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Another reason to take double braid over 16 strand? Regardless I would not !

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.

To use your hypothetical: If a textile item is rated with an MBS of 20kn (MBS being the minimum load an item may fail at from new, not taking into account wear, uv degredation, cycles to failure etc) then the WLL would be 2kn, using the common safety margin of 10:1. You would already be loading your equipment (forgetting for a minute that you're using dynamic climbing rope not designed for arb work) over its Working Load Limit. That's not taking into account fall factor or dynamic loading. Take a few evenings to read up on what Rich and myself have suggested. There's plenty of stuff you might find interesting.

IMO How frangible the round is is more important really.

Dave . Don't you think 5.56 ( .223 ) is a bit too much for close quarter stuff . If it was something bigger but less powerful it would not have gone through the legitimate target , then a door and then into the unfortunate ( collateral ) innocent guy hiding behind the door ?

Not quite, I have been shown and supervised this level of rigging by several expereinced arbs. A leafy bendy top of 50kg rather than a solid log, swinging into tension rather than a straight drop negative, a max of 3kn is my estimate. Every peice in the system is rated over 20kn with some redundancy, I had no concern on the gear. It is bigger stuff, that I would be unsure of and wont be attempting anything bigger without doing the course and gaining experience, with better gear. Hence the reason I posted this thread. Theres been plenty of good information by the other posters in this thread, plenty for me to read through. Thanks.

Who is a lot cheaper! Being cynical of course, as I’m currently training a lad who is less than a third of my age. I hope within a year or so it’ll be quicker for him to do the tricky stuff, he’s already doing well, but it is a gradual process, with mistakes along the way, not all his of course, but ultimately every thing is my responsability.

We had a similar issue on a 150 and was an inline capacitor in the loom, needed an auto electrician to find it.

A competitor 50% of your age with 80% of your knowledge.

And what is in it for the expérienced guy?

I used to do a bit of tree surgery.

I think of every 30 climbers who enter this industry maybe 2 will still be in it in 10 years time..would be hard to get the experienced climbers to teach the level 1’s anything as there is rarely the time on site.

hi, hoping somebody can help. i planted a row or laurels a couple of years ago and during the summer, about 4 months ago, i was strimming the grass and caught the base of the tree. I don't think much of it but had a look and somehow it had stripped the bark all the way around about 3 inches up from the base for about an inch gap. A full ring! A quick google spelt certain death for the tree so I read on and found that you could bridge the gap and it may take. im not a garden person at all, but I delicately took a small branch, and began the process of bridge the gap. I also shaved the bark of the branch and made thin strips that a place across the gap. It looked a bit like a Frankenstein job but I had a bridge and wrapped the gap with fresh bark all within about an hour. I then proceeded to wrap it with cling film and taped it up waiting. it seemed to have survived, I figured it would last weeks but months later it was ok. This week I noticed it was the only tee with yellow leaves, with the exception of the odd area on the row of trees. Fearing the worst I removed the cling film and tape to reveal this..... I have no idea what it is. i quickly wrapped it again and then pulled some soil onto the base as I guessed they may be roots forming and be hunting down to soil. does anybody have any suggestions or is this a lost cause? IMG_0353.mov

I've often thought that an IRATA style training system whereby Level 1 (new) climbers must work x amount of hours under the supervision of a L3 (experienced supervisor) before progressing through L2 (unsupervised and competent) to L3 Our current system is a bit "survival of the fittest) which in hindsight has worked out well enough for me.

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Thanks . Manual or remote control?

I can see where you’re coming from but IMHO a lot of employers will have the box ticked so they think they good to go. The young / new climber will be put into positions where they may not have the experience or ability to complete a complex rigging job. Some employers seem to think that having a SE climber in for 5 days a week is ok as well. When in reality they should be paying for PPE, Pension, Holiday pay and ongoing career development. I stress not all employers but there are definitely many who think the above scenario is ok. Why would they think any different when it comes to jobs and the climbers competency? “They have got the ticket they must be good to go” I am all for pushing new climbers to expand their comfort zone, that’s how they progress and gain experience. But in an attempt to make the industry more professional (which is something you hear on the regular). How will pushing inexperienced a climber way beyond their limits and the subsequent accidents help the cause of pushing the industry forward?