Haironyourchest

Situation: I have a tin roof, low pitch (box profile). Stove flu pipe extends 2 feet from roof, near the ridge. Rainwater runs into gutters and then into my storage tanks, 6000lt capacity. I drink this. Have been for a decade and all my life before that have drunk mountain water runoff. No filters, never have filtered, bar a cheese cloth at the tank mouth to catch big particles and save the plumbing. Now, I've just swept the flue pipe, from the inside with a flexible drill brush. It's left a scattering of soot/creosote particles on the roof, around the chimney. It's raining now, and I've disconnected the gutters from feeding the tanks, so hopefully the rain will wash it into the gutters, where it will probably lodge. I'll get up there with a hose and brush sometime and flush them out. In previous years, I've taken a blower up on the roof after and blown most of it away, or brushed the roof. Some years I remove the whole flue and break it down for a super cleaning. I'm just wondering, if soot particles make it into my drinking water, how much of a health impact could it be? It's a creosote type substance after all, and it's somewhat soluble in water. I'm not the least concerned with biological stuff in the water but chemicals are another thing. If it's a hot week in summer and heavy rain is forecast, I decouple the gutters an let the roof flush for a few hours before filling the tanks.

To clarify about the mom - she had a supplemental oxygen tube in one nostril, taped to her cheek, not a full mask. She wasn't visibly upset about the flat so I guessed she had her condition well in hand, but probably wouldn't be much help with the tyre.

Yeah, you read it completely backwards pal, but maybe that's my fault, I could have given a more detailed explanation... As the situation commenced, I didn't offer to help as it *could* have been insulting to the kid. He was driving, so around 17 I'd guess. I stayed in my van and monitored the situation. As it became clear he wasnt up to the challenge, tool wise, I tactfully offered some tools, which were clearly needed. The male ego, especially the young ego, can be a delicate thing. One doesn't want to "overhelp" another man, unless asked. It's not polite, in my view. So, I sat on a bench on the sidewalk and watched. Would you have preferred I got back in my van and watched from there? Or stood right behind him as he worked on the tyre? I had to position myself somewhere, after all. Bench seemed like a respectful distance, not crowding, not unavailable should he ask for help. My proximity on the bench was a message to him that I was available to physically help if requested. So I let him get on with it, as I'd prefer a stranger to let me get on with it. Only after it became clear he was out of his depth, and he confessed he never changed a tyre before did I offer advice. TBO I forget at which point in the undertaking he said he had never changed a tyre. Could have been at the start, could have been when he was figuring out the jack, but whatever - at the time I took the admission to be a request for direction. I got the strong vibe he wanted to do it himself, and was asking for advice, not physical assistance. Just how I read the situation and I could have been wrong. It's a great gift to let someone conquer a challenge on their own. Verbal direction doesn't take much away from the victory and in this case it was needed. A fine line between shoving my oar in and emasculating the kid, or mentoring him to exercise his own capability. When his dad rocked up, I could see the disappointment in the lad's face, plain as day. Daddy was an impatient, take charge, dominant type. The family dynamic playing out before me, was this lad had never been allowed to try on his own. One time, a friend wanted to learn to butcher a deer. He asked me if I ever found a roadkill deer to call him and let him try. The day came, and we went to work on the carcass. He had a go, but I skinned and butchered 90% of the job myself, as the flies were gathering and I didn't want to be there all day and also didn't want him to make mincemeat of it. I was going to eat this animal after all. He was crestfallen, and he let me know. He made me promise that if he ever acquired a deer of his own, I would stand by but let him do it all on his own, even if he made a hames of it. I felt damn guilty about it, as I'd robbed him of a valuable learning experience... Not quite the same as the tyre thing, but you get the idea...

Wow. But did it last the 15 years? I think you're saying it did, and the problem was sorted then, and is still sorted now, 15 years later - but I'm not sure? Was it a one-and-done permanent cure, is what I'm asking.

It's a bloody sad state of affairs. I consider myself blessed to have grown up in a time and place where that cotton wool culture didn't affect me, at least not in the physical work side of things... Your comment about letting the kid get on with it and figure it out himself, hit home... Some weeks ago, a car broke down next to my van in town. Flat tyre, mother and teenage son in the car. Mother had an oxygen tube up her nose and the son was messing around in the boot. He was clearly struggling, so I offered him my toolbox. "I've never changed a tyre before" he said. I didn't offer to do it for them, as this was clearly a golden opportunity for him to get stuck in. I sat on a bench and watch him thrashing the car around with the tyre iron. "Try putting the hand break on". He couldn't get the jack to work. "Try feeling under the car for a ridge - the ridge goes in the slot on the top of your jack, that way it stays put"... "Try loosening all the nuts a bit before you jack up the car, that way the wheel won't spin..." And so on. He was making progress, and you could see the excitement of defeating this problem on his own, a few hints notwithstanding. Then dad showed up, in another car, and stole his thunder. Dad changed the tyre, thanked me for the tools, gave a bob for a beer and they drove away... Saddest thing I witnessed in a long time.

Curious to know did the operations "take" or did you ever have to go back? You mentioned it was 15 years ago? Weird how some people's joints blow up and others not. Saw a thing on YouTube about an 80+ year old guy who still does big wall rock climbing every single day.

Untouched by Time's turning pages, Those beloved, hated faces, Which once were great and graven, Are floating on the tide. Lost in multitudes of meddlers, Who beach and rot before the noonday sun. Each wave loading on befoulment; Promenaders cheer them on. Give us a household name, oh Sea! - or do we wait in vain? Send storm, and clean the sand of stink and stain. Or send ashore the kraken; end the game. - Haironyourchest Byshe Frost

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Just the trench cut or the full "shark's gill"? If the sharks gill really works I'll start using it.

PM sent. Here's the link anyway. Sorry, tried to post a text link but it posted the video and won't let me delete it. Trench cut at 5:00 minutes in. Sorry for cluttering up your thread, Eggs. And I admit the Stories are shit. Glad I don't have to vote for them.

They're supposed to be a "relief" cut, to give the collapsing fibers on the compression side of the hinge somewhere to expand into. Gives you a tad more bending in the hinge before it breaks, or that's the theory. Something I picked up for YouTube the night before. Figured it couldn't do any harm. Reportadly it's what they're teaching now in standard felling in "Europe" (?).

I hear you. And I'd agree completely - if this was a normal cyclical recession like all the others. Sadly, the time to take financial responsibility was five to ten years ago. It might very well be too late for the majority. Think Soviet Union collapse, western style. But what do I know... Maybe it will work out. I hope so. Might be some big sociological changes though. I'd like to see the peoples of Europe find a renewed purpose and vigour, maybe a dose of real hardship would be the tonic we need.

The Swedes are keeping schtum about their findings. "Confidential". Still, I wonder would any scrutinization of the blast damage even point to this side or that?

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...