Vespasian
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wait on a nice day and have a stab at it, I suspect the key to be determination. No rope, nothin... Just get in an tell yourself you ain't comin down till you've reached the top..Oh, I don't know if your slightly overweight, but if you are, get on a diet till you've lost a few pounds. Amazing how much easier these things are when you ain't dragging up an extra kilo you can do without..
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"Just moving off the moors would be a start"...to flee this melancholy, sodden drenched, rain lashed Moor, to escape this prison fowl called home... Oh Cathy, Cathy, call me to the sunless sea... haha....... Mathew, stop bitching, you don't know when you got it good, I'd love to live on some bleak moor in the middle of nowhere
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Err we live in Britain its known for its weather.. then again, look on the plus side, who else in the world can genuinely look forward to summers like we do?.. Now, if only this freezing wind would calm down, its blowin all the heat out the house.. LOL, nothin like us Britishers complainin about the weather...
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I'm still amazed people climb tree's in the rain, never would of thought till I joined this forum.. I mean, I do the occasional tree myself, nothin fancy or owt just medium size stuff. An I can tell you, any sign of rain an I'm off home.. I ain't slippin an breakin my neck for a days wage for no one....
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change your attitude to rain, I love the rain myself... Nothin better than idling all day while it pours down outside... here watch this fellla explain how to hike in the rain.... [ame] [/ame]
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Japanese is that how you spell it?.... "Japanese", show some respect people...its not 1974 anymore... Now, I like the LR, not that I've ever owned one, but they do look nice as they pass down the road.. and from what I gather they come in handy for towing stuff. Apart from looking good and being able to tow stuff there isn't much else going for them. Cost too much, comfort level next to none existent and apparently break down every third key turn... Nope, not for me.. I'll stick to ma van an be done.. Still, sad to see production go to India, though if LR had any sense, they'd of moved production to China years ago... muppets..
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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?...
