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Going back to the original picture. WTF! I see where he's comign from but a bit OTT IMO..... To save your friction hitch on long descents it is possible to use an 8, if you have a tree motion harness you can just clip it to the lower side D ring, left or right dependant on what side you prefer, so its below your friction hitch and hitch is the back up. You'll be descending off one side of the harness only which is a bit odd but on the TM its ok. After that, just a quick thing about terminology... our normal double rope technique is called Ddrt and not DRT as that is something else. So its Srt for single rope technique and Ddrt for Double(d) rope technique. Drt I think is doube rope technique which is like double ascent ropes for caving or in our case footlocking or twin foot ascenders on two fixed lines would be Drt. While we are at it can someone remind me what Rads stands for? I know waht it is but where did the abbreviation come from?

Cool, good thing to aim for. I'm 40 this year so I just want to do more and enjoy it. I did some first ascent peaks in Alaska when I was 20, that will do me for achievement!

No, your a non smoker who want to live!!! Psycology makes us move away from bad things, but really we should think about movign towards good things. So instead of not wanting to die you must want to live instead.

Thats good advice, you don't smoke!

Start mountain climbing or re start it? Have you done much before? If you can climb trees all day then you cshould be able to get up any mountain in the country, you might puff a bit but you'll still get there.

4 days will go in a flash, especially if your not working, I struggled to not smoke at work but that was all.

Oh, and new years resolution is to climb more mountains!! only 3 last year was pathetic! So on bike or foot its back to the hills.

Frank be careful around the four day mark! Your body will allow you to pretend you have given up smoking for 4 days but after that it will try and trick you back into it. Remember its your mind that decided to quit, and your mind must ignore what your body is telling it. So many times I've found myself buying fags on day 4 thinking it was the best idea I'd ever had and not realisign it was a trick!! Nearly 3 years for me now though!

This go pro one looks good. £299 for HD quality check the test video GoPro Official Store: Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports

HAve you got a grcs? Looks like a good job for one, set the tallest biggest straightest tree up as the rigging point then work the whole lot from there.

Is your name really J.S.Hoddy or are my eyes mistaken me?? J Shoddy tree services would be a well cool name!!!!!!!

Thanks boss, excellent work as usual.

Good stuff reg. I like how the balanced bits get through the editing process! Was that a days work? What would the cost have allowed you time wise if you didn't have the crane. 2 days or not that much? I guess its not your job so its not important to know.

How does that help in the scenario shown? Drt off of an srt line is a useful trick. Srt is more efficient for large ascents and easier to set up than a lockjack would be.

The big one really is too big, but the second photo one is better. Cotwold do the large one but its gone up to £170.00 !!! Ouch. But they have a sale on with some smaller normal north face bags. The smaller one is here The North Face - Rolling Thunder Duffel - The Outdoor Shop

That happened long ago!!!!!

Large format film based movie cameras were HD quality but the projectors and recording/transmittign equipment were not capable of it, so many old films are beign released in tru hd from original the original films. Its only know we have the technology to digitise to such a high standard. Avatar does make the best use of it so far though.

What cables are you connectign it to the tv with Steve? I know I said cables are a con, but the con is they only send the full hd signal out of the hdmi socket so you have to use an hdmi lead, not a scart to three phono or component cables, the latter of which is more than capable of carrying hd but it just doesn't work that way. I took my house apart to install my system, then had to do it again to install the HDMI leads..

Good work!! Any Photos?? How upset was someone about that, or did they request it!

Exactly! We worked out that at £5 each I could have found enough to fulfill the order in a day and make maore than I would for tree work! Never mind. A degree can't get you everything!

Thats fine though. Thats where we need to wind in our level of self importance IMO. If a hired ecologist tells me to cut down half a woodland so they can buil dholiday homes, then I can do it and know its above board. If I started telling him his job then I wouldn't last long. As long as no one tells me how to cut the trees down, then everything is ok.

Well I don't have a degree in anything but I would say I have degree level of intelegence but just not the application! Yes, the ecologist has the degree and the respect. I just do the work I don't need to know much for that, but we get on because I have the intelegence to understand his thinking and vice versa. Yes he points and I cut its that simple, but when the digger driver points and I say no, then there is problems! This is the same ecologist that bought potted Elder bushes at £28.00 each though!!

I just sold my fisrt Blu ray player on e bay an dgot another new one which is betterer. It was only £120. If the 3D ones aren't too expensive then I would be tempted as long as my projector is compatable. If they change the cabling too then I won't get one, cabling is a con!

Thinking about it, I get on ok with most of the digger drivers etc. as one worker to another, but I also have to be a manager at the same time as a worker. I find most problems come from mangers on the site who like to think they are self important, so when I get self important too and suggest alternatives to thier requests it causes friction.

Thats interesting Tony. The site that I was refering too has a full time employed ecologist and they (builders) can't do anything to trees or wildlife without going through him first. He's a legal requirement of the planning consent for the whole multi million pound project. I effectively work for him and him only. If I get asked to cut something down to let a digger in I refer back to him first, and get accused of beign preciouse but thats just how it is. And I get on with him just fine, and he had major problems with the first company they got in, and threw them off site after a week never to be seen again! If he wasn't there with his level of proffessionalism then I doubt I would have lasted as long as I have on that site.