You know a squeeze is tight when......

[Roger W]

Looking at that one of the Young Ruminator...

It's too tight.... when there's not enough room for you and the lead-acid battery pack for your Oldham.   

 

[Cartwright26]

Some of those pictures are great!

 

[bograt]

Looking at that one of the Young Ruminator...

It's too tight.... when there's not enough room for you and the lead-acid battery pack for your Oldham.   

Nah, thats not tight, he's not taken his helmet and battery belt off and pushed them through first! ( bin there, done that, and had to reverse out ).

 

[bograt]

You win ?15 for going through the top rungs of the Hill Inn cartwheel in record time (c:1975)

 

[Dropper]

Yes. A squeeze is only fun when its wet and too tight to keep your helmet on.

can't see the appeal of this! Certainly wouldn't call it fun, more a PITA...  :-\

If my helmet has to come off my boobs arnt fitting so there is no sense in trying!

Amy. Where do you wear your helmet? 

 

[ianball11]

You win ?15 for going through the top rungs of the Hill Inn cartwheel in record time (c:1975)

the Hill Inn wheel, I've never even dared gauge the size of the bottom rungs!

 

[bograt]

I did measure it afterwards and IIRC, it was 3.5" at the bottom, around 8" at the top and 11.5" spokes, because  it was strapped to the roof beam, this was significantly smaller (and harder) than the bottom gap.
Problem was gravity (it gets you down) kept pushing you to the thin bit.
Went through legs first, big trouble with hips, after that rib cage and shoulders no problem.

Called in the pub a few years later and asked the landlord if I could have a go, he said "No, only one guy has done it, and he won a few quid for it".
I smiled at him and said "recognise me?"
He said " Oh yes, I know you can do it, but I'm not going to let you try again, the first time was bad enough!"

My record time was not quick.

Anyone done it since?

 

[Fulk]

I've never done the top gap, but I once had a very unpleasant experience in the bottom gap ? not because I got stuck, but because the damn thing suddenly moved; I thought that it was going to fall off its perch, taking me with it. Fortunately it didn't, but unbeknown to me there was a very sharp 'pointy thing' holding it in place, sticking up from the chair back on which it rests, and as the wheel moved forward I fell on my side onto said pointy thing, and got a big (and painful, notwithstanding the liquid anaesthetic I'd consumed) hole in my side.
It seems that I was trying to go 'the wrong way' ? if I'd gone the other way, I'd have been pushing the wheel onto this locating device or whatever it was, rather than off it.

 

[bograt]

I had 2 or 3 mates holding it in place at the insistance of the landlord.

 

[Brendan]

I've been there when a few SUSS members have been through the top, including my wife, probably around 2003 or 2004.

 

[bograt]

I've been there when a few SUSS members have been through the top, including my wife, probably around 2003 or 2004.

Thats way after my thin days, good to know the tradition rolls on though

 

[Alex]

This looks tight....

But is it? Well I did not find it too bad, when I let about 3ft of slack through my stop that is.

4th pitch Yokenthwaite

 

[Alex]

This was tighter (not my bum though)

Actually this one from Spain is better, as its also vertical.

 

[martinm]

Looking at that one of the Young Ruminator...

It's too tight.... when there's not enough room for you and the lead-acid battery pack for your Oldham.   

Nah, thats not tight, he's not taken his helmet and battery belt off and pushed them through first! ( bin there, done that, and had to reverse out ).

Ditto and have had to breathe out before trying to get through! (And back out again...) Never again, lol.

 

[bograt]

Looking at that one of the Young Ruminator...

It's too tight.... when there's not enough room for you and the lead-acid battery pack for your Oldham.   

Nah, thats not tight, he's not taken his helmet and battery belt off and pushed them through first! ( bin there, done that, and had to reverse out ).

Ditto and have had to breathe out before trying to get through! (And back out again...) Never again, lol.

Would that be Critchlow with Mr. Mellors??

 

[martinm]

Looking at that one of the Young Ruminator...

It's too tight.... when there's not enough room for you and the lead-acid battery pack for your Oldham.   

Nah, thats not tight, he's not taken his helmet and battery belt off and pushed them through first! ( bin there, done that, and had to reverse out ).

Ditto and have had to breathe out before trying to get through! (And back out again...) Never again, lol.

Would that be Critchlow with Mr. Mellors??

Haha, yes  that would  be one Terry... Critchlow had some real low bits in it which we  had to dig out a bit before we could get  through. (Was  an epic trip we didn't want to repeat!) Others would be 'T-Pot' and 'Rabbits Hole' in the Manifold,  then there were bits of Dynamite Series in Carlswark which were 'sporting' shall we say when I was pushing it in the 80's. Helmet & Battery off was the norm for the latter, ended up pushing a football sized lump of mud/battery back through there and trying to keep the light reasonably clear while I pushed it and helmet through the mud. Never been back since!

However, would like to revisit it via Flowerpot with someone who knows the route!

Regards, Mel.

 

[Joe90]

You have to extend your descender to fit down a pitch head  :doubt:

 

[Alex]

If its called 'little Meregill'.