Compact Bulldog Bone

Tr33Climb3r · Feb 21, 2015

surveyor said:
Treevet has a 1/2" bollard installed on his.

Surveyor I sent you a pm/ started a conversation. Thought I would post here as well

Worthaug · Feb 22, 2015

Worthaug said:
Does anybody know it's original name before it was renamed after Samuel Ashe?

Bump. No trivia people?

First Morristown, then Altamont. Asheville had actually suffered from more entire city devastating fires than Chicago. It has re incorporated a dozen times in the last 115 years!

oceans · Feb 22, 2015

Worthaug said:
Bump. No trivia people?

First Morristown, then Altamont. Asheville had actually suffered from more entire city devastating fires than Chicago. It has re incorporated a dozen times in the last 115 years!

No kidding! That's like every ten years on average. There must be a cluster of changes down in the lower regions of those 115 years?

Worthaug · Feb 22, 2015

oceans said:
No kidding! That's like every ten years on average. There must be a cluster of changes down in the lower regions of those 115 years?

Yup, from like 1905 to 1915, there was a huge fire every year. Sadly, the original Battery Park hotel, the largest timber structure ever built in the US, burned to the ground.

Shem · Feb 22, 2015

This is totally off subject, but I'll throw it out there anyway. I placed 7th overall at my first climbing competition in Columbus Ga. I'll take that considering I thought I would come in second from last lol.

oceans · Feb 22, 2015

Worthaug said:
Yup, from like 1905 to 1915, there was a huge fire every year. Sadly, the original Battery Park hotel, the largest timber structure ever built in the US, burned to the ground.

Ouch. The Wikipedia page is pretty good. The section on climate has me in slight disbelief...average Summertime temps of 73.8 F...sounds too good to be true.

Worthaug · Feb 22, 2015

oceans said:
Ouch. The Wikipedia page is pretty good. The section on climate has me in slight disbelief...average Summertime temps of 73.8 F...sounds too good to be true.

It's true, in the twenty years or so that I've lived here, I have only seen 90° a handful of times.

oceans · Feb 22, 2015

Worthaug said:
It's true, in the twenty years or so that I've lived here, I have only seen 90° a handful of times.

Sold!

Worthaug · Feb 22, 2015

oceans said:
Sold!

And although humid, it's nothing like the humidity on the northeast coast.

treevet · Feb 22, 2015

I went to the Boone NC Shigo seminars back in early '90's. Spent the whole week there and explored and loved that area (Appalachian College etc). Think it is about 100 mi s. from you?

Worthaug · Feb 22, 2015

treevet said:
I went to the Boone NC Shigo seminars back in early '90's. Spent the whole week there and explored and loved that area (Appalachian College etc). Think it is about 100 mi s. from you?

That sounds about right

Brandon Keating · Feb 23, 2015

SWEET! My Compact Bulldog Bone finally arrived. Felt like the longest month wait I've ever experienced, but I can imagine that it will be worth it. Expect some videos heading your way in the coming weeks. Thanks again Surveyor.

treevet · Feb 23, 2015

bring on the vids mate. We're in zero temp and half foot of snow. I am dying to run mine but I just am getting off crutches. Vids...vids!

Tico · Feb 23, 2015

Brandon Keating said:
SWEET! My Compact Bulldog Bone finally arrived. Felt like the longest month wait I've ever experienced, but I can imagine that it will be worth it. Expect some videos heading your way in the coming weeks. Thanks again Surveyor.

Lucky you...I'd been waiting for 20 days and haven't seen anything yet...just hope that customs run their dirty job in a dry place because if I receive the bone all rusted I will go to Milan where they're keeping it for nothing all this time, and aim an APTA to their windows...bunch of jerks coffee drinkers during work hours stupid italics.

BOTS · Feb 24, 2015

Been keeping up on this thread from day one....first post and i want a sammich, is that weird??

oceans · Feb 24, 2015

BOTS said:
Been keeping up on this thread from day one....first post and i want a sammich, is that weird??

Not at all, BOTS! Sammiches are a plenty here. Great. Now I want one.

Worthaug · Feb 24, 2015

If i ever start a restaurant, which is on my bucket list, (I make a mean breakfast sammich...) it will include a specialty item... The Bulldog Bone Sammich.

Worthaug · Feb 24, 2015

Worthaug Nachos, just saying...chorizo, corn, cheese (duh), cilantro, fresh jalepenos, cilantro lime sour cream, and guacamole (homemade)

MikePowers321 · Feb 24, 2015

So I found something potentially hazardous with the Bone and a longer style tether. I was playing downstairs, collapsed the bone with my right hand, and my tether dropped down to the side and happened to grab the lower link (I didn't notice this happened at all and happened in a split second). I sat back into my saddle and fell straight on my ass. The Bone couldn't engage.

There are many ways to avoid this and I'm sure the way many people have their tether set up, this wouldn't be an issue but I thought it was worth a share. Thank Goodness it didn't happen in the tree. So keep an eye out and build your tether accordingly. Bone is awesome regardless.