Tom D

On holiday last week, Furlo gorge italy, wasnt supposed to be on that bit really...

For an open Hitch such as a blames I believe that 10mm is the minimum and for a closed hitch like most of the others 8mm is the minimum, so long as the WLL is acceptable. Since in a rescue situation you may have the weight of 2 climbers on the one cord then with a safety factor of 10 you really ought to be looking at an MBS of 20KN or there abouts for an open hitch and 10KN or higher for a closed one.

I hate trainers too Mark, but these are good Trespass, just a mesh all round really, I use them for any summer hiking, kids stuff, and great for wading in rivers, the beach etc....

Anyone tried it, the outer is the same as the green as far as I can tell but the core is poly as opposed to spectra, so maybe its slightly heavier, but that won't really matter on a prussic. Any thoughts, its a £ cheaper per meter so if there's no real difference I'll just get the red stuff...

One was a rope access trainer, but not specific to arb work, very good though, they had moved as far away from the EFAW syllabus as they could in order to give us a course tailored to our work.

Today we had X-treme Emergency training in to put us all through our EFAW+F What a great course! no classrooms, no powerpoint presentations, just loads of hands on useful stuff. They came out to our yard and we sat on a few logs for the "lecture parts" though there wasn't much sitting around, we went through various "real life" simulated accidents (which included fake bones sticking out and spurting blood, still quite shocking when you don't expect it!) and covered everything from lymes disease to suspension trauma. A really thorough and useful course, as opposed to just some H&S box ticking that is what many other courses that I have been on have been like. If you actually want to learn something rather than just "get the ticket" I would highly recommend them. X-TREME EMERGENCY TRAINING exists to facilitate professional, practical, concept-based training in first aid and pre-hospital care for rural, remote and wilderness groups Reasonably priced too, as you pay for their time, so numbers don't really increase the cost, just team up with a couple of other local firms and it will easily cost less than £50 per man.

I have some clarks ones that have lasted a wee while......

I make my own ammo these days, but the best factory stuff I tried was federal fusion. It's expensive though..

7-08 is a .308 necked down to 7mm, its .284 in old money. There's no such thing as far as I know as a 30-08. The names of new cartridges are sometimes taken from the parent case that they were made from, so the 25-06 for example is a 30-06 necked down to .25, 25 being the caliber and '06' coming from the parent case. I shoot deer and foxes with mine, velocity and recoil are virtually the same as the .308, but it shoots a bit flatter thanks to a narrower bullet.

Yes, got a savage HMR, a Sako75 whig I got rebarreled in 7-08, and am about to take delivery of a Tikka 590 which I have had rebarreled in .20 Vartarg...can't wait.

Lefty eh? Looks like a t3, is it?

We have both the 261 and the 550, both have had problems, clutch bearing on the 261 and software on the 550. That aside I think the 550 is the better saw, on performance anyway.

You running parallels then Steve.. How do you find it?

Big tree, what was it?

My granddad's classic regarding ugly women: "you don't look on the mantle piece when you're poking the fire."

I see, never used to have to do that, thanks Tim.

Just trying to see why it didn't embed... Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

We have been but not on this section, there's a few ton that we have dropped in the last week. Its surprising what that wee winch will do, I'd still like a bigger one though, I'll get an 8 or 9 tonner to go on the valtra at some point.

Just the wee tractor with the igland doubled up, couldn't get the valtra in that section.

Playing axe men today.. I taped one at 39.5m so 40 with the stump, big sticks...

Nice vid Tim, I love that album.

Mine in the woods today...

Mulcher doesn't go down all that far, either mulch than put a heavy drag through to bring up the surface roots, or chain each stem to tractor, or excavator etc and pull them roots and all. Mulchers are expensive BTW, 650-1000 per day.

Thought so, Gambetti Barre? I knew it was. They sold a load of those things, cheap and simple but good quality compared to some of the sh1te that's out there. What are you spraying with it?

You didn't want that job.