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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.

Yep looks like an old Yale climbing line

School trust fined after member of public hit by falling tree branch – HSE Media Centre PRESS.HSE.GOV.UK When your retarded enough to use an old climbing line or something not rated for the job… can’t believe he only got a suspended sentence considering the amount of time and money the rest of us have to spend on gear , training, insurance , loler and all the other endless crap to get on these sites… and he had f all !!

I know nothing about bullets and rifles etc, but I do have a mate who is a police shooting range commander. He told me (on a pub crawl, so I will almost definitely have the wrong end of the stick…) that the armed police essentially use ‘dum dum’ rounds (banned by the Geneva convention for armies shooting at each other due to the damage they inflict upon their target) as they are only ever going to shoot at someone when they need guaranteed immediate stopping power - the likelihood of the survival of the target is an irrelevance at the point the decision to shoot is taken. They don’t practice with these rounds in the indoor range as they fragment and there is a higher likelihood of ricochet.

I am sorry if I am on the wrong site, but I have searched the internet without success for an answer. My question is, that I have lived here for 25 one of the previous owners with my neighbour used some bird poo with a berry into my apple tree. So the mistletoe could well be over 40 odd years old. I always tell people that comment on it that it is male and never has berries. UNTIL……..I noticed some last week. I suspect this is unusual and more to the point how could it have happened. ? I have a couple of bird houses in the tree and lots of tiny birds frequent it. ( In the past they were blue tits, but I think it is a different species at the moment )

I do but as has already been mentioned a lot depends upon the bullet design, you’d like to think they ain’t using FMJ ( if i recall the old SS109 round we mover over to when SA80 came in had pretty impressive penetration characteristics) it’s that age old “ what calibre” ie would 9mm para have been enough 🤷‍♂️probably yes that close. It’s hard to say but as someone has already mentioned if that lunatic hadn’t of been doing what he was doing then innocents would not have been killed.

Its nice to be able to clip two carabiners on a ring if your working with two ropes, allows swapping between bridges easier and no real disadvantage that I've found.