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    Gaping Gill Winch meet August 2025

    Not good enough guys!! You need more capacity than that. You're going to have to dig out another main chamber
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    Dead Man's Handshake

    Each to their own, whilst I'm not an experienced or skilled diver and utterly incomparable to cave divers I had a vague feeling for years I wanted to dive but half hearted, never enough to actually get done, eternally at the bottom of my things-to-do list. Then I was chatting to someone who...
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    Gaping Gill Winch meet August 2025

    A Definitely Maybe, if the winch ticket is valid you can Bring It On Down with hopefully no Falling Down. But if the tickets turn out fake then they Won't Let You Down
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    Steel vs aluminium scaff tubes

    Not sure if true, but I think old railway sleepers from 1990s or before have a much longer lifespan than newer old railway sleepers. I was told not to use them for e.g. raised vegetable beds or anything much in the garden as whatever they treated them with was effective but nasty.
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    Tick prevalence in the UK

    Oh no... we'll have to endure more nonsense about experimental vaccines and no longer being a "pure blood" if you accept it. If those ticks drink blood from a vaxxer won't it affect them too? What about the rights of the ticks, has nobody considered them??
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    Ruptured achilles tendon

    Way too early for this, so just putting seeds in the back of your mind for later. There's a concept "so good... we stopped doing it". For example sensitive teeth toothpaste, someone has some mild sensitivity so they use sensodyne (or whatever) after a month or two they don't have sensitive...
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    Urgent Need - Trailer for expedition (ICCC)

    A lot of hire places in the SE charge £60 for 1 day and £30 a day thereafter, so a month of hire would be approaching £1K 🤬. That's your worst case scenario I guess
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    New book on Ogof Ffynnon Ddu

    Maybe Tony does have stock after all, he's shipped it 😀😀😀
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    NAMHO 2025 Conference and Photo Competition

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c994v8rlzkdo Hope NAMHO goes well, watch out for travel restrictions if the tunnel gets closed for a while (depends if the above is just a car or a more significant fire?)
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    A question about the gym

    Years ago my mum had a hip replacement and it did wonders for her. She was given dire warning not to sit with legs crossed or swim with the kick of breast stroke (no more frog kick if you're a diver). But apart from those restrictions it worked for her!! Get well soon
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    New book on Ogof Ffynnon Ddu

    Must be popular.. just ordered one from Starless River but it's "back-order" not "in stock". Will people stop buying it please so I can get my copy 🤣
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    A question about the gym

    Personally I believe whether dressed up using fancy terminology like "Galilean relativity" or just from thinking about it, that the height gained whether relative to the treadmill (descended point on belt) or relative to altitude and ground in real hills is equivalent. But comparing walking on...
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    A question about the gym

    Not exactly. Imagine you are standing still on the belt of an incredible long treadmill, let's call it infinite. The treadmill is moving slowly at a constant speed and inclined downwards. It takes no work for you to stand still. You are descending due to the downwards inclination but if you shut...
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    New Goyden - Diving Video

    You don't often see a comment of people diving a dump to bypass dry caving 🤣 Daft question from a non overhead diver... how do subsequent divers know when a sump is clear if the line is tied off (so you can't signal by tugs on the line). Can you use a tank banger or something in shorter sumps...
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    Caving hut shower ratings

    I like the ambiguity, is the undesirability mentioned people in particularly muddy or unsavoury condition. Or are you saying they have a specific shower for ugly people? It must be a delicate conversation when a member is informed they are only allowed to use the rope wash room shower
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