4:1 upgrade

[boreality]

I put a large homemade wooden bead between the progress capture prussic and the so-called prussic tending pulley on my 4:1. The sharp edges ate the last hitch cord when it was freezing up and it always gave a little grief. This smoothed it right out. Wish I could show you a picture but my photographer is on holidays.

 

[Fairfield]

I had the same issues with some of the rigging i hsd done in the past. I cut a two inch disc out of an old platic gas can and the drilled a hole just large enough for the rope pass through worked great.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A piece of PVC pipe or connector works too. Radius the inside edge to reduce rope damage.

Using fingers to release a loaded rigging friction hitch is asking for an accident. It is too easy to have flesh sucked into a turn of the rope...ouch!

 

[markprz]

Yeah... love homemade things... please post a pic when your camera man makes a return!

 

[boreality]

All I have is film cameras. The camera "man" is my girlfriend and she's half way through a 3 month trip photographing everything beautiful in New Zealand. Hopefully by the time she gets back she'll still be my girlfriend and I'll have some real equipment innovations to share.

 

[theXman]

sorry to break it to you dude, I'm friends with a Kiwi over there and he has been banging your chick. Well.... your old chick, not yours anymore.

 

[theXman]

just kidding

 

[markprz]

X..... you make me laff....

Like the time at the gym when a guy asked me where I got the shirt I was wearing... he has one just like it.... and without skipping a beat... I told him.. "your wife gave it to me last time I was at your house." And went back to lacing up my hoop shoes.... Gym went silent for a second..then exploded with laughter....

Your comment made milk shoot out my nose...

thanks.

 

[whiz]

Before my dad kicked he was in a Clarkston MI restaurant and some dude was wearing his hat at one of the tables. When he walked by, my dad said "Where'd you get the hat, kid? Free with a bowl of soup?". The guy looked up and shot back "Naw, you're mother left it at my house last night". My old man fell out as he made his way to the little stage to lay down the law on some Irish folk music. My sister joined him at the stage and whispered to him "Dad that was Kid Rock"

 

[boreality]

Oh well X owed me one. And girlfriends are easy come easy go, the good ones anyway.


I had a chum who saw a guy who looked exactly like himself walking down the street so he asked him his name. My chum had taken over his dad's insurance company that sold insurance door to door and sure enough the records showed the look alike's parents had been his dad's clients. One of those brothers from another mother.