Rupe
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Sorry, another late night!!!! I don't have a workshop manual, only the owners handbook!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi Angus. They are just AA batteries so very easy to keep a pocket full of them. Please buy your dad one!!! Remeber there is a 30%discount for arbtalkers, I',m sure they would post one out to you if you can't get them there yet.
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Why have you had such problems? I thought you just turn up and have a go? Of course knowing where and when is useful and that will be announced soon I'm sure.
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I have a 52 plate single cab, but I can copy any pages that might help you??
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I did, bit it seems to wear the bridge more than a ring would and it's not that great so I went back to a ring.
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No thats fine steve, nips is nips! I saw it last week. Good technology, poor storyline. Many similarities to star wars, the matrix, and others, but I do believe it will change cinema for ever.....
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Attaching to the lower side d's maybe better though.
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Someone asked to see the inner tube set up-
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Din't have a lot of choice as I was unemployed, once freelancing I then set the path that I wanted to follow. My point was that work will find you if you are the right person and can fit in with other companies and with the strong attitiudes that already exist in other compnies. Imagine you were working in a company quite happily, then your boss tells you he's getting a freelancer in for a day to do your job and you have to ground for him? If that freelancer is a cock then that is going to be a very short workign relationship! If the freelancer has something to offer, i.e. the existing climber feels he has learned something, or gained a drinking buddy (whatever) then alls gonna work out ok. Its the personality thing that gets you through not the climbing ability, because everybody is already the best climber that they know!
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When I left my last employement I had 3 weeks redudancy pay to take. I spent the first week building a new shed cos I suddenly need to keep my saws and kit at home. By the end of that first week a rumour had gone round some local companies that my previous employer was in financial trouble and that I had left. By the end of the second week I was booked up with 2 months of work, so I was suddenly a freelancer. And so it went on from there......
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It was a general reply to all the posts on here, on the subject of going freelance. Not really advice, just my experience, but whatever the good and bad bits, all of it is way better than the 10 years of employment the preceeded it. I'm not going to offer you any advice, as you are so good at everything already I expect you have companies calling you all the time to help them out because they can't cope without you? There, is that a bit more like what you were expecting me to say?
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I did it for a few years, about 6 different companies, and had days away for tree climbing comps etc whenever I wanted. Money was ok, stress was low. I did my own jobs too, no insurance just basic back garden stuff. Anything over roads or risky I passed on and then did the climbing anyway. Gradually got more of my own work then insurance then council work then immediatly could not afford to do freelance at the same rate so I do it with truck and/or chipper or not at all. I turn over way more money, not sure I have as much as it to spend on what I want though, and affording time/money to get away as often to comps or holidays is not that easy anymore but should improve. I'm an average climber, who can get the job done, no more than that really, but I get work cos for some reason people want me to work for them instead of some other cheaper guys who have the wrong attitude.
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Well, that will work for the prussik or blakes, but the distel is a whole new thing, and requires a whole new climbing technique. And for that you need a close coupled pulley so no need for the clippy thing.
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I've had one since 2003 and they are great! -2 in woods or kipping in the garden, awsome thing. Better purchase than any tent. Its easier to find trees than it is to find level ground and your also hidden in trees, so much easier to get away with a bit of free camping!
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What kind of pulley? Many ways of using the Petzl fixe, not really like any blakes set up though I don't think.
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Any pics of you rfinished truck Mr Doberman dave? And weights too?
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Cheers, but thats 1200 kgs all in including passengers and any kit! 1000kgs of chips is more likely I guess. Next job is to weigh it full and that may take me years to get round too!
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Are you mostly going to be using it for a lanyard adjuster? Thats its best use IMO, then chokered on the stem for chogging if you like it that way.
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So, what use would the rack be?
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Otherwise folk would just use a figure eight to abseil, but they don't work if the rope below you is too heavy (long and wet) so you can't pull up enough slack to push a bight throught the 8, then you use a rack. Never used one myself though, but thats what I thought they were for.
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If half the bars swing, do you not lay the rope over the other bars and then swing the swinging ones into place, thus capturign the rope? I thought that was the whole point of them, midline placement on fairly tight ropes?
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Is it a nice rack? Or a spice rack? Lightweight lowering? Of course the obviouse srt decent, caving etc....
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true, anything would work instead of the ropeman. I hardly ever use it now but it was a good idea at the time.
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Bob, have you tried the system that allow you to move your friction away from you? It uses a hitch climber and ropeman, I don't know if it has an official name though.
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Yep, top bloke. Footlocking next then is it?
