Joe Newton
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@Simon Rotheram once told me it gets easier after the first three years... It didn't feel that helpful at the time 🤣
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That's the date you went off of cock?
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I remember a time when @Steve Bullman would welcome every new member he could!
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You only have to work with retards occasionally? Lucky. One in particular untied my base tie without my asking.
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Don't get butt hurt Stevie, you went down the same derail. I have a point and you know it.
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Generally speaking most people won't be working on a base tie on any dismantles, rigging works etc. Most will use a base tie for access and then swap over to a canopy anchor for the work, so it's fairly pointless for most real world applications. Also a working base anchor system is usually a bit more involved than just a hitch.
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A good compromise is to tie an alpine butterfly above the base anchor, that way if the situation called for it you could clip another line into the butterfly and cut the line beneath it
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Had a 2001 mazda b2500 until recently. Great truck. Sold it to a mate and its still going strong
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It's gotta be £200 at a minimum. £300 if you don't care if you get it or not
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So today I got to revisit an old friend: My first encounter was a year ago when I damn near cut through her in a cavity in the underside of an ash branch in a nature reserve. Must've missed her by less than an inch. She flew off straight away and I rigged and screwed the branch back into place with para cord and my fence mending kit. Came back with a mewp today to carry on monolithing the ash which was over the main pedestrian entrance to the reserve and to my surprise she'd returned to her roost! Must've done a pretty decent job reinstating the habitat. A further stay of execution for the tree.
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The two aren't mutually exclusive...
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It's "woe is me". If there's one thing worse than an argumentative Internet troll, it's an illiterate one.
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Air compressors.. which kind to get & what do you use yours for?
Joe Newton replied to Cordata's topic in General chat
A young lad I worked with called me and asked me why his echo could be low on power. I suggested he cleaned the air filter first. He said "Where's that?" Good job he's pretty. -
Air compressors.. which kind to get & what do you use yours for?
Joe Newton replied to Cordata's topic in General chat
SIP 04383 QT100/10 Low Noise Compressor | Toolden WWW.TOOLDEN.CO.UK Shop for SIP 04383 QT100/10 Low Noise Compressor at Toolden. Free shipping for orders over £50... Picked this up recently. A mate bought it for a work project that took a month, then he was done with it. Cost me £150. It's super quiet. -
I can foresee somebody else getting moved on here before long.
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I had the exact same complaints from a neighbour once. I just cut the tree down. No argument, they had me dead to rights.
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Well Bartletts had no issue with their AAAC status after that infamous Lombardy SNAFU, which says it all really and explains why they don't hold a lot of respect in the arb world. A bit like that article I questioned them on recently. A lot of beaurocratic waffle and no action. All fart and no poo.
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Yeah generally if I can bomb big bits then that's the way, but fuck being on spikes taking 6" rings. There was over 50' of 25" timber so it was either chog small or rig. The stem had a fair lean towards the cobbles so chogs would've had to be small to chuck them back towards the lawn. I'll just buy a bigger dead eye.
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I hate chogging unless I can take bigger bits. I eat way too much sawdust otherwise
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Could've chogged it all onto the patch of lawn behind if I'd needed to. There was a decent chance of a round bouncing and fucking off through a fence or chicken coop though.
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Why rig little gay pieces when you could do it in fewer rigs and break your deadeye oh wait...
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What's the reason unless like in my situation you have no space to let it run?
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Using a block mate, don't really see the need for rings most of the time. It was the last rig before I had to chog down, so he wouldn't have been able to let it run more than a few feet.
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🤣 the 200t was just for scale, but yeah it's probably Steve's fault. I'll be sending him an invoice for a new dead eye.
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I would've guessed at closer to 500kg. It was a couple of years old, it's seen a bit of heavy rigging but not loads to be fair. I'm not totally convinced of the suitability of a double braid splice for that application. Reckon a hollow braid dead eye with a locking brummel would do better. Miraculously not, I think the deadly held on long enough to swing the lump into the base of the tree, then it kind of rolled over a little dry stone wall knocking one lump off 😀
