Old John:
Benjie83:
Quite proud of this hahaha even got my working loop on show [emoji38]
Any of the old guard think it’d look alright hanging off an ERF?
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That, my boy, is way too neat to be hanging off an ERF! Particularly if it was one with bits of rag flapping to keep the mirrors clean, and a wee bucket tied on the grille which was used to catch the oil dripping out of the Gardner whenever you stopped!!
The rope in that coil is not nylon. It’s cheap and nasty split filament polypropylene. It is easy to knot ant it isn’t too slippy even when new, but as rope goes, it’s pants. When it gets a little bit of wear it absorbs water like a sponge, and when you pull a kinch tight, you get covered in all the crap off the rope. There’s a lot of better rope out there for only a little more money(one I call blue and red is much better, although it is still polyprop). However, if you’re working for somebody, you just have to make the best of what you’re given.
If you are taking rope off a new coil, there is only one correct way to do it to avoid a million kinks, and that’s to take it from the middle, with the coil the right way up. Don’t worry. If you get it wrong, you’ll be the first to know!!
Well done to you for taking an interest and wanting to be good at your job.
With that attitude you almost certainly will be.
Crack on, and good luck.
Thanks John, really appreciate your input, and encouraging words bud [emoji482][emoji482]
Yeah Im gonna keep practicing, make em pretty lol, just gotta stretch this cheap poly a bit more lol, I’d have bought proper rope but funds are tight at the mo [emoji57]
Im, like a few have stated am doubtful I’ll ever get to do much of the old game… esp if I secure the job on offer once passed… but in my opinion it never hurts to have a few strings on the bow, lost count of the amount of times my dad would help other drivers out back in the day, if they were out sheeting steel in hurds lol, it was just the norm everyone lent hands is what I remember, it’s what I knew from my early days and I’ve carried it on as I go, jump out an push a car if it’s broke down, offer if you see a stranded soul or shuttle a plater on their travels…
Just a nicer way of life and I’m bolloxed if I’m changing my nature, just more cautions of when to use it now sadly but hey I may make it to the outback and live the dream, then who knows what knots I’ll need to create, or I can noose myself up if I fudge up so one way or another I’ll use em… [emoji38]
Again, Many many thanks John [emoji41][emoji41]
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