And its not like like I climb anything bigger than a house, thats my rule of thumb, bigger than a house, get a professional in.. -
Is this somethin you made up or have you looked into it... Cause it seems to me that if you had an inner material that was loose at the hems, then that material might ride up the leg over a few washes... I suspect if you cut off and hemmed the bottoms up, there'd no loss of safety as the chainsaw would drag the safety material into the chain before any material in the lower leg had any effect of what takes place were the chainsaw catches the material... OK thought I'd do some research of my own, looks like I was right all along.. [ame] [/ame] Notice the material only gets dragged out the material were contact takes place........
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I don't know, can't say it bothers me to much.. its not like any steel worker ever worried about my parlous state of affairs is it !!!..
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first time I did Snowdon I did the horseshoe rout. Me an'a friend doin a weekend adventure like a pair of numpties ended up climbing Snowdon the hard way. both overloaded with camping tackle that included tins of beans an other crap. he had the good sense to turn round half way up, me I carried on till I reached the top. Though I did nearly fall off at one point, my rucksack snagging a rock as I crossed along a dangerous looking crevice... s**t myself for a minute LOLs.. I haven't done it since, I prefer the pig track, done that loads an'in all weathers.. Good tip for you though, prime your legs by goin on a long walk or run a few days before you set off...
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pair scissors and hem em up.. five minute job if you can find someone with a sewing machine..
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Have you thought about buying some climbing equipment, you can go to the nearest tree and have a practice climbing in that... I don't suppose theres a law against it is there?...
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LOL, if it stays dry..good luck with that one... You know something, heres me goin on about cuttin grass at this time of year, forgetting that I strimmed the grass on a church I do only last week.. ordinarily on my last cut I do the gutters for em an the church, this last year I left it late and decided I'd come back after the new year, then last week the fella at the church phones me and asks me to come up and do the gutters.. So why I was there I thought I might as well tidy up a bit and ended up cutting the grass... Well more a grass verge than a lawn of any sort... Still, there I was strimming back grass and here I am telling everyones else they must be mad
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who in their right mind wants to cut grass in the middle of winter?
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And my point being... no one would have to spend time and money on going to her house if the job had bin done already...
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I don't think you get it do you!!!.. The complaint ain't about being charged its about being ripped off.. two pound for a slice of lemon, GTFOH.. And I've lost count of the times I've done jobs for next to nothing.. various reasons an all that.. there's the old lady with the branch catching her on the way out the house, "you couldn't do me a favour and cut this branch off why your here would you love". Course I can, now did you mention a cup of coffee. now what have I gained by cutting off this annoying branch?.. first off I've helped someone out.. I was there and why wouldn't I?.. secondly, and in some ways more importantly, I've just saved her from some arsehole who would of turned up and charged her fifty quid for a two minute job Thats worth all the tea in china..
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If I go out tomorrow an buy a twenty thousand pound woodchippper, does that mean I should charge two grand for a two hundred pound job?... After all I've invested in machinery and surely every new customer should help me pay for it... Or, should I charge the same knowing I'll get the job done quicker with my new piece of kit... same with that idiot charging a fortune for a slice of lemon... If she/they had any sense, they'd make their money on their reputation for good service and good food. Not on ripping off customers who walk through the door...
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I used to love a Bowie song here an there, even bought a couple of albums back in the day.. Then he tried to reinvent himself for some mysterious reason.. never was the same.. Then again for a fella as bright as him, the idea of singing the same old songs night after night might just become something akin to a form of living death.. A creative genius reduced to clapping like a seal for a fish... Suppose I can't blame him and others for moving on.. [ame] [/ame] rest in peace Bowie... [ame] [/ame]
