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You're limited how far from base you can drive and how fast you can go. A friend of mine re-registered his old Foutrak pick up as agri and just uses it up and down the lane to get round his farm. It's not a great idea if you still want to use the vehicle in a conventional way, it's quite limiting...

I've noticed this and wondered how it would work in the event of something going wrong and an HSE investigation, because the HSE guidance all points towards CS module training with no mention of IRATA qualifications... Anyone know if there's ever been a case or precedence...? One presumes not or there would likely be some mention of it in the AFAG or HSE notes...

FOOM! Ace....

You DEFINITELY made the right choice there... Can't beat a Honda, which is why they have over 50% of the UK market while everyone else squeezes into the other 40 something percent.... I'm a touch biased too though....I used to sell them and still dabble in the business.... Bill Davies Honda Open Day November 2011 | Facebook

Even selling Drew's hat?!

You could pick up a 3 strand rope off ebay for around 20 quid [search 'polysteel rope'] & a 50KN ISC pulley for about the same and there's a basic lowering kit. 3 strand poly rope doesn't like heat so not great on friction devices [that said I used mine on the portawrap without incident, but it's not as good as proper double braid or whatever] but will do the job happily in occasional use... my poly rope's used just for tag lining really.

There's always the old fashioned way of learning by doing. Assuming you are of reasonable intelligence, understand trees - including how to spot a rotten bit - and have a healthy self preservation gland then there's no reason why you can't just 'have a go' at recreational climbing. There's plenty of information out there [and here] on how to use the kit, the AT knot guide is excellent, and so long as you start low & slow you'll be pretty safe. My daughter started this weekend, she's 10... Here she is in action in a tiny little willow in our garden!

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Yet again a bunch of idealists think they can have someone executed by creating a global internet campaign. I'm pretty sure that when the same concept is turned against us we don't very much care for it.... Back to that old debate of what gives us the right to prescribe how other nations deal with their own problems. Once more, the civilised west thinks it has all the answers. Leave them alone for heaven's sake, we ain't perfect by any means! When they want our help, they ask! I disapprove of this whole thing on many, many levels, but I've discussed it enough today already, I've had enough of it!

As above really... what do you use this most basic of arrangements for and how often...? Is this kind of old school rigging obsolete now with all the new techniques or do we all still need to rig a pulley mid line every now and again...? Simon

Cobblers! Dusk till dawn is a brilliant film, it's no masterpiece, but it is just great fun. Kill Bill has a brilliant soundtrack & some ace locations / set pieces / sequences. I'm no film snob but I do really enjoy those films for what they are. Now, pulp fiction on the other hand, I really can't be arsed with that, yet everyone claims that to be a brilliant film... I disagree. I think it's a bit average...!

Love Inglorious Basterds... but best Tarantino film...? If not Kill Bill then Dusk Till Dawn which he just wrote & cameo'd in.... classic... George Clooney's brilliant in it...!

The yellow one an Oshkosh...? Big stuff, like it!

That's a little bit concerning!

Get to a dealer. Who's local to you? Jonesie's within driving distance for a morning out I reckon...

Don't get me wrong though, I like Christianity! I've said it before & I'll reiterate it again, I live in a rural parish and support our church. I just don't believe in god or Jesus. I can be a good Christian without having faith can't I...? Or am I not allowed to? Or worse still, am I like that because deep down I know god exists or I'm scared he might? Honestly, I'm not, I'm just a nice bloke!

Which bit old man...? Surely not ALL of it...?! Because some of it is personal to me so no one can tell me that's wrong.... Is it the bit about some people of faith insisting that good can only be done in the name of a god? Because I've met people of that delusion. And in the same way I'm fairly sure that many people who do believe would find that, actually they were just as inclined to look out for others even if they didn't have faith. So we don't need any god to do good, and for believers to suggest that non believers who do good are, without realising or understanding, doing it because of a god they know does not exist, is nonsense [and I use that phrase carefully, and in the same way I would to suggest that believers know god DOES exist]. Or is it the bit about Christians not respecting the faiths of others? Because capitalising the words god & him and insisting that the gods of other faiths are lower case seems pretty arrogant to me.... The Christian 'tolerance' & 'acceptance' of other faiths is a bit like a patronising pat on the head for a child who believes in the tooth fairy... I could of course be wrong!

Quite... so long as he believes what you do....

One thing which crops up again and again from believers is their conclusion that those who do not believe lack a central pillar around which we can build our lives, something which keeps us grounded, gets us up every morning, urges us to be good people and put others first, to keep us strong in challenging times. That seems quite a misguided view to me, as a father. I'm sorry but no made up deity or even some dude claiming to be his son would ever have any chance of coming close to my children in performing that role. It actually quite offends me that anyone would suggest to me that my kids can't fulfill that role as well as something which, to me, genuinely is a work of pure fiction. And the thing which baffles me the most is that there are people of any faith who feel that the only good which can be done is in a god's name. Why can't people just do these things for the sake of human kindness. Why do they need some sort of carrot and stick...? I can safely say that I wouldn't be a better person if I followed a religion or had a faith. Which means, because I don't believe any of it, that I have the utmost respect for anyone of any creed. I cannot get my head round the fact that anyone who believes in god can be doing anything but disputing anyone else's belief system. To not believe means one treats all religions the same, as nothing more dangerous that a quaint personal choice. But a believer must surely treat their own religion as the only truth and everything else as fabrication or abomination. Just seems utterly bizarre, I cannot see how any religion can preach tolerance when defining themselves by their beliefs is at odds with treating everyone as equals.... Which takes me to the conclusion that ORIGINALLY, religion was not about a genuine god but instead about taking sides.... I'd be interested to know at which point the charade became accepted fact..?

Thanks for taking the time Graeme! There are obviously tenets in there which I do not have the ability to get my head round and bring myself to believe but that's a great factual answer. And it's nice to finally know the source of the expression 'well pleased'... as in 'I is well pleased innit'....

Well done all! It's not often I can be ar&ed to read 20 pages of a thread to catch up! I'd like to take a moment to qualify a couple of things from my post at the start of this and ask a couple of questions of some believers. 1. Although I don't believe a word of it [except perhaps that a fella going by the name of Jesus might have lived a while ago and became quite popular somehow], both my oldest children go to church schools, are full on believers, do Sunday school and love questioning why I don't believe.... But I have never discouraged them from believing. 2. I am open to be proved wrong [as I am in all things in life!], in the unlikely event that I do rock up at the pearly gates I will eat my words. But I don't let that potential occurence colour the way I live my life, I live my life as I do because making people's lives a tiny bit better makes me feel like I've earned my place in society and I do that for no one but myself. Now, questions... 1. The bible is often quoted as being the word of god... I thought it was written by people who are alleged to have known Jesus, or known people who knew him, mostly some considerable time after his death, and then edited by some Romans....? There's the odd quote in there but over many years and many translations that seems a bit like chinese whispers to me...? Is that basically right or is there unquestionable evidence to prove otherwise? 2. Who claimed that Jesus had been sent here by his dad, god, to die for us...? Was it Jesus? And if so, why does no one believe anyone when they claim to be his reincarnation these days? Is it because back then with a more limited understanding of the world, if someone could get enough support behind them people were too under-developed to see past this? Or was he somehow far more convincing...? Was it the miracles that convinced thousands of people he was special? Or was it just great sleight of hand and the people at the front of the crowd bought it and it rippled out through everyone and became 'gospel'...? I am utterley fascinated by religion. Not so much for it's social effects, these are well documented throughout history, but the individual events and places which combined to create the greatest story ever told I find spellbinding. I cannot see me ever becoming a believer but one thing I will fight anyone who says otherwise over, is that religion and belief structures have created the most colourful and fascinating cronicle of human development one could imagine. One final observation, although unintentional I hope, I notice [and am guilty of it myself] that believers and non-believers both look upon each other with a degree of condescension, pity, amusement, superiority & perhaps overinflated sense of their own intellectual capacity, either for seeing beyond that which we can see and 'knowing' there is something else out there, or for knowing that we are the beginning and the end, are pretty insignificant and are more enlightened for not needing the crutch of a higher power. It's a midlly amusing situation when you stand back and look at it, both sides think the other's a bit daft. But then when one side feels they're being villified for that stance, they become far more aggressive than their alleged enlightenment would suggest reasonable... Curious creatures human beans, convinced of our own importance and that we know it all....

I've been trying to find the precise formula for this to put into an excel sheet on my phone to calculate this from a green weight chart when on a job... Can someone tell me this, it must be more obvious than I'm making it seem....?! You know, height of drop x weight = load....? I just want to know what load will be imposed on an anchor from a given freefall height....

Woodland Scenics stuff is extortionate anyway... but that's a triumph of adding value...!

Is that a 'NO' or a 'YES' then....?