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Big, strong screws that should support the weight of big-arsed, big-titted Suffolk heifers sat down, listing back and forth breathing heavily in your shop while you try to look somewhere, anywhere else. They're like nails in that they can flex, like a nailed-together house frame moving in the wind. Normal screws are comparatively brittle.
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If I’m picking up what you’re putting down, perhaps use structural framing screws.
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Peace and love, Stubby dude.
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The problem with Brexit is that we only got rid of one government. We still have one left.
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what is the most favoured top handle saw and climbing gear
AHPP replied to manchester tree services's topic in Chainsaws
It’s bloody useless. Not just weird like someone who’s taken the wrong drugs before a dinner party but often plain wrong. Often enough that you can’t trust it. *I* can’t trust it, that is. The people who make traffic lights and nuclear reactors run are probably all for it. -
And since I’m now thinking about it, three or four APFs ago, I spent quite a bit of time in the tent of a business that made autobrakes like autobelays at climbing walls. I can’t remember what sort of range the weights of pieces had to be in. There must be some clever way of slowing any given weight down the same, like how wind resistance increases not linearly with speed but squared (road cyclists know this). Parafans do it to an extent. You could make one that used a thicker fluid than air.
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Rigging wrenches are a nice idea, just inflexible. I had an idea for improving them by adding a dangling control line that the climber can pull to ease friction and let light pieces run. Messy and faffy though. A solution to a problem for which there are already loads of solutions.
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And since I haven’t evangelised about helmet comms this week yet, this is another time they’re great. I have many times tricked an otherwise arsey groundsman into being nice to the passing public by using an assuring tone of voice and words like, ‘ask’ and ‘please.’ It goes into their ears and then comes back out of their mouths. “Fuxcking stop that fxcking bike.” is just going to make someone stamp over all ready for a barney.
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Peasgood makes an excellent point about the boy who cried wolf. Similarly, I expect a level of assertiveness from someone asking me to keep out of their work site but, as a member of the public on a piece of public (my) property, I won’t tolerate entitlement. I’ve worked with plenty of gobshites who think it’s their divine right to tell people to stop, wait, go around etc. I remind them that it is we who are causing the inconvenience and that we should kindly ask people to stop, wait go around etc, not demand that they do. That kind of respect (or usually lack of) just radiates off you. Number of times I’ve seen the public barge through sites from up a tree - many. Number of times the public have got arsey with me, treating them with deference and asking, not telling them to wait - none this last decade. tl;dr Don’t be officious.
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What would you hope to find in little chainsaw shop?hop?
AHPP replied to peds's topic in General chat
Gloves is a good idea. -
Joggers on big roads boggle my mind. Noise, fumes, danger. Aye. That’s where I want to be, trying to listen to music and breathing heavily.
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What would you hope to find in little chainsaw shop?hop?
AHPP replied to peds's topic in General chat
Harnesses last years and cost loads. -
What would you hope to find in little chainsaw shop?hop?
AHPP replied to peds's topic in General chat
Eye to eye prussiks, one popular climbing rope, 12mm Sirius, biners, DMM pinto rig, deadeyes, portawraps. Harness litter like those little wedges and the sticks for rolling cookies off. Daunting task. Most of it will sit there for years. -
Just watched a few videos about it (it’s called the Hexarope Hands Up). It’s slower than a biner, takes two hands and it can’t also be used as a biner. Dumbos may struggle but they work it out. Plus they may be a dumbo who has previously struggled and worked out a biner. More likely than having seen one of those before. And there’s no advantage in them seeing one for the first time. Trinket section I’m afraid.
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And I’ll have you know a goth bird very clearly eyed me up only four days ago and I left her well alone. Largely because I’m not sure she was old enough to drive.
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Workers wanting stability can sign a 5/10/20/life year deal with the car factory. Sketchy arb types can live on their wits to their hearts’ contents. And anyone can do anything in between as long as someone else wants to be the other half of the deal. It sounds edgy but all it is is individual choice in a world where that’s the exception rather than the rule.
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Ability bestowed upon them by being trained by the employer or someone he delegates the job to. Devil’s advocate. Don’t shoot. The real problem here I think is the concept of employment as it currently operates. The law sees them as servants, at best fleshy robots, to be coddled and commanded by their employers. I’m aware some workers want to turn their brain off work at five and turn it back on at nine the next morning but I think the near absolute lack of self-direction that blueprint employment encourages is bad for a man. Self-employed people tend to self-improve to compete, which is good for everyone. There’s no reason why, in a world of only business operators and self-employed people, agreements couldn’t be made about use of other people’s equipment, having courses paid for by them etc. The current system infantilises workers.
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I don’t recall seeing any holes there but I have a cutting torch that is still novel.
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That looks like it'll sit against wood worse than a normal biner.
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I've thought for a while they look good. ISC and Harken do them too. Probably others. Only downside I can see compared to a ring is that the rope probably takes itself to the top of the tree if you drop it?
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The best thing is that I get to use one of my comedy sized spanners (36mm). I have a 50mm one in the van, about two feet long, that I keep there to kill highwaymen. It owes me quite a lot in diesel at this point.
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Just a big nut from a box of assorted nuts that I'm cobbling together something with.
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Didn’t even get it all. Big recess.
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Just because it's something I have, being used to bodge something that won't be there forever. M24 so not something that I have a load of plain ones lying around. Freezing's an idea. It seemed pretty in there, like in an internal radial groove.
