Unimog Club UK

That's better! Keep them coming.

I don't suppose I mentioned the small health and safety risk I took some years ago when I climbed 25 feet up a sycamore tree to prune the top out? It was part of a hedge so had been topped before so I set to the branches with my pruning saw. Some time later when I needed to move a little I found a nice sized branch, stamped on it a couple of times to check it wasn't one of the loose ones I'd cut and it didn't budge... It didn't so I stepped onto it. That's when the smaller branch that was holding it up there snapped and I fell 25 feet into the neighbours compost heap on top of an old bike! That bloody hurt I can tell you, but after getting over the shock and realising my legs still worked I was back up there finishing off what I'd started. Slightly sore but lesson learned and no harm done. I wear a harness now!

It's pretty scary to think that a mate of mine fell from a branch less than 6 feet from the ground when collecting conkers - he's been in a wheelchair ever since.