Lancstree
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I'm using 10mm silverstreak and I've also tried it with marlow boa and beal regate. When I dress it I make sure that the legs are of equal length. 4 wraps leaving 3 coils at the top and the crossed bits below. The picture is from when I was playing around with it but I use a much shorter hitch now for branch walk returns. I've also tried it with a petzl fixe pulley on between the legs of the hitch and it won't allow the knut to function.
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I've recently been using a knut friction hitch and climbing hand-over-hand leaving only a little slack then advancing the hitch simply by pulling the tail end up. Once tied, set and dressed, I've tested how the knot grabs and arrests the fall should I let go and it works each time because, unlike the VT the knot maintains contact with the climbing rope and doesn't require manipulation or re-dressing. The only disadvantage that I've found to this method is that the knut can over tighten if used in this way for a period of time, making it difficult to advance. Does anyone understand the working of the knut enough to know how the over-tightening comes about? I'm guessing it could be a case of wear on the friction cord.
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I'll keep an eye out for that. It seems a potentially serious thing from what I've read
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Which symptoms in particular are visible in the clip. I see lots of black lesions which look to be bacterial canker. Is it the white fruiting body on the butress at 30 seconds?
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Thanks for the info fellas. only got till wednesday so i'll see what i can
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My brother and I are off up to scotland tomorrow, staying in Oban tomorrow night but not sure after that. Any advice on good drives, walks, places to eat etc? How's the midges biting up there at the minute?
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That looks like a neat setup marc. I've still got reservations about climbing hand-over-hand then tending the slack though. From my point of view this could lead to a drop of a couple of feet until the knot grips (should you let go for any reason). Once your body weight has been placed on the knut it grips reliably but with the VT you still have to manage the knot by re-setting it periodically, hence there is a potential free fall. I think this might be the reason why colleges still only instruct with the traditional prussik setup - there is always one hand below the knot. Having said all this I climbed hand-over-hand on a job yesterday and enjoyed how easy it was in comparison to thrusting. The longer legs on my knut allows me to easily remove the pulley and use it in a traditional thrusting fashion
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My brother is coming round on wednesday and he's good with computers. I can't answer any of those questions confidently tony! Calling my ISP costs heavily and in the past I could hardly understand a word. Thanks for your help fellas
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I pulled the slack through but it is self tending because no hands need touch the friction hitch. I know what you mean bill, true self-tending requires no persuasion but to do that you have to distance the hitch from your central life support quite considerably.
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I need some help.. I want to connect another computer to my router through ethernet cable. I'm on the router homepage right now and I have the mac address from the computer but I don't know how to allow it to connect. My main computer is wireless. Can anyone help?
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Samson true blue - pretty old rope I fetched back from America some years ago
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I've been playing around with this setup and tried it out on a medium size oak reduction today. The knut advanced pretty smoothly and was set so that it would lock on should I let go (tried it out near the ground first). I climbed hand over hand above the knot then advanced it with the pulley. Going to try it out some more but up to now I prefer this setup to the VT because it locks out more reliably without compromising ease of advancement.
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Fitness and strength are not only important for doing the job but I would prefer to work with an aerial rescuer that is fit, strong and up to speed on climbing.
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Walnut Fir Norway Maple
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Good idea, I'm in
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I agree. However there are plenty of people I worked with who chose to be ignorant of the theory for it didn't matter to them as much as their ability to do the job. All said and done, it takes all kinds to make the world go round. My ND certainly helped and had I not done some practical experience at college and gained an appreciation for the science, I might have come home early rather than complete my placement. All arb related qualifications will be helpful wherever you chose to work.
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I went to Myerscough in 1997 and finished in 2000. Worked for a year in Chicago for the 'Care of Trees' (formerly Hendricksen the care of trees). Although I was only part-qualified at the time, the skills I had picked up were more valued than the qualifications and knowledge obtained at college. There were people there with urban forestry degrees doing the same job but they seemed to progress into sales and plant health care.
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skyhook should be chuffed with his bbq stands made in about 5 seconds
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I didn't ask for the sausages the butcher threw them in when I said I was crossin the border - he said to take them for the perilous journey.
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You could say that Ted is now a hotdog. Glad you enjoyed the lancashire burgers Dean - did you eat the sausages too? Hanna has taken loads of pics too which will be good to see
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these are from my mobile just before I got completely wasted from one can of murphy's
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some more
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Here's a few. I didn't get many because my battery went flat but I got some from my mobile aswell. Thanks Dean and everyone else for a good day out. I liked using the kong ascenders for footlocking and I got to try everything I wanted - including the zipline which was ace!
