Another beautiful sunny day today...
Spent yesterday planting 5 new fruit trees, and my 8yr old daughter reminded me that her zip-line needs fixing.
True enough, it's lost its tension, so she hits her bum on the high spot between the trees supporting the steel winch wire we're using for the zip.
So, today, parked the truck in a suitable position and set about rigging the winch. Pretty simple really, winch line up to a stout tree between, but just off-line of the zip, through a snatch-block and back to the "loose end" of the zip line.
Rigged it all up, gave it some gentle tension, then loosened the clamps. Once loose, I could crank it up with the winch.
Before anyone says "that's not how to connect 2 shackles, well I know that, but I'm buggered if I could get them pin to pin, so one of them had to go sideways.
Anyway, I didn't give it too much welly, I'd have pulled the tree down if I'd given it too much !
This is the "stopper" to save Ana from crashing into the tree trunk!
A finely balanced photo... nothing about "F" numbers, I'm 3m up standing on one leg... !
These cable clamps are great, I was waiting for this to slip, but it didn't...
Looking uphill on my handywork...
Managed to lose about 2' so it shows it was slack. Luckily, the downhill tree leans down the hill, so if anything I'm encouraging it to become vertical
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All I need now is to re-rig the chair for her. I used crappy nylon rope last time, which simply disintegrated after 2 years outside in the sun.
Sorry to keep mentioning sun, no offence meant...
Beautiful day though, and just to keep to the theme of the thread, we had the mini-daffs out to play too...
They really are tiny, too, as the fag packet shows...
i can only guess the council decided they needed to make some space at the stores so they can beg central gov for more
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