On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:11:48 +0000, Doug Dotson wrote:

Once again, back in my caving days, there was a device that was routinely used
to wash ropes (yes, in the caving world they are called ropes). It was (is?)
connected to a garden hose and the rope is pulled through it by hand. Cleaned
out the grit. Probably would remove green as well.


Woaw - brings back memories! When I was fighting forest fires to pay my way
through university, there was a "hose-washer". 50-ft hoses were dragged back and
forth a few times (the rythm was: fwd, back, fwd, back, fwd, fwd, back...). We
had to take turns being the "downstream" guy because the job was SO wet and dirty,
especially the "weeping" hoses used near a fire - MAN did they get muddy!

One guy had a cut on his finger, and almost lost it when it go infected from all
the crap spraying off the hoses.

You can tell when there's been a fire in the region from the dozens of hoses
dangling out to dry.

Lloyd