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Love my ps3.... Great for gaming and a 3d blu ray player as well..... Don't have move controllers for it though, if I want to be active I go outside, if I want to play computer games it's from the comfort of my arse.....

Not sure about the new one with the fancy controller (wii u????) but on our old one we have 2 controllers. 2 steering wheels for mariokart (best game on there in my humble!), 2 nun chucks for wii sports and some of the more traditional console type games, like the fighting ones, some cheap 99p shop golf clubs and tennis rackets (rarely used but quite fun) and a balance board for the snowboard games, wii fit and some of the wii play activities (also rarely used). The only thing which we're missing are the motion plus adapters. To be honest it gets very little use, novelty worn off now.....

I feel like a nubile young virgin being bickered over by two jocks at the prom.... I like it..... Thank you sanglier for clarifying how you perceive me, that's about where i try to pitch it I wouldn't want experienced climbers to assume I'm as good as good as them, 'cos I'm not - I'm terrified of heights for a start! - but I do have some knowledge which, within it's obvious limitations, I try to share, not just for the benefit of the few who have even less experience than I, but also for the purpose of furthering it for my own benefit Just to make things quite clear, I'm no commercial climber, nor qualified tree surgeon, but I'm better than lots 'white can' type practitioners..... I've done a decent amount of different types of treework over the last 16 ish years since I started wielding a chainsaw proper, including 6 CS units and assessments.... All on the ground though.....and I continue to do it. The next job is dismantling some oak trees and dead cherries over a holiday caravan park, can't wait (I'm Simon by the way ) And Robin.... You can have one of these.

Casting nasturtiums now are we Robin....? I climb as much as I need to and have done since 1996 when I left school and started pollarding Willows and managing our farm trees generally, which I did for 5 years [starting off using a ladder for access and a bit of polyprop tied round my waist to stop me falling out] until I started working in construction, so I have probably as much experience now as someone who has worked as a second climber for a few years [maybe:confused1:]. Now I just keep my hand in, doing between 20 & 50 or so dismantles / pollards / [some] prunes [although these are usually a bit beyond my skills] each year, and rec climb when I can. I know what I know and know what I don't. It's my wider knowledge of trees which is lacking - there are more trees I don't know than trees I do - and not so much how to safely get up and down them or take them apart.... I could claim to be a 'tree surgeon' instead? But I'm not. I haven't studied arb at college or worked at it full time for years so to claim that I am would be wrong.

Ah, got you, thanks. Glad I skipped it. Not into that sort of modelling in surveys, same reason I never fill out the diversity sections of any forms I get.... It's not relevant, just ask the questions you need answers to and don't waste my time....

That sounds like a nasty ordeal Dean. I think that the police are much the same as all other large public sector organisations, local authorities & the NHS being the 2 main ones. There are a number of excellent people out there, but they are outweighed by a lot of people who shouldn't be in their jobs. I have friends & acquaintances in the force, one of them is brilliant, one of them is a tosser [who plays the system like you would not believe, such that I now have no respect for him, he takes the piss with MY TAX], and one who is a CSO who we had a 'fall out' out with [caused by another great public institution, the education establishment] who had me pulled over the other week, 3 miles outside their jurisdiction, and accused me of using a mobile phone [i was eating a Spar potato dog in fact] while she hid in the car. GENERALLY, I have no time for the police, with their love of minor traffic offences and fear of gypsies. I know there are good ones - I've met them - but I do believe that in the main there are serious problems higher up the force in terms of protectionism and incompetence. Have you gone to the media? I don't mean the local rag, I mean a national newpaper which caters for 'people like you' [if you follow], who likes small businesses and the countryside, that will take it on properly and has some clout, someone like the Telegraph? Try to find a junior reporter who will see it as their chance to get some column inches with a good story.

Well.... would you....? I got to the end and realised that I am an intrinsically good person but in the most part don't think much of others.... That and that I had NO IDEA what the thing with numbers on was all about, so I just skipped that page completely.... And no hippy lefty tosspots were getting any of my prize either....

I'm still here and I took no end of lead weights to the back of the head before I decided fishing wasn't for me

I understand what you mean. I don't get to climb all the time, sometimes it can be months between getting off the ground and I do miss it. I spend all my time when I'm on my travels spotting trees which would be great to climb, or fun to limb walk. Getting all the gear on and standing under one about to chuck the throwline is like Christmas for me!

with you now it's not that bad! I have to admit though, I do think it would be better without the coating.....

Revenue won't care, they don't care what you spend your bit on so long as it doesn't eat into there bit!

Yep, I have some aeris... Jack can give it a go in a couple of weeks. Bit fruity without gloves but I don't think it needs to be reserved for experts

You back on a blakes now Arran....? I used to get frustrated with it jamming up. Fair play to you, back to the old school....

Well done Jack, good news

Likewise, I always use it spiking up on conny dismantles, the larger the stem the harder it is to flip a rope strop... But I always back it up with a single line choked on and a fig 8 for descent when cutting.... Everything has it's place, and I need all the help I can get!

If you're pensioning it off cut the splice off, seal the end & tie yourself a prusik loop with the rest of the rope, stick the snap in your box for later. Can't comment on the RG but lots rave about them. My only idle thought is that it seems expensive to me, but I don't get overly excited by my Pulleysaver tbh....

I try to avoid giving advice, only musings.....! Don't think i've advised anything life threatening though....? I've assumed that my suggestion of loading it to inspect it isn't taken to get as high as he can and bounce up and down on it... I had some nicked kernmantle rope, loaded it and the cover gave way completely exposing 3 inches of core.....

Not sure. Aren't these type of splice normally quite 'flat'...? Presumably the dyneema tape is wrapped in the stiffy inside the cover....? Lord knows....!

Is it 3 strands cut? That would fail LOLER wouldn't it....?

I think the pulley saver line is sirius kernmantle rope, the outer layer is a cover protecting the core. The problem with a nick in this location is you can't monitor it. Personally I'd hang it up and load it then inspect it. Isn't the semi rigid eye a 'slaice', with a length of dyneema webbing inside it anyway....?

How many strands has it gone through....?

And having decimated our navy we couldn't patrol our shores either....

I was looking at that one when I bought my son's harness but it didn't go small enough. I thought it looked a nice harness though. Not a proper sit harness though....

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