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Aw...it looks like a kindegarten boo boo now...much less impressive than when it was dripping red stuff. Six little holes and a bit yellow around, I iced it the night I did it, it was that sore.

I hit the corner of my knee pretty hard with my silky on Wednesday...musta bruised the bone a bit because it HURT for a day and a half! I put knee pads on for the next day's climbing, pretty colour now, along with the classic zig zag hole pattern.

No worries Jomo, all is well :) OMG that picture is awful! Luckily I saw the red before I scrolled all the way down, I zoomed past it, seriously disgusting.

Well, as it happens I am self employed, have been for the last 11 years. My groundie and I have a pretty good comms routine, visual, hand and voice...but in the bigger trees that I encounter now in my new country, until $600 comes available, the walkie talkies will have to suffice. As my own...

Yeah...until I can affort $600 I just got a set of cheap walkie talkies if we have a big job. We'll sling 'em on a cord around our necks.

Call and respond...sometimes the only conversation on our jobs consists of 'below..clear' , 'under...roger' , 'clear...clear'. I had another company come and sub a high lift and chipper for me...he was doing a couple extended cuts from the lift and dropped a branch without calling down when my...

I was heavily reducing some casuarina windbreaks...(ok, almost topping, my one exception, casuarina windbreaks :) ) a 4" x 6' stub slid down and landed butt end square on the middle of my thigh. I just swore into my face screen, cleared the tears out of my glasses rubbed it hard and kept going...

Yup...I have a friend that did something similar, he fell 18 metres and landed in the feed tray of the chipper. He lived but does not climb any more. I started a thread about my triple-lock biner rolling open...I heard it before I saw it. Luckily there was tension on the whole system so no...