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  1. Anyone done this ? It's a double braid construction but the outer is so thick and the core so thin that I can't see how to get one to pass through the other. Perhaps should be using a different technique ?:confused1:
  2. I've just been asked to fit a trailer-type hand winch to a river outfall flap at work. It is worm drive and the handle turns in the horizontal plane, not the vertical. This may make instalation easier perhaps. The gearing is 30:1 . I'll measure the drum circumference later and let you know what the distance per revolution would be.
  3. Hi, I use an old Husky 141 for the small stuff with a Cannon dime tip bar, the 1/4 sprocket came from DS Bennett. Always works fine. Next size up is a Husky 345, £40 from a boot sale. Then for the big rips I have a Stihl 064 that's over 20 yrs old.
  4. Not any carvings to sell, but a few bits of wood that could be carved. Have you got a specific requirement ? Could catch you at NSS on monday if you like:thumbup1:
  5. And if I'm allowed off the lead to find the cider tent how do I recognise a man with a local tip site?
  6. But remember to make an allowance for shock loading if your lightweight limb is going to free fall a few feet or a big pendulum before it is stopped by your locked-off fig8.
  7. Not related to your thread, although I will mention it to a friend, I will be at NSS. Not carving there this year though, just doing the family bit. Usually I don't see any of it apart from my noisy corner in the bottom field. Weather should make for a good day out
  8. Good, ta. 8mm rope would not give loads of friction in a fig8 but it would give loads of control. Better to put the strain on the tree than on yourself:001_tt2:
  9. Mark, just making the point that you don't always need a lowering rope that's more than twice the height of the job. It seems like another handy trick that could sometimes make life easier. Tie a suitable hitch round a light but tricky limb , put a bulky stopper knot in the other end of the rope and hey presto, a 50ft lower with a 55ft rope.
  10. I like it . Not thought of it but will try it for sure. Significant advantage to me is that to lower a load 50 feet you only need 55 feet of rope:thumbup:
  11. Humble apologies to you all:blushing: Due to a regretable combination of tiredness and stupidity, but mostly the latter, I have confused the RNLI with the Coastguard. I'm in the process of working through preliminary forms to join the Coastguard volunteers in Clevedon, North Somerset. May get involved with things like cliff rescue, mud rescue and searching the Bristol Channel for lost souls. Sorry for the misleading thread:blushing: will pay more attention in future:thumbup:
  12. Mr Heath and Mr Robinson would be well impressed, and so am I.
  13. Our local free paper has a request for interested people to contact the RNLI in North Somerset. Anyone got any experience or advice on becoming a volunteer ?
  14. Hi, I was recently issued with the slightly older Pentax, with GPS and so far it seems ok, but I have to agree with the battery life you've read about. For about 4 years I've had an Olympus Mju (pronounced myooo I think). I prefer it to the pentax, but maybe just because I've had it a while. Reasons to prefer it are......1) Its lense is covered when you switch it off, the Pentax has no cover. 2) the Olympus needs no padded case, the outer is mostly stainless steel, the Pentax needs a case to keep the lense clean and free of scratches, this makes it too bulky for my jeans pocket. 3) Olympus battery life is better, and interestingly they use identical 'dedicated' rechargeable batteries, so this is a fair comparison. 4) Olympus is a smoother shape, my daughter spent a week canoeing/swimming in France with it tucked down the top of her buoyancy aid. So to summarise, I'd get an Olympus Tough, as this is what mine has been replaced by. Regards, Angus.
  15. No, I agree ,but they're about 4 years old now. I don't use them in the summer or for climbing though. I can fix them overnight and I get the satisfaction of making them last. If I handed everything back under warranty at the first sign of trouble nobody would want me in their shop and I'd have nothing to tinker with in the evenings.
  16. Mine did too but I caught the problem early on. Took them to the local cobbler who stuck them good-n-propper. Any sign of a split now and I fix it with Evo-stick type stuff before using them again.
  17. Can't see any wire fids there Tony, but I do have 'The Splicing Handbook' from that list.Have been practicing double braid eyes using a bit of ali tent pole for a fid.
  18. Have a feeling there's some sort of biomass facility at Avonmouth. A mate looked into hauling chip there with tractor & trailer, not sure what the outcome was. Will let you know if I can find out.
  19. Is there a reasonably priced source for them in the UK ?
  20. Yes it may be safe, but the individual product must have approval for in or near water. Most types of Roundup are not approved for in or near water, but apparently the one that the Environment Agency specifies has exactly the same ingredients, just an extra field of approval. The key is ,as usual, in the small print.
  21. And then some. About big enough to fit over a bucket , but why ?
  22. Simple question....Why are the spliced eyes on some deadeye slings so big ? They seem much bigger than necessary to me but have I over looked something ?
  23. Anyone able to direct me to the course content for the new qual' code 'M' please?

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