Today....

27RMT0N · Dec 13, 2020

I "decorated my Christmas tree" today.

Jonny · Dec 13, 2020

That’s really beautiful man!

27RMT0N · Dec 13, 2020

Jonny said:
That’s really beautiful man!

Thanks, it turned out even better than I expected. First time doing it actually. I cut out and made the star, attached the lights to it, then climbed up and installed everything (thank you zip-ties) and was literally rappelling out of the tree as the sun was going down. Didn't expect it to turn into a half-day project... Then more than an hour taking photos as the light was changing... But it was a lot of fun, and I hope it puts a smile on the (very few) people that will actually see it!

(edit: the tip of the star is about 90' and the star is 5' across if anyone was curious)

Winchman · Dec 13, 2020

At first glance I thought this was a newly discovered deep sea creature.

Nice work!!

JD3000 · Dec 13, 2020

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nd this while building a fort with the boys in the woods. Boys were like "Coooool."

JD3000 · Dec 19, 2020

Very early am salt run.

Reach · Dec 19, 2020

JD3000 said:
Very early am salt run.View attachment 72215

Great view! I did my salt run last night, but didn’t see anything like that!

JD3000 · Dec 20, 2020

Reach said:
Great view! I did my salt run last night, but didn’t see anything like that!

This is the tree we decorated with a lift a couple weeks ago. I had never seen it in the dark but the light pollution is pretty bad here

Reach · Dec 20, 2020

JD3000 said:
This is the tree we decorated with a lift a couple weeks ago. I had never seen it in the dark but the light pollution is pretty bad here

Looks good. You decorate very well, I like it!

Boomslang · Dec 20, 2020

Had a blast in this monster....well huge for my area....red oak a couple of weeks back taking off a 40' long 12" diameter limb over the customer's roof and deck.

rico · Dec 20, 2020

Beautiful tree and killer photo Boomslang! New Tribe Onyx? If so, how you liking it?,

Boomslang · Dec 20, 2020

rico said:
Beautiful tree and killer photo Boomslang! New Tribe Onyx? If so, how you liking it?,

Love it! I had an original 6 or so years ago and then floated around with different saddles for a few years, but nothing else compares. My only complaint is they went with smaller rigging plates on this updated version (went from SMC to Rock Exotica). Not as friendly to use as lower D's

Winchman · Dec 20, 2020

I'm surprised at how long your bridge is. Where are the carabiner and ring with respect to your waist, chest, or shoulders when you're actually climbing? Do you have a picture of yourself in climbing position?

rico · Dec 20, 2020

Boomslang said:
Love it! I had an original 6 or so years ago and then floated around with different saddles for a few years, but nothing else compares. My only complaint is they went with smaller rigging plates on this updated version (went from SMC to Rock Exotica). Not as friendly to use as lower D's

I found that the Onyx really responded to small adjustments so it took me awhile to get it really dialed in. Once I got it properly dialed and got used to the side D's it was one sweet ride....I miss mine and have recently contemplated getting another one....Plus I love supporting awesome small companies like New Tribe and Gordon (BullDogBone)...

Boomslang · Dec 20, 2020

Winchman said:
I'm surprised at how long your bridge is. Where are the carabiner and ring with respect to your waist, chest, or shoulders when you're actually climbing? Do you have a picture of yourself in climbing position?

I'm 6'4" so nothing is ever very far out of reach. I tried running a shorter bridge, but like the freedom the longer one affords. I can comfortably turn 180 degrees if I need to.