southsoundtree said:
An easy option to improve the line- angle of a pull rope is to use floating anchor point as a redirect that can be remotely set and retrieved.
Oh, cmon!! I think he deserves a little more credit than a train wreck. The guy’s a goofball, no argument there. But if you zoom out from the YouTube content, he’s actually a decently accomplished tree guy. Seems like he has fun and doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is kind of admirable...
If it were not for this treesonous content, creating this conversation, I wouldn’t have known about @southsoundtree floating redirect technique, or considered using it in that context!!
I think there’s a compilation Lawrence Schultz made of carnage, and things getting western in the canopy, it’s like the crash reel at the end of a late 90s skate video…. At the end of the day, were all just practicing in this ever changing arena… even the pfannerman5000 (or whatever his moniker is).
Not defending what happened here, nor have I seen it, but if any of us had every job filmed, edited, and posted online, I’m sure there’d be moments that raise eyebrows too. It’s easy to critique from the couch without being in the tree making real-time calls. That said, there’s still a line when...
Oh I’m sure they have zero say and/or even a knowledge of it. It’s not fair for me to hate on them for a situation they have no involvement in, but…...
When mine broke from the cold, I learned (at that time) the Kask suspension wasn’t replaceable, per the guys at the kask booth at Indianapolis TCIA. Been in a pfanner since….