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You can't ring for an appointment any more at our surgery . It all has to be done on line now . People kicked against it initially but it seems to be working smoothly now .

Good Morning. Bit moist out there. Off to Hounslow for a Team Meet. Deep Joy on a Friday. Have a good start to the weekend.

There is a rigging course with spaces available on 24th November at Scott Fraser Training in Lamberhurst, Kent. Scott has a fantastic knowledge of rigging and can push you as far as you want to go. Those that can’t, are Irish drunks and their arb mates masquerading as trainers ( the ones you used and recommended on here previously), those than can, do, and do so at the highest level….or so the saying goes.

It was a bizarre period, insects that were thought to be harmless and friendly turned against us in a Hitchcockian manner. The summer was unprecedented, people getting water from standpipes. John Noakes taking a shower in his swimming trunks on Blue Peter to illustrate how more economical it was compared to a bath. It had an End of Days feel to it.

Another clear bright and warm day. Finishing lifting round the field today, plus flailing the brambles etc. The three fallen oaks were a breeze so agreed to fill the second day with lifting round the edge. To give you an idea..

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Morning Jase , morning all . Light steady rain here , 14c . Happy Friday indeed ! 🙂

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Kram, no doubt you will ignore this post as well but some people are actually trying to to help you here. Do you not realise that to get you alone in a course for a week to pay for the assessor then they need the numbers to make it work? Nothing wrong with a good mentor. In the meantime why not check out the Art and Science of practical rigging or the Fi dementia’s general tree work. They might help you gain some knowledge. The kind of thing Alex is mentioning.

And don’t use rock climbing rope.

That’s what they are paid for and trained to do. I’d imagine he will sleep well tonight once the adrenaline subsides.

Half. I’m being half cryptic but I’m also pointing out there’s bias in language used to describe this kind of thing. The passive tense is commonly used as propaganda by a wannabe truth-definer. Say the guy doing the stabbing was right to do so. You wouldn’t call him dangerous. You’d say he was stabbing someone. Ruminate on it. View all news through that lens.

Well, that's a bit of a daft question. He was dangerous to the people he had stabbed and seemingly intended to stab. Or am I missing your point?

going to the quacks is a bit of a joke these days rang ours today in a Que for thirty minutes to enquire about a visit 6 weeks ago, evenly i have been referred to the hospital and i will have to Waite for an appointment from them. it's a bloody joke

And don’t fcking die.

To whom? You wouldn’t call a fireman dangerous to fire. There’s an amount of bias in language.

The copper shot the person who had been stabbing people at the synagogue. The guy who had stabbed people was dangerous.

It’s probably written on the gear. Or at least on the advert. Learn what minimum breaking strength/load and safe working load or working load limit mean.

Speak in the active voice. Who shot who? Who was dangerous to who?

That's probably standard. It seems to pretty clear that the person shot was the one who was dangerous. It's probably not a bad thing for the copper to have some time off after having to deal with that situation.

Both of us?

and now there will be an inquest with the police and the copper who shot him will cost a few thousands and no doubt the copper will be suspended on full pay (which is ok) while the inquest is over

Then err on the side of caution. If you think it's 40kg, pretend it's 200kg. 40x11 (for a worst case, dead stop - like a fall factor 2 in rock climbing parlance) is a lot of force. And get your wraps right so you don't pinch. Every rig is a job interview. For natural crotch, get some 3 strand. 16mm Marlow is cheap and good. I've not used it but polysteel from ebay looks fine. Your anchor is weak too. One pulley on side scaffold is a big lever. You want two, ideally perfectly angle-split but if you need to reach the other stem so be it, pull it together. Flick the V fingers like Churchill (Prime Minister, not dog). You'd rather have them pushed together than pulled apart. Don't fcking die.

Thanks, I did get it wrong as the attachment end of rope fell the wrong side of the stub but it was away from other gear, no damage but I'd planned it to swing to the left and let it run away from the garage. The extra friction of it being the wrong side, stopped it running. I am somewhat unsure how much weight you can drop on a normal rope or gear before it needs to be better gear. I was estimating that top in the video to be around 30-40kg. Tried to lift it today, and its atleast double. I should probably have lowered it in two peices or climbed higher to cut and chuck. Very true, but it was a customer video and I was working alone. I would have liked help with this job but she was not going to pay the extra and I wanted to do it anyway. Ofcourse that requires extra care, takes longer and ideally more experience. OTOH I have all the time with no one waiting for me. I cant disagree with that however the local Kingswood and Plumpton do not appear to want my money unless I find the three other students for the course and wait a year for an instructor to become available. If its box ticking only, I shall attempt to find somone experienced to mentor me, which I prefer anyway. "Those that can, do. Those that cant, teach" as the saying goes... I do wonder if the arb collages are just like barber shop money laundering fronts... Anyway for cs31 and 38/39 I was already climbing and there was not much learned from the course. I agree and plan to get a proper rigging rope before I do any more. The rope I used was not a retired one, good condition but it was slightly older, 10mm rock climbing rope. I'd still happily jump off some rock attached to it. Thanks