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Best of all for an ab line is a tied off italian hitch so if the abseiler has a problem you can lower (or completely drop) the ab line. Assuming a seperate safety line is also used. Most secure non-releasable anchor knot would be a doubled figure 8 with a 2 turn stopper knot on the tail. Don't...
Fair comment - I didn't put that very clearly. I meant nylon is soft and will go where you put it wheras polyprop (especially big polyprop) fights back and can have a mind of its own. You're right that nylon if left alone will flop out of lay - you have to keep re-twisting it and not let go of...
some tips for making a splice in 3 strand hawser laid rope neater:
after each tuck twist the strand you've just tucked, in a clockwise direction, and pull back towards the splice and against the direction of the original lay (the main bit you're poking the ends through). The idea is to make the...
Either double the rope and ab down both lines twinned (easiest and most common), or...
tie an overhand loop or alpine butterfly in the middle, loop over tree and pop one end through the loop. Ab down the line going through the loop then pull on the end with the loop in it to retrieve. Or if the...
I've been called Dom Mears by fellow scout leaders (when they're pleased with me), Dom Grylls (when they want a rise out of me), McGyver by some, The professor or professor Potts by one of my bosses, Lanky git by my climbing partner, sometimes dangerous Dom.... a few things.
Thankfully mostly a...
Anyone else watch this? - he's a wildlife photographer and a bit of an adventurer. Like a cross between Bear Grylls (don't start...) and David Attenborough. Quite like a South African version of Steve Irwin (RIP) actually.
Quite like his stuff, although I worry he's skating on the edge of...
The two tips are narrowed with ball ends. I've attached the elastic using cable ties - that worked fine but there may be a better way? I imagine it would take pretty much any elastic - the ends are pretty universal and it's certainly strong enough - the hawthorn is rock hard now!
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