5thelement
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I can’t pay for my hookers and coke with chip and pin either.
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I am not talking about fantasy newspaper headlines and their bullshit predictions. I am talking about actual behaviour, banning your best friends from family BBQ’s because they didn’t have the jab, and such like. The Government cancelling Christmas with a few days notice, whilst partying behind closed doors, and people going along with it. I have lost all faith in people making a stand in the UK.
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It is inevitable, if every prick roles over and accepts it like they did with Covid.
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I seem to remember, not that long ago, an unbelievable amount of tax payers money being wasted on a Covid track and trace system that never worked. I have serious doubts that they could even manage this idea, even if everyone wanted it. If only there was a way to coherence people into having one, just like the Covid jabs, if only the was an ‘invasion’ of some sort that could be stopped, but allowed to continue, that might help push it over the line.
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Does anyone else feel that Arbtalk has become Political Hate Talk?
5thelement replied to Honda's topic in The Lounge
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Turn out your pockets, sonny Jim. This is an EDC thread.
5thelement replied to AHPP's topic in The Lounge
Opinel No8 with integrated whistle and shackle key, dog whistle, 3/8 rim sprocket, and bottle opener for the end of the shift.
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Does anyone else feel that Arbtalk has become Political Hate Talk?
5thelement replied to Honda's topic in The Lounge
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Nah, not me, never been anywhere near Plumpton. I’m sure they will be long gone by now, just like Mr. Pardoe, sailing into the sunset and enjoying life. 👍
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Plumpton, who was Instructing you then?
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This is the main problem that I hear about. People need to do their homework and not just rock up at the nearest college/training providers because of locality, due diligence is required to get the right Instructors that are right for your requirements. If you have been in the game twenty years, your probably not going to learn anything on a refresher day at the local college, where the instructor is last years star student with little to zero industry experience.
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I know of a few assessors that are rarely booked by certain colleges/training providers because they regularly fail candidates, not because they are c*nts, but because they are thorough, do the job right and make the right call. I use these guys to assess my candidates whenever I am back in the UK because of this, the candidates always know they have performed well and earned their stripes.
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No one is laughing at anyone.
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I could quite easily go and target certain colleges and training providers whose Instructors are winging it at best, and fail every one of them, I choose not to. I assess for a small, select group of top quality Instructors, who I know are top of their game, have been for years and are still heavily involved commercially in the industry at a high level. The training, sites and kit are top notch, and the results are generally very positive for the candidates involved, I choose to be involved in this instead.
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So your assessor wasn’t even an assessor?
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Shame you weren’t a confident 18 year old who would surely have challenged the assessors decision, after all, you did everything right.
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Apart from the hinge removal bit?
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I have worked alongside tractor based and purpose built forwarders for over 30 years so I do have a fair idea of their capabilities. So now the assessor did deal with it, this bullshit is getting deeper by the minute. 😂
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I know what the capabilities of a forwarder are and how to untangle a tree 😂. If you have safely attempted to bring down a hung tree using appropriate methods but where unable to do so, and you arranged mechanical assistance to deal with it, you would not fail, you clearly failed for other things, memory has a funny way of playing tricks.
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When was this exactly, because candidate feedback has been around forever.
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You clearly were ‘not competent’, hence you failed. You didn’t fail because a forwarder driver, who wasn’t even being assessed,couldn’t get your tree down, nor because the assessor was a c*nt.
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On my small felling ticket I forgot to put my gob in, then pushed the tree over with my knob, assessor didn’t like my 18 year old confidence, so I bitch slapped him until I passed.
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This thread is going to quickly escalate into bullshittery and bollox of the highest order, largely made up of nonsense and things that never happened, but good luck with the ‘data’.😂
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What size trees where these when a forwarder couldn’t get it down? 😂
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Spent a couple of days this week working with a mate over in Cognac. Four conifers to remove, two Atlas cedar and two Spanish fir. They had been topped out in the past due to the risk of lightning strike, the region is flat and these trees are the highest thing on the horizon. Two had serious damage/delamination from recent strikes, a bit iffy on the climb as the crown on the largest Cedar would twist left and right as each limb was removed. All brash chipped, saw log cut to 3.4m for the mill to uplift next week and see what is salvageable. The gardener sent some drone footage of Nico up the tree. IMG_7254.mov 3a9307f0-91bd-487f-98d1-2e647f45268a.mov IMG_0582.mov
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I never said that your Trakmet was a hobby mill, I said you was a hobby miller. Nice bike. 👍
