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Good Morning Why isn't it Friday? I'm goosed. I once drove my LR Series 2A to Reading. If it had a radio in it I'm sure I would have heard about the mobile road block travelling Eastwards on the A322. Then same on the painful return. Still a cake famine round these parts too. Have a brilliant and dry one.

I drove a Land Rover from Durham to Angouleme, all the time cursing myself for buying the bloody witch’s curse. Heater was working in fairness.

Morning all . Have a good one .(pissing down again )

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Got an electric chainsaw, that is unreliable enough. To be fair I could nearly get away with electric with the range of some of my work but it's the steep hills that would probably write it off.. the national park were going to get the Isuzu pick up but when they demoed one the range in real terms was more like 50 miles with a trailer. Also the expense of it, I was thinking an older mog, 1960/1970, probably a round cab so not getting up anywhere near the prices of a new motor.

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Morning all. Feeling like it should definitely be Friday, to add insult I've done that old person thing of waking up with sore bits for no apparent reason. Not sure exactly what the day brings yet, tree cutting based activity. Have a good one folks.

I thought I'd already checked back in about this but here's my year-and-a-quarter review. It's still waterproof. Material and build (things like pocket corners) are still good. Apart from the zip, which went floppy at the bottom quite quickly and is now a fiddle to do up. The pockets aren't big enough, there aren't enough of them and the top ones are too close to the bottom ones; I struggle to get the ice cream tub of veg scraps into the bottom pocket because the top pocket is bulky and in the way. Biggest complaint is the hood. No protection on the side of your cheekbones and eyes. Perhaps cut for being warry and having hawk-like peripheral vision but still feels like pac-a-mac design on a 300 quid coat. So well made but some design flaws. Or just not the exact design I want. I need a similar, non-waterproof one but I'm not buying the obvious choice of the Arktis B211 Mountain Smock if the hood is going to be the same (and the pockets are smaller). I've only found one brand who do what looks like a decent hood (Lockwood) but they're all waterproof. I rather rashly the other day exclaimed, "Fjuck it. If nobody makes what I want, I'll do it myself." I don't much fancy a 250 piece minimum order of £200 jackets.

The best of luck to him then. I once drove a Land Rover with a crap heater from Suffolk to Gateshead in a cold snap. That was bad enough.

Those orange boxes you refer to are scrollable, there’s a button to take you to the listing page then contact button is in the listing label. Yes you need to upgrade your account contact details, a mere £30 for the year

"Until you want to pull slack into your system for any reason and the device just eats it." Yeah but you just put a bit of friction on the rope, use a foot or a knee against the tree. The bigger issue I found was when above the anchor point, it is a bit of a ball ache to pull the rope through it. IMO the self tending which allows way easier free climbing outweighs the negatives. Horses for courses and I suppose thats why there are so many climbing devises on the market ATM. It would be interesting to run a poll to find out what the majority of people are using. I recon prussik loop would still be up there!

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Hi i am trying to use the tip site section on arbtalk. To search fkr sites to tip logs too. But when I try and click on the blue circles it comes up with an orange box with some details for the tip site but no ways of contacting? Is this a service I have to pay for? any help would be appreciated.

I personally think the Reflex looks awesome as a "one device does everything" affair. I'll be giving it a few months while the keen kids are guinea pigs though.

Any mechanical will self tend. It can be a double edged sword like that. If your lad wanted the best of both worlds I'd suggest a hitchclimber setup with a 75cm e2e tied with a catalyst hitch. Requires a bit more user input but that not the worst thing in the world. Until you want to pull slack into your system for any reason and the device just eats it.

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Thats the best bit!

Not just Greenland, the entire Artic region, from what I've just read!

For what you might spend on a mog (and considering you don’t necessarily want the utility Stephen mentions) have you considered electric?

Kindly refrain from posting AI generated images on Arbtalk, we don't want Starmer banning us do we! 😀

And now for some new news… Trump has declared on social media this evening that the framework of a deal for the USA to acquire Greenland has been reached with the NATO secretary general. What the Dane’s think of this I have no idea!

Maybe we can put the sex offences one to bed by remembering that data from all 43 UK police forces confirmed that men of Pakistani heritage were between 200% and 400% more likely to be perpetrators of grooming and related offences than the general population. Apparently it is even known where these men originate - the Mirpur region as they have a very different culture there even than most of Pakistan. And of course ethnicity and skin colour are irrelevant; or should be. But the point is that men of certain ethnicities were being protected by the establishment for fear of stirring racial tensions. That is why ethnicity was brought into it. Every perpetrator should have been treated equally - but they were not.