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I own double braid spliced deadeyes because they came to me with other gear. I’d never buy one. Put the thing in a bight of a plain length and knot with both legs. Twice as strong, wear point moves around, saves splice cost. Or like you say, at least use something where you can see the splice is still good.

Thank christ that’s over for another year. I’ve got two pheasants in the freezer. I’m giving them to my parents’ dog.

Concur. Possibly why I semi forgot that answer. I also might have thought it wasn’t very good. I assume strop ones are long so you can girth hitch a portawrap on. Neat but loses strength (important or not but it still does). There might be some martitime use requirement that we don’t know about?

It felt springy on the last shoot (31st January). My mate, albeit in a gloomy mood, remarked that did it fjuck (but a couple of moments later confessed he’d just seen a daffodil tip). Generally easy winter I’d say. Last year was cold (slippery and frozen water for fowl) and the one before was that cold rain that dragged on forever. I particularly remember a particular act of desperation of going on the airport website to see if I could fly somewhere warm, like now.

Hard and unenjoyable watching but interesting subject. Who uses these day-to-day?

Good question. Don’t know to a certainty. Did find out a while ago but answer obviously wasn’t important enough to remember. It might be slightly more shock absorbent with a bit more length in the eye? Possibly convention for if you’ve got a connector with a bigger bend radius spliced in. Or some kind of hard eye. Possibly even a hangover from such a convention, that now just tells you it’s a rigging rope rather than a tight-eyed climbing rope. Right. Look it up. See how close I was.

We as a people need to wind the clock back on legwear. Greaves, puttees etc.

Hugely pleasing. Strong aesthetic. An eternal vibe.

I woke up at midday and it appears to be spring! Walking the dog now. My jacket’s open. I just found a young couple sitting on the ground, admiring the view together. Optimism. Promise!

I’ve got one portion of pheasant curry left and just about enough will to eat it if I space it out. Had a couple of days mainly drinking wine but also grazing on flatbreads and butter for a change. Put a finely sliced red onion and some cheese in this one. Just plain flour, salt and water for the bread. No kneading to speak of, no proving, roll it out with the last bottle.

Don’t know. I only noticed a few weeks ago when I tried to tag him.

The ghost of Big J would want this posted.

Yes. Someone blew themselves up with their own bomb. Hoisted by their own petard.

This is utterly ****************ing miserable. I thought it might have been staged by some kind of midlands-based anti-AI propaganda unit. Conceivable but it can't be that bad surely. It is. With a couple of mates tonight and asked whether they'd seen it and whether they thought it was real. One mate is a tech bod (and more on him later). He said it was probably real and opened his chatgpt to try it again or see if they'd fixed it. Sure enough, two Rs and on my quizzing revealed that one of the Rs was after the O. My mate leaps to the defence of his AI god. "It's still a good tool. I use it all the time. Summarising things and such." Now it gets more horrifying. He's not just a tech bod. He's a legal tech bod. He works for a very, very large law firm, designing AI stuff that allows lawyers to shirk while still billing like jews. He had open on his desktop a 312 page Financial Conduct Authority briefing document. Someone had asked him to read it. Outrageous! "That'll take ages. I'll get chatgpt to summarise it for me." We are ****************ed. He sat three feet from me and watched AI fail to spell strawberry and then in the next breath either trusted it or was indifferent to its true ability to digest thousands of words of proper technical stuff and provide counsel to those who need it. We are ****************ed. I should have blinded him and stuck nails in his eardrums to halt the harm he's doing to my planet but he's a mate and I'm sentimental like that. We are ****************ed though.

It’s not my idea. There have been various up-tree rigging devices over the years, including a shrouded portawrap that prevents rope pinch. And there’s still a lot going for the layout. Hence why I suspect Matty’s safebloc strategy is pretty good.

Read thread again, Dan. Addressed.

Yep. That does sound slick. Carry on, everyone.

How much wood do you do with the safebloc, Matty?

Best technique.

That was the worst aspect of it I thought of.

Good point.

Edited to aggrieve less.

6:51 onwards as an example of a cleated off dead stop where the climber does everything. But there's nothing stopping the groundsman controlling the tail from the floor. Except it jars with everything we're used to.

I should have explained earlier I meant just for stem chunking. Wrote in a hurry.