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Have another look in the morning once your chow mein's worn off.

He's here for a good time, not for a long time. Though I do admit that approach didn't work out for my crèche business.

Not a lot of sprawling big bramble patches, just the usual tripwires. The thickest stuff is gorse, which is how he will lose an eye one day. Face first, no fxcks given.

Including for balancing diagonals?

Sailor hasn’t got a bloody clue. It’s just a raucous walk. He gets into cover a bit but doesn’t search it assiduously. I sometimes throw sticks at where I want him to look. He’s on a long lead so I can stop him if he does want to flush fifty (not that that’s ever going to happen on this shoot). The lead is a pain but there are hares and deer and I’m not yet part enough of the furniture to take the risk of him chasing them. I say risk. It’s a certainty.

That’s a lovely little pack you have there. Who’s in charge?

Sailor’s little excited face when he realised where we were going this morning (beating - five hours of being encouraged to chase things).

How very novel. I've broken all the usuals over the years; gutters, tiles, greenhouses etc. I didn't do any of them with a 45 gallon drum though.

Clever but I imagine only worth the faff if you’re doing loads of base-cut picks or are suffering some prohibition of hook riding.

Did you get the weights right on the bottom? I’ve done a couple of those and the butts were surprisingly heavier than the middle stem. I’m not mega strong so all chains are heavy to me. My process: 1. Have the crane driver position the chain ends on the pith, without you on the hook. 2. Cable down until the main hook touches the pile of chain. 3. Climbing system onto the hook/ball. 4. Cable up to get you onto the plateau and until there’s only a few feet of chain on the pile. 5. Arrange the choke (secret handshake - leg one chokes onto leg two, leg two chokes onto leg one) around the edge, cabling up/down as needed. 6. Push it all off together and it slips down over the stem like putting a heavy jumper on a child. 7. Usually only very minor wrestling to set the chains and you’re tied in to do it. Don’t let the crane driver slew or boom you around. He’ll lose the position over the pith.

There are tree friction devices that work like a Petzl STOP. They look fairly good for up-tree use.

Good find. Will almost certainly use that. rigging gear encyclopaedia comparison buyers’ guide all available peds

Yeah. I have both but you don’t expect to actually need them.

Only as long as rice took to do. Started late. Hungry. Needs must. Not my best work.

Ugh. Socials (media). It was only this arvo that I was suggesting we bin the facebook page.

That's one of the newer, better ones. Older ones I'm going to have to re-record at some point. It's a process...

Hi. Just me back hijacking egg's thread to punt my music again. Partly because I can and partly because I've been asked about it elsewhere on the forum. Anyway, it's not just me calling my music protest music. A local artsy mag is too.

Pheasant Exxon Valdez. An oil slick of a tomato-based curry. Rare for me these days. Usually use coconut milk.

I'm a better singer than Dylan and a better writer than Lennon but on the whole no.

America is dreadful for that. Gun stuff is often American and often imperial. I can tolerate the tradition on lever guns etc but for modern stuff, bloody modernise. And more to the point, bloody standardise. Especially with things that are likely to be used in a pinch, where not being able to fix it because you don't have some minority allen keys could be a serious problem. Oh I don't know. Like you've got a gun out of action while you're being shot at or you're up a mountain in the middle of the night, trying to not drop a patient on a sharp rock.

Great minds think alike. I was about to ask that. He said/implied he was doing something like royal/diplomatic sites.

I was always under the impression it was particularly Bahco adjustable spanners that were known as shifters. I usually abbreviate to ‘adjustable(s)’ btw, peds. Like a Labrador.

Is that Alistair Magee’s old truck?

Man. Big topic. Try these. https://mises.org/mises-daily/wouldnt-warlords-take-over https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-12-public-sector-iii-police-law-and-courts/courts

Only in the same way that public opinion turned Stone Cold Steve Austin from a heel into a face. It’s a soap opera. How about a list of what public opinion hasn’t brought down? It’ll be long…