fly rope and art rope guide

Aha, you mean a "buntband", used for repairing cars and tractors at
our company. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Police seem to like them as cheap handcuffs as well.
I will try it on the fly.

Mark, I didn't know that one could order the fly with a custom splice.
Maybe I'll try it next time.
I don't use my fly-rope much at all, it's a bit too small too grip (no gloves)
and it's 150 ft long, which is a bit excessive for most trees around here.

/ Oskar
 
mahk, if you're just using your rg for take downs when you can manually retrieve it then its not really any different to just clipping a pulley to both rings of a regular cambium saver.
thats what i do if im going back up, if not i just run my line through the pulley and one ring
 
I understand Oskar. I won't question your opinions one bit since you have to work in the environment that you do. I've never seen the cold that you bask in. /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif


On another note, I have a question for you Oskar. I have a friend who I play hockey with. He is an engineer who works for a company that has an office in Sweeden near the arctic circle. Anyway, he brought back a bottle of liquor that is (what I was told) a type of delicacy. It is made in Sweeden from the juices that are squeezed from a bever's anal glands. Is this right? Have you had this?
 
Mark and Rupe, north of the arctic circle the sun doesn't rise at all right now.
People live in houses built with snow, "bivack", or in hotels built with ice "ishotell".
Jukkasjärvi ishotell
They eat reindeers, rotten herring, "surströmming", or pancakes made from animal blood and oat, "palt"
Sometimes they visit the neighbor for a cup of coffee, they take the
snowscooter since it's only 50 miles away.

So, the "liquor" from your friend might very well be genuine, be cautious...
/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

"Bivack" - small snow-house
bivackgrop.jpg


/ Oskar
 
Nick and Mahk, this goes back a couple of days, but what about "an historical"? I think this is correct, but its always bothered me. /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
Oskar,

It is real! I tried it (not very tasty) /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif The bottle wasn't in English, but there was a beaver on the label. I asked my friend if it was for real and he gave me a cd-rom that showed the whole deal.

It started out with the hunt. Then the skinning. Then the secretion /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif extraction. He said that it costs like $300 per bottle.

I'll find out more info tonight at my hockey game. The whole team did a shot of the stuff the night we won a championship.
 
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According to Fowler:

"'A' is used before all consonants except silent 'h' ('a history', 'an hour')..."

More simply put,

'a' is used before aspirated 'h' ('a history' because the 'h' is pronounced).

'an' is used before silent 'h'' ('an hour' because the 'h' is not pronounced).

So to answer your question, 'a historical' is correct. If you try to say 'an historical' you probably actually say "an 'istorical". In colloquial use we probably often do pronounce it like this, but in formal writing 'a historical' is correct.

Mahk
 
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mahk, if you're just using your rg for take downs when you can manually retrieve it then its not really any different to just clipping a pulley to both rings of a regular cambium saver.
thats what i do if im going back up, if not i just run my line through the pulley and one ring

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One difference is that I can choke the RG on a stem so I don't have to worry about whether or not there is a crotch to tie into. I guess you could do this with a traditional FS, but it would be more difficult to set up. I can also choke the RG on the trunk, descend, and retrieve the RG from below as I chunk out the wood, which you can't do with a traditional, ringed FS. I do have an adjustable, ringed FS which I use for the same purpose. 90% of my work involves removals, so these techniques get used a lot.

I've tried using a micropulley on one side, but there is a bit of a see-saw motion that I don't like and the friction seems to be somewhat variable. Personal preference.

Mahk
 
ive never noticed a see saw effect. like you say though the friction is variable, sometimes the micropulley twists against the other ring which makes things a bit awkward.
think i'll try the rg in the new year
 
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