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    Don’t you just love working alongside main roads…

    School - one time doing 1 or 2? dead ashes by a fence backing into a school yard, in the middle of summer school's out no kids and I looked and checked every time I dropped something into the school yard. We saw someone was in/on the property inside the school so thought it courteous to...
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    WTB - CMI trolley

    On second read I see the bevel on the edges of the rigging plate holes. Bit of an edge there for aluminum biners. My method has been big countersink followed by chain sharpening file to round off. IMO file the outer (lower) load bearing edges for smoother biner contact and less biner wear...
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    WTB - CMI trolley

    Synthetic EP (extreme pressure) grease has a carrier which is "stuff" that holds oil in it and synthetic grease means it carries synthetic oil. EP is usually 2 to 5% molybdenum (grey color) solids that reduce metal to metal wear under slow steady pressure (sound like a pulley bushing?)...
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    WTB - CMI trolley

    As a finery step you could flap disc the traction bumps off the plate. Extra rounding buff on edges is always a nice touch too. Looks nice. Even if the pulley bushings are oilite, I'd re-grease them with yellow-metal compatible grease. Certain additives can attack bronze etc bushings.
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    Don’t you just love working alongside main roads…

    I once put gas cans as oolorful visibility and stacked brush as a barrier on a sidewalk where I was piecing down branches near a smaller road. I watched a pedestrian step over a can and struggle to climb through the brush pile so they could get into the drop zone as I called out to them, then...
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    Nerd Alert

    Deep dark NASA conspiracy Secret! The toilet seat sticks to the lid when you lift the lid! And it's supposed to! Ah, to confirm the veracity... For all the conspiracy theorists out there. ;-) edit - "Integrity, that's a no-go on using the toilet" "Can somebody get a hold of Wolowitz?"
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    Nerd Alert

    I just watched some live NASA feed from the Artemis 2 launch and they had a camera at the rear of the craft looking back at earth. No blue marble as its cloudy weather. The earth was a crescent and you could slowly see the rotation into sun rise. The sun was just coming up outside my window...
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    2026 European Tree of the Year

    The one contoured shade tree reminds me of the one that survived the lava fire in Hawaii. I feel like printing off the article and dropping it off at a former friend's place. He got a new gal and she affected his thinking. When I refused to lion tall his maple over his deck, and I mean...
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    Dragon Flies & Bats !

    In the late summer years ago when we used to play net-less fun badminton quite large black dragonflies used to show up in the evening and chase the birdie on our comically high shots. They came from a creek about half a km away.
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    Nerd Alert

    Yeah, it really puts things in perspective. The old saying, one wrong punctuation mark can take down 10,000 lines of code. Now it's one system access priviledge can negatively impact millions of people's lives.
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    The "Promising" Rope by Sterling... Triad

    I remember something in a test vid where IIRC bonding the cover increased the rope's resistance to abrading and breaking over a sharp edge (?). edit - prevented large exposed core section cutting on an edge after de-sheathing, I think some fresh adjacent sheath absorbed additional abrasion to...
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    I can see a similarity or connection between trying to up-angle (vs pole lineman pose on spar/spurs) support yourself with your lanyard on your side D's which rides your saddle up into your ribs. If the saddle can be adjusted so the bridge force tightens into the leg loops sooner ie shorter...
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    Nerd Alert

    Computer story I remember back in school when Luxo the lamp was an amazing new animation and some crazy guy named Linus Torvalds was attempting to port Unix to PCs, motion pictures experts group was new - a different time. How things have changed.
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I remember that thread with electric wheelbarrows etc. In this case with "tongue weight" providing traction I see risk of 1) slope reducing tongue weight to the point of inadequate traction to retain control 2) slope having the capability to make propulsion force (primarily fore/aft, but it...
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    Same guy who told me of grandpa ladder complained about certain double D Weaver(?) leather saddles just squeezing his butt badly - 25 years ago time frame. I can see on modern saddles the attachment being centered about dead center in front of your hip joint, but there's also the...
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