BenR
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Cheers mate, You heading to The Gambia again this year? Big trip again in 2015?
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Large and Small, Ross. Whichever one you get they are overpaid and high all the time though..
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Its come round fast! Time to go off to the Indonesian rainforest of Buton again. This year with one university student collection data for his dissertation and one student coming as a research assistant. Big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the trip/project thing. This is my favourite photo from last year. If you look carefully you can spot the tiny spider the dragonfly is after.
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The boxwood one is great but doesnt take a stiff tether well and i drilled it for 13mm rope.. should make another for 11mm Kevin changed my climbing in one video with that original wooden wrench:thumbup:
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hmm lets not go into this debate again each to their own. I do love 11mm through the gear but my hands cant take it Drew. 11.7 is a struggle on cold or wet days. Maybe I should have a crack at the 12mm kern and whats more I would be less load as a proportion of the MBS, so potentially would get less bounce out of it?! Cant wait to get away now! Less than two weeks and I will be out of touch with the world of the internet!! WOOHOOO:001_smile: have fun in hawaii bruzza:thumbup1:
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No idea mate..ive never ordered from them when living in the UK
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Mahaha suckkers for punishment Mark:001_tt2:
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A less bouncy version of tachyon would be lovely.
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Treestuff will deliver:thumbup1:
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I hear you on the super static stuff.. In my ideal world Yale would make a kernmaster that has the same stretch properties as cougar blue, with 11.5mm diameter and the same tightly braided cover as kern.
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Same.
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BULKY!! petzl basic looks to be the most streamlined. The futura doesnt seem to like getting loaded at much of an angle either which sometimes happens if you kick out rather than down.. Ive had my futura slip on the line before when used as an upper ascender passing branches..
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The best tether currently on the market is the ABR stitched one in my book.. Its simple, rated, stiff and works well. Or just make your own exactly how you want it OR wait for a legacy
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stepped spears are the daddy for larger bits
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Another layer of tape and heatshrink tubing
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somthing on the tether like a little loop of throwline. or the becket on the pinto
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Adams one defo stops flopping.. hurts a bit when it goes in/on mind..
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Not too bad.. I think its all in the prep and keeping heaps of tension on the eye while burying.. Used Tachyon is a prick though. cut out the 3rd core
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A video one of the guys at the workshop day put together for Treekit:001_smile:
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If it was Kevs im not surprised. Imagine the load it had to hold!! too high tech for him anyway
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Used calamine on the clean end:001_smile:
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Get/make a decent tether. I'd wait for the legacy tether from Adam Bourne and bodge the one you have up using Tommy's advice James..
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Gutted for you but not surprised cole. F that piece of crunk stick to your spiderjack
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Mid june:blushing: excited. You'll have to get along one year. Find me the most static kern and try to convert me drew:001_tt2: I want some of the american PI Ewan has.. Apparently its awesome:thumbup:
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Thats cool to know drew. Ive never climbed on the standard cougar, only the blue variety so i cant compare:thumbup1:
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