How'd it go today?

[Burnham]

would a backup knot behind the prusik help with that?

Sorry @friedrich, I missed your post somehow. To answer your question...that would certainly have stopped any slippage from happening, but...

First most, I was using two prusiks on two separate winching arrangements; one to advance the pull and one to capture the gain while the first was reset over and over, so I never had slack to tie a backup knot behind the prusik with the heaviest loading (the one most prone to slippage). I suppose I could have gotten around this by adding a breakdown and reset step to each cycle, but it was tedious enough already .

Secondly, it was perhaps better to allow the prusiks to slip a few times, rather than really overload the pull rope any more than I already was .

I sacrificed two prusik loops and cut off about 15 feet of the pull line to discard the glazed sections afterwards...not a very high price to pay in the big picture, to me.

 

[Kaveman]

In defense of Burnham:

Even I, the self professed Rope Diva, must say; Rope is cheap, compared to everything else.

Also, thanks for the nifty new rope washer! I look forward to using it, once it stops raining! 🌧️

 

[Burnham]

You are welcome, my friend.

 

[friedrich]

looks like a thing i should look into, basically i live in a giant sand-pit…

 

[davidwyby]

Coffee with eggnog, Christmas music, listening to the rain through the screen door.

Beaver-tooth 32”. The one on the right is grade A, the rest are utility grade.

 

[WoodCutr]

this probably isn't the right thread for this but I don't know what is, just had to share

today I learned, miniature horses can be ADA service animals!

 

[treebilly]

On the last glamping trip of the year. 60 F and 25mph winds today. Would be beautiful with out the wind. Made cooking breakfast a challenge but we made it work. I might have to switch out propane tanks tonight for the furnace. The wife and kids are having a good time so I’ll survive.

 

[Cobleskill]

Trying to grease front end on my winter drive. 2003 Tahoe. All not bad to get to til I got to the pitman arm and idler. Figured I would change fittings to right angle. Fittings did not want to budge, so I struggled til I got things in the right position so I could loop the hose up and over. Engineers!

I miss my Ford Escape winter drive. More practical size and gas mileage. Salt finished it off.

 

[Burnham]

I'm thinking a snowmobile might serve you best .

 

[friedrich]

Coffee with eggnog, Christmas music, listening to the rain through the screen door.

Beaver-tooth 32”. The one on the right is grade A, the rest are utility grade.

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interesting that you start to celebrate christmas that early (to me)

 

[davidwyby]

interesting that you start to celebrate christmas that early (to me)

We are just weird

We like Christmas in our house. Winter is short. We make the most of it. Especially this year, being gone almost a month in October. Texas is a couple hours ahead and we came home on the time change. Like where did 3 hours go? Plus it’s raining and half cool.

 

[davidwyby]

Trying to grease front end on my winter drive. 2003 Tahoe. All not bad to get to til I got to the pitman arm and idler. Figured I would change fittings to right angle. Fittings did not want to budge, so I struggled til I got things in the right position so I could loop the hose up and over. Engineers!

I miss my Ford Escape winter drive. More practical size and gas mileage. Salt finished it off.

Not many rigs still have grease fittings. Only one (from the factory) on my 11 Ram is in the front driveline CV joint, have to remove the driveline and use a needle to grease it. Hardly anyone knows it so a lot of drivelines get replaced.

 

[Cobleskill]

The new one are getting worse by the year. Full of gimmicky unnecessary crap that breaks and take things away like grease fittings, dipsticks, keys that don't go dead and strand you etc. etc.

 

[cory]

No dipsticks blows my mind