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    Popping up all over my lawn

    I'm assuming that with rhizomonous growth, poisoning would kill any mature trees connected to the sprouts. I definitely don't want that to happen. We have a beautiful stand of Aspen adjacent to the lawn, and some poplars not too far away. Also some cottonwood. We bought the property less than a...
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    Popping up all over my lawn

    The guy's are taking over my lawn. They're growing way faster than the grass. Any idea what they are and/or how to get rid of them? There are a few dozen rotten trees stumps in the yard, and would their root system be the source?
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    Attaching a snap shackle to a spliced eye

    Redoing the eye splice would have been my first choice (with a girth hitch to the shackle). The problem is the line is unbelievably stiff. One year of use on it and it feels like a 10 year old line. I think we pushed the load limit on it last year! The use on it this year will be...
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    Attaching a snap shackle to a spliced eye

    WOW! 3mm Dyneema with a 5000 pound breaking strength. Amazing. I will look into this. Thanks.
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    Attaching a snap shackle to a spliced eye

    This is a sailboat concern--not a tree thing. My skipper wants to put a snap shackle on some 3/8 double braid line. The hasp(?) has about 1/8" diameter. That seems like the opposite ratio for the recommended bend radius of rope. Could this be mitigated by using multiple wraps of 7/64" AmSteel to...
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    big shot trigger

    This is nearly identical to what I came up with. I like your calibration marks. I do "guess and adjust" which can be slow.
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    I'm disappointed and relieved. It turned out that the tree was partly on my neighbor's backyard neighbor's property. The backyard guy had several other trees he wanted removed and hired a company that had a sizeable grapple saw. The questionable tree is now gone. My wife is happy.
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    Show off them splices

    Are the rings tenex or dyneema?
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    Show off them splices

    Oooh! I LIKE that! I've gotta show that to the owner of the boat I crew on.
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    Show off them splices

    I made a belt out of webbing and plastic buckles hoping to avoid removing it for airport security. Nope. They didn't like the plastic buckles. Didn't care that there was no metal in it. It set off the detector (the one you stand inside with your arms up in the air). Maybe rope rings would work...
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    I'm going to talk to my neighbor and I'll convince him to rent an aerial lift.
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    I may get a little creative with where and how I tie in for the guy line. I have a 150-ish ft piece of 5/8" double braid to work with. I am considering pulling a bight over a branch and around a major stem back down to the ground. The line has an eye on one end and I would splice another eye on...
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    Not yet. I will post the results when it happens. It may be a while. My neighbor is a little slow to act .
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    Thanks for the input. The soil here is over compacted (from the last glacier) clay. If the anchor fails it would be from breaking the half-inch steel and not from the soil letting loose. If the tree drops in the direction of lean it will trash several decent spruce trees and a white pine, and...
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    Heavy leaner needs to come down sideways.

    My wife says "NO!" Two years ago I would have done that. I've had some "old guy health issues" since then and to save my marriage I had to promise my wife that I would no longer climb trees. That's been very frustrating for me but I can see her concern.
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