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OH YES! Gun ...... that word keeps popping into my mind, but unfortunately shooting anyone here is illegal (including gypsies)

Hey Nick, I looked at a girl the other day while driving through Manchester, very beautiful, and wearing very little, however i hit the kerb bust a tyre and a wheel trim, a bit embarrising for me but she smiled or was she laughing ? not sure, but hey she wasnt wearing virtually no clothes to...

Why dont you just drop a tree over the wires? I would.

Can anyone help?.........Got a project ...a large common oak, approx 15m crown spread, 20m in height, a couple of (cavities 12"diam) 4m DBH, Look's healthy, no fruiting bodies, but I do notice lots of epicormac growth on the main limbs? Guys i've spent 6 hours in the library and came up with...

Hey....Take 3 raps .....preferably around your ear and hopefully distributed by me in person......sorry but you sound like a spoiled p"*ck, who gets beaten up quite often and has to get lippy on his pc to vent his frustrations. It was a genuine post, you sad little termite.

Dont know about the U.S. or Canada, but here in the U.K. unless you are commercially involved it appears it might be difficult to survive on residential sales, there's a lot of quality companies around but the trend seems to be more hours less money compared to sales figures from a couple of...

Still got it Steve? I'll take it..........Jock

Hi guys ....Any jobs for summer, I could do to get stuck in without the all round protection trousers, the hat muffs and visor and the boxing glove like chainsaw mitt's.........it must be great to have freedom of movement when felling......bet you guys dont even feel tired when you get home...:D

It was light humour Tom......just that people here wearing "proper" kilts tend to get ridiculed,especially in pubs, but on a building site? i cant start to imagine:D

Tom, I am very concerned about that kilt web site!!!:( also a bit concerned what you were trawling when you came across it:)

Competant testing policy? sorry to say but if you have the ability to write a cheque payable to NPTC, you are deemed competant, you'll find that is a very touchy subject in this country amongst the experienced operators who 10 or 12 years ago were deemed incompetant until approved by an accessor...

:) If you feel things cant get any worse then they must only can get better, if they dont......then take a few days off, I do and it works for me i think...... Jock

Hey Steve , may not be able to save your sanity, but there's work here, £120.00 per day plus £20.00 accomodation allowance, only one stipulation ..... dont argue with the locals or wreck hotel rooms, as I've just released 2 guys this evening, and 1 of them only started tuesday, the hotel owner...

Just leave it standing till mid June, a couple of us are going to do a bit of touring, supply the gear and we'll take it down, dont worry bout the cash, just a barbied steak and a few beers will suffice and hey you'll see some real climbing :D Jock

I've got 22yrs practical experience, and last year decided on a 2 year one day a week course, which will give me an HNC (Arb) learned a mountain of stuff and am thoroughly enjoying it although business pressures can sometimes knock you behind on studies, luckily i'm in hotels week nights just...

Go prune a small "lets say 20' cherry or ash......whatever" you'll find you can climb perfectly well without ropes and harness, there is a critical point ......... and thats a natural fear of heights......., we were not designed to climb trees, however some of us in the eyes of some onlookers...

Treespyder......mmmmmm? is this a cryptic solution? or am i stupid? sorry mate just couldnt put 2 and 2 together on your suggestion or answer .........

Parked on a busy Manchester Street on Thursday morning, unloaded chipper, tracked it approx 300m onto site, walked back, pavement covered in glass..... 2ms200's 1Husky 254, 1 large holdall full of ropes and 2 swedish skybelts, carabiners, helmets, all my overnight bags,2 bottles of Evian water...

Pulled one of my guys off climbing cause he was diabetic, he would have felt better i think if i had shot him!, Brilliant climber but I've seen him when he weakens out and needs sugar, and thats a scary thing to see 60-70 ft up, I found out he was carrying Mars bars in his 1st aid kit!! gave him...

It was a large forked tree and i didnt trust the tie ins and needed some self assurance, so therefore the open but well watched screw gates, I know no one would normally leave a screw gate open but it gave me some peace of mind at the time. Jock