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Burnham
Woods walker
If I was richer than all the many gods, I'd be all in 
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But just to play devil's advocate...there is a rarer than hen's teeth early 2000's Jaguar XKR coupe on offer here in the PNW. There were less than 1400 of these built, ever. I am again seriously tempted
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.But just to play devil's advocate...there is a rarer than hen's teeth early 2000's Jaguar XKR coupe on offer here in the PNW. There were less than 1400 of these built, ever. I am again seriously tempted
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Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Wow, only 1400 built - that surprises me. Good looking car.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Made about 60 miles from me, outside Portland.
They take a while to break in, for sure.
But when you have them custom build, nothing on God's green Earth compares IMO.
Unfortunately they stopped making the Timber boot with steel toe protection.
I was going to swing by them this spring and order a new set.
Their fitting room is fantastic.
Like taking a trip back to the beginning of the 1900s.
But when you have them custom build, nothing on God's green Earth compares IMO.
Unfortunately they stopped making the Timber boot with steel toe protection.
I was going to swing by them this spring and order a new set.
Their fitting room is fantastic.
Like taking a trip back to the beginning of the 1900s.
Burnham
Woods walker
Agreed.
Mellow
BCMA
Oh hell no!!! I'm fine if I'm tied in but I get the heeby jeebies just getting close to any high place. In a saddle or in a lift, I don't even think about it.
Mellow
BCMA
Burnham
Woods walker
Me too Brett, in spades. I can do anything under any amount of exposure, tied in. I've worked over many a cliff, off many a tall structure, at the top of many a 200+ tall tree. Otherwise, I'm a total weinie. My lady M can walk right up to a 1000 foot exposure cliff and lean out to look over...me, I'm back 20 feet and holding my balls tight to keep from rolling into a fetal cringe
.I will say tying off in construction is very different than trees. With trees you can sit back into your harness and feel support, and can move around on that support, in construction you don't feel that you are tied off at all, and you know you are falling a ways before you hopefully are caught, and that it will be a race to pull you up before suspension trauma sets in. Up in the steel like that if a crane couldn't get to you in time you would likely die even tied off.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Strange. Seems like two micro-footloops that deploy with the decelerator-lanyard would be all it takes to avoid suspension trauma, in an uninjured person, or a loop that comes down under your feet.
At a hanging-belay (a no-ledge anchor-station between 'pitches') in rock climbing, "standing in slings" is a thing, as rock harnesses are not comfortable at all by comparison. This can need to happen if you are stuck mid-pitch between ledges, for some reason, too.
At a hanging-belay (a no-ledge anchor-station between 'pitches') in rock climbing, "standing in slings" is a thing, as rock harnesses are not comfortable at all by comparison. This can need to happen if you are stuck mid-pitch between ledges, for some reason, too.
From back when I was asking about a construction helmet, I made this for my fall harness...
Just clips to the hip straps of the harness, and I had it rubberbanded to one of the straps. Pull it out, clip to the other side, adjust with the prusik. I guess it works. I didn't have to use it :^D
I hate walking steel. I can climb up and down fine, but walking laterally on beams, I feel like I'm just floating around, and I get vertigo. I also hate ladders. I prefer climbing up the forms to using the bouncy, tilted ladder.
I still occasionally mull over setting something up for self rescue, but I'm not sure what exactly. The whole setup of a fall harness makes it difficult to do anything for yourself.
Burnham
Woods walker
That is the great benefit of using a sit harness over a fall arrest harness for life support. I'd rather take the chance risk of whiplash injury from a fall on a sit harness over the near certain damage/death that suspension trauma holds in store.
But then, I am after all a tree climber.
But then, I am after all a tree climber
.They make a loop thing for just that Sean, but that costs more and they have old harnesses that fulfill the requirements so that's what you get. Very few come with dees on the side for work positioning, and if they do they often come with a padded 6 inch back belt, but without a lanyard it's just completely useless and restricts mobility. Without an actual seat self rescue is a pipe dream at best, assuming you aren't injured in the actual fall. I used to climb out on a pipe rack where you couldn't get a lift to easily (or at all), haul up a bucket and welding lead with a rope from below, wrap my off arm around the pipe and then weld squatting, kneeling, laying, e.t.c in whatever position I could get to even half ass see the puddle, holding on with my off arm/ elbow feeding wire. Still do on occasion, did some tig welds in a cogen plant earlier this last year that they didn't plan out with scaffold and everything.
I have a 3 stand lanyard that I'll occasionally use, but most industrial jobs anymore are very particular about you bringing stuff. If it's not theirs and you are injured, it's their problem so they just say no way to everything. It's all contractor and project dependent tho. You often are required to use 2 fall arrest lanyards, and anymore they often require that they are yoyos (self retractables), so you have 10 pounds hanging off your back in the most awkward way possible. So you basically are still doing what those ironworkers are doing, but with something on that might save you but makes your movements infinitely harder to do in the first place. We really haven't gotten far from the one hand for you, one hand for the ship
I have a 3 stand lanyard that I'll occasionally use, but most industrial jobs anymore are very particular about you bringing stuff. If it's not theirs and you are injured, it's their problem so they just say no way to everything. It's all contractor and project dependent tho. You often are required to use 2 fall arrest lanyards, and anymore they often require that they are yoyos (self retractables), so you have 10 pounds hanging off your back in the most awkward way possible. So you basically are still doing what those ironworkers are doing, but with something on that might save you but makes your movements infinitely harder to do in the first place. We really haven't gotten far from the one hand for you, one hand for the ship
SeanKroll
Treehouser
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Bah! How do you figure that Stig??
Back when it mattered.......the Krauts didn't have a diesel tank in any numbers, it took 7000 individual Germans with a caliper each to assemble one bogie wheel.....over the span of 43 weeks, and they never had sufficiently protected supply lines.
My vote is for the Russkies.
Back when it mattered.......the Krauts didn't have a diesel tank in any numbers, it took 7000 individual Germans with a caliper each to assemble one bogie wheel.....over the span of 43 weeks, and they never had sufficiently protected supply lines.
My vote is for the Russkies.
