Security / powerful torch

[Jase hutch]

  On 05/11/2021 at 05:23, Acerforestry said:

LED Lenser are well made and won't stop working after a few months like some of the cheaper stuff, about 30 quid from Tool Station

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+1 for LED Lenser.. Quality torches.

[Con]

Big Larry. Screwfix 

[tim361]

Another vote for LED lenser. Really good torches

[peds]

LED lenser +1.

 

We use them in my local mountain rescue team, they throw a strong beam a long way.

[AHPP]

  On 05/11/2021 at 19:41, peds said:

LED lenser +1.

 

We use them in my local mountain rescue team, they throw a strong beam a long way.

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How do you find Mountain Rescue? I've considered joining but the thought of being called out for town/city park searches when someone's had an argument with a hysterical wife appalls. 

[peds]

  On 05/11/2021 at 20:12, AHPP said:

How do you find Mountain Rescue? 

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Good craic, we were pretty busy back at the start of the year when people were still going outside, but then the pubs opened again here in Ireland and now everyone is staying indoors.

I myself was scraped off a mountain by my then local team once, I would have definitely died if they hadn't wrestled me down some pretty spicy terrain in a blizzard. I since moved country and I signed up as soon as I'd recovered from my injuries. My two kids were a hair's breadth away from growing up without a father, and the thought of anyone else's family going through that just breaks my heart, so I want to try and give others the same help I received. 

 

It's a bit of a time suck, and there's the occasional plonker wandering around a forest in their flip flops who needs pulling out of a gorse bush or something, but there's also the occasional opportunity to do some real good in someone's life. If you've got the skillset, a bit of spare time, and the right frame of mind, I'd heartily recommend signing up.

[neiln]

Astrolux mf01. It is well made and bright, very, very very very bright

[AHPP]

  On 05/11/2021 at 22:30, peds said:

Good craic, we were pretty busy back at the start of the year when people were still going outside, but then the pubs opened again here in Ireland and now everyone is staying indoors.

I myself was scraped off a mountain by my then local team once, I would have definitely died if they hadn't wrestled me down some pretty spicy terrain in a blizzard. I since moved country and I signed up as soon as I'd recovered from my injuries. My two kids were a hair's breadth away from growing up without a father, and the thought of anyone else's family going through that just breaks my heart, so I want to try and give others the same help I received. 

 

It's a bit of a time suck, and there's the occasional plonker wandering around a forest in their flip flops who needs pulling out of a gorse bush or something, but there's also the occasional opportunity to do some real good in someone's life. If you've got the skillset, a bit of spare time, and the right frame of mind, I'd heartily recommend signing up.

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I'm not bothered about plonkers in gorse bushes. I can probably enrich their lives, given the opportunity. I am bothered about the prospect of being called out by the police or social workers to do their "work" within city limits. Do you get much of that?

[Haironyourchest]

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[peds]

  On 06/11/2021 at 00:17, AHPP said:

I am bothered about the prospect of being called out by the police or social workers to do their "work" within city limits. Do you get much of that?

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Nope, I've had none of that, but I'm only in two years at this point.