Rentachimp

Fast ascent? Just DO IT!

haha brilliant

Would be a great idea - if I knew myself : )

I'll ask Terry for you - he's fast.

 

Have you had a go before ?

Sort of. I've been climbing for three years lol.

Not on actual competition poles, no

The blood rushing back to your toes after half a day's chogging down on spikes.

Getting out of the middle seat of a transit after riding 3's up for an hour and a half.

The time between taking your boots and chainsaw trousers off and your spouse/mother yelling at you for messing the house up.

Something getting broke and KNOWING it's not your fault e.g. cocky groundie not putting enough wraps on the porta-wrap.

how about discussing technique for fast ascent?

New thread?

Yeah, I meant rope fliplines are good because you can use them for supp. anchoring. Wire are nice on chogging down messy stems, but i'd rather 2 rope lines on clean stems (mainline converted to strop and short rope strop).

thank you...

I suppose arb falls under forestry

It's that time of year again!

oak leaf wine and gorse flower wine are first on my list

Any other cottage producers on the buzz?

I always wonder, what if you are out on the town and someone slips you some illegal drug - in your drink, say - you'd still fail a drug test even though it were not your fault

Similarly, with ketamine and similar medicinal tranquilisers, how could they tell the difference between medically administrated or illegal drugs in your system?

This is how i set up an outdoor sharpening rig

I fell high and then carve a step, with about a 2 x 1in raised step, then bore into the step and cut down, against the grain, into the stump. this holds it faster than merely carving a horizontal groove and allows you to sharpen more teeth at once than boring into a log or stem.

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Steel lanyards can get a bit annoying at times, plus it's heavier. Also, youCAN cut through them and you can't use them on your front front attachement point

Your knees have no idea how long your gaffs are.

Says you...

I've tired a bunch of friction knots, most that are out there I think as I got a bit obsessed with it last year. Still like the blakes though.

Tend to use the Blakes, Vt or the prussik with both legs coming out on the bottom two wraps, if you get me.

I was shimmying down a diagonal ash stem, about 12in diameter, cutting 1ft rings off, and i caught my sack on a stub. I panicked because, for about 20 seconds, I couldn't release my weight!

I thought they were gonna have to amputate!

Why are we talking about just weed? I worked with a couple of guys who used to take speed and coke at work. One guy had 2 grams of whizz a day!

the ol' Prussik makes me feel sick. Blakes on a split tail outstrips it in every way. Amazed when I joined Hampshire contractors as everyone was using it. God, I hate it...

Neath Port Talbot council were brilliant, gear wise, as the tree officer and supervisor, Nick Thomas, was experienced, and also progressive. We all had two ropes, a long and a bloody long, and a strop with Vt and pulley.

Cambium savers, big shot, slings, figure 8's, art friction device, shunts, ascenders, comprehensive rigging kit etc

Hampshire was more like; here's your 40m rope, harness and 3m strop, here's 2 prussik loops and 3 karabiners; knock yourself out.

Plus neath gave us sunscreen and waterproofs, and you didn't have to wait for all the stuffing to be hanging out of your chainsaw protective gear for 6 months to get new kit...

does anyone else find that the long gaffs give ya knee pain?

It was the five mph limit on the tree that caused me the problem,I normally foot lock at 20 mph:icon14:

I laughed like a drain at this

Buy a Treeflex?

Where in South Wales, mush?

I never had what people seem to think of as long hair; mine has been shoulder length to an inch long for the past few years. Adjust for the season, innit.

I don't like the idea of being a baldie. That gay clone look...

Meeeee!

Deer man, I have two jobs as it is: arb and bar work.

Steve, haha I did think that when I posted, but it is true. Probably come to the Cirencester shows and do a bit of rec climbing, otherwise I'm gonna get Faaaat!

Stihlwatersrundeep; Building sites and long commutes are two of my pet hates.

I'll miss the dirty jokes and jokingly sexist/racist/shock value insults and comments, plus the lechery in the summer, but I'm not climbing more than an hour a week these days, as the other climber in our 3/4 man gang has 20+yrs experience. Bit annoying, really.

Today, I got a job with the Plaid Cymru Welsh Assembly member for South West Wales, Liaising with community groups on behalf of Bethan Jenkins. It pays better, so may as well have a go at it.

It's been fun, learning the trees, but I'm just too poor to carry on. I'll still be on the boards, though, and keep my hand in with a bit of carving and that