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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    It will be fine. The idea is that the fumes go up the chimney. We burn Yew, and other poisonous species of tree and live to tell the tale.
  2. Retired Climber
    Not you as well. I can see him, that's all you need to know.
  3. Retired Climber
    How dare you. I'll have you know I have 2 friends, and only one of them is imaginary.
  4. Retired Climber
    That's not proper work though is it; you are basically retired, pottering around in a shop to get out of the house. 😁
  5. Retired Climber
    What is it you do? Garden machinery sales?
  6. Retired Climber
    I don't think many on here would be able to work in a shop for long without losing the will to carry on breathing.
  7. Retired Climber
    Don't worry about what knot you are climbing on, or what kit you have, that's just a distraction. I could bring round a length of old Yale XTC, a couple of prusik loops and a Komet Evolution and have that tree reduced to a stump in half an hour. Technique trumps kit (or what knots you use), in the vast majority of cases.
  8. Retired Climber
    Not for Mr Tickle.
  9. Retired Climber
    That's not the same thing at all. If you don't understand why, you don't understand trees, and probably shouldn't be climbing them. I don't mean this in a confrontational way, more of a saving you from yourself kind of vibe. Sorry, that just reads as patronising; I'm going to give up whilst I'm (slightly) ahead.
  10. Retired Climber
    You could look at that test the other way. You may be weakening, what was, a suitable anchor point.
  11. Retired Climber
    In which case, how do you plan to get it up there? Is it Silver Birch? I wouldn't be lobbing a throw line into that if I were you. Especially if you can't climb up and get it when it gets stuck.
  12. Retired Climber
    With that kind of stuff I'd anchor around the vertical stem, with the branches essentially stopping the anchor slipping down. I probably wouldn't simply anchor over the branches, if that makes sense?
  13. Retired Climber
    Agree completely. Experience will tell you which anchor point to choose but if you are looking at a potential point and having doubts, change it, or double up. Species is very important, don't choose the same size anchor on willow, as you do on oak.
  14. Retired Climber
    That's my point. Maths can only get you so far in this industry, so they teach very simple calculations and leave it at that. I think, actually, even the concept of load on an anchor being twice the weight of the piece of tree could be a little confusing for some. Common sense and experience is always going to trump academic study with stuff like this.
  15. Retired Climber
    Yep, definitely the way to do it. you could easily spend half the day calculating stuff otherwise. Equally, exact calc's are imposiisible in our industry due to the variables in just about everything we work with ( hence the simplification) .
  16. Retired Climber
    It's just the easiest way to think of it isn't it. Trainers aren't mathematicians, so it's an easy way to teach it. It's not exactly x2 though is it.
  17. Retired Climber
    Kind of. It is a pre-planned method of achieving certain outcomes.
  18. Retired Climber
    You write as if those reasons are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of grey areas between the two seemingly opposite reasons. Yes. I think he knows it was a good move for the economy (long term), but can't work out a way to sell it to the electorate 'en masse'.
  19. Retired Climber
    I knew we'd agree on something, sooner or later.
  20. Retired Climber
    I don't think you are really my type.
  21. Retired Climber
    The link wasn't in answer to that question; keep up.
  22. Retired Climber
    www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/who-owns-our-national-debt-its-a-secret-287907/amp/
  23. Retired Climber
    Bloody hell mate, that's some question for a Monday morning.
  24. Retired Climber
    Technically I think it's a nice job. Practically, it will make sod all difference to the amount of mess. They'd have been better off not bothering and using the money to buy a blower.
  25. Retired Climber
    Trickle down has been disproved in numerous studies. That's not the only reason to encourage high earners to want to be UK tax payers though.

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