Edelrid Cupid

[AHPP]

Come back to Blighty, Mick. Open a little shop in Walmington-on-Sea, providing only the most discerning clientele with only the finest tree paraphernalia. Wear a brown coat.

[Mick Dempsey]

  On 19/02/2025 at 20:40, peds said:

 

What if we had a local farrier knock one together out of cast iron, would you be interested then?

 

 

Speaking of new gear, how about these for spicy little slings...

 

Skinnier than my pinky, 49kN... didn't get a photo, but there was another one only slightly fatter, say an index finger, 100kN... 

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[Mick Dempsey]

 Oddly enough I have those slings, albeit more brightly coloured. 
Picked them up in HBs last time I was over. I tried getting into the habit of using them, but fell into the old ways with just a fixed eye krab. 
I will have another go when we restart work in March. 
 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

  On 19/02/2025 at 20:41, AHPP said:

Come back to Blighty, Mick. Open a little shop in Walmington-on-Sea, providing only the most discerning clientele with only the finest tree paraphernalia. Wear a brown coat.

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I know that I play up the ‘you don’t want none of that modern rubbish’ trope.

I don’t think it does any harm to point out sometimes that the wheel hasn’t been reinvented, it’s often just been painted a different colour and given a funky name like The Banzai Wankshine.

 

 

 

 

[Joe Newton]

  On 20/02/2025 at 11:50, Mick Dempsey said:

 Oddly enough I have those slings, albeit more brightly coloured. 
Picked them up in HBs last time I was over. I tried getting into the habit of using them, but fell into the old ways with just a fixed eye krab. 
I will have another go when we restart work in March. 
 

 

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I'd with an MBS too the equivalent of 10 tonne, those slings would be slight overkill for that legnth of bailing twine you're rigging with 🤣

[Mick Dempsey]

Anyone see this on Arbtalk FB?

Koala Courant, the rings lost the bolt or something.

[AHPP]

That happened to me on a Petzl. Got me into the habit of checking.

[Mick Dempsey]

  On 20/02/2025 at 12:01, Joe Newton said:

I'd with an MBS too the equivalent of 10 tonne, those slings would be slight overkill for that legnth of bailing twine you're rigging with 🤣

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That rope is ideal for natty crotch rigging.

Its light, it give better friction in the tree for climber-lowering, the strands give you a better hold and feel in the fist.

Plenty strong enough for light/medium rigging.

We pulled the Ranger out of a mud hole with a tractor a while back using it.

It’s cheap so if you cook it or cut it no big deal.

Edited February 20 by Mick Dempsey

[Joe Newton]

  On 20/02/2025 at 12:16, Mick Dempsey said:

That rope is ideal for natty crotch rigging.

Its light, it give better friction in the tree for climber-lowering, the strands give you a better hold and feel in the fist.

Plenty strong enough for light/medium rigging.

We pulled the Ranger out of a mud hole with a tractor a while back using it.

It’s cheap so if you cook it or cut it no big deal.

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I know mate. I just enjoy pointing out you're a dinosaur.

 

I've got a lot of time for old school, when appropriate. 

[AHPP]

He was a pikey last week, you meanie.