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Then they can be easy enough to turn on, if you want them. You get into a hire car and it does shit like that by default. Miserable.
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I agree with Stubby. These things are monstrously dangerous. They can turn a good driver from calmly attentive into a nervous wreck with knuckles white on the wheel, spending more brainpower on wondering what the car's going to do next than focusing on the road.
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Is Toadie still in it? Karl and Susan must be dead by now?
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The prospect of being treated by unvetted AI is terrifying. "Patient complained of worse hearing in left ear than right ear. Strapped him to a table and blew a horn in his right ear to restore balance."
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That's going to make just about every conversation about everything in an arb day awkward and depressing. All we do is check the other person has secured something.
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Come on @kram. We were making progress. And people watching might be learning something too.
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Yeah. Makes sense. Sort of. You're still swinging a weight around though, whether you threw it or not. SRT makes more sense. Or just climbing (ideally with a pole) still makes quite a lot of sense. Whatever. As long as you're mindful of where the weight could bounce. Related story: As a child, I was obsessed with grappling hooks from seeing one in the Gibraltar scene in The Living Daylights. I collected bits off ploughs from nearby fields, tied them to washing line and swung from trees with them. My mate, Robbie came over one day. Big lad. He went for a swing. The bit of plough came out of the crotch a good thirty feet up and pinged right into his head. Blood everywhere. Lucky to not be killed. Do recall his dad being annoyed. Don't recall how much he came over to play after that.
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This too. My throw weight for a short while was a ball pein hammer head. Let someone use it once, on their job, with fair warning and proper trepidation. That was bad enough. It now lives on the mantlepiece and holds a sock over the fire if I need to dry one in a hurry.
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Springsteen is a fcking great writer.
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Well they're not really a manufacturer as much as a sourcer/brander then. Which is fine. But reading between the lines it does look like a salesman from ISC looked at one of their products (Big Dan biner, a stalwart) and thought, "I know how many of those they sell and how much they cost to make. I'll get China to make them for less and clean up." Which is a bit sharp and not the sort of business I'd choose to deal with. Trade with Wales has its own problems but you can at least drive there and shout at them if there's a problem.
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What Mike said.
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This At Height lot need a bit of scrutiny. They've sprung up from nowhere, most noteworthily offering a biner that looks a lot like an ISC Big Dan. And I can't for an instant imagine why ISC would be licensing or OEM manufacturing for them. And they've sold kram some bizzare aspartame chrome plated cambium saver ring.
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I bet you’re extra sexy when you’re angry. Say GRRRR for me, baby!
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Never heard of them. Assume a dead thing? Would be proud to posthumously proceed over it.
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I want to try some kind of sliced then baked thing but my oven is rubbish. Spills loads of heat out the door. Wasteful. Maybe some kind of posh tater tot. Some blokes that run some restaurants in London (Fallow, Roe, Fowl) have pushed the recipe in front of me on facebook a few times.
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Since we're all learning gay compliance bullshit tonight: Those cheeky Chinese chappies.
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It's a lovely bridge. Would like to see traffic over it again.
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Good on him for posting. I snapped the points out of an oak a few years ago. I doubt I told the world that evening. Similar cause to mine. Trusting just the strength of a union when you should be trusting triangles. Haven't made that mistake since.
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This is great. You're thinking about it. Have another look at the 16mm rope section of your deliberations. It has a minimum breaking strain of 40kN. How might you arrive at a working load limit or safe working load for it? Walk me through it like I know nothing. And you were talking about a 100kg top. Remember that if you've got a 100kg load hanging on one side of a ring, you've also got 100kg the other side of the ring too, on your portawrap or whatever. So you're not putting 100kg on the ring and deadeye (and rigging point). You're putting 200kg on it. And that's only statically. It's more force if snatched (do you know how much more force potentially btw?). And that's on both sides of the ring still. A 100kg top is a huge top btw. We can do the sum later. Get your ring and deadeye capacity worked out first.
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Just dug these up from 4’x4’ in the tunnel. Leaves spent most of the time swamped by collapsed tomato plants. No earthing up. Can’t even remember what I put in to start them but it won’t have been much. What a result.
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OK. Show your working.
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kram doesn’t need to guess. kram can work it out and tell me with surety and confidence.
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What’s the working load limit in that configuration for your use?
