Mr. Squirrel

If it's 16m to the top of the A frame I'm saying 60m. I'd charge extra for my flexible morals if I was going to be taking down/out such a specimen!

I take a pic, label and move all breakable ornaments safely out the way. If there's bigger wood coming down some thick ply with hinges at the top so that they open like a birthday card, over the head stone, have always done the trick for me.

I guess it's all down to knowing yourself, certainly doesn't stop some people though. Jerry Gore, T1 diabetic on the 1km high 'wall of paine' in Patagonia. Wall of Paine - South Tower - SE face on Vimeo https://www.facebook.com/WallOfPaine?ref=profile

What are you running it through up top? The pulley in one of my pulley savers I made never sat quite right and gave me some awful twists in my rope. Remedied by a quick trip back to the drawing board...

Looks like a whole load of 'red flags' going on there... The climber doesn't appear comfortable with what he's doing, they're obviously cutting allot out, slowly, and whatever their backup is over to the right (I suspect the building) it is so far off... is it that much use? It looks like a topping strop, with allot of slack in it, and it didn't run at all. It's not all that surprising things went tits up... I hope the guy got away from this without too much injury, I expect he had some nightmares about it and with any luck is either being very, very aware of what he's doing from now on, or in a slightly safer job...

I wondered that too... was a break test ever done on the ropes after the drop test? The strength of a 16 is distributed 50/50 between cover and core is it not? Whereas static lines designed to be used with ascenders, yeah the cover may rip but the core, where most of the strength it, is still largely intact. As I understand. Potentially leaving a significantly stronger rope? I guess what we can pretty safely say is that shock loading static ropes is very bad, you shouldn't do that. I'm still very much a fan of toothed ascenders, and will speak no ill of them; but will say that the ability to get yourself down without having to add/remove bits of kit is highly advantageous.

Saying all that however, it's probably a poor scheme to hire people based on what they say about their productivity, on the internet... Basically just charge as much as you can so long as it keeps you busy. Nothing wrong with getting a foot in the door with a company and then if you think you're making the boss a little too much money saying 'hey, how about a little bit more for me eh?'

Saw a similar set up on treestuff.com, I guess communication goes from Bluetooth headset to Bluetooth headset, or via a synced phone as a normal call? Would be kinda nice to be able to talk to a regular handheld radio, like crane drivers have, rather than giving them a headset. However that's kind of a small gripe, I like the idea allot. Once I get a comms system on a protos I may never take it off. I'll look that cool...

That's exactly it I'd say, as in any situation you get what you pay for. I've worked plenty for £120 a day, but on that rate I don't get near as much done as when I'm charging 300+ euros. It's never as though I'm slacking but if I'm gonna charge that much I'm gonna to make damn sure I'm worth it... I bring my own lunch, coffee, tobacco and usually a few beers for the guys when the job is done. Kit? Oh yeah...

Velocity works like a dream in the spiderjack, Tachyon is also very good though and slightly less hard on the hands. Tough too.

Heck no, did you have a bail out option in your system? I was singing while going up my access line last year and didn't notice a bees nest until my nose was pretty well in it, without a bail option I just had to climb as far as possible and got away with a single sting. Lucky they weren't hornets... our Indonesian bees I imagine. Should definitely learn something from those experiences though...

'Haul ass ascent system' worth it if just for the name, probably. Really simple to use one you've set it up... Personally I've not a problem with toothed ascenders, provided you're only using them on ropes designed for use with ascenders. Basically any caving/climbing static rope, and arb specific access lines, these are designed with shock loading in mind. I hope... I think having an instant bail out option is a very good idea though. I've heard it's extremely stressful changing over to your 8 in the midst of a swarm of bees. Getting myself a rope wrench to give that Haas setup a whirl.

The rubber grommets work alright for me, but my old setup was far so superior, got some bits of hose that were just a little too small, heated them up and wiggled them onto a dmm fatboy, then put tape over them. Never moved, infact I struggled to get them off when I got a new fatboy.

Ok I made that link work, was the silly tablet machine... Interesting take on things though, 'Yes, these zigzags appear to have cracked under normal usage. No, there's nothing to worry about with your zigzag' I guess they're desperately hoping not to have to recall all these models too... I've never been convinced that a piece of chain could make a particularly robust tree climbing tool...

Odd, that link doesn't work for me and I can't find any mention of it on their site?

How do you persuade a deer to whizz in your cup in the first place??

Had exactly the same experience, annoyed me so much in the end I just went out and got another petzl/msa combo.

That's pretty impressive, I would've imagined the spring would go before then. Decent bit of kit!

These are top notch. Been rocking one a couple years now without a hitch, much prefer it to caritools.

Since we're sharing spider pics... this 7 legged baby used to live on my old balcony. These weren't poisonous at all, or so I was told. Regardless, so long as you don't surprise them spiders seem to be totally harmless... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=152428&stc=1&d=1396104358 Edit: I've nae idea how pics work on here...

That's exactly what my friend said... I wish I could still read the size from my haix but alas, they're too old. Really don't want to order the wrong size or I will just trim my toenails/put on some extra socks and say they fit, for a week or two...

Hey folks, I'm going to order some meindl airstreams, just wondering what their sizing is like? Seems like a ridiculous question but you know how these things vary... I have some la sportiva ganda guides and salewa mountain trainers so if anybody could give a comparison to those that'd be swell.

I have, in my youth, been caught short up a tree. I preferred aiming into thin air with consistent left-right motion, kinda like a sprinkler. It keeps noise and collateral splashing to a minimum. Heck, your groundy probably won't even notice unless you warn them first...

Yep, that's pretty much the long and short of it. At the end of the day we can somewhat accurately assume where the UK is headed but it's all just hopes, dreams, assumptions, promises and lies as to what will happen in the event of an independent Scotland...

Like may be the key word there. Apologies for the typo I cannot stand these tablet machines... talk of a referendum has been going on for years (or does it just feel like that?) and largely ignored. Though we have our own parliament, which is a big thing, it's easy to see how many may feel poorly represented when you look at the 2010 general election results. There was very, very little support of the Tories up here and yet that's who's calling the shots for us now? As I've said I'm really not very clued up on these political japes, but it's hardly surprising quite allot of people would be happy to break away from a government they never wanted in the first place. Short sighted view, perhaps, but it's the truth. Another aspect of that is how so much of the counter arguments seem to be based on negativity. I've talked to a number of English people (largely very rich ones) simply angry that Scots would be so belligerent as to think we could possibly be better off without England. When you have people slapping on a label of stupidity, fools, idiots, dense headed jocks etc. it's hard not to think, 'well, s***w yous then'. As I said before it might be more convincing were more 'no' campaigners arguments based on why we're brilliant together than how we're doomed on our own, a stance which will probably bring out the voice in people determined to prove the nay sayers wrong... Something a 'yes' campaigner said to me the other week also rang kind of true. If it was the other way around, would you vote yes to be a part of the UK? I dunno, food for thought...