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Old 04-27-2006, 18:53   #44
Bill Harsey
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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
about cable, ... I guess a "real man" would use a fid and splice it in rather than clamps. I hear stories of splicing steel cable by hand, don't think I would ever want to do it. It is bad enough with braided line. I have two rigging knives w/fids. I would use clamps too.

I'll have to ask the logger who lives below me. But He uses the new Finnish stuff. He does have a a gin(SP) pole..

Not sure if I gor it right. We did some selective cut to thin our forest. 7 truck loads of timber and about that in Fur wood.
That's close enough for a pass.

I can tear apart and wrap a Molly Hogan in one inch wire rope, barehanded, no clamps.

Others can decide if this makes me a real man or not.

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