Life on a Line-volume 2

A link?

Sorry...thanks for the reminder Nick...Tom
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Looking at the sample pages at the top, it looks like the PDF is in 8.5 x 11 color format. I've heard of Kinko's charging as much as .89 / page for color prints. That seems very expensive to me. If you can accept it being printed in greyscale, that would probably reduce the price considerably.

I personally would use a monochrome laser printer and print the book in grey-scale. A toner cartridge for my laser printer costs about $40 and the number of pages output measures in the thousands. Even with a large diagram content, I bet I could easily get 800 pages per cartridge, which puts the price at 0.05 per page, or roughly $10 dollars for the job. Even at twice that price, it should be reasonable.

It ultimately ends up being based on how many pages you get per ink/toner cartridge. What printer would you using, and do you need color? Some ink-jet systems could price out at over .20 per page.

Also, some small local printing shops might be able to give you the best quality for money.
 
$14.95? Lordy, just buy the danged thing and save it to your HD. Why the need for hardcopy?
 
Their is some kinda rule of thumb that a book is 120% easier to read than a computer screen.

The original was very good and very generous free book in 3 parts (from a time when we were even more concerned about download file size!). It is also still up at www.Spelo.No - Norwegian Speleological; but in English. Perhaps some oversight has left it still posted in save-able format; while the original has been taken down.

Original "Life on a Line" Part_1
Original "Life on a Line" Part_2
Original "Life on a Line" Part_3

A ton of information on climbing class knots, tensile strengths, pulley systems etc. Download_1 is the most knot intensive and has a table of contents for the other 2 parts (pulley hauling systems in _2and Traverses-CE/EN Testing in _3)

Even though i had to WD-40 the rusty wallet hinge overnight to do so... My check is in the mail; betwixt the free and paid version; he's earned my contribution.

edit: i Combined the 3 parts into 1 .pdf. i maid this and sent it to Tom, then figured it's on the other site, was free for years; folks at a club like this should be able to use the combined resources of each fairly here; at least for a few weeks.
 
i got my Life on a Line Vol.2 today.

It seems to have fresh information, pictures and setup. The original is 188 pages and volume 2 is 222 pages; but, they are double pages; perhaps 'worth' 444 pages of the original Vol.1(?).

The knotting section is fairly similar but larger, better showing how to tie knot, in color etc. But the rigging, hardware and frictions sections etc. are very updated, name brands given with their positives and negatives.

The science and information is pertinent to tree work; but shown in underground caving setting.
 
i don't see a hard copy mentioned in the propaganda; just download or cd.

There is some study that shows that a book is easier to read than a monitor. But i imagine the kids now will be well use to it by the time they are grown.
 
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