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It felt springy on the last shoot (31st January). My mate, albeit in a gloomy mood, remarked that did it fjuck (but a couple of moments later confessed he’d just seen a daffodil tip). Generally easy winter I’d say. Last year was cold (slippery and frozen water for fowl) and the one before was that cold rain that dragged on forever. I particularly remember a particular act of desperation of going on the airport website to see if I could fly somewhere warm, like now.

Crocadills and daffadrops out round here . Is something just round the corner ?

Hard and unenjoyable watching but interesting subject. Who uses these day-to-day?

@AHPP I have tried to look it up and I have asked a few shops too... @Mick Dempsey Thats odd, I've asked them before about having a larger splice to fit some climbing item, but I didnt order it.. they said it was ok.

Does he screen it first and just rechip the oversize? Is there also a shredder in his yard? Can’t imagine chipping stuff ‘tree surgeons’ have tipped unchipped - a good way to wreck a machine quickly!

I think it’s more that a climbing line HAS to have a tight splice. I asked HBs to splice a climbing line with a big splice and it arrived with a mouse’s ear.

Good question. Don’t know to a certainty. Did find out a while ago but answer obviously wasn’t important enough to remember. It might be slightly more shock absorbent with a bit more length in the eye? Possibly convention for if you’ve got a connector with a bigger bend radius spliced in. Or some kind of hard eye. Possibly even a hangover from such a convention, that now just tells you it’s a rigging rope rather than a tight-eyed climbing rope. Right. Look it up. See how close I was.

Yeah very easy to splice 3 strand. That brings an unrelated question. If one looks in shops at rigging ropes, all of the spliced onces have very large eyes - much bigger than a biner. Whats the intended purpose or reasoning? @AHPP ? The reason I ask, I might splice one end of this, One end for biner and slings, other end for knotting. Any reason not to be a normal small eye like a climbing rope?

If you arrived to me and my motor was unfixable and your tablet didn't give you the option of booking recovery, but customer has it on policy, would you phone in or is it policy to get them to phone the office and leave them to it.

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One of his videos, was about mending chipper once a hammer head went through it. Re chipping is a waste of time I would of thought just put it on muck heap and spread it later. I am surprised you took a chipper there.

I,v been a rac patrol for 38 years its not like it was in the early years im glad iv only 2 years to retire

Some tree lads dump chip there too, but it is usually really stringy and he re chips that!

My 3 year old and 1 year old having a rest bless em

We as a people need to wind the clock back on legwear. Greaves, puttees etc.

It’s not great for holding a knot when it’s not under pressure, but splicing in a krab is 30 seconds work. It coils fine once it’s been properly used and stretched, then it loses its manufacturing ‘memory’

Yes, it has got into the drain twice already, once it somehow without damaging anything got under the manhole cover and grew into the drain blocking it, second time a survey found a dropped pipe which had happened previously, the roots had only just started to get in but that's been repaired.

Didn’t know that, assumed it was brought in from a job and stacked. I saw another vid of an apparent site clearance they were chipping up and it looked a similar shitfest.

Exactly, they pay to tip and it all gets chipped into biomass. In all fairness he wasn't that negative about the chipping ability. It was more the feed mechanism needed a more grab friendly setup that's more aggressive and funnels anything into the feed rollers. Which isn't a surprise as he's a Italian pezalatto from David the Haycaps guy.

It's a green waste tip for tree surgeons etc how else is it meant to be piled?

When I volunteer with the Ramblers on footpaths, under the supervision of the local authority, those using the battery brush cutter have to wear hard plastic shin guards. I thought it was OTT but...

Hugely pleasing. Strong aesthetic. An eternal vibe.

I've not used it for rigging but its awful for tying knots or coiling up, extra bulky. A cinched biner is the best way to use it?