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  2. Dan Curtis
    I wondered why he was struggling to pull by hand but had the skid to do it:confused1:
  3. Dan Curtis
    Make a button on the website that works like the participated part of the app. Be great to just click and bring up the threads you've been contributing to
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    I had one that close last year walking the dog at dusk in the woods. I kept as still as I could and the deer and dog ended up nose to nose, sussing each other out. The dog got scared, she was only a couple of months old and ran away. The deer just carried on it's business and wandered off after 5 minutes or so.
  5. Dan Curtis
    Or just a prussik with a Munter/Italian hitch backup if you want to keep it simple and don't own a figure 8:001_smile:
  6. Dan Curtis
    Took about 5 minutes once I satdown and had a think. If you add a throw bag instead of a retrieval line it'll remotely retrieve
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    I changed over to tree gaffs for a wellingtonia takedown and never changed back. I much prefer the longer ones now I'm used to them. As has been said, they're great for ivy clad trees and I find it gives you a better swivel point to get yours toes against things if you need to on a skinny pole.
  8. Dan Curtis
    Been playing about with various ideas for retrievable redirects, this is the most basic I can come up with so far. Have a look and see what you think.
  9. Dan Curtis
    The "slaice" is a softer splice type affair, which runs better with an O-rig should you be that way inclined.
  10. Dan Curtis
    I said a few things here about ropes this morning mate, just my two pence; http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/68475-rope-me.html I use a 60m length of Tachyon from time to time, srt it's not an issue for me as I can set the tail whatever length I like regardless of BA/Top TIP. If you plan your climbs I don't see why it would be an issue DdRT but would perhaps be a bit heavy when you do need to move it in a 7m tree!
  11. Dan Curtis
    That's nothing, I've had a guy turn up for work one morning drunk and coked up:thumbdown:
  12. Dan Curtis
    Nod has a reel I believe
  13. Dan Curtis
    Having said all that, my current rope of choice is Cougar Blue, the firmess and size are just about right for me. It's not the hardest wearing and some have reported issues with quality control. Expensive to boot. But I'd still recommend it
  14. Dan Curtis
    I'd go for New England Tachyon over the Teufelburger, seems a firmer braid and more hard wearing. Great for DdRT, but a bit bouncy for some SRT. If you're coming down from 13 I'd stay around the 11.7 mark, any smaller and you may find yourself getting cramps in your hands and forearms from the size difference until you get used to it. Blue Tongue I find a bit too abrasive, but other Yale 11.7's are fine imo. Poison Ivy feels like a bigger diameter than it is, and may have issues self tending with mechanical devices like the ZZ until the device has some wear. If I was to go back to DdRT I'd probably use Samson Velocity, small, firm, great in mechanical devices. Though it is 11mm, so may not be the best rope to go straight to from a 13mm.
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    Ian Flatters
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    I've got a few pairs of Airstreams and I know what you mean. I find that the firmness goes with enough wear and the tread grips fine once it's been softened by use. How much wear are yours getting? I would've thought after 6 months they'd be fine. I wear mine probably 10 or more hours a day during the week, 4/5 hours a day at weekends so they do wear in quickly for me, both at work and hiking, walking the dog, pottering about the yard. A month is enough for mine to loosen up and grip properly
  17. Dan Curtis
    Any chance of seeing pictures of the homemade wrenches?
  18. Dan Curtis
    I just put my left foot on top of my right toes with a right pantin on. Gives you double legged power with half the cost!
  19. Dan Curtis
    Battery, gas can, two blokes looking the wrong way? Am I getting warm?
  20. Dan Curtis
    I may be way off the mark, but could it have been a previously (now gone) crossing limb? It looks to me like the mouth type shape where the stem has attempted to occlude and get hold of the crosser, then in it's absence filled the void?
  21. Dan Curtis
    Do you think your anchor tree was big enough? Looks like a goodun!
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    :lol:
  23. Dan Curtis
    He could get a job as a crane driver and do it everyday! He did seem a bit heartless not replying when they were talking on the train.
  24. Dan Curtis
    I know it as a tongue and groove but I may be wrong. It was originally used to keep hillside trees on the stump. The forester who showed it to me used it as a bench to lay other trees onto to keep them at a comfortable snedding height. I had no use for it in this situation but fancied giving it a razz
  25. Dan Curtis
    Can't be doing too badly for someone who seemed to be unemployed, yet manages to go to LA twice in a year and Ukraine. The mother thing is understandable, but my mum worries about me climbing trees and using saws, she worried about me skateboarding in my teens. I don't think anyone's mother would ever be cool with them doing something like that

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