Al Baker

Stanley Fatmax™ Waterproof Toolbox :: Boxes, Cabinets & Chests :: Storage :: London Tools Limited That's the largest model. Maybe find it cheaper elsewhere.

If you just want smallish waterproof containers then I can recommend Stanley "Fat Max" toolboxes. I use them for stowage on canoe expeditions. Not as high spec as pelicase but if you're not planning to drive a tractor over them then they're just as good but about £22 quid each.

Another nice one today. Taken at 4pm from Dores beach looking south over Lochness.

Wood is the answer I reckon. Wooden lining in your container with vents.

In the Garden...right now

Sorry, I completely forgot to mention that braking is achieved by twisting the two carabiners against the rope in opposing directions. It doesn't sound like much of a brake but it's surprisingly effective.

Yep, that involved a lot of reversing in a tin boat with a heavy spool of line. Of course the line brutally heavy to haul the slack out once it's been in the water for 10 minutes.

Two steel carabiners act as brakes one in each hand, you can see them, one in each hand , right at the beginning of the film. The rear carabiner is on a lanyard in order to prevent you losing them. The carabiners also assist with positioning so you don't get sideways on which causes you to slow down. The brakes require a bit of backyard practice before going and biting off such large bits of landscape.

That's me riding one we built for a laugh in Ontario last year. 1000ft of nylon kernmantle rope with a pre-tensioned core. 4" pulley and steel carabiners for brakes.

Very good, I agree

The nice thing about Alex is that he seems completely devoid of any sort of ego. He just seems like a really nice chap, a bit bewildered and not a bad bone in his body. Yosemite is quite a place, no doubt about that.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICBrXUuwvgg]The North Face®: Alex Honnold in Yosemite - YouTube[/ame] The pinnacle of modern free climbing in Yosemite I reckon. Hold on Honnold!

Brilliant and absolutely rubbish at the same time!

On the way home looking west down Strathnairn.

Windblown trees can be a challenge that's for sure. I started in 1987 in sussex after the great storm with a 100ft macrocarpa. It had uprooted and fallen across the driveway of a Manor house I was flint walling at. The owner of the house went to town and bought a chainsaw. He asked me if I would clear the tree. "sure" I said. We poured over the saw instructions, mixed some fuel and got it started. It was quite exciting and very noisy. It was fairly early on into the job that I got an idea of how dangerous it was cutting branches that were under load. I found the saw got jammed now and then and figured out how to cut without it jamming. The massive tree rolled gently from side to side as I dismembered it. I'll never forget cutting off the root. I had to keep tickling away inside the tree with the saw from both sides keeping everything at arms length. I was actually on top of it when it started to make a serious cracking noise. I remember feeling the spray on my back as I ran when about a thousand liters of muddy water was displaced from the pond size hole that the roots had come from. The adventure however had only just begun as I ended up clearing many many windfallen trees from gardens, roads and driveways in the weeks that followed. It came pretty easy after the first 30 or so. I still dismantle quite a few each year, victims of the ever increasing gales here in Scotland. But I'll never forget my first ever go with a chainsaw on the macrocarpa .

I've emptied and put petrol into the chain oil reservoir deliberately in order to flush the pump and delivery mechanism through when it's been blocked.

Ok it started off bad and then got worse

Hanging out in Spain.

I agree, Yacht winches work just fine. Self tailing is better. fix it to a board and ratchet strap it down. You can save yourself a few quid by not going for the floating handle option.

Kev, at Height I always use the inchworm system. It's the most efficient I found as yet. A combination of Petzl "croll" (for progress capture) attached to "secur" and Petzl "Ascension" on a lanyard with footloop or Etrier depending on the Job. Sometimes I'll have an independently anchored back up rope with "Rescucender" or "Troll Rocker" on a short lanyard. If the drop is over 70m I'll descend on a rappel rack. Hope that all makes sense

Is this what you're looking for? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6jRp1jd5vw]Mark Chisholm Rigging 101 part 3 - YouTube[/ame]

No that's Daves place. He's doing wood commercially. I just run my house on it.

That's where I live.

You will have to pick up rope and stuff it into the device once you're looking at 90m + descent (10.5mm static polyamide Kernmantle)

Thanks for the feedback Jamie, I've been using Rig one handed but I haven't found a method yet which I'm completely satisfied with. I found that the tighter you grip live end of the rope for friction, the harder you tend to pull on the handle which exacerbates the situation. I'm gonna persevere with it nonetheless. Croll is always going to be a far superior ascent device unless you're ascending and descending very short distances often. Rig is a horrible device to use if you were ascending any distance because you have to lift the rope each time to pull it through the device, That means if you were 40m up then you would be lifting 40m of rope each time you step up. All that rope starts to get heavy. Have you tried half threading the stop for hauling systems? its pretty much making it similar to a Grigri or Rig. Cut even more friction out by making it the leading piece in your Z rig.