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Yes Tom, all down there today. We sweet talked a neighbour so we have a second drop zone tomorrow.
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Today I started a three day job, removing a willow from a back garden. It was a fun GRCS day. The centre of the tree was useless for anchor points due to size and decay damage and so the tree became a goblet. Lots of targets but simple enough to tip tie and winch the leads over. I added extra friction to some pieces to catch the butt end. I was aware of the strength of my main rigging point so lowered the block more than usual (thanks Reg!). Hopefully the rain will hold and I'll get more photos tomorrow. I look ridiculous with that rolly hanging out of my mouth in the last shot! http://db.tt/F8cxo6g http://db.tt/1Fsmj0i http://db.tt/Utos6qq http://db.tt/KAgftSX http://db.tt/46eOl6z
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Well let us know for sure. Maybe not capel but I'm going to the aa show.
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Cool Rich. Have you worked on that design before? My friend wants me to make one and I have been wondering about how to do the firmed eye. I wonder if the shrink tube will be prone to getting snagged? Hope you are well. Thanks.
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It was a funny place, half upper middle class property developer with a taste for southend travellers chintz!
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Do you mean did we shut the line down? Yes. Although the EDF chaps couldn't earth it so we treated it as live.
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I enjoyed it.
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Today I dismantled a wonky poplar. I ended up teetering out to the tips and letting most of it drop through the wires. Some of the heavier branch sections had to be rigged as we were tight for space by the trunk. Thought I'd post it up 'cause it was an unusual one. Paul http://db.tt/YLHtuOd http://db.tt/ITlGBdo http://db.tt/r2koUpn http://db.tt/UYh0WDj http://db.tt/iHoqzFX
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How did you lose the top end? Chog? I went to thinner static lines with my grcs but found recently that marlow braid is good for grip when winching. Don't know what MBS is off the top of my head, can't be too much, it's just a three strand with a cover. You win some you lose some! Nice work rupe.
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Oh, OK. The main block is in the broken tree? And you pulled the stem upwards with the lower DWT, removed top section of broken stem and then lowered down?
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Why did you set the DWT so far down?
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I'll send Ben the details. Everyone else can contact Ben. Phew...got out of that one...!
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Hello. I could host a get together. There are so many good climbing spots this way, I guess I don't need to head to herts! I have a woodland setting or a cool-ass disused spooky old house with two whopping oak's that I use mostly. It's close to my town. About 10 minutes off junction 18 a12. Good wild camping spot too. Robert Mcfarlane wrote about it in his Wild Places.
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Nope, no charge for laughing at Tom.
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Come over to Highwoods tomorra then...Me and Thomas doin some deadwoodin'
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Derail Derail!!! Did you try your unicender out yet?
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Clever Drew!
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How do you retrieve the foot lock line?
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My mistake Tom, you are almost right. You have to take into account Tim's fear and the (possible) rescue angle and then it would be the same! Dead wooding an avenues of limes with masses of the typical and bloody annoying to climb into birds nest epicormic (should this be defined as epicormic), I trnk belayed to each proceeding tree. Tim would be a little happier plus I had a triangular rope shape to compress the weak lime tip AND I climbed straight over the mass of branches ! ! Drew mentioned that it all has a place. I second this. It's hellish fun too!
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Plus. . .you can compress load forces while moving laterally.
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Have you worked on an srt system? The working climb is COMPLETELY different. COMPLETELY. There are older threads talking about it. It is not as simple as doubling the force on a tip. Need to account for circumferential friction plus numerous other tips that the expansive line runs over. The non working section can be positioned away from the 'hole'. More stretch is good. Tim, you keep making the same point. Maybe I do too. Paul
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Highscale, I met some competition climbers at a show last year and I demo'd my unicender for them. I was shocked by their lack of interest and general unfriendliness. My good friend Mike P pointed out that through their own advancement they have become pigeon holed, almost like a prussic loop climber who dare not try out any of the wonderful friction hitch/cord combo's for fear of/uninterest in change. Hmmmmm. The only comment they made and only mumbling between themselves was about a groundsman cutting the trunk belay. I became despondent. What a silly comment thought I. I need to speak about some splicing stuff. I'll pm ya.
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...take that last comment with a pinch of salt Mr deerman did your unicender arrive yet?
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My groundsmen are very bright and interesting and believe it or not they do not wave cutting tools around ropes and are opened minded to new techniques and ALL of them want me to climb off a trunk belay for rescue possibilities, maybe it's because THEY ARE NOT CLIMBERS and are not stuck in thier ways. It's a vermisilitude to look too much into the obvious negatives of trunk belays.
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Hello. Nice vid Scotspine. Why did you not use the traverse line for the stem? Was there enough height to pull the line hand tight for the limbs or did you use a fiddle block?
