I loved HTP until it started getting very baggy on me after some serious use. After that it was relegated to light duty rigging line, which it has excelled at due to its durability.
And once loaded up the knotability is gawd awful...
I am also feeling like 2026 is gonna be a good year...
And a Happy New Year to the amazingly talented cast of characters here. TB is very blessed to have to best group of tree peoples on the interweb..
Kinda reminds me of the old school sawpits use in the earlier days of redwood logging. Brutal work. I have a pair of genuine sawpits within 500-600 ft of my house...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_pit
Slightly different than the pits used in the old days around here, but you get the basic...
"I was never on Epstein's Plane." Trump 2024
Imagine the worlds surprise when we learned that flight logs showed that Trump had been on Epstein's pedo-plane at least 8 times between 1993-1996, including at least 4 flight where Ghislaine Maxwell was also present...
And that $12 billion bailout won't cover what farmers actual lost during Trump soybean tariff war with China. There is also the possible long term ramification of Trump's stupidity because China has gone elsewhere for its soybean needs. OOPS...
Nothing like watching Bill O'Reilly trying to gas light working Americans into believing that its not getting harder to make ends meet since Trump took office?
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/20/a-gut-punch-nebraska-town-shell-shocked-by-tyson-closing-huge-beef-plant/...
The King's madness-
https://washingtonian.com/2025/12/19/can-trump-actually-name-the-kennedy-center-after-himself/
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-patriot-games-hunger-b2887372.html
My answer is pretty clear here. As long as humans continue to treat Mother Earth as nothing more than a resource to fuel our lifestyle of commerce, comfort, and convenience we will continue to guarantee her destruction (as well as our own).
Your post #8,472 was full of the same old same old...