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Quotable Quote "
The
beautiful things about learning is that no-one can take
away form you.
- B. B. King
Real communication happens when people feel safe.
- Ken
Blanchard
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your
mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent
head.
- Garrison
Keillor
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Rope Ladder
For this ladder you will need
10-mm cordage ten times the length of the ladder required. That
is, for a 1.6-m ladder with six rungs of 17 cm (sixteen turns in
the rung) you will need 16 m of 10-mm cord.
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To tie, halve the rope, forming a
bight, and call one length A and the other B. Form an eye about
10 cm in circumference, and whip, as in Fig. 1. Take the tails
of the whipping through between the lengths, one anticlockwise
and one clockwise, twice. Tighten and tie a reef knot as in Figs
2 and 3.
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Form a Z-shape with A, as in Fig. 4.
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Take B through the top bight of the
Z and under the bottom of it, as in Fig. 5.
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Then wrap length B around A as in
Fig. 6 and tighten the turns as in Fig. 7, making sure that the
distance from the whipping and the first rung is 23 cm as in
Fig. 8.
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To tighten the rung after the turns,
pull tight on the bottom bight to close the top bight tight on
length B at the start of the turns, then pull on length A to
tighten the bottom bight, as in Fig. 9. Remember that, if you
are using 10-mm cord, sixteen turns will give you a rung width
of 17 cm.
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For the next rung repeat as for the
first. Fig. 10 shows length A shaded.
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To finish the ladder all you have to
do is measure 23 cm down from the last rung and tie a double
diamond.
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