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Ehh... my biggest is a 357 with 18"... I might leave this mess to the bigger boys.
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He was ambiguous about what to do with it, he just wanted the immediate problem solved first though. I'm sure someone could do it by themselves, slowly and safely, but I'm happy to admit when something is beyond my skillset and technological capabilities. Half of them are above head height before the stems are even inside my longest bar width, and some of the rootplates are visibily just itching to go. After playing around in much, much smaller windthrow as a team of 4 with a midi digger just yesterday, I'm not convinced dicking about by myself on much bigger stuff would be a good idea. I wouldn't be able to finish the job by myself, so I'll not be offering to start it.
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Close enough, Calry, so halfway to Leitrim from civilisation. I'll forward your details to the guy if you want!
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4 of the same size and a baby. I wanted to acknowledge it's presence while minimising its significance compared to the immediate neighbours.
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I just went to look at a job in someone's back garden, 4.5 easy-enough ash to take down. He asked while I'm there, could I have a look at some fallen trees up in his field? Big trees, well beyond my paygrade. Biggest one is close to 100cm across, 8 or 9 of them in total. I recommended a couple of people better equipped than I to have a look. What machinery would you need, minimum? 12 ton digger with a grab, maybe even a pair of them?! Access is shite... long walk across a boggy field, a digger could manage it obviously, but not much else...
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Jeez, I know. Such good eating. I'm sure it was just a bad batch. Fish, fire, and salt. All that's needed.
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I'm picturing big escaped leylandii hedge now... pretty much swallowing the neighbour's front garden.
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Someone dropped me off a carrier bag full of mackerel a little over a year ago, they were still swimming an hour earlier. I duly set about preparing them for the freezer, around half of them had worms, and one of them was more worm than fish. Put me right off them it did.
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Johan? J.A.R.V.I.S? Juggernaut?
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Excellent, I'll give it a rewatch. It was like the film Memento.
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Ah shit, I watched them in the wrong order, it made the plot difficult to follow.
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It sure was. Photos start halfway through the day too, should have seen the place at 8am! Carnage.
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Tidying up some wind throw. What a mess! Managed to plant a few of them again, they should be fine... 20250106_151744.mp4
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What's the results? Do we need to get Dad's Army out again?
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Professional development for tree workers
peds replied to ArborDynamics's topic in Training & education
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Oh, lovely.
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Absolutely no argument from me.
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Those are pretty. Would you consider drilling twice through the block, countersinking the holes on the bottom, threading the rope handle, and tieing two stopper knots on the underside, sat snuggly in the countersink holes? Don't want to sound picky or anything.
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Not me, unfortunately, I never went down the route to getting any guide qualifications. There was a oft-told joke back in Chamonix, "What's the difference between a mountain guide and a large pepperoni pizza?" The pizza can feed a family of four... I can hold my own on pretty much any given mountain, and I've definitely never caused the death or disappearance of any of the people I've brought into the mountains, but I wouldn't legally be allowed to say "Follow me!" to a group of paying customers out there. Tempted to get an International Mountain Leader cert one day, that would open a few doors. Mightn't be enough for the BAS, though.
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When I find the right boat, I'll give you a shout!
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Ooh. Now that's an idea! Oh wow, now that's a pretty ship...
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'll track that down. Sounds like a very entertaining read. Friends of mine have gone exploratory skiing up in Baffin. That place is off the hook, yo.
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A pipe dream of mine, one day in the future, if the future allows, is to get a winterised boat, probably steel hull, with a wood stove and loads of insulation, and sail north to Iceland, eastern Greenland, and the tiny little speck a few hundred km north-east of Iceland, Jan Mayen Island, and do some ski touring right off the deck of the boat. It's got a volcano, a scientific research station, and naff all else. Heaven. A man can dream.
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That's it yeah, tiny dried fish, peanuts, crispy peas, broad beans, and little shreds of nori seaweed.
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Well, you can keep your Circue du Soleil and your caramel latté, I'll be off in a cave somewhere eating wild carrots and seal pemmican while learning the lyre.
