Hi folks, I am switching things up to not work for myself. I am selling pretty much everything except my personal climbing equipment, a few hand tools, Milwaukee M18 tools (wiiling to sell them if you have or want Milwaukee tools), and Ford E350 work vehicle (but I will sell the E350 if you...
Hey, read this. I don't really have helpful ideas like the others guys, but I'll be thinking of you and hopefully sharing the emotional load. You don't have to go it alone.
I grew up with them along a riparian zone behind my house in Southern California. You might have seen that mud slide video that made the rounds three weeks ago - a few hundred yards uphill from that mess. What I'm curious about is that you seem to live a couple hundred miles north of their...
Just to advocate for the devil, would a steel wheel be worse if it did fall apart while working? With the normal wheels, I feel like they are light enough to not come flying through my helmet mesh guard and my safety glasses.
I use a milwaukee 5" band saw for threaded rod. It is overkill but works great because it does not have potential to kick very hard. The smaller-mouthed one is almost assuredly better.
For cable I use the angle grinder after taping the cable. I cut through the tape. It's a very clean cut...
I don't like it on my hook. Slips under too much load, and glides back down the rope under no load when foot ascender is engaged... I also get a little tired of it on my lanyard because the tending point nub digs into my hip sometimes. It's really a hardwood climbing device. On our standard...
My instinct is the adjustable hitch too.
However, your solution might be the same, except better because you need one adjustable feature for attaching the trailer to multiple vehicles. At day's end, those pins have to go somewhere, no matter how you feel about them...