High Scale

Yeah thanks again, I bypassed it whilst waiting for the replacement.

How about a 360% turning, pilot wheel on the front? Not to take any load just to help the operator from time to time.

No strides but my old Arborwear T-shirt was from this company, quality shirt, I can't bring myself to throw it away despite it looking like a westie shirt. Welcome To Comfort Colors by Chouinard

Yeah that RS components catologue made me realise just how much I have been ripped off in the past. No offence intended.

Yes, the old box was hanging but it was the switch for the safety bar that was the problem, replaced that today. Check out the old box...

Yeah no problem, if you want them I will post them, I know they cost a fair bit, (Well they don't but the mark up is huge), because I have purchased a few in the past, send me a PM and I will send them on, you will need them as the clips always break off, I have about five broken ones also. Thanks for your help Kev, Chipper all sorted now.

I have these if anybody needs some spares for the old style control box. No charge.

Okay It's done.

Could you please give me a price for a replacement switch control box, (whole unit) for the 150? It's a 2001 model. Thanks.

Jamie, I have sent you an email and I would also like to apoligise here to all for my unreasonable behaviour.

Homework. Perhaps I have it all wrong and I apologize if I have, I will await Jamies response. Curiosity killed the cat. I have just called Yale Cordage and spoken with Christine Bowie, who confirmed that yes indeed they only make one version of Bluemoon, which in the past has all been CE marked. However, she did say that they have recently begun to label the unspliced hanks differently in response to customer complaints here in the US that pieces labeled as 45 meters were not quite the same length as the 150 feet people thought they were buying (45 meters is actually only 147.5 feet). I will send an email to Jamie Goddard and cc you so you can get the truth right from the horse's mouth. Who is it that is making you out to be a liar? If they don't believe you, then feel free to give them Jamie's email address as well.

Thanks for the reply Nigel, my ppe is always in top condition and I inspect my own kit so rest assured that I won't be the first to complain if any of it got condemned. I applaud you for your efforts I really do but you must understand when I am told certain information my very nature demands an understanding of said information, I am not having a dig at you or your company, I am not your competition and never will be as for Wesspur and my contact, who will also never challenge your market dominance, I think you would be surprised about how much knowledge he actually has and really, why would he lie? Or is he playing some strange kind of game with me? He actually went and checked the stock for he was as confused as I was.

Very good, I know all that and I don't use non CE marked products anyway and have never said that I do, I do however change the construction of my CE marked ropes by splicing them myself, this of course is strictly wrong and I shouldn't do it but I'm not a frikken idiot, I hang my life off my splices every day, I trust my splices, I trust myself, if I break anything it won't be a result of a failed splice. Loler? Yes I comply, yes I have the qualification.

Also, as one of the "Masses" on this site that has a small interest in ropes, when somebody tells me that one sort of rope is different from a similar type of rope that has no CE mark, I would quite like to know what that difference is and the reason why CE construction is so very different from non CE construction when it comes to testing? Again, cut and pasted from Honey Brothers site. Yale Cordage have redesigned the Poison Ivy/Poison Hi-vy rope so that it meets the CE type A standard for ropes. The redesign was very specific and in the end, had very little effect on the outstanding performance of these ropes. The Poison Ivy/Poison Hi-vy ropes we stock are specifically for CE markets. They are not availalbe for sale in the US. The yellow tracer in our Poison Ivy and Poison Hi-vy ropes is unique to the CE Type A approved version of this rope. The yellow tracer is clearly visible in our pictures. The Poison Ivy and Poison Hi-vy sold in the US does not have this tracer nor does it meet the CE Type A standard. Climbers familiar with the Poison Ivy/Poison Hi-vy rope might wonder about this yellow tracer. Yes, I wonder about that yellow tracer.

This isn't just a dig at you High Scale but some "Senior" (outspoken) members on here should have the responsibility to get their facts correct if they want to quote to the masses. It's not fair on the folk using this site for good advice if the senior members are getting stuff wrong. It’s not brain surgery to get facts right before spouting off and if you want to be taken seriously do some homework. Well that sounds like a proper telling off doesn't it? I don't care about being taking seriously, I have nothing to gain with my questioning only the quiet satisfaction that I'm starting to get on your nerves, homework? I haven't done any, just going on what my contact at Wesspur has told me who finds the Bluemoon information given here equally odd, email Yale? Maybe but the last contact I had with them Via Nigel resulted in confused identities which led me to believe that maybe they had a kind of biased view of my posting. Anyway, you get back to your money making and I'll get back to mine.

No of course your right, no mention of CE on their website but they do stock it and the non CE marked Bluemoon and the only difference in both ropes is the CE label

Timber truck...drool.

8ft unless you want to lock in a box.

Or you could use an airline.

Thanks, it's being a swine!

It should be no trouble getting another grub screw for it, just go to any high class bolt supplier take the block and they will find you one, great piece of kit it is then. I was looking at that site yesterday, duh, why didn't I recognize it?

How do you remove the spline 6b Retro Bottom from the lower roller?

Here you go, thanks to Sean over at the Treehouse. That is an old Hobbs block, which has a distinctive vertical reinforcing piece on the one side like that. They also have much larger sheave diameters that any other brand and a unique t-bar handle pushed through a allen bolt head at the top. If this is the 3/4" or 1" capacity, then it is 80,000 lb break strength, which is stronger than any other arborist block. Hobbs blocks were the first arborist block ever made, and when it first came out I understand that it was the only alternative to a 30-60 lb steel tail-hold block like are used in high-lead rigging. These things are no longer in production as of spring 2010, but when they were they sold for $300-400. You cannot buy these anymore, and even if you could you probably couldn't afford it. That there is a beautiful little gem.

Hmm, maybe it's not a wire pulley.

Looks old, it looks like a CMI, or it could be a wire cable pulley, nasty couple of marks in the top wheel.