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I would pack some soil into the bandage lower down and reduce the height of the bandage over time - use you eyes to judge. If the roots are solid then you may get bark regeneration.Reduce the demand on the roots / bark for water by keeping the leaf down. I expect this will be an experiment rather than a success story but I think the chances are good. TBH it could be saved - but really the lesson has been learnt, don't strim / only strim with protection round the stem. Back up is let the plants either side fill the gap - they will, longer term grow some cuttings on and look to replace - realistically this is going to take more time. Personally I would try and replant -you will disturb the roots of the plants either side - a dig around the roots and see if this supposition is correct.

I give up. Buy whatever feels nicer in your hands. Thank God i put my helmet on.

So back onto the subject, which rope should I buy? I am thinking a 16mm 50m. I got one of the arb surplus rope end bags, it has a good sample of 5m rigging ropes. English braids 14, 16 and 20mm, look decent. Stein Omega 12, seems ok but only 12mm Stein Omega 16 and 20mm. Very soft cover, nice on the hands as a pull rope but cant see it being very abrasion resistant.

Ah, I did start replying but it got lost when I replied to someone else.. I even illistrated a crude picture! In the tree I estimated each small section and added up the weights. Afterwards on the ground I half arsed attempted to lift it by hand, heavier than expected by couldnt say with any accuracy whilst theres logs on it. Blue are slings, yellow steel biners, red the lowering rope, and purple is the unintended path that the rope fell, reducing the swing I had intended to give it, adding a lot of friction.

Weird. It looks man made to me, of some description. Too shiny to be tree resin from inside a hollow branch. More like plastic resin. What does it smell like when you cut or abrade it?

@kram Not sure if you didn't see this or did see it and ignored me because you thought I was going to bray you over the head with whatever you said like the prevailing sentiment of this thread. Did in fact have something constructive to add if you're interested.

Mick, at home, wearing this, protesting too much.

Any members had experience of 5th wheel caravans? Cost of insurance? Hints and tips?

He gets to pilot the drone and choose the colour of the smoke flare. BOOM!💪

Behave

Looks like the main bearing cage has failed to me. The big end hasn't overheated and that blackening on the lobes looks to me to be too much oil or overly rich running.

Nearly as bad as ivy.

From memory, English Braids isn't the strongest. I use it because I like the colour. What's the £75 one, Joe?

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Dastardly stuff in the main by the look of it. Bracken - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Dunno I’m a snob and only use English braids Joe for my rigging 🫣

Someone post the most uncut footage available please. I can't be arsed wading through the waffling journos and portagriefs. Though while someone finds that, I might remark that it looks (from the crap video I've just seen) that it's a fairly open area. Park a car on him and save everyone's hearing. Right. Let's see a video.

Not when 50m of 12mm rigging line is £75 with a WLL 380Kg

whilst not universally accepted it was often suggested 5.56 / 223 was adopted in Vietnam by the US forces as it was less lethal than the7.62 nato round, it was figured if you killed one of the enemy it never slowed the rest down, whereas the less lethal 223 caused a non fatal wound and resulted in the wounded having to be carried, thus slowing their movements. in addition to the fact that more ammo for the same overall weight could be carried by combatants. not much comfort to the tragic outcome of this latest scenario, but we don't know all the facts, if it was a jacketed bullet or a soft nose, has it been confirmed as 223, as the H&K MP5 used by UK police is available in both 223/5.56 and 9x19. if the bullet came apart either upon exiting the perp, it's likely to be unstable and not necessarily going to follow its original path, then it passed through what we're told was a heavy door with the end result that would have been hard to predict especially under extreme conditions experienced by the armed officers. there is also the possibility of secondary fragmentation, ie debris from the door. I expect the investigation will study all scenarios intensely.

Another reason to take double braid over 16 strand?

It kept painfully kicking back, the 56lb weight doesn't take no for an answer. VIDEO-2025-10-01-21-38-17.mp4

Rope must have been partially cut beforehand, or more likely cut during the work. No way that climbing line would snap lowering anything off that tree.