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Beginners climbing guide, hints, tips and general climbing techniques
AHPP replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
Look at the length of eye to eye spliced friction cords sold by arb shops and roughly copy that or tie a fisherman's in the end and then another fisherman's further down, then retie the second fisherman's until you're happy and then make the cut. -
Stihl.
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It’s never the same unless they’re a proper hard copy Haynes.
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Planning for Profit? I’ve only just emailed the guy but hope to be there on Friday. I’ll say hello if I see you. I’ll recognise you from you from your YouTube videos.
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Seminar, course, workshop, knowledgeable man talking, whatever. Not sure really. Anything that helps me kill trees better and make more money. I’m hopefully going to a two hour one about forestry bureaucracy but haven’t seen anything else advertised.
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Assuming the roads are public, you’ll get a one three-hundred-and-sixty-fifth rebate on your car tax. Also, I’m Elvis Presley’s new tour manager.
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Trying to make the most of the show. Are there any organised things happening; rigging, splicing etc?
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You pay £500 to do a course + assessment somewhere. You pass, you go back there. You fail, you go elsewhere. Anyone running courses who is prepared to fail shit candidates will struggle. I know the irrefutably best trainer in the UK in a totally different field. If you pass with him, it means something. He’s still struggling business wise. Most people want to tick boxes and there aren’t enough people wanting something they can really hang their hat on to make providing for that viable. Does that make sense?
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I think you’re right but Lust4life says otherwise. I hope he educates us.
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What law would he be breaking?
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Maybe. I suspect my huskys are better than you think though. In any event, god bless my mending department. She’s visiting next weekend as it happens but it’s mainly shirts I’ve got lined up for her his time.
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Usually less but certainly comparable. If mine get half the use, they’re less than half as bad though.
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Caveat emptor etc...
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If anyone has any tree stuff to sell, the APF car park will be a pretty convenient place to find buyers. The code is this. If you’ve got anything to sell, open your car boot and perch there during leaving time. You’ll miss the traffic on the way out and anyone who spots this thread will know you’re selling. 10% discount on any deal with promo code, TARMACANDLOPPING. Don’t do it in the morning and keep your wares well hidden/secured during the day. Happy trading. I’ll be after a rigging bollard.
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They’re not stacked! Is this a coded distress signal?
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Quality of forest grown wood has been discussed on here very recently. Scandinavian stuff was said to be better but I believe the conversation was about the lower order stuff like first thinnings hardwood and “better” was more about easiness of harvesting for firewood and only very small sawlogs. I couldn’t tell you with any authority whether our bigger trees yield better wood than their Scandinavian counterparts but I suspect it’s good enough for most things, especially if people weren’t so wasteful. I’d be pleased for anyone more knowledge to chime in here. I’m just going on gut feeling inspired by the same gentle nationalism that built a lot of good shit in the past.
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Your middle paragraph is where we agree particularly. We're chipping good timber for bullshit renewable schemes and getting the same wood from abroad. Genius.
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It's only wood. Whatever we're importing because it's straight, tight grained, magic, whatever; it can't possibly be that we can't produce it here. We don't make much out of wood anyway. Thomas Telford designed (among other things) the Caledonian Canal in 1800 and planted an avenue of Douglas Fir at Laggan to provide the timber to maintain it. He'd be fucking sick if he could see the the profligacy prevalent now.
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There'll be some nonsense funded by taxvictims, no doubt. If I was minded to attribute things to some global conspiracy or orderliness, I'd say it was a great way of burning oil in freight ships and all the things that entails.
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The one I usually reel off is boats of trees coming from Scandinavia to the UK passing boats of trees coming from the UK to Scandinavia. It's fucking madness. I hope they sail off the edge of the world.
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Beginners climbing guide, hints, tips and general climbing techniques
AHPP replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
Or yeah, cut and tie until a better hitch works. -
Beginners climbing guide, hints, tips and general climbing techniques
AHPP replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
Try an English prusik. It's not cool but it'll probably grip. -
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Do it yourself, little and often. Bucking Billy Ray on YouTube will show you how.
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Long lanyards are mint. Mine’s 8m. 10m would be fine.
