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Thats alway my aim! Lower price but higher profit. Its the profit that will squeeze out the competition because it allows more investment. Gross price is not relevant in business terms. Not that I'm making much profit at the moment though!!

Yeah right!! Its so that the dealer franchise is worth something. Without that in place one dealer would sell to the whole country for 1% and the network becomes useless and the value of products downgraded. By banning postage sales they can keep the sale prices up and the percieved value of the product remains high.

I can never remember the spelling. Hummouse even??

Oh, I get plenty of tea. I take hot water in a flask, and have cookers ant tea bags etc in both vehicles, pick up some milk in the mornign and sorted!! Anyway I've been to the shop for some garlic...... This is what it should look like. Sometimes it goes a bit stodgy so add more tahini (not too much) or oil or maybe water until it goes creamy. This is seriously strong 4 cloves of garlic and a big red chilli in this one!

I agree water is depressing in winter but we should all be drinking about 3 litres during the day! I get nowhere near that! Except in tea and that doesn't count!

The only important ingredient is tahini Tahini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Its disgusting on its own, and varies dependign on where you get it from. Its vital to humus. I get it from my local co-op and it must be a good one cos the humous comes out ok. Then a bit of water, oil (olive) garlic, chillies and chick peas. I tin of chick peas, to 3-4 cloves of garlic, 1 chilli, 2 tbsp tahini, 2 tbsp of oil and upto 2 tbsp of water. Be careful not to overdo the water but you can overdo everything else without ruining it! Maybe add lemon or lime juice but its not essential. Blend the whole lot!

Scratch that! I've run out of garlic!!! I'll go to the shop later!!

I'm going to go and make some humus. Time now 5.39pm

My humus is awesome! Secret ingredient is chillies! But thats my secret ingredient for everything!!

In summer I make more effort. Usually along the lines of pitta bread and dips, all home made of course. Hummous is a speciality of mine, but I also do a mean salsa, Tzatziki, and of course sweet chilli !! All are fiery and hot. In winter maybe a fry up on site. Recently I've gone back to sandwiches though, I like the reassurance of a ready to go meal that I can eat while driving home in the rain!

Love the production office Reg! Very impressed, it looks well thought out. I want to do more with spiderlegs with the grcs but we always end up just tieing one bit at a time and letting it swing into a stabe position. I'll get my head round it all one day!

Pursuade them that spending money on a Eucalyptus (in the situation you describe) is going to be a never ending process with no good end result.

Yes. Thinking about it I've never used a timber hitch for a pulley, cos before I knew what a cow hitch was I didn't know what a pulley was either!! We used to timber hitch on a topping strop, but that was a bit different and a whole lot more scary!! I remember having to hide behind stems, and tuck my toes and fingers in, while big bits beech would come swinging back at me cos the wraps round the tree were too many and it wouldn't go away!! Life is a lot less stressful these days!

Its a good knot! A timber hitch would suffice, but the cow hitch is betterer.

Yes Paul but that "labour only" makes them employees for the day, as described in five of the points in the list you posted, and as such they would need to be covered by EL and therefore by PL aswell. This thread is more to do with public perception of proffessionalism, or lack thereof, so I don't want to derail it towards a different topic.

The point that I was making earlier was that people go with door knockers, not for the price but because they think thats all there is..

I have actually cow hitched both pulleys and then half hitched down the stems, but yes your right. Half hitch it all the way to something stronger if you want to. Then try not to break the rigging point but if you do it should hold lower down. You wouldn't want to risk that on the bit your tied onto of course! So the main rigging point (yellow pulley) needs to be bomb proof for all the lowering you are going to do, and the blue one is just a helper. I'm just lazy mate! Thats why the pulleys go down for the groundies to remove. The blue one goes with its limb at 4:12, then gets sent back up and tied on below the yellow which then gets sent down still attached to its bit of tree, taking care that the inversion won't allow it come free, but not likely in this case cos the half hitches will hold it. I don't know if 8's "should" have wings, but if you were going out to buy one then it wouldn't hurt. I have both but prefer my little neat one, plus in this instance I'm using it, its so well backed up by the climbing system that it doesn't need wings, in fact I could just come down one leg of the access line using an italian hitch on a krab if I wanted too, safe as houses with the back up. Not nice without!!

Not to save it necessarily, but the rope was getting a bit sticky and the hitch locks up too much, so a smoother ride down. On some cords that are less heat resistant it is definatly a good idea for long descents, but can be doen by just putting the 8 under the hitch.

We didn't have much choice as to where they would go! I put the second pulley as far out as I could and we cut a hole in the yew trees below. We were lucky it worked! I think the wide angle of the cam makes it look taller than it is, but it was tall!! I have 50+ meter rope and I could only just get tot he ground when on my highest anchor, so its around the 100ft. What I noticed was how much longer it was taking to get the end of the rigging line back up each time! So yes taller than most.

Very helpful!! There are five points there (includign one major one!!) that confirms what I've been trying to explain to people for ages.

Yes, but I'm not talking about sub contractors. I mean people who are in for the day working with a company. They usually call themselves "subbies" but they are not sub-contractors.

Machine mart. About a 15 quid. Clarke CSV4E 100mm Steel Bench Vice - Machine Mart

I don't think anyone is saying that expensive gear is a direct link to proffessionalism. Right gear for the job is important though, but so are skills and standards of work and proffessionalism comes from all of those things.

Whats windows live thingy?

Not too bad. A bit sticky, but ok. Left the trunk in a 25 footer on the ground, not my problemo!!