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    Hitch questions and other general gripes.

    Thanks for the info guys... I am actually planning on moving on back down south where I came from as soon as possible. I do believe that my general foreman is an excellent climber and a safe tree worker so I mean him no disrespect with my comments. That being said he is basically a raging...
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    footlock prusik

    I have an 8mm prusik loop that works great with my 1/2' line. It was 12' when I got it and I shortened it a bit because the original length seemed unimaginably long to me. I tie the Klemheist as my ascending knot and I'm extremely happy with the results and I prefer it over the Kong ascenders...
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    Hitch questions and other general gripes.

    Ok... so I started off on the Blake's which is my go to knot but I've been experimenting with (and liking) some other hitches. I've got a 30" beeline eye-to-eye prusik cord which I use to tie the Schwabisch or the Distel. I prefer these knots to the Blake's but I have a problem with the hitch...
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    Safe work from the bucket...

    I'm a fairly new climber/bucket operator so take my "wisdom" with a grain of salt... I one hand a saw from the bucket all the time. Today for example... I was removing a small (maybe 35' tall 16" at the base) Linden over a fence that seemed to made of parchment paper. None of the limbs were...
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    Comfortable with heights

    That's the best answer yet.
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    novice saddles

    You are right about the bowline not being a certified termination knot EasyPhloem. When using the split tail system I always use either an anchor hitch or a double fishermans loop. I was under the impression (from my boss) that it is ok to use the bowline in the traditional climbing system...
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    novice saddles

    I respectfully disagree as well. I learned on the split tail system and I regularly climb on that as well as an eye and eye with either the Swabisch or the Distel and a micropulley. Even with these advances I climb more than half the time with just a rope, bowline directly onto my d-ring and...
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    Comfortable with heights

    I have to say that I am fairly afraid of heights myself. Occasionally I have sort of a little mini panic attack where I suddenly (and irrationally most of the time) think that something bad will happen. I have experienced this both while climbing trees and once when I was in a bucket truck and a...
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    Just Joined

    Yeah the company I work for is based in Rockland so I guess we're on the same page with the trees in the area.
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    Just Joined

    I'm originally from NY... long island... worked for a tree company in Virginia... (a company being me and one other guy.)... moved back up here and got a job about 50 mi. north of NYC. I think I've caught up fairly quick since I started. Footlocking is no problem and I've experimented with a...
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    Just Joined

    uh hi... i've been reading these boards for a few days... figured I should join... been climbing for a company in ny for about ten months now. I climbed about twice in my life and showed up at this tree company saying I knew how. Really didn't know a thing but they taught me and now I don't...
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