stampy
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Hey Tom, you know you wont' be happy till you've bought a lockjack with your big fat swedish paycheck. My 11mm clutch is slipping a bit so I've been using it on 13mm XTC and if you don't have a cambium saver in, it can be a bit jerky. On 11mm rope though, in my opinion, there's just no contest - its so smooth and fast and immediate and consistent it makes me chuckle with delight. And subtle adjustments just become second nature with a bit of practice... Mike
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Nice one Don't worry, the cheap and used feeling will pass in a couple days, i'm sure. A week at the tops.
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Haha, I love this poster. I'll buy you a nice fruity cocktail instead of a pint, how's about that?
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Josharb - Yeah she's pretty fit ay? but then I thought 'is motorcycle courier a proper trade?' and decided that no, it wasn't, so she only fulfilled one of the two criteria of 'fittest tradie'. Rules is rules. Its nice how everyone's in the same boat of feeling a bit weird about it. Maybe some of the female members of the board should jump in and vote to dilute the awkwardness a bit.
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Ah cheers guys, all the support's got me all emotional. Penfold - the saw (and chain) are old and dead, wouldn't dare rest our shiny new 66 on the tarmac! SWB - you may be (unpleasantly surprised) what I'd do to own a vehicle that didn't require toppng up with 10 litres of water a day Marc - I work for Jenks Oxford, been there a couple years now. Thanks again, spread the word!
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A bit embarrassing but what the hell, A local radio station's running a competition called 'oxfordshire's fittest tradie'. The prize for the winner is a 2001 peugeot partner van (fit loads of chip in one of those, right?) and since my car is losing water at a terminal rate, I thought I'd enter. Now I understand if you feel a little uncomfortable at the thought of voting for a topless guy as the fittest tradie, but it might help to think of it as helping out a fellow arb, rather than, yknow, fancying me. Although that's fine too This is the link Oxfordshire’s Fittest Tradie and you just put your email address in and press vote. As an additional incentive, if i win, and you spot me at the arb fair, I'll buy you a beer cheers, Mike (I'm ready for some merciless ribbing...)
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yup, that's true. topping a crappy conifer hedge last summer, lent back in my rope about 15feet up and had the sickening feeling like falling off a chair backwards....all I thought when falling was 'wha....' then BANG. I was kind of gutted that nothing went in slow motion and my life didn't flash before my eyes. Landed on my saw, smashing it quite comprehensively with my back. I wouldn't recommend it. Cue coughing up blood and air ambulance drama. That was quite scary. Amazingly, only got soft tissue damage in my back/shoulder, they couldn't work out where the blood was coming from. Still don't know what went wrong - my anchor point was intact, as were all my knots...weird.
