I found this Rodeo entry ticket amongst the photo 's.
Back in the day you just turned up in a long sleeved shirt and borrowed a cowboy hat.Paid 30 bucks and rode a Bull.
Then then Lawyers and pussies took over..
This is me splicing the mainrope in the mud.Much less miserable than a skyline eye.
The second picture shows the backline tractor with the skyline eye that would pop a strand now and again.
The soil was volcanic pummic and the tractor would sometimes shift,hence why the tailrope block is in...
I learned to splice Wire Rope at trade School.
The teacher said" your never going to forget how to do the,but your going to wish you had never learned".
When you find yourself battling with an eye splice in a inch and a quarter swaged Skyline in the middle of a New Zealand summer...
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