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Don't know if this would be of interest to anyone, but a colleague has just shown me this... it's 500 pages of very thorough comparisons of pretty much everything you can buy for rigging, rope access, rescue, whatever... grams, price, kN, dimensions... there's even closeup pictures of the teeth/ridges/whatever on the ascenders/grabs section. Very detailed. BUYERS GUIDES ACCESSANDRESCUE.HFLIP.CO Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker It's not exactly bedtime reading, but it might be a good resource for some people.

Nice, was that a homeowner video, or yours?

Yeah, the absolute state of these poor things! So today was 2 little birch having too extreme of a haircut that I'm not going to lose any sleep over... not my circus, not my monkeys... the owner can see the view over the top of them for the next year at least, that's the main thing. Then these two butchered pines down to the ground, then three more dead monoliths of the same that were more dust than timber, and only the ivy holding them up. Honestly not sure what the spec was for whoever did the job originally. A most successful day, however, because my son has been told to bring in 2 pine cones to turn into Christmas decorations... I found them! But once you pop, you just can't stop! There's enough for any of the class who didn't manage to find any now, at least. I also got a lovely little wren's nest, on the right of the picture, to add to my collection for show-and-tell at schools.

Speaking as someone who is not well-versed in the whole shrinkage situation, this sounds like a steaming pile of horseshit to me. Just to clarify... the complaint is that the corners by the swimming pool and the cedar tree are being affected? How old is the swimming pool? I'm happy to be told I'm wrong, I like learning, but at this stage I'd probably be giving the neighbours a big old f*ck-you until you can prove that it's my 4 tiny trees doing the damage. They need to get a specialist in and a proper report made.

Micro-cylindre 2.1, friction device - FTC FTC-TREE.COM The MICRO-CYLINDRE 2.1 is a friction device used in tree care to hold and lower loads during felling and branch... Wow yeah, that looks like a real contender. Thanks for the recommendation.

On the bottom right? Yeah you get some funky shapes with extra arms and things, they are called fun names like the Frog or the Piranha, depending on the shape and the manufacturer. You can add a wrap here or there to add more friction.

The last crowd who were here did a great job on these Corsican pines.

Hell of a lot lighter, though!

Do, the place is dead. I used it a bit when I was living in the Alps, I was given free kit by a ski manufacturer out there off the back of my Facebook and insta content. Stopped using it when I moved to Ireland, and just recently I've tried making a new page for my business, following only local people and pages. Within a month, 90% of the feed is random shite from distant corners of the planet, AI art, and memes. Absolutely unusable now.

Don't forget to start a presence for the band on Bluesky... it's like Xitter, but without the fascism.

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Ease of use is certainly a factor, is it really that much more difficult to explain a portawrap to the average Joe? I've never used one, I just like the idea of them really, and I'd like to be able to bring it up the tree with me. Have somewhere to hang my jacket when it gets too hot. Probably end up getting both at some stage, anyway.

Yeah, fixed is more capable for sure, I did a good bit on a fixed bollard back when I was working for another guy, but I'm keen on the portability of a capstan. It's more in keeping with my fast-and-light ethos.

I know I said any opinions... but...

Anyway. I've not got 4 figures to drop into a GRCS, and although it's the sort of thing I'd love to own one day, as a one-man-band I doubt I'd ever use it, and there's all sorts of other toys I'm likely to spend it on first. But I'll be getting myself a little portawrap in the new year I think, that's more my kind of size. Until then, though... ...any tiny-size rigging to be done on a little fig.8? Better than wrapping around the trunk, right? And only snipping little bits...? Any opinions welcome.

We recently bought a new stretcher, 8000 euros of a fancy lightweight titanium thing, from a manufacturer in the States. Took delivery of it, got it out of the box, started bolting it together... the allen bolt heads are all American imperial, and the metric allen keys we had to hand don't fit. Had to wait until the next day and bring in a different set especially. Most inconvenient.

Who was the fella we had on here a year or two ago who said the same thing? Anyone remember?

^ This is the sort of thing a bellend would recommend, if the suggestion was made un-ironically.

Does it make a clicky noise when you crank it? I'd flipping love one. In the spirit of conversation, what have you against them, RC?

Well, as I've always called them adjustable spanners, which is unnecessarily clunky, I think I'll start calling them shifters. Maybe people will just assume I've been to sea.

Probably all the bees. One bee is light... 40,000 bees... less light. Ah, shame, another one eludes me. Tomorrow morning will be day 3 of putting manners on an escaped hedgerow.

Umm... something is clearly going over my head here. Why is?

Ahhh, I want a hollow tree filled with comb. I'd love one to convert it into a forever beehive in my garden. Stick a little fairytale-style roof on it. One day.