WorcsWuss

I have a Rapide.... don't notice any difference. Looks smart though!

On the basis that chainsaws are lubricated with oil which will spit off the chain when running, and these ropes are designed for arborist use, where chainsaws are used spitting oil off the bar, I would be surprised [and a little concerned] if modern climbing lines were susceptible to degradation by oil? We'd all have to throw our lines away regularly just to be on the safe side? I would imagine it's more of an issue with mineral oil as well, and aren't we all using synthetic oils now?

Murky area! I'm in the company car scheme, when I have a car, I get taxed on it. I've been out of the scheme for almost a year and so haven't been paying any BIK on a company car because I haven't had a car. [but did order my new one yesterday, excited!]. Over the last year I have had use of a pool car which occasionally I take home with me if I'm going off to a meeting straight from home in the morning. I don't get taxed on this. If I was using that car to commute to my office and had regular use of it for personal use I would get taxed on it as it would be a perk. As it is it's just for business transport when needed so isn't a perk. If you're taking a works van home some / most of the time and going off to different places of work each day then it's not a perk. If you're taking a works van home which is classed as 'yours' on a daily basis, then going back to the yard every morning and the supermarket etc on the way home, strictly speaking that is a perk so you should be taxed on it. Sounds to me like you're fine...

The solution to this Andy is to not have any money.... use twigs and berries for currency, job done...

There's a film coming next apparently, with Ryan Gosling as this Mr Grey fellow... the trailer gives the impression that the featured deviance is similar to James Spader & Maggie Gyllenhal's 'Secretary'.... not sure whether that's correct or the plot has been revised heavily for the film.... if the book's as racy as I hear I would expect to see Ron Jeremy in the trailer and not Gosling, so perhaps it has been toned down a bit!

In that case I can't talk to you anymore, you might compromise my deep cover... consider yourself burned!

Presumably you could just clip a short sling into the end of the rope and down to your bridge? You could drop the RW off your HC and let it run down with you just on the hitch? There would be no change over to Ddrt as such then, just drop the RW and away to go... I guess this would be better clipped into an alpine butterfly behind the bowline to clip into to take some friction out of the eye of the bowline though...?

I still have my paper license, it's held together by sticky tape but I'm buggered if I'm paying to get a photo card one! Bless them, the courts have had to start using abbreviations when they add points to it now.... Strangely they don't worry about the address being wrong either.... Which is good, since I can't get a new license anyway because I don't currently have a passport.... I'm off grid!!!

Don't know if anyone else's other halves or the ladies on here [or heaven forbid the blokes!] have got into this '50 Shades of Grey' thing [my wife has, I have no idea what it is but I gather it's a naughty book..?] but a friend posted this on Facebook... It made me laugh so I thought I'd share it here.....

I reckon SRT looks great if you're on a big tree and have all day, but for dicking around in a small one for 20 minutes, nothing beats throwing a rope over a branch and tying onto both ends.... spoken as someone who only uses Ddrt!

Might get a Ford 4610 for that money, they're nice little machines at the lower end of your HP scale. Get a copy of Classic Tractor from the newsagents, LOADS of classifieds in there.... try Farmers Weekly as well...!

We refer to them as the May bug round here... my wife is terrified of them, they hurl themselves at our windows...!

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And the answer was......?

That sounds more likely Rupe. It also wouldn't surprise me if a customer, regurgitating some drivel they're heard elsewhere, got it wrong and did indeed ask for a mission statement.... 'I will be the best that I can be, be kind to children and animals, respect the earth and make zillions of pounds while I'm at it'

I use the basic Stihl ones. Cheap enough and decent quality. I like them with the braces. I climb in them too...

A while ago my wife received an email asking her to confirm registration, turned out our 10 year old daughter had seen it advertised on the Disney channel or something and decided she was going to get herself a massive TV..... Not cool Madbid or Disney, not at all cool.....

I've got a set, I needed some for a job, they were local, they were cheap, he left them in the porch for me to pick up, all good reasons. I've not died yet, but they're not comfy, they're not well made, the gaffs are soft and they're quite heavy. If I was in the market now I would most definitely put another hundred quid to it and have a pair of ali Distels instead.....

Quite right Pete. On the subject of competitiveness in schools, my son is at a small rural school and a few years ago they started giving out 'well done' stickers to everyone at sports day and no prizes for the winners... This didn't go down at all well with the parents and I'm pleased to say that this year there were 1st & 2nd stickers as well. And my boy finally won a race. I was proud as punch and he was chuffed to bits. Pete's absolutely right that encouraging our kids to try harder to be the best in things will build a better country. The socialist ideal of everyone being equal and the liberal touchy feely 'don't upset anyone' attitude has just created a malaise where people are happy to sit back with their hands out.... What we need is some good old fashioned short trousers, laps of the rugby pitch and ice cold showers.... Tally bloody ho!

A valid point has been made here, benefit fraud and benefit fraud are two entirely different things. My daughter has been diagnosed with Aspergers and it would not be too difficult for me to get a new car out of the system. I wouldn't be comitting a crime as such but I sure as hell would be defrauding the state in my eyes. Unfortunately there are more people than you could possibly imagine who are 'entitled' to benefits but who don't share my repulsion at claiming when you're not in genuine dire need of state support. There is no 'right' to a nice big flat, new cars, sky TV, mobile phones etc, but millions of people who, if benefits were awarded following a face to face interview with someone with a modicum of common sense and ordinary decency would not stand a chance of getting them, are getting all these things funded by the state, perfectly 'legally'. The TV bloke comitted fraud. But as rightly pointed out, his crime is not the biggest problem. It's the things which aren't actually crimes committed by people like Jimmy Carr who stretch the limits of what is right who are the biggest drain on the economy. I would dispute that any MP's are in the same tax scheme thought, or even type of tax scheme, as Jimmy Carr, if they were we sure as hell would have heard about it A LONG time ago, probably through the News of The World. I was not however at all surprised to find that those who came out in defence of Jimmy Carr were other 'socialist heros', Labour MP's and 'ordinary working class people'..... are they setting themselves up to take advantage of the system again if Labour manage to get back in? I suspect that to be exactly the case. Keep taxing the middle classes more and more heavily so that Napoleon the pig and his friends can have their cake, and everyone else's, and eat it. Snouts in the trough boys, especially the ones you would least imagine.... be wary. The funniest humour is based on your own experiences. How did it take us so long to find that Jimmy loved money so much...?

Yes!

Find a hot zombie chick, let her gobble me up a bit, become zombie, live forever without worrying about paying bills or personal hygiene. Ace plan.

Wow.... here's a thread I never expected to see...?! Seriously, some of you get high then get high?! I used to smoke A LOT of weed many years ago when I was at college and I would never dream of smoking anything any time even approaching work, let alone during. Unless you're getting ripped off and supplied with crap then I'd hazard a guess that any perceived ability to do your work as well / better than when straight is most likely the weed.... and not so much reality.... I guess I can see the benefit of reducing disco leg on the odd occasion, but that seems like a flimsy argument to me, I am genuinely amazed that some of you do it! I'm not passing judgement, I am just astounded.....

I've never tried the Stein so can't comment but I find my Petzl very comfortable. I tend to get headaches like a bad hangover from a poor fitting helmet but I find the Petzl fits very nicely and is very comfy, lots of adjustment. And it has foam rubber pads round it, not fabric or leather, so no 'stinky helmet' either....

Fab work Steve, thanks mate. 'First class Arbtalker, quick delivery, well packed, as described A++++' as they say on't Bay.... Grey one is very nice gents and ladies....