Dak
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cheapest way, not having to fork out for tubular fids, which on small diameter rope are pretty tough so i'm led to believe. Jamie will sort you out, very knowledgeable by all accounts:thumbup1:
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There we go bro Your pulling with wire fids unlike the pushing of hollow fids!
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give me half hour and they'll be up!
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few links for you... Yacht and Boat Rope accessories, Splicing fids, splicing rope kits & Rigging Tools New England Ropes - Splicing Guide
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1) I use wire fids from 0.9mm welding wire. Cheap as chips. A knitting needle as an awl and some good scissors/knife. A old biner and good solid anchor point. For whipping, whipping twine and sailmakers needles. A sailmakers palm and some pliers! 2)I went straight for double braid as all ropes i use atm are double braid. 3) youtube, new england double braid. New england/samson instructions which ever you find easiest to understand Enjoy its addictive!!!
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With remembrance over, lets please not forget those who gave everything for us and those out in the sand until next year. Always in our minds.
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Hey folks, long story short going to Africa and Australasia next year and want to take full climbing kit. Whats best way to get it there, fly with it? Send it ahead (air or sea)? no experience of traveling with kit so any help appreciated.. cheers guys!
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I'd never buy a piece of kit not knowing what it did, any why etc. low and slow as rob said!! climb safe and have fun
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What MOG said. Cheers Drew, bit more splicing inspiration, costing me a fortune in cord Like the one using a revolver on each of the french prussik legs too. top stuff
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Hmm SRT for anything other than ascending just doesn't feel right to me, but its all personal choice hey! Its like LJ's and SJ's Ddrt don't feel right, maybe thats time.... Redirects, The one Joe harris uses in the Spiderjackery video looks good, is it the one in VTIO document on redirects done by joe? I couldnt get a good look at it on the vid! SRT and foot lock strops? multi purpose functionality? I'm just thinking out loud here.
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I generally do 5-4-5-4, and doing a stitch or two on your cross over helps too! also if using wire fids, taper when in the fid, i find it messy if you do it before good luck:thumbup1:
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I wondered how long that'd take hahaha! Although as unmanly:sneaky2: as it is i'm not a fan of cutting and holding, although we do it all the time I do use a sling when it just doesn't feel right! Anyone cut and held and had anchor rip out? I know a guy who had the limb he was on snap while stropped into and wrote his harness off but all was well.
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lets have a butchers at your configurations, take that how you will.. Who's going to bring out a revolution It seems the southern hemisphere is leading the way in the redirect front!
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nice one chaps!
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i have a gelert bag and its great, except ive split the stitching along the zipper my wayy over filling it! I'll be re stitching it though! good value for money
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hey folks, I trust your all well! What scissors are you guys using? AP has one tough core, knakered my scissors:sneaky2:! Also what gauge welding/piano wire are you using:confused1:? I've been using welding wire but no idea of gauge, and piano wire i had was given too me so again no idea! cheers folks!
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yup yup, what he said...
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If your set on a box I'd say you want roughly 90l+... Spikes, ropes, harness etc
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You after a wheeled one, you seen the northface wheeled cargo bag? Nice bags and with shoulder traps give you hands free option
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You only have to replace the cam I believe, they last a long time a hell of alot longer compared to cord, The cams are about £8 not much more than a meter of AP! I'd advise trying one before forking out!
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Seconded
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Ouch!!!!
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Yep it could, I am of the younger generation and it pisses me off the amount of people who will seek ways to claim, I know of loads of whiplash, slips etc people have claimed for!! Like you say it only hits us in the pocket, some people can't comprehend that the claim money doesn't come from trees!!
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David, personally I am my own hse ruler! I'm less interested in hse talk an more people's accidents! But! As you said earlier about tickets being so easy and amount of people with no common sense in our trade these days would you not be happier knowing that first aid to a arb specific criteria was compulsory at all levels from word go!!! On a lighter note the hs manager at a job let me on site without induction for an hour to survey some trees with a colleague, I turned around and cracked my knee of a small bollard, anyway, the managers face when I signed out an asked how I put in a claim about not being warned about the bollards! Made me chuckle!!
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Leave your chinstrap undone, problem solved! I'd hope so anyway
