Cambium Savers

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

‘Chrome plated, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line….’

 

Springsteen is a fcking great writer.

[AHPP]

On 07/11/2024 at 06:25, Mike Hill said:

Dont throw metal weights around peoples gardens.At best you will break roof tiles and pavers,at worst you will hit someone in the head.

 

 

 

This too.

 

My throw weight for a short while was a ball pein hammer head. Let someone use it once, on their job, with fair warning and proper trepidation. That was bad enough. It now lives on the mantlepiece and holds a sock over the fire if I need to dry one in a hurry.

[sime42]

12 hours ago, Mesterh said:

Looks like damage from the rings rubbing on each other to me.

 

 

Yeah, that makes more sense. Rubbing rings, as it were, shouldn't cause damage like that. They're not fit for purpose. The chrome is only adding shinyness, until it rubs off. 

[kram]

3 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

This too.

 

My throw weight for a short while was a ball pein hammer head. Let someone use it once, on their job, with fair warning and proper trepidation. That was bad enough. It now lives on the mantlepiece and holds a sock over the fire if I need to dry one in a hurry.

As I said, for isolation. Do your throw, get it down, too many limbs. Attach the heavy weight and another line, you can isolate the exact limb you want for setting a cambium saver. No risk of smashing the greenhousenor killing anyone. Throwball on its own doesnt have the weigt, often gets stuck with the friction of two lines.

Edited 7 hours ago by kram

[Mike Hill]

36 minutes ago, kram said:

As I said, for isolation. Do your throw, get it down, too many limbs. Attach the heavy weight and another line, you can isolate the exact limb you want for setting a cambium saver. No risk of smashing the greenhousenor killing anyone. Throwball on its own doesnt have the weigt, often gets stuck with the friction of two lines.

Have you considered a career as a trainer?

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, kram said:

As I said, for isolation. Do your throw, get it down, too many limbs. Attach the heavy weight and another line, you can isolate the exact limb you want for setting a cambium saver. No risk of smashing the greenhousenor killing anyone. Throwball on its own doesnt have the weigt, often gets stuck with the friction of two lines.

 

Yeah. Makes sense. Sort of. You're still swinging a weight around though, whether you threw it or not. SRT makes more sense. Or just climbing (ideally with a pole) still makes quite a lot of sense. Whatever. As long as you're mindful of where the weight could bounce.

 

Related story:

As a child, I was obsessed with grappling hooks from seeing one in the Gibraltar scene in The Living Daylights. I collected bits off ploughs from nearby fields, tied them to washing line and swung from trees with them. My mate, Robbie came over one day. Big lad. He went for a swing. The bit of plough came out of the crotch a good thirty feet up and pinged right into his head. Blood everywhere. Lucky to not be killed. Do recall his dad being annoyed. Don't recall how much he came over to play after that.

[Dan Maynard]

6 hours ago, kram said:

As I said, for isolation. Do your throw, get it down, too many limbs. Attach the heavy weight and another line, you can isolate the exact limb you want for setting a cambium saver. No risk of smashing the greenhousenor killing anyone. Throwball on its own doesnt have the weigt, often gets stuck with the friction of two lines.

Isolating like this is sometimes called double bagging, because you can clip two throwbags together for the extra weight.

[green heart]

Some people prefer tea-bagging.

Allegedly..