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I'm in a particularly good mood today, J... Aced a mean assisted fell this morning. 26m spruce, 28" and didn't hit the high tension lines. Two days of bushwhacking and struggling through the two foot thick beard of ivy to reach the rigging point, and to clear an access to the tree and the anchor tree. Did the pull early this morning, couple of hours when the wind died down.

The entire world economic system is ****************ed. Too may people, not enough resources and labour, and people have gotten used to living it large. This was fine as long as three quarters of the human race was living in medieval squalor. But now the rest of the world wants a middle class lifestyle, and they're not taking "no" for an answer. There's just not enough pie to keep everyone in the custom to which we are accustomed. That's problem number 1 Problem number 2 is people are more retarded now then they used to be. Intellectually, and morally. And it's getting worse. Our populations are aging, spoilt, entitled, stupid, addicted and without self esteem or drive. We have allowed our governments to legislate us into a corner, where we have no power, no real freedom and no room to grow. Government is a symptom of the quality of the general population. They are us. Add the explosion of communications technology in the last twenty years - which we were NOT ready for, psychologically. Psychopathic power players in the economic sphere, giving marching orders to morally bankrupt retards in government. It's all completely ****************ed and there's no way back. No way back because we sold the farm, figuratively speaking. Get ready for poverty like we have never known in our lifetimes.

The days of ad revenue from YouTube are ancient history... If you're not using sone kind of AdBlock app you're a mug anyway. The big name arb-tubers (Billy Ray, August Huneke, maybe a few others I forget) are selling merch. That's where the money is, always was. Kiss made ten times on T-shirts and lunchboxes then what they ever earned from record sales and touring.

Urethane foam decay. It's a chemical thing, acellorated by moisture, but ultimately due to time passing. Brand new boots, put away for (10?) years or so, will also fall apart at the midsole like this, it's impossible to stop. Try to find out when your Andrews were manufactured, and hence what age they are. They might have been old new stock. It's the same with car tyres, they're o ly good for six years from date of manufacture, even if they're never used.

Steve Bullman would make an excellent dictator. Very hands off, let's the show run itself, no self aggrandizing weirdness..

I can take off my tinfoil hat any time I like.... You, on the other hand, can never remove the spike proteins from your system, probably. And it gives me no pleasure to type that.

Apparently they unscrew the valve cap, shove a lentil or bean into the valve, then replace the cap. Then leave a leaflet under the wiper - (link below) american-english-af6efa4646daed006f48.pdfamerican-english-af6efa4646daed006f48.pdf

The USA blew the pipeline. Biden promised to "Bring an end to it" if Russia invaded. Not hard to read between the lines. Payback/escalation for the referenda and annexation of the 4 regions. Keeps Germany on a short leash. USA want Germany to be their bitch in the EU. Trump told Merkel not to build NS2 back in 2018, remember? He warned Germany about being dependant on Russian gas. They fobbed him off. The EU will have to increase imports of US gas now.

Good question...

In recent news... Sweden went right wing. Italy went right wing. Also + to keep it arb related - Australians charged with murder and putting the body through a chipper.

That's a (partial) setup for the RADS (Rapid Ascent/Descent System) There should be a micro pulley in there as well. I started on this system, it's useable, not great. Basically it's the setup for industrial rope access and good for that application. Excellent for going straight down, not so good for going up and bad for moving around laterally in the canopy. Hard to advance the climb line. It works for rope access because it's main feature is easy and foolproof rapid descent. Rope access guys rappel off the top of a structure to reach their work position. Not too much ascending involved. Whereas we climb the rope/tree to our work position, and must have a retrievable anchor. I switched to trad double rope after a few years of frustration. But my RADS system still comes in handy from time to time. If I can get the single rope through a good high crotch, I can use it to haul up my double rope and pulley, then basal anchor the single rope with the Grigri/descender. This allows someone else to lower me if need be, and the descender devices are pretty rugged and foolproof. I wouldn't buy the setup again though.

Same here 👍 ... Sometimes, if I'm feeling energetic, I'll take the axe off her and do a few minutes of splitting myself...

My occasional neighbor dropped dead unexpectedly a few weeks ago. Early 60's, fit. Just got back to his main residence after spending a few weeks in my neck of the woods at his second home. Other neighbors said they were chatting with him before he headed for his main home. He told them not to get the booster. He got it, and had a really bad reaction. Don't know the time interval between boosting and death. Sad. Didn't know him very well but he was a good chap. We had a vague plan to harvest some fallen oaks in his woods and haul it out with my mini dumper and share the firewood. RIP.

It would work great for winching purposes though, with a Massadam rope puller. Or even just hand pulling. Multiple uses for one piece of gear.

Yeah, the off-roaders do this. The latest thing is using rings for snatch blocks with soft shackles. It turns the ring into to a pulley. However, they are working at really slow speeds. In a tree setup, there would be a couple of things to consider. The sling normally cinches around the ring, held in place by the flanges. It sits fairly tight, so the ring cannot pop out of the sling. The rigging slides through the hole. Most of the ware is on the hole. With your setup, the ring is going to be rotating (maybe). The sling is going to be holding a rotating ring, so the sling will experience ware. Normally with a pulley, the shieve is rotating on a bushing, and it's that bushing that takes the brunt of the ware. Your sling will be taking the place of a bushing. Also, metal snatch blocks have side plates to stop the line from jumping out of the groove and off the block. There is nothing to stop your line from leaving the groove, except gravity and tension. If it does somehow jump the groove, it will fall and be caught by the sling. Rope on rope friction, under a running load, your sling will be history within seconds. This is fine for winching a car out of a mud hole. Controlled, slow force, easy to monitor.

Depends on a lot of factors. Type of ground- soft, hard? Topography - hilly? Flat? Mostly mowing or mostly something else? What are you going to be doing there? What industry and projects do you expect to undertake? Small old tractor is the go-to machine for most people. 20 acres, maybe a decent quad?

The ground pressure of a sleeper (without a structure on it) is practically nil. Wouldn't be worried about it. if it's pure bog, maybe some piles (fenceposts) drivel down to harder stuff first, the cut off at ground level to support the sleepers. Use strapping to keep the sleepers together.

Very simple fix: pick up a log in each hand and whack em together. The bugs fall off. Then put the two logs in your basket or whatever you carry them to the house in. Be mindful of bats sleeping between to the logs. I nearly squashed a pippastrell bat last year but noticed it after it started hissing. Brought it to the local bat conversation lady and she sorted it out. No injury, bat's doing fine in a bat sanctuary now.

Very simple solution to this problem: water, and lots of it. Ware a synthetic top, Lycra - white if possible - and soak your top half at regular intervals. Evaporative cooling. Also add electrolyte to your drinking water and keep drinking. Maybe invest in cheap camelbacks so you don't forget to drink Forget the suntan lotion. Ware wide brimmed hats instead, or neck flaps taped onto helmets. Or even cardboard wide brims attached to the helmets. It's all about keeping the solar radiation off the body.

Never been happier with my 1.3 diesel. 10 cent per km. Even if it goes to €6 a liter I can still make a living. That's if there's any job left to go to, of course.

Got to save Ukraine and the climate.

Beauties!

Nailed it. This is the core of our maliase: not enough physicality. Men, especially, are made for physical work. We can be intellectual geniuses as well, but the majority are built for hard word. And this should start from an early age and be a aspirational. Healthy competition at work should be encouraged in the young. This involves a bit of diffuse societal shaming of boys who are lazy or weak. This is ok. By building a physically comfortable and "safe" society, men have been neutered. They've grown up in a feminized culture, so when they have the opportunity to experience one of the few manly spheres of work (arb) they don't know how to appreciate it and cannot enjoy it. The image of Conan pushing the "wheel of pain" springs to mind. What we missed in the movie is the WOP is not an instrument of torture, but a simple mill-wheel, an essential part of civilisation.

The Guardian's always good for a chuckle anyway.

In Utah USA, there's a local state currency called "goldbacks". A law was passed in 2011 making it legal tender in Utah, so shops etc have to accept it. Gold leaf notes in a polymer laminate - most gorgeous looking currency ever. Comes in denominations of thousands of an ounce, which roughly corrospond to $5, $20 etc...