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50 mph ain't bad Rog! Must've cost a small fortune to rig a wheelchair for that kinda speed on the slopes! Smooth runs mate! Jomoco:biggrin:

An I ain't buyin it yu old ski bum! Don't make me have to come up there and teach that fine strong lad what you should've years ago! Where were yu when ee needed yu? Park City, Mammoth Mountain? Aye, Roger you've pulled a few fast runs in your time. Now teach the lads ow it's done and send us a vid o that yu old pirate! Jomoco:biggrin:

I always find it fascinating that given 4-5 billion years to wear them down? Even the highly prized diamonds degrade into graphite powder! http://www.diamond-jewelry-pedia.com/diamond-facts.html#.U4JLAtq9KK0 Hence it's use as a metal on metal lubricant largely unaffected by rust and corrosion. The whole idea being to remove the bolt later, rather having it shear off rotationally. Avoiding seizure of bolted together parts is dare I say a science?

Would yu believe I was savin as much of my saw's petrol as I could for wood? Jomoco:biggrin:

There's a darn good reason to use a graphite based bolt lubricant rather than thread lock my good man. Like say when bolting a set of chipper knives to a big hollow mandrel drum. But what would Vermeer or Morbark engineers know about such things? But you are right, sorta. What was the recd torque on those bolts? 165 lbs? Lean into it lad! Jomoco:001_smile:

I'm thinkin pull both side casings and put wrenches to both ends of that crank? Jomoco

Pat needs to grasp the art of simple speedlinin a bit more firmly. The fluidity and smoothness of it gets better the higher yu go! [ame] [/ame] Jomoco

Ow bout an example of ow not to horse log? Instant karma can hurt! [ame] [/ame] Jomoco

Took me more than 8 years to realize I had to pump money into my operation to justify my higher wages. 4x4, winch, Hobbs, rigging, radios, insurance certs etc. all the stuff a typical arb expects from his boss, belongs to you, and is worth charging premium coin for once you really know how to use all that cool stuff methodically and safely. Equip yourself like a general go to foreman who can winch a dump truck out of a bog? Making yourself indispensable to a bunch of paper pushers ain't that hard mate, but it is costly. I fooled about for 10 years before truly gettin serious at what I do for a livin, and investing my savings equipping myself well enough to do it independently, with or without paper pushers involved. Look at a foreman in the field's kitbag, it's 4 wheel drive, and stuffed to the gills with super valuable saws n riggin gizmos. Become that well equipped foreman and you'll na starve wherever yu go! Prime the pump lads, while you're young n fit! Jomoco

It happens that I have two of them. Chorissia speciosa or floss silk tree, or wife beater tree. Beautiful huge pink flowers up to seven inches across! Looks like tough chewin even for a dinosaur eh?

Yeah, this Elvish poem of iz's pretty dark and foreboding no doubt! At one point he read a poem in Elvish, joking that hobbits were always terrified when someone threatened to recite poetry at a party. He prefaced the poem by saying it was almost twenty years to the day since he had started working on The Lord of the Rings. His mellifluous voice makes the imaginary language come alive, like sinuous silvery mithril script etched in the mind's eye: Twenty years have flowed away down the long river And never in my life will return for me from the sea Ah years in which looking far away I saw ages long past When still trees bloomed free in a wide country And thus now all begins to wither With the breath of cold-hearted wizards To know things they break them And their stern lordship they establish Through fear of death Tolkien had spent the afternoon walking around Rotterdam--a city that had suffered much destruction during World War II. The sight of it had saddened him, reminding him of the "orc-ery" that he so lamented taking hold of the world. The "cold-hearted wizards," in their quest for knowledge and power, were only good at destroying things. In his final salute to the assembly of hobbit-lovers, Tolkien said that Sauron is gone, but the descendants of the hateful, Shire-polluting wizard Saruman are everywhere. The hobbits of the world have no magic weapons to fight them. But, he adds with a robust and hopeful declaration: "And yet here gentlehobbits may I conclude by giving you this toast. To the hobbits! And may they outlast all the wizards!" Jomoco

The Hobbit's are hoppin about like crazy over a hoarded tape of Tolkien speaking at a grand gala of avid fans in the Netherlands in 1958. But the ruckus is over his explanation of the whole series in a way never revealed before, in the character of Bilbo himself at times. The picture of Tolkien that night, apparently in the character of Bilbo is very cool. J.R.R. Tolkien Reveals TRUE Meaning Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' In Unearthed Audio Recording|Noble Smith Jomoco

Bang on Tucky! A crew that likes and respects your leadership's ability to make the whole crew's job easier? That's the key to high production crews IMO. Vain hotshot climbers that bury their crews and take too many breaks away from the most arduous aspects of groundwork? Well, they ain't as popular with the lads at beer30! Jomoco

Jumping over a lateral limb, or though a crotch with everything and then hanging your entire climbing weight on a short choked zigzag climbing setup could exert the very forces responsible for six failures to date? Much like they simulated by putting a unit locked to a vice, and applying lateral off axis loads to the point of failure. If it can happen once? Biners fail by off axis dynamic loading too. Jomoco

Nice work n vid Rich. Very smooth and methodical. Like the music too! Jomoco

Is that new Brit version of the Romulan Cloaking Device so prized by interstellar battleship Captains? I hear you Brits are about to transform light photons into matter by bouncing em off a brick of gold or somethin? Beam me up Scotty! Jomoco

So using such brave logic bout swivels bein so pointless n all? Begs the question of what logic drove the decision for Petzl to have any swiveling function at all? Fairly pointless thing from such brave lads way out on a limb! A rope can bend over 180 degrees along a 360 degree radius, a chain can't. The chain's intended critical function is along an unvarying linear line, a straight shot. Actually go to the Petzl link on the first page of this thread look at the pics of where the chain links are fracturing, the most highly leveraged links closest to the attachment on the cheek plates, that should swivel in order to prevent chain links from being leveraged laterally and fracturing. http://www.petzl.com/files/all/all/communication-zigzag/ZIGZAG-information-080414-EN.pdf Go with the flow, bend or break, that sorta thing lads. Or would that be just another swivel too far starring Alec Guinness? Jomoco:biggrin:

Kinda sketchy Rog! Why no speed line? Why? That was frustratingly turrible to watch! Too macho for me! Ski safe Bro! Jomoco

You did just say swivels are fairly pointless? When the bloody chain links get torqued laterally in a direction they can't go? They fracture and fail at the most highly leveraged points. All that's required to solve that problem permanently is the addition of a second swivel at the chain attachment point to the body plates. The chain will still function as intended, and the entire system more pliant to a rope's natural lay. Try and operate a crane without a bloody swivel on the hook. If you're going to get high tech, then double up on the swivel points already. Jomoco

Sir Reginald Coates, the baddest Beetle to ever come out of Britain! Jomoco:001_smile:

My very first childhood memory was the belly tickle sensation of hitting zero G on a big swing that my older brothers would obligingly swing me that high on without mum about! There was an added tail rope below the seat to help amplify or whip the swing higher! Mustbe a gas to get that tickle in a jet fighter! Oak trees work for the humblest of test pilots I guess! Jomoco

I know! Let's run the gizmo through a "Quantitative Tree Risk Analysis" shall we? Let's apply the "Monte Carlo" house odds to continued use of brained hare design? Yup continuing leveraged failure without better design intervention applied ASAP. Jomoco:biggrin:

Their engineers should try two swivel points. The addition being the chain attachment to the body plates. Kind of a go with the flow of the rope solution. Just an opinion of course. Jomoco

Sure looks very poor swivel function to me, leveraging the chain link closest to the swivel. Either beef up those highly leveraged links, or design a better swivel that doesn't impede a rope's ability to swivel laterally 360 degrees. Jomoco

Yu know my heart keeps tellin me You're not a kid at thirty three Yu play around yu lose your wife Yu play too long yu lose your life The lad's name's O'Keefe, Danny O'Keefe!