Hitchclimber Rapide - Urgent question

[Outlaw333]

Actually though, somebody must have complained or there wouldn't be the plethora of gear we have today!!

[treequip]

Look, I know nobody likes to be called out on things like this and I don't want to get into some pre-pubescent argument over it but the guy had every right to ask the question as it was a concern of his, you may deem it fatuous but in that case just say nothing, what right do you have to tell a guy he shouldn't be a climber just because he doesn't know whether he likes the feel of a piece of equipment, I don't like the feel of the Spiderjack myself, am I in the wrong industry too? The answer you gave wasn't constructive in any way atall, it was only ever intended to make him feel like a turd and then everyone else chimed in aswell, so yes, that is bullying in my book.

 

 

Have a look at the answers. The question was asked and answered on the first page but that wasn't good enough for the OP.

 

Several other people explained the nuance of the insignificant difference but the OP either didn't listen or didn't understand.

 

The OP had the situation clearly explained several times and if you don't understand a tiny difference in something as basic as a fairlead pulley.......

 

I say again, telling someone they are a plonker is a long way from bullying and just because you say its so don't make it so

[mistahbenn]

Rodney you plonker! Lol

[Gary Prentice]

How do you think people coped just 15 years ago using a prussick and 3 strand rope? They were men and they got on with it and didn't moan or complain. Climbers now are way too spoiled with the choices of gear available to them. Make the most of it! You wouldn't have made it back then on the old gear. Man up and get on!

 

Thirty years ago it was sailing ropes, no prussic loops or cow tails and hemp rigging ropes (yeah, you really did need gloves).

 

If all new climbers had to do a month in the leather Willans harness, there would be a lot less complaints about any gear:biggrin:

[Sandworks]

"When I were a young lad we lived in a box in the middle of the road"⏳😂

I started out with a 3rd hand leather pole harness and spikes that would literally eat your legs away , still have them to remind me of where I started , pull out the harness for conny hedges as it is so low profile,

But compared to my tm2 it is a torture machine, respect to those who came before the advent of dedicated climbing gear!

We are spoiled for choice in this regard, and I can never stop buying new gear to play with , ahem.... I mean work with 😎

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

You had a box?

 

We lived in a hovel with no walls nor roof

[TIMON]

We used to dream of a hovel......

We lived in a crack house in the middle of a storm drain... My old man used to blow all the drug money on baby food.... Kids today think they have it hard .........,

[Mark Bolam]

You had a hovel?

Posh people like you sicken me.

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Have a look at the answers. The question was asked and answered on the first page but that wasn't good enough for the OP.

 

Several other people explained the nuance of the insignificant difference but the OP either didn't listen or didn't understand.

 

The OP had the situation clearly explained several times and if you don't understand a tiny difference in something as basic as a fairlead pulley.......

 

I say again, telling someone they are a plonker is a long way from bullying and just because you say its so don't make it so

 

Yes, it seems like the first person to cry "troll or bully" wins on the internet these days.

[Joe Newton]

Yes, it seems like the first person to cry "troll or bully" wins on the internet these days.

 

 

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