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How far would you travel if your subbing for a company
arbogrunt replied to plippy's topic in Employment
I did 1 1/2 hours each way last year in a landrover, £30 a day in diesel for £10 a day less than I usually get. 14 hour day and lots of mileage on the wagon. It was the only work I could get. I won't do it again -
climbed this knot for years until I started using a knut and then a lockjack. its a massive improvement on a prussik and doesn't jam or slip as much. I still use it on takedowns as I find a lockjack gets in the way on them. I also use it as a cradling knot for a cradling sling when rigging.
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I use this for everything!, tying on, rigging, as a running bowline. It only loses 30% of the ropes strength, is easy to tie, can be tied one handed (with practice!) and is easy to remember!
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This is my favourite knot with a hitchclimber, with a 10 tachyon eye to eye this self-tends and is very quick but grips like a blakes when you need it.
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I only use prussik's if I'm using both ends of my rope - advantage is it works both ways up - unlike a blakes hitch (upside down = suislide knot!) or as a back up for lowering with capstans etc in aerial rescue (6 wrap)
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To all you bosses - How much would you pay a day for a groundie?
arbogrunt replied to button1803's topic in General chat
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yep, tools on rope but also as, false crotch attachment for pole rescue, as tie off for flying capstan (with running bowline), to stop rigging ropes running all the way up to a lower block, as a stop to give me slack when I'm throwing my rope over a branch with a lockjack.
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midline knot for cross-rope for tying off speedline (rarely), as rigging attachment on big-girth trees or type c aerial rescue using end of climbers rope (but only if its long enough), for pulling with tow-hitch or as a winch attachment (with a piece of wood through the knot so it doesn't over tighten). The only problem I have with it is if I haven't used it for a few months I have a brain fart and forget how to tie it!
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ha ha!, yep seen that done...its called 'keeping the Army in the public eye'!
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'My sister had a dump in the Blue Peter garden, whilst waiting so see Jason Donovan.' '.......and here's one I prepared earlier!'
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'There was a guy at our school that no-one really liked very much so a few people decided that they'd make up that he was caught participating in a vigourous bout of self abuse' was his name Wayne Kerr by chance?
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they're just big and scary mate!...we get them in areas of North Essex, when I see more than 2 around a tree, I come back in winter time!
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that sounds a bit dodgy mate, hope your DIY chain keeps you busy enough. Have you thought about working further down south, maybe the Dordogne, or is the situation with expats similar?
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I like a harness with a seat in it, I've tried all the popular 'Gucci' ones and they just squash my wedding tackle all day long...I'd have to join the local choir as a soprano after a week in one of them!. Its a Skyseat or similar for me, now mines up for replacement and I'm looking for the same or similar.
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'Spike I price a lot of work on an evening in summer, keeps me busy though!' ...I do sometimes mate, but I fit my work around my freelance stuff, I can't drop that and bang out jobs that quick..they must be VERY quiet!. Head gasket went on my wagon on the A12 yesterday...bad timing or what!
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its quiet in Essex, work is coming in and getting the next week generally. I got a call the on tuesday, I said I'd price it up saturday, the lady called back today to say someones priced it today and they are doing it tommorow!.....another hard summer on its way I reckon.
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good luck mate. I'm in Essex and in the same boat. Things are bad for freelance climbers at the moment. I think I may be leaving our shores for the summer .... or perhaps moving out the the tree industry
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Guys, he IS dead. If he wasn't he be giving in large all over Al Jazeera. He was only a figurehead anyway, we effectively closed him down years ago. As a symbolic victory it is a great thing for the USA, they are much more 'at war' than we are. I'm sure if AQ had killed 3,000 people in the UK ten years ago, we'd be dancing in Trafalgar Square at the news of his death. Good riddance and good luck getting the next one....
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agreed, fit a proper guide bar. Go for an Oregon bar, the husky ones are pants in my experience.
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someone told me years ago; get a second hand shipping container...fit covered hasps and good padlocks (I had two to get through on mine). Spot weld steel mesh (the kind for reinforcing concrete), on the inside walls. This will ruin anyones day using a 'Paddy's motorbike', the cutting discs will get damaged - they will only carry a couple of spare max. With a bit of luck they get a nasty kickback off it too. Fit an alarm. That said, if they really want it, they'll oxyacetylene (sp?) it or just pick it up with a hiab and take the whole thing!. All we can do is make it as difficult and as noisy an operation as we can.
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raising a glass to all ANZACS past, present and future!
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regrettably, a mate of mine was done over near Southend in Essex between 1300 and 1600 on Easter sunday. He's lost all his saws, hedgetrimmers and polesaws..so be on the look out if you get offered any. He's got a BIG guarddog but it was dozy as hell and had the two bob bits yesterday..obviously got fed something nasty. There will always be scumbags who take the tools off a hardworking man
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As harsh as this may sound, I think we should just leave the Libyans to kill each other. It has nothing to do with us at all:thumbdown: As a number of people have stated, there are many more instances of dictators inflicting suffering on their own people which remain un-punished. On the positive side, if Gaddaffi gets the boot, we'll keep our oil contracts...and we'll have to replace all their military equipment we are currently destroying..£££££££££....Hmmmm, maybe I should have been a politico!. I do however, find it quite amazing that we have just retired our aircraft carriers and made a few hundred pilots redundant weeks before entering yet another avoidable war-situation. Call me old fashioned..but that just seems...STUPID.
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well, what about the Rose Garden?...you forgot to tell us about the Rose Garden!
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you can't beat a Willans in a conifer hedge...you can sit on the seat and the sticky bits don't poke yer bum .....arb-reality!
