Rupe
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I may be confusing myself then, not osmosis but similar. Any how Shrek, you got dry logs, yay!!!!
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Sure, pressure required in commercial freeze drying just to speed up the process, but the principle is the same with the logs, and low pressure wouln't necessarily be required, moisture in the logs would move into the atmosphere around it due to osmosis, and a high pressure (weather type) wouldn't stop this.
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Hence the term "freeze dried" !!??
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Definatly, moisture can't exist in cold air, so very cold weather is always dry. Hence we always moan about the cold when its -2 and damp, yet when it gets to -10 ish its so much drier that body temp doesn't get conducted through the air as well and so it doesn't immediatly feel so cold, yet of course it is!
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Sure, I was drinking the devils advocaat, I don't know all the facts. Like I said at the end, if you get them to agree the new price then good for you, otherwise its down to experience. Your always going to feel like you failed though if you go to the customer cap in hand.
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Re negotiatign with the client is all well and good, but if they had two or more quotes and yours was the cheapest but the re neg takes you over the price of all the other quotes then they are not going to agree to any extra. If I was the client, I would ask you to leave site and I'd call the next company to re quote. If you can't do what you said you would do for the money then thats called a FAIL. Pay for the MEWP yourself and learn from it. Thats general advice only, of course if they go the re negotiated price then good for you and more fool them.
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I'm guessing you have already removed whatever could have been used as a rigging point? Even if there is no central leader you can still make a rigging point out of two other low leaders. Also you can rig the but end of the branch so it cant go anywhere if it does break. Rope and ratchet straps will do to tension stuff up. If the original plan was to rig the branch of itself then this seems like a poor plan, but one the you would use as a last resort. In which case it should have been dealt with first, or at least assessed first. If the tree is alive and the branch hasn't fallen off yet on its own then you should be ok. Have you got an anchor point for climbing? Or has that gone already too? Words can't explain it really so I'm only guessing. Photos would be good?
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That link won't work. Cotswold site is a weird one, you can't link to individual pages or items!
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Almost any decent fabric ankle walking boot will be good for climbing. Solomon for example do a few models around 90 quid that will be way better than any chainsaw boot. IMO scarpas are worth the extra though.
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No sugar for me, sweet enough and all that!! I am fairly addicted to tea though, I've adapted a bottle carrier on my mtb to hold the lifeventure flask, got to have tea on the winter bike rides!
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Mine fit in the pocket of my stretchairs. Sometimes its the one I left the house with in the morning and sometimes its fresh one. Will stop when the clocks go forward!! Water from then on I'm promising myself!!
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Sometimes use it. In this instance its a VT without braids, just 8 wraps round the rope and hope for the best!! Works ok but bites too hard, thats why I was confident in this application for descent. I have just put a propert VT on my other rope for a change. Helical is still a favorite though, but it doesn't work with the hitch climber.
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HAve you worked for him? I've done a bit here and there.
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That hitch would hold on that rope. I can't speak for every other combo. I certainly wouldn't come down on the hitch only as it would be very on/off and not a smooth descent at all, but with the 8 its fine. Other than letting go of the rope below the 8, I can't see any way of it failing, and lettign go is not enough to cause any problems. I tested it before disconnecting my strop/lanyard.
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It goes to show that these "services" are not actually services at all. The point of them is not to re unite owners with their keys, its to get money from a million or so poeple every year and thats all. They don't give a stuff if anyone gets there keys back or not. They'll give you a tenner if you do as they ask but its not a reward as such. As long as poeple "fear" (or desire) something there will be a company there to collect money for it. Actually providing a service for honest reward is something that is nearly out of date.
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Yep, like what John said, there is a fig 8 under the hitch, between them they share the work, and the hitch is the back up.
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Nothing would happen if you pulled it on the way down cos your weight is still on the other end of it.
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Yes, thats set so it can be retrieved. the splice end is down at at ground level, pull on it and the alpine butterfly comes down.
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Last thursdays job, dimantle beech tree, chip on site and stack wood on site, so we basically just had to get it down and chipped. Also had to shorten a branch on a neighbourign tree, so I removed spikes and nipped over to do that but did get much footage, then down for lunch and back up to finish the take down tree. We felled the final trunk, but missed that too!! Still getting to grips with video. I had it set sideways on at first so had to rotate the picture which reduced the quality, but that is only for the first minute or so, after that (and a cup of tea) I sorted it out and it improves. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxvnqQ5H_w]YouTube - skinny beech 2.wmv[/ame]
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Use whatever gear you have within the limitations of that gear, simple! If buying an 8, get the winged (eared) one. If you already have a normal one, use it for things that its ok with like backing up a descent. Its no big deal waht you use as long as it works in the situation you are using it in. An eared 8 "could" be better in some situations including rescue, that does not mean that all 8's "should" have ears, especially if they are not used in a rescue. My winged one, aluminium, has been used for rigging so it would be worse for me to use that for descent than my old trusty "deaf" 8, which works fine on 13mm rope.
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So you can arbtalk and let us all know you are in chamonix, but you can't ask someone there where you can get head cam spares!!!!!
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Ok, no worries, I thought maybe my first comment got you wound up!! No need, that was just the sarcasm out of the way, the rest was genuine, I liked it! I'd put something together like that myself if I can get some good footage.
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Thought not, but it moves from one scenario straight to another so it looked like it could be the same tree. I neither approved or dissaproved of the music, I just gave my opinion. No need for the finger!!
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Thats no fair! "No sack" cannot be compared be to anything actually aimed at inteligent life forms!
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I really like it!! While your practicing editing, I'm still practicing sarcasm! Good video, nice editing. The music is more dramatic than the work but to a customer the work will be the dramatic part and the music will sound fine I'm sure. Good stuff all round. One work question. Is the skylining bit the same tree as the hollow is in?
