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Don't get it.... I know that wikipedia is offline today in protest but as I have no grasp of US politics this goes way over my head....
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Looks like a slightly newer version of the type.... If the cable is too thin you won't do anything with it yet. But assuming you get it set up with the right cable then you could certainly try pulling stumps with it, that's what mine used to be used for by the previous owner....
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This presumably is SRT & lets you set your climbing line in the same way as DdRT..? I have thought of installing something like this for DdRT for the purpose of lowering a climber which has 'ceased to function', but with a pulley set on the line at the top, opposite side of the anchor, with the climbing line running though the pulley so that if all goes fubar the whole anchor can be lowered from the ground without having to perform aerial rescue... Obviously it would only work if there there are no other lanyards attached to said climber, which is unlikely, as I would have thought that if you end up unconscious it's having been clobbered by something you cut off so there is going to be work positioning involved... so I've never actually bothered to try it....
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Of course, but sometimes you need to be where you need to be, that's when I have a problem, when I'm working across a lean and have no choice but to be in that position. One of the ash I took down had 3 limbs off the top of the stem, each one came down in one piece dropped with a portawrap, but to get at the one facing the road, which was the one which needed to come down first, I was forced to work from the side with the lean across me...
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Are we talking about a stem leaning away from us or across us? That might explain difference of technique...? If the stem's leaning away from me then I just pay out some more line as others do, no biggie.... but if it's leaning across me then I'm like a kitten on ice....
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I tried that but the stem was so thin it was difficult to get away from the stem, it was pulling that hip into the stem and letting the lower hip swing out....
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I find this puts even more leverage on the line and makes it even harder to stop myself swinging round.... I have to get as close in to the tree as I can without gaffing out, [bow-legging helps me a bit] and lean right into the harness.... I was on some thin ash stems along a roadside the other week and they were all leaning out over the road away from the bank hunting for light, I needed to cut across the lean so that they'd fall parallel with the road & power lines [ish! they were rigged down], I really struggled to stay in the right place, I could only get comfortortably [relatively!] positioned by pulling in a lanyard from the up hill side and pulling against that as well on my down hill D ring. Was a bit cluttered but did work... You can clip both ends of the flip onto the ventral rather than D's in this configuration as well, avoids the 'circle of death'
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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....
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Aaaaah, tomorrow.... we've all got such a lot to do tomorrow.....
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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...
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Haha, taking over!
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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.....
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This was ours, brilliant little car....!
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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!
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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.... !
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Throw in a couple of ISC 50KN pulleys for rigging MA tag lines off a handy stump.....
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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....
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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!
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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!!
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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...
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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!
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Try these.... doubt you'll find cheaper and they're nice trailers... Twin Axle Trailers by Phoenix Trailers
