Al Baker
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See this one has a beam axle on the front and back. That's the secret of a good offroad vehicle.
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I was talking about the vessel. Jeez
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if you need a serious offroad vehicle then have a look underneath the one you're fancying. If it has a beam axle on the front and one on the back then it will more than likely have good axle articulation. If it doesn't have beam axles with good articulation then then some wheels will loose contact the ground when it gets proper rough and you will come to a halt. A beam axle looks like a metal pole with a wheel on each end and will be clearly visible as such. if it don't have one of those fore and aft then look at another vehicle. (If it doesn't need to be street legal then you can forget the beam axles and go for something more like this: [ame] [/ame] )
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Gorgeous lines!
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Here's a wooden canoe built by a friend of mine from online plans. Now it's definitely offline now and my woman has fallen in love with it.
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Quintessential arb boat. Wot's it like to paddle?
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I'm only rarely using a saw when someone else is around.
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Some serious arb sea interface....excellent. None of your poncy fishing rubbish.
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2 Arb boats fighting off Caen in North of France. Eventually we persuaded the pilot and harbor master not to let it in.
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Kayak is an Eskimo invention. It has a hole in top.
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Well spotted
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yeah or "cheating stick"
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It goes on the end of a pole and enables you to hook/clip and anchor to stuff out of reach. I've used them for boarding ships underway a few times. The sort of thing you would use on the sharp end of this kind of set up here:
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Serious pond-tree interface. Stuff of proper arb boats.
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Some very red deer in my kitchen.
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Improvise bivouac on a rainy day. With some help from Arb of course.
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Damn I hate rules.
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£250 is an ok start. If you do one or two jobs like that and live pretty frugally then you can afford to turn some jobs down. People will soon notice that you're turning jobs down and/or just quoting way over the mark. That generally means you're busy which in turn means you must be pretty good. Get yourself a posh vehicle with a fancy sign on it, get radios and lots of red and white tape, amber flashing lights a brochure and a website and all that stuff. Start going on holiday a lot. Hire a climber with some groundsmen who can quote on jobs, oh yeah and an accountant. Make sure you have a lawyer too and some cranes. Become the governing body of some arm of your industry and then manufacture stuff specifically to meet your new regulations.
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I got a proper job once. I held it down pretty good but soon discovered that to stay loose and mess around with this and that, you know, imaginative projects, adventures, escapades and affairs then a proper job is the last thing you really want. Also if you never ever borrow any money, that will ensure that no one ever has ownership of you which allows you to continue with your messing around with interesting projects. Pretty soon you'll find that you've been notice by people who need those kind of interesting skills you've developed during all that messing around. You'll find you're getting paid for messing around doing interesting stuff that you're starting to really be good at. Then you'll notice that you're living pretty well and you love what you do. A lot of people work for like 90% of their lives so , if you don't like your work then you don't like your life. Don't let proper jobs get in the way. that's my advice.
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Mate, if I were you I'd phone the manufacturer and ask them. Surely in such a litigious age it's only prudent?.
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Done a lot Mr Trot. You want to do some?
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Lol, that always cracks me up when someone pipes up on some internet thread and says "end of discussion" or "end of" or "discussion over" etc. Just who do they think they are.....raised eyebrow here.
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Speedlined boat. Into the forest. Ontario July 2011 .
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Here's one of mine
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I'm 47 and have been climbing professionally in a multitude of climbing disciplines for 22 years. I got into tree climbing 2 years ago and am in the process of getting qualified.
