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Crikey. Should there be efforts made to switch back to stone querns? Presumably the tiny bits of stone, ignoring the obvious damage to your teeth, are healthier than the various metal dusts?
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Bit of the auld aurora borealis on display this evening. Very pretty.
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Blimey, that's incredible. Does it have any domestic applications? Should I be chucking acorns into my T5 occasionally?
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On the evening walk up the hill. Always two dogs, usually one cat, sometimes two. The cats are doing their best to tell Oscar that they are willing to play with him, but only on their terms, and that they have claws. He'll get the message soon enough.
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I want to be charitable and say he's cleaning up beaver damage, but I don't think that's the case.
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Tricky one today, but managed to get this one down eventually.
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Pretty funny comments coming out of the Trump hush money case at the moment. Amazing to think there's still people out there chomping at the bit to have the man in charge again. Utter lunacy. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/09/trump-trial-stormy-daniels-testimony-hush-money-case.html “Even though you had agreed that you would not discuss this supposed story and you had received a lot of money for that agreement, you then decided that you wanted to publicly say that you had sex with Donald Trump,” Necheles said. Daniels shot back: “Nobody would ever want to publicly say that.” At another point, Necheles told Daniels, “You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex.” Daniels replied, “Wow. That’s not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room.” She added that if her claim of sleeping with Trump was untrue, “I would’ve written it to be a lot better.”
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Yeah, that sort of thing. Definitely needs a burnt finish to minimise further rot. Start it off with a variety of drill bits and the little saw, chisel, etc. Easiest to take a lid or a base off and tunnel it out that way, but I'll try and do the smaller ones through just the entrance hole. Anyway, it's not exactly top of the to do list at the moment. One day.
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Nice, I'm always on the lookout for nice hollow bits. I cut out and kept some rot pockets on the last few ash and sycamore I removed, I intend to turn them into bee, bird, and bat houses. Tempted to try hollowing out a big piece with some hot embers and a leaf blower.
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My brown hound has learned how to crunch them down just fine, as have generations of my folks' border collies. On the other hand, my wife's girlhood springer had surgery to remove a cooked chicken bone. So it's a tricky one, really. I appreciate that it's a potential risk, but I also refuse to waste such a valuable quantity of protein. Oscar has only had raw and dried so far (big bags of dried chicken feet, nice cheap treat), but when the time comes for him to have a femur from the stock pot, I'll be holding on to one end of it, just as when he was learning to eat raw chicken legs.
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They are both sitting on it. Roast chicken carcass for dinner last night.
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We'll do what we can 42, until we prevail or run out of things to try and preserve. I've noticed far fewer buzzing things around the garden centre so far this year, hopefully the warm weather will bring more of them about, but it seems like a slow start. Good looking bee house, anyway.
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Hang on then, how do you tie it off after you've given it a tug? This is probably the best video on learning to tie the trucker's hitch, anyway:
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Steady on, Ghengis. -
CMC video on trucker's hitch Fun video on upgrading a few knots in the trucker's hitch to carabiners and getting a stronger, safer result. Potentially a bit quicker than setting up a 3-1, less risk of rope damage if you are expecting a heavy load than as a rope-only trucker's. https://www.cmcpro.com/learn-how-to-tie-a-truckers-hitch-knot/
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Fascinating stuff, cheers.
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Radium release hitch is a pretty fun thing to have in the tool kit. A pair of pears and a few metres of 8mm. Used for taking the strain off a system to pass a knot through a device or to switch a load onto a different rope.
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Yeah, that's a handbag. Monkey fist is a tight little ball, not sure what applications it had in other arenas, but for mountaineers you'd lob it up the cliff towards a suitable looking crack or V, hoping it would stick fast, and you could hand over hand (or prusik, etc) up the rope to make progress. Not one you'd want to unravel on you. It's also used in various sizes in a part of Germany with very soft sandstone rock as protection, instead of nuts, cams, hexes, as they would wear the rock down too quickly. Edit: I'd like a video of your magic mechanical advantage knot, please.
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I was told it's a handbag.
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Yeah, same.
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Trucker's hitches all over this expensive piece of metal, one in a loop of tat holding the three legs together, and one on each guy line to stop her from keeling over. Quick and dirty way to get a bit of tension on a line. Barely visible to the right of the picture next to that red rope bag is a slower and more powerful way to get a bit of tension on the line, enough to start approaching the forces required to destroy the system... if it weren't for the load limiting devices being used. Highlines. Fun stuff.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with an overhand. System D knot.
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Well that's just a nasty thing to say, and you are at serious risk of hurting my feelings, professor. Edit: anyway, maybe you should have carried on with your studies, and become a Latin teacher. Seeing as they are an endangered species now.
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Best solution for two ropes welded together after a big load/heavy pull: reef knot with a fisherman either side of it. Game changer for me.
