When he insisted I not use my bowline / trucker's hitch combination to tie down my truck but use a clove hitch and a sheep shank. :Later he saw me using the truckers hitch again and asked derisively why I was back to doing it wrong. I responded that I had googled sheepshank (since its a knot we never used aboardship so I don't actually know it), and the first words of the first result were "DO NOT EVER USE THIS KNOT, it will slip under too much or too little strain" "BULLSHIT!" he responded, flushed immediately with rage, "I don't think every trucker in the world is wrong!" To which I responded "well I reckon they use the trucker's hitch Greg" .... he was quite pissy for some time afterwards.
(thankyou sailing for teaching me What Knot To Do!)
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Me: "Most of these hives we requeened the new queen didn't take" Greg: "Well you know what that means" Me: "We have an acceptance problem?" Greg: "Noo" (he is great at the "you are trying my patience already" no) "unlikely. you're rolling the queen" Me: "Every time?" Greg: "yep" Me: "All kinds of things can lead to lack of queen acceptance, chemicals sprayed on the fields around us, the spraw we put on the trays for the beetles" Greg: "No you're rolling the queens" Me: [now in my rarely used I'm actually getting pissed off with your idiocy voice] "Greg. We are putting these queens in one week and opening the hive FOR THE FIRST TIME a week later and the new queen is not there. HOW ARE WE ROLLING THESE QUEENS??? We can't roll a queen in a hive we've never opened!"
I forget what he said to that but as usual he was quite pissy for some time after.
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When he insisted I not use my bowline / trucker's hitch combination to tie down my truck but use a clove hitch and a sheep shank. :Later he saw me using the truckers hitch again and asked derisively why I was back to doing it wrong. I responded that I had googled sheepshank (since its a knot we never used aboardship so I don't actually know it), and the first words of the first result were "DO NOT EVER USE THIS KNOT, it will slip under too much or too little strain"
"BULLSHIT!" he responded, flushed immediately with rage, "I don't think every trucker in the world is wrong!"
To which I responded "well I reckon they use the trucker's hitch Greg"
.... he was quite pissy for some time afterwards.
(thankyou sailing for teaching me What Knot To Do!)
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Me: "Most of these hives we requeened the new queen didn't take"
Greg: "Well you know what that means"
Me: "We have an acceptance problem?"
Greg: "Noo" (he is great at the "you are trying my patience already" no) "unlikely. you're rolling the queen"
Me: "Every time?"
Greg: "yep"
Me: "All kinds of things can lead to lack of queen acceptance, chemicals sprayed on the fields around us, the spraw we put on the trays for the beetles"
Greg: "No you're rolling the queens"
Me: [now in my rarely used I'm actually getting pissed off with your idiocy voice] "Greg. We are putting these queens in one week and opening the hive FOR THE FIRST TIME a week later and the new queen is not there. HOW ARE WE ROLLING THESE QUEENS??? We can't roll a queen in a hive we've never opened!"
I forget what he said to that but as usual he was quite pissy for some time after.