mikedrums69
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There widely available. Just search for them
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Gotta?????? My bad... meant, Gotcha 🙄 what a dick 😅
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Ah yeah, gotta! Yeah I’d have to add some friction before I could come down. I’ve usually got a few bits on my harness to aid with self rescue or a rescue of someone else. the way I see it though. If I were to stupidly cut my main line. I’d rather have a back up line that I could get myself down on or someone else could use in aid. Than dangle on just my side Ds waiting for someone. Unfortunately rescue is never a straight forward thing like on courses
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I can use both hitches with one hand. I use one 40m rope and the other is roughly 20-25m. The longest is always set to reach the ground and personally I don’t have stopper knots at the bottom. So if I had to bomb out in a hurry I’d just run off the end of short rope whilst transferring into my long rope.
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Ive been climbing with a back up more often than not for the past year. Just use a simple a hitch with a hitch climber on a single line. Never really notice it now I’m used to it being there. I do find it beneficial being able to add my chicane and redirect it if I want to for some reason. I tend to risk assess it out tho if I’m on spikes/flip line and not jumping about a lot
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**************** me! This threads a decent advert as to why arbtalk was, is and always will be filled with complete assholes
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Fingers crossed for the CE version soon. I’d love to have one. Two preferably, but can’t be too greedy now 😂
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Personally, I love the gyro. It’s a great bit of kit. I can see why people might want it to be a little beefier. But I actually quite like it’s small, compact design. I originally set it up with a petzl roll carabiner connected to the bridge as the wear on the ring is a concern for me. But for me it pushed my system out too far for my liking so knowing it’s stainless rather than ally does reassure me a little that it’s going to last a while longer. the grommets supplied are Swiss cheese and has since been replaced with dmm ones.
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Can anyone recommend a Loler inspector based around the Gloucester? Cheers, Mike
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Just a little pointer...when descending, press down and hold down the spring loaded top plate and feather the rest of the links. I always found that it was jerky cause the top plate sprung up engaging the rest of the links on descent. If you have a long descent to do, just press down on the links and run down open, there's enough friction in the rope running through the "opened" links to steady you meaning you can brace the descent with your legs when you reach the floor without much fuss or stress I’ll give that a go. I usually boom out. Hence why I got the zz to stop burning though so many hitches ?
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It’s when I’m descending with my weight in it. I do like it for branch walking and in some cases prefer it over using srt. i have been sticking with it for the past few days and It has been getting smoother. Just not as fast or controlled as I would be on a hitch.
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I am not liking my zag. I played with mates back in November and it was smooth as butter. So decided to buy one for myself. However since I’ve had mine it’s been more jerky then a pervert in a strip club. Tried it on two different, brand new ropes (vega and Drenaline) and it’s been same. It looks like I’m disengaging all the top links and the bottom link before the pulley is holding all the weight. Anyone else had this problem? It’s a piece of kit I want to like, but obviously I don’t at the minute
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Distels, short.
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People tend not to take on the educated reasonings we say to them. So I tend to tell them to fuck off
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I used to use two ropes and kept my zz on one which was used solely as a double and the other line solely for working srt or access. But since developing tennis elbow I’ve lightened my kit bag somewhat and have removed my static rope. It’s a pain threading the zz on and off all the time when changing and to keep with manufacturers recommendations I won’t use it in a zz/wrench combo. In all honesty I’ve gone back to the hitch climber and a good fashioned friction knot. I think it’s the best option out there to use both climbing systems using the same rope without faffing about getting the zz on and off your rope.
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What’s your company called? I do regular subbing to a Cheltenham based firm already
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Has this article been removed? I was looking forward to a good read
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Hope not just noticed my mistake ?
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I’ve got no plans on retiring or a pension. Rather work til in dead
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Rope runner
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Anyone know if there’s any price difference ordering from Australia rather than America?
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I brought a New England one a few years ago with a two way snap on. So they must be about. I hope so anyway. I’m in the same boat. Needing a new one too
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Always depends on there function. I like have multiple karbs of the same shapes so I can swap them about and ‘share the wear’ so to speak. I think it’s more of a personal piece of mind thing I do it for
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Yeah finding the motivation and understanding the course level2 material. Different sources of soil organic matter. No problems with day to day tree work operations. Wouldn’t be where I am today if I did
