A new method for launching boats. Drive into the water until the boat just floats off the trailer. Not thought about the recovery phase yet, some work still to do.

zildjian wrote:Perhaps maybe a picture might help our readership decide for themselves

I'll put some on our Facebook page when we're done tomorrow.

zildjian wrote:is there any sort of set gradient at which you & your mate decide its no longer flat ground and suddenly something actually warrants all that equipment?

Usually get the kit out when it gets vertical. Sometimes it's overhanging, then we use the ass-cheek-close manoeuvre.

And the chalk, gotta have chalk or proper climbists' will laugh at you That's so yesterday. Sport/baby climbers need chalk, and lots of places to tie in on the way up their puny cliffs in the Spanish sun. Us old-school hard-assed traditional climbers eschew those sissy aids while we're climbing rea...

do you have like a grappling hook and toggle rope? Yes, all the gear, including some quant old-fashioned gear like tricams, hexes, wire nuts' and a shedload of friends from 0.5 up to several.5. A dozen or more quick draws, a pair of half-ropes, a reverso, a harness, some tight shoes, a few slings, ...

zildjian wrote:And I am you aren't climbing alone


so thats all good then

It has been known.

Cheers for that. I'm reassured.

earthman wrote:Thanks, the saw were an old one, I did try to repair it but no one made an armature that would fit it. Wife thought that I were mad when she saw me stripping it down/saving some pieces. Lol

LOL
I have a shed full of stuff that doesn't work but might come in handy. You were proven right this time.

Planning a climbing trip for Sunday. Some sea cliffs in our vicinity have yet to be properly explored. Hoping to put up some new routes. Might just be hard scrambling, but you never know unless you go.

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