John Shutler
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i have one, but never use it
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is it easier than footlocking 2 lines drew
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no i havnt, i have a rope guide which i tend to choke round the stem, or choke mt drt system round the stem and set up a fig8 to desend on if its bigger than the rope guide i climb in a treemotion and unless something else comes out il be replacing it with another at this years aa show pictures of the cabin, il try and get some over the weekend
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yhe cinch actually works best with dynamic rope imo, ive been using beal wallmaster, though i must admit ive just gone back to my art positioner with 10m of tachyon in a bag
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no havnt altered anything, tis a mystery to me
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im in the second year of my foundation degree, though im not doing it online
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dave, the ivy was left on but has been cut at the base since the photo was taken hama, yes its tennis elbow and i suffer in both, think its a combination of skateboarding for over ten years in my teens and e\rly 20s and the fact i weigh nearly 15 stone that agrivates it
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easy little slickamore reduction(dam it was slippy and slimey) amoungst some other bits for me today on the river hamble for jim at special branch tree services. 65 mile round trip and very very wet gear, 3 pairs of gloves used and at one point i had 5 layers on, my brother was grounding and took a nasty slip and tumble down the muddy bank. the kelly kettle got another outing and raised spirits at tea break:thumbup1: on a positive note ive found a brace for my elbows that i can wear when im climbing thats really helped
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haha just in case
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continue to do some teaching and start trying to do more survey work and some consultancy, id quite like another contract at a large forest home as well. need to start thinking about another vehicle to
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its got a whistle built in
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few pics of a hazard beam we removed today whilst deadwooding the 2 oaks in the picture, also a couple of my new kettle:thumbup1: apologies for the poor picture qaulity, im still getting to grips witha new camera
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except the sj, whch did everything with the minimum amount of modification
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come on sj
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it is much better, i will try and get a pic tomorrow if i remember
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yeah when ive tidied up a bit
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im afraid that you are wrong on that point
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im not aa aproved, have no wish to be but often quote against established aa firms and get the work, not through price as the differences are not tht much but through my own professionalism and customer skills
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the method i use for resuce is an alpine butterfly tied above the running bowline at the bottom of the tree, groundie then only has to clip their climbing system onto the alpine butterfly to lower you down, this is mainly because my access kine is only 50m long so there isnt enough rope to lower you through a grigri or similar
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i have a fig8 on my harness but il allways have my drt system in a rope bag clipped to my harness as im using it for works access, i have decended the single line before on the figure of 8 not backed up though:blushing:
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have you got a picture bob i tend not to worry to much about it to be honest, though another climber i know has his concerns about the elastic
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:sneaky2:its more of a small cabin actually:thumbup1: the workshop/shed out the window is from b&q yeah im pretty pleased with the set up at the moment, speaking to matt and chriss really helped that day at the show
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yep thats right mate, my first setup was anchored off the ring on the bridge, but this is much better, i was thinking about changing the sling(its actually spliced holow braid ) the other day. i hear what your saying about the ascender as well, and was thinking about trying it with another croll or even a rope grab type thinng as its only really there to advance the footloop and back up the croll
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i tend to take up my climbing line in another bag, srt as far as i can climb the last little bit to top anchor then drop my climbing line down in the bag. im sure someone else can give you more info but you have to be aware of the forces your srt anchor point is being subjected to
