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MattyF

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  1. That's the point , your climbing on a single line so the rope wrench needs to be engaged almost immediately which it won't be with a soft tether... it will just flop all over the place... I don't see any advantage at all to what your trying to achieve.
  2. The idea of the stiff tether is it advances the hitch during accent ... I can't see how your system that as Mike says articulates in three places would benefit climbing on the rope wrench in any way.. sit back would be massive , it won't keep the wrench in front of you , and you have taken two of the three holes on the hitch climber up, I would use the bottom for knee ascender and top hole for tether advancing.
  3. Have you seen what's available ? Thanks to new government regs your choices are limited at the least !
  4. Chainsaw chaps with your arse out are the way forward [emoji106][emoji106]
  5. Im 44 and been climbing since I was 16, first 15 years where full on street tree production climbing ... now I pick and choose and probably do 3-4 days a week climbing/cutting or mewp work ... leaves a day for fire wood or maintenance.
  6. The one you set up and did the PDI for has been the most trouble free I've owned Gand !
  7. Hayate is the only one if you want the best ... Zubat is ok but if you use the hayate you won't go back.
  8. You will still pay import tax on eBay if it's coming from oz , yes they are noticeably cooler .. I try and only wear them in June -august as they are too cool for this time of year and bloody expensive with the tax on unless you can get some one to post them over.
  9. I got some shipped from oz last year , down side was the import tax ... if you really want them I would get them from tree stuff , might as well put a big order in at the same time as you will end up paying import tax bringing them in ...too around the cost of pfanner arborists anyway ... and to be honest there isn't much between them but from the cloggers are maybe a bit cooler in summer.
  10. Too cheap ... I'd put two men out for your three!
  11. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1438926289712224/permalink/3189108954693940/?sale_post_id=3189108954693940
  12. MattyF

    New cheapo saws

    I'll be fair Steve I got a efco pro saw on trial a few years back ,think it was around 70cc I didn't like the ergonomics , power delivery at all but the smaller one I really enjoyed using.
  13. Was that the new machine Mike ?
  14. I would not put Stalin on the same level as the British empire though mate.
  15. Holodomor - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG killing Ukrainians seems to be tradition in your country ?
  16. Aye but we want to believe it's true ! I really hope the story Mike posted about the Chechens is true! Any one else noticed das reich I mean the Avoz battalion has been very quiet since this started? You have to wonder if putin wiped them off the map in the first day... Thing is we have to remember that the Russian forces are and always has been shit at war , every thing they have touched has ended n near disaster ...ww1 , ww2 the fins absolutely massacred them , the Germans only faired so bad as they where fighting on two fronts and the Anglo American bombing effort had flattened every war production facility they had.
  17. Whilst I agree with some of what you said Tim , I think any one has the right to pick up a rifle and defend there home and that's not propaganda... I'm not convinced on a lot of things , a lot of what we see has already been proven to have been be made up. I think one important thing we all do is start planting our gardens with food as there is going to be famine and ridiculous food prices coming over this.
  18. What's the crack lads , you wingin coz the other wars are not getting enough coverage for you? This is why this war is getting coverage Vladimir Putin puts Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert | Russia | The Guardian AMP.THEGUARDIAN.COM Russian president says order taken in response to ‘aggressive statements’ by Nato over Ukraine I got not really give a shit about some religious nutters in Somalia and the Middle East but I do find the above threats concerning.
  19. Aye bang on, this is the 21st century we should of learnt this by now......
  20. Thought this was an interesting article mark, gives an interesting delve in to the past of Ukraine in WW2 .. Germans must remember the truth about Ukraine – for their own sake WWW.EUROZINE.COM Don’t fall for the official Russian line on WWII, historian Timothy Snyder warns German MPs in a speech at the Bundestag. In the debate over Germany's historical responsibility for its wartime actions in Ukraine, ‘Germany cannot afford to get major issues of its history wrong.’
  21. Maybe ... the thing is I like to think that US nato led forces try and have a cleaner war and avoid killing too many civilians , not that it does not happen but putin just orders complete annihilation of targets as shown in Syria , whole towns areas bombed and flattened to oblivion. I would also like to think we try and install a more democratic rule for the better good not that I've agreed with anything we have done either but it's a little closer to home and the worry is this is Sudetenland all over again and one step closer to ww3
  22. https://www.facebook.com/100000202772087/posts/5558959247454113/?d=n Heart breaking pure evil.... any one who thinks starting this to have a buffer zone is fair game needs there head checking , the guys a maniac and we should of nipped it in the bud when we had the chance , there disregard for all life is staggering.... I had a Ukrainian groundy a few years back I could do with 3 of them now but good honest hard working people. Just told him to get the f out and come and stay and bring his family here, he can't wishes he could and is staying but his friends are already dying in the front line today he has heard.
  23. It a close call next to a rope wrench if it's my favourite bit of climbing gear in to which I could not live with, just makes life easy and I would always replace one tomorrow if it got lost.
  24. I've found you very quickly blow the cam spring using it on a single line.

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