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It's nothing so trifling for me. No amount of convincing will get me over the design. It's going to kill someone.
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Depends on what sort of wood, how well hinges are working, how well just leaving a rippy cheese string bit on the bottom corner works as a hinge etc. And to an extent what saw I have to hand at the time and what I can reach from a safe spot/good work position. I generally try to make as few cuts as possible and I especially avoid having to cut and chuck 18" stubs to clean up. I have the GRCS on for most trees anyway so I might as well use it if it means I can do a nice flush cut or just have a piece come off calmly. Luxury rigging. So yeah, downwards and sideways ones, cheese string if I can get away with it. For more deliberate upwards and upwards diagonal ones, usually top gobs right against the trunk.
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Yep. Lovely example. Anyone who watches that and still says, "Lifting is for fannies. Never needed it. I can do that with three strand and a crotch." needs to look around at everyone else while they're riding their horse to work.
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Video wouldn't have been very long if he'd just left that fancy bullshit in the van and cut it at the bottom.
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Been watching this guy for a while. Seems like a decent bloke. Certainly one of the calmer American presences on tree youtube. Decided to post here because of the quite striking stuff about the root zone at 0:38 and 5:05 but it then turns into a video of just him quietly doing a good job. Particularly enjoyed the gobs pointing in all directions for lifting, lowering and swinging hingeing. He knows how to use a GRCS.
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Yeah. Sod that.
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Steel does help now you mention it. Will approach one with a more open mind next time I’m at a shop. It might help probably the worst aspect of my climbing, which is my actual climbing. I’m slow and tangly. I only get anything done because I can rig well. Now the Petzl EJECT. There’s something that no amount of convincing will make me trust. What’s the death toll we know about so far?
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What the Gyro does looks great. How it does it looks like it's going to split and paralyse you.
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I love 'em. 220 is my main saw.
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Powerful it may be but it won't have the duty cycle. The battery and/or motor will overheat going flat out for any period of time. Whereas you could plumb a 261 to a jerry can of mix and it would sing until it ran dry.
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I can't remember whether I have or not but I feel quite sure about it. I do recall having a try of something at Gustharts a while ago. Maybe it was a 300. Were they out not this last APF but the one before?
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Can it fxck.
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No, Stubby. I'm under seventy.
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Urban Dictionary: OG WWW.URBANDICTIONARY.COM OG used to mean Original Gangster allthough some poeple these days use OG as a quicker way of saying... Man I love synths.
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You’re aware the OG radio series music was The Eagles btw? Synthesis is a fabulously deep rabbit hole in the musical world, especially back then. I imagine their gear took up a small room and looked like it could launch ICBMs?
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Late to the thread and haven’t read it but you’re taking about the Golgafrincham B Ark from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Telephone sanitisers, marketing executives etc. They crashed on earth, wiped out the indigenous cavemen and we’re descended from them.
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Fixed without surgery. Looks good on the stats too.
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Aye. That'll relax her... Since you've mentioned it though, I'm not missing the opportunity to shoehorn in a link to my band's new EP. You have to be shameless when you have more driving licence points than fans.
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George is still alive. Every time I put her somewhere, she somehow manages to end up shuffling up a few inches further than the last shuffle from the last graceless heap she was left in. She flaps and gripes at me a bit harder each time I pick her up. Small improvements. Play on for now. Maybe I'll learn something.
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Aye. I called that firm up the thread and the guy looked down the phone at me like I'd asked whether they were halal. When you say business btw, do you mean VAT registered business or just business?
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Bastards. Irish bastards but probably the same here.
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Post the link if it’s still open on your phone please. The cookie options banner is in the way of the picture of the girl sucking a cock.
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I’m probably clenching more than grinding. I remember I did keep catching myself with my back right teeth together and thinking it was bad for them. I did in fact do a long drive for the first time in a while the other day but also a day climbing for the first time in a while. And have had a bout of (bad) ear pain for the first time in a while. I think we’re on the right track. I’m a very relaxed and unstressy driver btw. I find it more boring and depressing than anything else.
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Intermittent electrical fault a good analogy. I had a very annoying couple of months where I was trying to get to the dentist while it was bad. It kept coming and going as appointments were available and not. Should have just barged in and been demanding in hindsight. I don’t think I lead a particularly stressful life. This annoying thing that I can’t diagnose is probably one of the more stressful parts. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy in that respect, worse when I’m stressed because I’m stressed about it. I tried wearing the side of my head out by biting down on things HARD. Didn’t ease it much.
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As an aside, does anyone know why these muffs have VAT on them? They’re PPE.
