RobRainford
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Daisy chaining is good for shorter ropes. Makes my hands ache after doing 20m though! I flake my rope into a bag over my shoulder, been to its full length once and close a couple times. I have 45m of xtc and it doesn't twist when it comes out the bag.
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You can come and take all of mine if you want it. Might be a bit far though!
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Hitch Climber.... Am I just a big fairy...?
RobRainford replied to WorcsWuss's topic in Climbers talk
to extend your hitch away from you, buy a dyneema sling , 30 or 50cm seems to be a good length, and clip that from your bridge to bottom carabiner, no fancy knots or O rig system, really simple. -
Volunteer, Gopher, Dogsbody - Teach me o' wise one - Bristol Area
RobRainford replied to Big Dan's topic in Employment
i think going straight onto the MSc in arb will be a big challenge if you have no previous knowledge, they usually have an assumed knowledge base, so it will be properly in at the deep end if you do that! if you can get your cs30/31 and cs38 ASAP you are valuable to companies as you are an aerial rescuer, but climbing speed and confidence comes into it if they want you to climb for them, your courses would see you as competent, but you learn once youve passed the assesments! if you are looking at an academic route, look at the FdSc in Arb, it starts at a good level, i had no previous arb knowledge and did that, was tough going but it all started to fall into place eventually. i went from the fdsc onto a bsc, which i will be finishing in may (3 years done) and it has been a great experience, and i think the masters is a big jump from BSc level. other than that, good luck with your adventure -
They do enjoy that fire
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Thanks Gerrit, good to have that cleared up for myself.
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more so lifted into a high pile, as i dig out of a pickup i get a pile that spreads around but is only 3ft deep. so i shove it all up. no issue if its contaminated really, it can be spread onto fields and given to all the local farmers.
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thats good, but looks shopped, palms dont have branches like other trees!
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thought so, luckily the blase came with a nice easy end to feed it onto!
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did you find the croft oak? and the field of ancient oak pollards? went there twice in october, will be going back to get some data, that place is important for my dissertation. love those old sweet chestnuts!
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can a positioner be mounted mid line? i got mine at christmas but im yet to use it, treated it to a nice 5m length of blaze with a spliced on snaplock, mmmmm shiny! ive used the grillion but that was in my early days, never really got attracted to them gri gris can be picked up cheaper, but they have a swinging plate on the side that is held on by the carabiner, the grillion is fixed and is designed for arb!
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Hitch Climber.... Am I just a big fairy...?
RobRainford replied to WorcsWuss's topic in Climbers talk
for ascending, get a pantin, works wonders. i think the friction saver would be the biggest issue here, get a longer one! -
all mine is on gravel, it gets lifted and tunred and sometimes bits get in it, the gravel in it is the fine stuff used when Colas (road maintainance guys) covered loads of our roads in that mixed with tar. i doubt id get much for it?
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I know the feeling! Ive just turned 21 and doing it on my own nearly 2 years now. One cheeky customer got me in for a job then came out and said they are disappointed with what had been done and I'm too inexperienced! Most people are surprised to see that I'm the boss, usually the guys I have working with me are asked if they are the boss.
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I've got one too. They are cool. Mike do you make chainsaw noises when you use it?
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I should have said conifers, as it slipped my mind that you can get broadleaved evergreens! Holly is a hardwood Evergreen oak is a hardwood Ginkgo I'm unsure, it did pop into my mind, i shall be doing some reading on these. Swamp cypress I would assume softwood Open to corrections, these are off the top of my head.
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Not proper spalting, but still a cool pattern i think.
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Although there is the odd one or two oddities!
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large fir dismantle,Prestbury,Cheshire
RobRainford replied to [email protected]'s topic in Picture Forum
Bish bash bosh. Nice job! Wish they were all so simple! -
V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"
RobRainford replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Tree health care
First one, looks like abnormal growth stresses causing the rippling, doesn't seem like mega compression, definitely increment strips because of fast growth though! Second lot, if that's elm it could very well be Scolytus multistriatus that caused that. -
If ganoderma was the culprit I believe you would have seen a failure at the base of the stem and not roots. As well as fruiting bodies. Culprit for this could have been merip due to root rot, can't remember 100% if sorbus is a host for merip.
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Here's mine from my recent 21st:
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Hardwoods are broad leaves, softwoods are evergreens! Sums it up pretty much. To go into detail it's to do with the vessels in the wood, where hardwood is made up of xylem vessels, and softwoods use tracheids to transport nutrients.
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finally got round to making a tool box
RobRainford replied to testcricket01's topic in Picture Forum
Smart that, inspiring. Makes me want to change 4x4 for transit! Purely for the loading space! -
Plenty firewood in those chunks! Would not fancy carrying that through a long muddy garden alleyway and onto the back of a truck! Nice bit of merip spalting too, I do like that
