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I see buds... it's going to be easier to determine its health in a few months, though! Scratch a tiny patch of bark off with your thumbnail, if there's green underneath she's fine 👍

Is 8 gear loops too many gear loops, or do you think they could squeeze a few more on there?

I don't, but I was looking at it just last night, it's a strong contender for my next harness... I like the 6 gear loops on the back, and those 4 extra webbing loops. Looks like you could stash whatever you want on the open webbing on the back of the thighs, too. Dragging up a tow rope or whathaveyou. (Edit: ah jaysis, I've just spotted the extra green gear loops on the thighs! Cargo galore, bro!) Open rings for the bridge attachment look handy too.

That's no beech... that's conny cut into the brown... to my eye, anyway! Any more pics available, OP? Edit: ah, it's been mentioned already. Carry on, team.

Much safer, and you still get your content for The Gram. Muuuch smaller scale, but back in peak Eowyn cleanup we had a leylandii in a shed roof (I say shed... it was the 2-story stable block at a former stately home) that we held up with a tirfor through a pulley aloft in the (healthy-looking) neighbouring tree, and I just nibbled bits off of it until we were well past the eaves and able to drop it safely.

I hear you, I have a pond of frogspawn that needs topping up.

This is Passat number 4 for me and the wife over the last 25 years, can't fault them as a machine. As you say, throw it all in the back, and there's still room to spare. We had a sport version last decade, that was great for running up and down French motorways between the Alps and UK/Ireland. Funny story (well, not very funny, to be honest) about how we got the current one, I'll type it up when I've finished work.

It's been flipping brilliant hasn't it, very accommodating for work.

Ah right, sever it but don't lift, and just guide it down to the ground. Yeah, that seems a much less potentially-fatal route.

'kin hell. That seems really poorly thought out.

Thought I'd italicise the words you might have to look up 👍

All I'm saying is... whatever point you were trying to make about backbones... has once again been lost as a result of your own stupidity. Edit: Just to help you out for the next time you make that particular comparison though... I think you'd be better off choosing an animal from the long list of invertebrates that our planet has to offer, and not an animal that is - quite obviously, it should be noted - pretty much nothing but a backbone.

With between 175 and 400 vertebrae in a snake's backbone, this is quite possibly the only factually-accurate thing you have ever said. You might have never handled a snake though, so who knows?

Does anyone?

Ah, jesus. That's shocking. Easily done too, I have a dead pine to remove from an adjacent anchor in the near future... this is very sobering news! Hope he's back on his feet soon enough with no major obstacles.

There's video out there is there? Could you give us an idea of what went wrong, or how?

Oh, wow! There are so many stories on this subject to choose from (eradicating the efforts of women, queer, coloured people, etc. from military websites, including, hilariously enough any mention of the famously-homosexual nuclear bomber, the Enola Gay...) but this one really is a shocker. https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii Navajo code talkers scrubbed from history. A two-man team of Navajo code talkers attached to a Marine regiment in the Pacific relay orders over the field radio using their native language. Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI." Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. They were critical to securing America's victory at Iwo Jima.