Mick Dempsey
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Just a matter of getting the bits off ready to source the parts, no real spanner work yet.
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Generally he’s very careful with stuff, so I remained calm. The previous bloke wouldn’t have said a word about it and acted dumb when the wheels fell off sometime this week.
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Tis a sheep shank. Can’t see the point of having it double ended tbh.
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You make a loop, lay it on the rope. make a turn round the loop, then (and this is the key) make a second turn INSIDE the first one. just shake to undo. IMG_3501.mov
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You may be wondering (on the knot thread) why I’m in the workshop. Well Friday, the lad put the safety cable on differently and too tight to the back of the truck. Consequence, brakes came on when turning left, drove home till pulled up by another motorist telling him about the smoke coming from the wheels. Brakes bollocked, bearings cooked as well. If I can get the parts, shouldn’t be too bad (or expensive)
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Here’s how it was shown to me.
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Yes, I know! It just falls apart when you’re done with it.
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Here it is, you can use the loop where my finger is for pulling, and there’s zero tightening. Its just using the loop part, not using the tail to tighten it. Not sure if clear, if not I’ll post a vid.
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Meh, got to be a better name than that!
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I was meaning it more as a midline loop for pulling, but I’m sure everyone knew that.
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Wordle 1,051 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Now that….is a Wordle to be proud of.
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Give the truckers hitch a go for that, it’s a masterpiece of applied mechanics.
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I’ve always called the knot where you make a little bunch then throw it over the branch and the knot unravels so you can grab it a Monkeys paw or Turks head. But looking on google they seem to be decorative knots. Anyone know the knot I’m talking about?
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‘If you can’t tie knots, tie lots’ you mean?
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All depends on length of what’s holding the block and the girth of what you’re attaching it to. I use a clove hitch as a default for my rigging ring (with a couple of half hitches to be sure)
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When and how do you use rigging prussiks?
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When and how is a fig 8 better? Not arguing just curious.
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I can’t see it personally. But not a hill worth dying on. Any knots you use that perform a different task to the ones I posted?
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A clove hitch is hard to learn?
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In a way, that illustrates my point. The cow hitch is a defective cousin of the clove hitch, there isn’t any advantage to it over a clove hitch. No1 being that it undoes under pressure.
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Yeah, my nephew was mad on the alpine butterfly. Its for Mid-line attachment right? So an alternative to the truckers hitch.
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There’s a lot of knot talk, lots of exotic names etc. I regularly use a handful, I might know a few others but never use them. Blakes hitch, for climbing obvs. Truckers hitch, for mechanical advantage, plus useful midline for machine pulling without overtightening. Bowline for everything. Clove hitch, for rigging. Timber hitch, rarely used. err…that’s it really. Am I missing out on something else? That doesn’t do the same job as the aforementioned?
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Latin doesn’t ‘share’ a lot of stuff with European languages, it is the root of the Romantic languages French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and (bizarrely) Romanian.
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No it was about 7 years ago. He had just qualified, we were his first job in 77. Anyway, I’m digressing from the point of the thread.
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A few years back I bumped into my old Latin teacher from 1977 ish. We had a chat in a cafe about stuff, he was nearing retirement, he said he had lots of students enrolling for Latin classes.
