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nice video, I dunno if Im a grumpy old fart but I would have been cursing my groundies if they didnt let it run a few metres.

why does my pet rock get quite chatty after Ive had a few beers.?

I asked the boss for a couple of cmi ultrascenders for sit stand srt and he more than delivered with a marbar system.Ive assembled them, but have yet to try them out, any regular users here or any tips. The only complaint I have so far is that the instructions are written so small that Im considering buying my first pair of glasses. oh by the way the avatar is a c/saw carving I found on a japanese site, its a man about to cook his eggs for brekkie, cool eh:thumbup1:

cheers,yeh done the job months ago(pics on my profile page)i can think of the name is it a woolie bark gum?has think spongy bark

We usually call them stringbarks up here but I know what ya mean.I see your online, us downunder folk might have the forum to ourselves at the mo, I just got done replying to ya on the members forum too.

there is a lot to be said for modern rigging techniques but equally a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and rigging is only as good as the grounds man the climber may be good but the system fails because of the lack of knowledge of the groundie all staff must be trained equally to make good safe use of all the different rigging and speedlining techniques

I gave my dvds to my offsider and groundies to take home and study. I told them to watch them at least 3 times each until they are familiar with the content and I also take the book to work for reference, so yeah its been good value.

The middle pulley is where the tensioning takes place and the rope is fed through before being tied off, also where the section zipped out stops.

For a lightweight speedline or zipline a truckers hitch will give you a quick 2 to 1 tensioning.

thanks guys just wondering if u had to do anything differnt due to the smoothness of the bark

I realise youve done the job by now,but when I rig bluegum(smoothbark) I rig the pieces with a marlin hitch and a clovehitch tied off with 2 half hitches as opposed to say a half hitch and a running bowline,I prefer cow hitches for the block if the sling is long enough.