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Shorten your line and crouch a bit more, I find this a pain in the ar&e as well, I'm forever getting taken by gravity, it's bloody irritating! You can choke your lanyard round the stem and clip it to a side D which will hold a bit but it's not most comfy....'down-hill' side is most effective on thin stems....

Aaaaah, tomorrow.... we've all got such a lot to do tomorrow.....

Where are Teme Valley Engineering... are they behind Kerry's...? PMS are down Rhys Lane aren't they? I'd like to get it done in ali which may be a bit more specialist than TVE can do. I was going to try Dave Rea at Brimfield, or even Mike Griffths too, they might fancy it.... I think a solution may have presented itself though...

Haha, taking over!

If I wanted to get a working prototype of my widget made up, does anyone have any suggestions as to where might be a good place to start round the West Midlands? I've more or less scrapped my first idea as a non starter but had a lightbulb moment this afternoon and have come up with a new idea which I'd like to try out.....

This was ours, brilliant little car....!

The course and test is only the start of things anyway, the real learning will come with time and working with experienced people. When I did mine we got through 30 to 33 in 4 days with the assessment on Friday.... we smashed down half of Eastnor.... It's far better to set out with your shiny ticket appreciating that you don't know it all as you are, rather than thinking you're 'Thor, destroyer of trees through all the ages', just because the NPTC says you can cut down a couple of carefully chosen beauties....... Well done on passing though.... keep going!

I bought one for my wife a while ago, swapped it for a Disco because we couldn't get baby seats and push chairs in it. I thought it was absolutely brilliant, bloody shame we sold it really, it was tragic. It was registered October 2005 '55' and little one was born in July 06 so I think we only used it for a year, then I bought a 300 Tdi Disco so it sat on the drive for another year before being PX'd against a TD5... They're super little cars and brilliant off road... I'll see if I can dig out some photos of our one...

Tidiness is all in the quantity of boxes you possess.... Even I couldn't keep that much stuff tidy in there with so few crates & racks I made my shelves from 2x2 timber & plywood.... I'll take some photos later....

They charge for this now... seemingly it's not enough that they are paid out of our contributions just to do their job, we must now pay for them to do their job as well..... To get any form of advice [including a site visit] you basically have to make a full application, pay a fee and then they will look at it and make a visit. Additional site visits cost extra.... I was speechless I have to admit....

You just don't have enough shelves....! Get yourself a couple of sets of steel shelves and that will become a thing of the past, sheet of ply on the wall to stick screws in to hang bars etc off, be spotless before you know it! Great space though.... just a shame you're such a scruffy get.... !

Throw in a couple of ISC 50KN pulleys for rigging MA tag lines off a handy stump.....

Same for me, but rope grab feels like a bit of a 'one trick pony' to me.... Although even in this application I think I prefer a knot....

I'm pretty sure that if you asked they could do anything.... they seemed very accommodating when I spoke to them! I'm still waiting for the right moment to buy a little 8x4 single axle unbraked with mesh sides to use for Saturday morning skip runs and so on... at that money I don't think you can go wrong!

Mowing my lawn [more of an obsession than passion...!] Land Rovers, particularly with a Rover V8 in them [playing in them rather than fixing them I must add! ], shooting and farming. Oh, and being a Dad! I think that my real passion is just being outdoors in the country side, so anything which allows me to be there I get quite enthusiastic about.... My latest thing is golf believe it or not... anyone play? I only started last summer after my wife forced me to go out with my father & brother in law one morning.... I had always previously taken the p**s... but I very quickly saw the bizarre attraction, it's a frustrating and consuming game, but every time you hit a good shot it makes you want to do even more.... bloody weird and very dangerous for anyone who likes to be able to master anything they try, because it's never ending!!

I've used them before, they're brilliant... I had 200 people pack up their workstations into 2 of these each while we reconfigured their whole building for them... after £40k and a weekend's work they could fit 201 people in.... job well done....! Might buy some of them, they are good... would have to redesign my in-truck storage system though...

I've been away this week and in between relaxing [briefly] and running round the kids [mostly] I've been thinking about all the things talked about here and have come up with a little widget which I'm going to try to develop into a way round this and a few other regular 'problems'.... it could theoretically even become a kit bag essential [or a total waste of my time and gross miscalculation!l.... Either way, watch this [or some other] space!

Try these.... doubt you'll find cheaper and they're nice trailers... Twin Axle Trailers by Phoenix Trailers

I did have a search for a Dolmar but drew a blank, Makitas are a bit new hence I think a bit out of my price range...

I'll give that a try then.... recommend any?

How does it work? Do you just roll everything up in it?

Thanks Drew, will have a look and try that... Friction was definitely the main problem, followed a close second by pulling technique... both of which would have been overcome if I toughened up a bit! Fair point about the gloves, I have used 'sticky' gloves before but I do prefer these, I find them very comfortable and they're grippy enough for me.... To be honest, if I can't climb on them then there's something wrong with my set up rather than the gloves, I've never had a problem with my open system before... And ref Hitch Climber comments, of course, and it's not lost on me. So far as I can make out, the only difference between the HC Pulley and traditional is clutter on the ventral and the HC's natural ability to keep everything nicely lined up. In that respect it is just a slight variation on a theme, albeit one whichworks very well. I know that technically I was already a hitch climber on my open system!

My CS is a stitched webbing one from Buxtons, will a webbing prusik work OK on it? Plus I need a ring....! You'll have to enlighten me on an O rig Drew...

It's quite true, all these bloody no win no fee tossers are driving the cost of everything up. That said, for the first time in nearly 10 years, I actually got a renewal which went down this winter, from £340 to £240 I think ... which frankly bloody amazed me.... needless to say I still haggled....!

I have Petzl Cordex Belay gloves, love 'em... Not that heavy, just not tuned into this way of climbing yet I think, and my braking TIP did nothing to help! Yes and yes Rob.... I will try it again on the Croll with a short loop but I think a pantin will be a worthy investment, I do like using an ascender and a footloop... I'd like an adjustable CS... do I need to be able to splice to assemble the kits that FRJ sell....? As I see it, the main issues are the friction at the top of the system - this is easily rectified with a longer false crotch - and my technique. I will add a pantin to it I think, I do like kicking the line through with my foot and the system I have previously used doesn't seem very compatible with this, unless I add a strop in between the ventral and HC to position the hitch the same distance from me as my blakes was.... Experimenting is all part of the fun though isn't it!