Peter

The new skylotecs have quick release buckles on the leg loops. Well worth waiting for imo.

If you dont already own a Croll, then you can use a friction hitch instead. A nice big vt would do the job, just make sure it will hold your full weight on the single line. A pulley underneath the hitch will tow it up the line, and you can just attach the whole lot to the bridge, without a chest harness.

I presume you are using a chest ascender? If you connect the chest ascender to the bridge of the sit harness with a carabiner, all the chest harness has to do is hold the ascender upright. You could just cobble one together with a bit a bicycle inner tube. See Rupe's pics of his setup.

Loads of really good harnesses around at the mo, new skylotech models look good. My advice is to go to Capel or if you can wait the AA trade fair, and try as many as you can, both on the ground and on a rope, and find one that works for you.

Bet that cost a little more than £21.56 + vat. I have seen the stein bag in the flesh and I have to say it looks excellent.

No, I could do 2 loads in a day, but not three.

18 tonne Iveco, can carry about 10 tonnes, has sides or bolsters so short lengths are not a problem.

Plus I can arrange haulage

Could be a Nothofagus (Southern Beech). Not too sure though.

Wheelchair footlocking! Now theres an event I'd like to see!

We could all have the arbtalk logo tattooed on the forehead and the palm of the right hand. That would be a dead giveaway.

Nice one. What you need is a helicopter to drop you and the kit sraight into the first tree, save all that unpleasent walking business!

Since he broke both his ankles and is mostly lying on his back at the mo, not long!

Cercidophyllum?

Buy my tp 250 for £50k, get a free unimog?!

Sorry, should have read your first post properly in the first place! RE: whipping and lockstitching The whipping is not a functional part of the splice. As I understand it, if the lockstitching has been pulled through, as in the picture, the splice must have been sufficently shock loaded so as to start pulling the rope apart into seperate strands internally. If you put a straight pull on a double braid splice it pulls the eye further inside the rope. To pull it out the actual construction of the has to break down. If this is the case then I would certainly retire the sling. If it has been suffciently loading so as to break a lowering rope, considering that the force on the sling was double that on the rope, the cycle to failure has almost certainly been broken. Further use of the sling is a game of roulette. This is partly why I have gone over to tenex rigging slings. They are cheap, and easy to splice, so I can make up a sling for every occasion, and I dont mind replacing them frequently.

Nice one mate, are you doing any treework out there or is it just the surfing? Take care.

There is a newer church actually in the village of Delph, thats probably the one.

Apologies for derailing the derail. Anyway, my dog's second underbutler has just bought the holiday home next to yours in that picture. See, now we're right back on course!

I bet you would have got a perfect anchor point after the deadwood and thin though!

Delph? My Dad does maintenance work at this church, amongst others, for the churches conservation trust.

Did I spy you footlocking up it? Should have thought it would be an SRT tree?

Shhh, you'll have the 100' police on us!

Nice tree, nice day, nice job. Nice!

It would fall apart in about ten minutes as a lowering rope. Plus any knots involve a 80-90% strength loss.