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  1. Bolt
    2 ropes of suitable length (to comply with cherrypicked guidance).... but I also use whiptails and karabiners as well. Just because I could climb on just a couple of ropes and a harness, doesn’t meant I do.
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    2 ropes.... 2 rope bags. Yes, I’m that opulent.
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    In that or any self rescue scenario, it it was me using 2 full lines, id immediately ditch the second line and decend normally. Ffs its an emergency! Any good? This. Been climbing on ‘two ropes’ since 2015 (client requirement) can’t think of a single time that my poor rope management resulted in them all getting tangled together..... sorry.
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    In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I have only watched a telly twice this year. I watched one in a Travelodge just outside Okehampton at the New Year, and the other at a Travelodge just outside Macclesfield in October. I do enjoy the radio though.
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    Sorry for my ignorance, haven’t pay-as-you-go tv channels already been invented?
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    When I think of important duties for the nuts, “a kick in them” is a fair way down my list.
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    I have always intended on visiting a commonwealth war cemetery one day, never got around to it yet, although I often take in a detour to the war graves when working adjacent to tiny village churchyards. It is disturbing how many tiny, tiny communities lost so many of their young during the madness of the last century. I am not really sure how I feel about a visit to a deathcamp. Experiencing those places is probably something everyone should do, but I am not sure I would be comfortable going as a ‘tourist’. I did visit a forum once, and there was this attempt at comedy that suffered a long and painful death.
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    Been waiting 23 years for an opportunity to wheel out that particular atrocity. Thanks.
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    Stoats: They Mustelidae merry dance to get away with a tree jack.
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    My mistake...... as you were! ?
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    Indeed. WaH* has sat happily in our industry for [over a] decade. It is a pity that a few in positions of ‘authority’ have seen fit to reinterpret it. All of this is a result of a very few individuals.
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    Seems at bit harsh, especially when you consider it’s been in place since 2005 ( longer than many of the recent dissenters have been climbing). Surely the problem is the recent reinterpretation made by a handful of people attending a climbing demo?
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    If Billhook ever pops over to your woods for a visit, for Heaven’s sake make sure he doesn’t attempt park the XC70 anywhere near this bit!
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    It is very shiny-shiny though.
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    +1 Learning on the classic 3 knot system means that I can still cut any tree I come across with nothing more than a longish rope, a shortish rope and a harness. I look at the complexity of all this .... and I just don’t think I could be arsed.
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    Hopefully there are not too many dogs in your woods. Nothing like blundering unexpectedly into a clutch of dogseggs to rudely snap you out of your brushcutter musings.
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    Yep. Tote the next one up.
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    Keeps the weeds at bay though.
  20. Bolt
    Sorry. I’ll stop. Please go ahead and get the subject back onto a stable footing.
  21. Bolt
    The other horse replied: ”Whinny hitched us up to this, I thought he was kidding”.
  22. Bolt
    Bit unnecessary to Tack yer horsey puns onto this thread. Could you not Saddle a less interesting subject up with them?
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    Middle aged men these days ‘eh!!
  24. Bolt
    For a moment I read that as “Gina Miller & River Cottage”. I thought, Christ, she’s everywhere!
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    It’s easy to glance at an old photo and think nothing of it, but even a photo as initially unimpressive as this poses so many questions... .... just two horses?? Really? What happens if you get to an uphill bit.... or possibly worse, a downhill bit? ....what about the most innocent looking side slope. ....how do you get them up there? .... how do you get ‘em down again without breaking your neck? .... what stops everything from bulging or spilling out the sides? .... what kind or ropes and knots puts up with that kind of loading? .....how the hell would you ever manage to undo knots subjected to those temperatures and loading? If we all tried to recreate that simple picture using modern kit, I reckon we would struggle (and that would probably just be in doing the paperwork)! Respect.

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