Rupe
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Having said that, sound on Blu ray is a bit better aswell.
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As long as the sound is good, more important than the picture I think. Sound is more moving, HD doesnt make a film more moving or get you involved more, its just better but has no benefit to the films overall enjoyment on an emotional level, and good filsm should have some emotional effect on us, even if thats just laughter. I remember watching last of the mohicans on a pirate VHS!!! Sound was terrible, picture not much better but I could see and understand what was going on but I had emotional involvment. Watch it now on DVD with full 7.1 surround sound and its a much better film, getting it on Blu ray would make it look fantastic but it wouldnt be anymore betterer in terms of how you feel about it, sound has that ability more I think.
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Yes, all wopuld probably be good on blue ray, except 300 thats gay!!! Films like snatch/deliverence and lockstock just dont need to be glossy and prefect, they are grim films, (in a good way) and HD can look too sterile IMO. SHow us your veiwing set up then, or have I seen it already, cant remember.
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Yes, I have used SRT for access for many years, not all the time but often. Or I use double ascenders and a pantin on double rope fixed with Alpine butterfly. Once up the tree, I can see that working your way down with a rw is a nice way to work, but if going up,down, up down all day long SRT sucks! Taking a few seconds to convert to up, then a few more to convert to down, LOTS and adding ascenders, is all slow, even if it takes seconds thats too slow.
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Can you imagine!! No shirts, and plenty of baby oil!!
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Thank you. Might very well have a RW for sale soon!
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Had a pantin on, dont think i had the hand ascender with me at that moment, but all of these things combined make more kit than I would normally use, just to get up a crapper W.willow.
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Yes it can be used, no worries, but as said once its used for rigging it stays for rigging so it should be marked as such. Use anything you like within the rated limits (including safety factors) so the HC is good for 300Kgs which is way more than your old climbing rope (200kgs roughly) so both ok for small jobs, but no shock loading!
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Well it has to pay for itself, if not then its getting paid for out of money I earn for tree climbing, so it is tree climbing that pays for it. If it doesnt make me more money then thats ok, to a point, thats where the hobby part comes in. I like to have new shiny kit and work pays for it, but ultimatly the balacne has to be that my "work" has to pay for itself, i.e I cant lose money overall, I have a mortgage etc to pay and so tree work (even though I think of it as a hobby) must also pay for itself or else its pointless.
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"Anyone can sit behind a desk and push buttons, bark orders and have them barked back, photocopy pieces of paper all day and think there the best admin assistant in the world but the fact is there too much of a pansy to get up and get out there and do a real persons job. there just to comfy sitting around on there backside on nice comfy chairs sippin tea or coffee all day probably low fat ones to reduce putting the pounds on in work then have a salad for there dinner which then they run off after work in there local gym and pay a membership for. " Looks like your having ago at admin assistants, no mention of bankers here.
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Whatever work for you Rob. I just prefer not to ever get work stuff as a present cos its, well, work stuff! I get nice stuff for me that I wouldnt otherwise get. Climbing kit is something I would eventually buy if I need it, not really a present kind of thing. A bit like giving you wife/girlfriend glow in the dark clothes pegs, just because they make life easier dont make them good presents.!
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I loved it, but it was a long time ago, thinking about it, it was 1990 so she would have just recently won the fourth Iditarod. I was 20years old while I was there, so quite a different person to who I am now, and a few years before I got into tree work. Would go again in an instance, would like to drive round more, we were just in one place climbing un climbed peaks in miidle of nowhere, but some giude companies came out in the summer and we met a few extra people, including jenny and coon, and some other young people there for the short summer.
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I think thats harsh, I dont despise them, I feel sorry for them being in an office thats all. Some work very hard, but thats the point its just work to them. If you pay your money into a bank, then you need office workers, and many many other expamples as well of how/why you need them, way more than they need you (us). I think you are suffering from reverse snobbery, if you think they all think they are better than the "little" guy then you must have a reason for thinking you are considered to be the "little" guy. I dont consider myself to be the "little" guy and I never feel I am being looked down on in anyway, but I conduct myself in a way where I can never be looked down on. My post was lighthearted, calling them muppets, I know just as many muppets in tree work as well, some with small man syndrome! Your generalisation of office workers (the escort comment) is rather sad IMO.
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Intersting you say that! When I was there I met a girl called jenny who was Susan Butchers assisstant/dog trainer/feeder etc. This was in 1991, so Susan had just won the Iditarod for the fourth time the year before and was a national hero. Jenny had a husky called Coon with her at the time, he was a pet not a full on sled dog but he could pull. Coon was short for Racoon but I remember thinking that only in alaska could you go out the back yard and call "coon" without being in some trouble! Jenny stayed in the mountain where we were for a few weeks and was a good freind. She gave me some iditarod t-shirts, which have long since persihed. Good times!!
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One thing I have never done it to get climbing kit for chrsitmas/birthday. That is crossing a line IMO, the work HAS to pay for everything, if not then go without. I know you would get "hobby" stuff for chrimbo but climbing gear is pushing to far towards hobby, and whilst I said above I treat it "like" a hobby it still has to pay for itself "like" a job.
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I spent three months in Wrangell St elias national park which is close to denali (close for alaska anyway) lovely place but quite harsh!! We had 3 months of dried food etc though. common sense its called!!
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I've got my three strand in the shed, good nick too! And my old GQ harness with no legstraps, maybe I should e bay ALL my fancy gear and just get on with it, should be fine until my AA re assessment!!!
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Seroiusly though, its been years since I was tired using Ddrt, so even if the RW is betterer its still solving a problem that didnt exist. Changing from prussik to VT was more efficient and resulted in less stomach muscle action, dont want to do even less! In fact, I might go to a prussik system for a while and see how I get on!
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Yes, it was away from the trunk or else it would have been easy. Thats my point.
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I think he was a tool! Enjoyed the film, but felt no empathy for him wahtsoever.
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No, dont do that!!! I think DVD is a perfectly good medium for film. In a way there is no need to ever go to blu ray, and definatly not 3D!! Having said that I dont like being left behind, so I have a blue ray player (I already had an HD projector) and I have some films in blu ray (inc. Top Gun, Point Break of course) some are essential in blu ray (avatar, new star trek etc) but films in DVD are just as good, and in a way some films are better not being too clean looking. Girl With dragon: just bought that on DVD and its not worth having on BR IMO. Also there are some bargains on DVD, about £3 on amazon, which is cheaper than my rental shop (whats left of it) and I dont want to subscribe to any monthly madness as I go through stages of not watching anything (its called summer). What did you actually do with the DVD's? Not in the bin I hope!
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Cant use the lanyard cos its LOFS!! I dont want to use less energy, I was virtually comatose using Ddrt!! And I think I have 20Kg spare as well, thanks!!!!
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I call it a hobby because there is no way I would put the amount of hours into something that is "just a job". It has to be part hobby, but it has to pay the bills as well, but that makes it the best of both worlds. Some poeple "work" in an office, or shop! Imagine the horror of that! Idiots! Then they only have time for hobbies on weekends IF the wife lets them! Muppettry!!
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I think I got my first petzl Zoom in about 1986!! Had many since but still prefer petzl as I consider everything else to be copies, even though they are all perfcetly good.
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Why so? Its still on the same set as when I bought it in 2009 (actually I think one got changed) so, yes, its an outlay but its such a cheap truck to own/run that its no problem. I will get decent tyres that will last well, not cheapo rubbish.
