Frank
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Splicetastic. I'm hungry for it now.
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:lol:all that matters is that it holds your body weight isn't it? Test it by towing your trick and if that works then it'll be fine:lol:
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I see my work as training for competitions now so i need my hitch to advance as smoothly and quickly as possible.
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Yeah, looks well wrong. I really want some hitch cord splicing. Neaten up my rig. Gonna be learning to splice soon (hopefully)
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Again, another good knot to progress onto a slack tending system with. Will take a bit more of a tug to pull the slack through but once again will grip without any concerns over fiddling.
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Is that spliced beeline?
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Wish I'd taken Health - Income Protection
Frank replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
I have a policy which covers me for time off work with health issues. I was in the same thinking as you guys, spend spend spend. I'm glad I did though cos I go into hospital to have a hernia sorted on 7th June and will be out of climbing for approx 3 weeks me thinks. Doesn't sound alot but 3 weeks lost income is huge in my house since our lass quit work a month ago to be a full time nappy changer. -
That looks a good rig. Just make sure you clip the other krab on before you start to climb. Haha 8mm sirius on 13mm honey bee, should, once worn in grip really nicely. Just to show how everyone is different, I would probably have those "legs" slightly shorter. Difference between a distel and vt is how easily the vt "breaks" making it advance alot smoother, but because of the slight extra friction on advancing the distel will grip 99% of the time when you sit back without any real fiddling.
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Just make sure that your rope / cord combo is right and the length of cord used for your friction hitch is correct so that the "legs" of the distel aren't too long but aren't too short either and make sure it's set correctly before you ascend. Otherwise the new thread title might be "distel failure causes mesterh to pummel frank".
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Oh and Thursday is gonna be stuntfelltastic aswell but the guy I'm subbing to doesn't know it yet so keep it quiet.
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I've got a day of stuntfelling booked in for Tuesday mate.
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Erm. Yeah. I reckon so. If you registered it.
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I want a motor tractor. That would be awesome.
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I would say that you can get away with having the rope on it cos that was really close haha. Brave man. Some great stuntfelling.
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Whatever. Either way I'm not clearing up the brash..... No I mean habitat pile and the dead wood overhanging the road has been cut off. The rest can stay for bird to sit on but it might fall off one day so get out the way.
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Sorry I admit I was trying to wriggle out of it. My job was to climb up and get the tree to the ground not clean up aswell.
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I wann see some pics of you in that tree Pete. Otherwise how will anyone know you didn't just pull up and sling a rope over firs branch for comic affect? I mean mikes tracksuit bottoms look a bit clean. I'd also like to know what you found sat inside that main union?you couldn't possibly have missed it?
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Aa teccie hasn't come back with any useful info about the environment agency waste carriers license so we didn't dare remove any arisings from site. Hamadryad and monkey d are always going on about fungus and wildlife and habitat and standing monoliths so we were taking their advice. I just do the acting. I'm not the script writer.
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Hoe come the rest of the dead is still in the tree? Did you just go there take some photos and pretend you had done the job Pete? Will have to get the estate management to check job spec before sorting your invoice.
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No you don't need a chainsaw jacket mate.
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I know, I know, I keep meaning to but they are sooo usefull. I have loads of them.
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Don't worry. She will learn. I've been with our lass for 10 years now, since I was your age. She just lets me get on with it as long as I don't witted on about new carabiners or pulleys then she doesn't mind.
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Get right off arbtalk now. Your taxi is waiting for you. don't you even care that you maybe hurting the poor tree giving it friction burns of the highest order. I hope the next tree you do gets a branch with a bit of tension on it and slaps you square in the goolies. That'll teach you.
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That is perfectly normal behaviour for someone with arbititis. It's a common disease with only one cure. More climbing. Keep up the enthusiasm mate. Serious. Good times.
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If by kill you mean ban............... Haha.
