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    The most dangerous work yet

    Matias sorry to hear about this and wishing you a speedy and full recovery. In time spent in Big Oil, it is a proven statistical fact that the most dangerous thing a worker does throughout their working lifetime is to drive to and from work, to field sites or to plants. Another statistical fact...
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    Looking for a descender or climbing device with a "neutral" mode

    I agree - always aim for redundant if possible and simple for safety. Even at that, in an engineering sense I guess, our equipment has potential for what's called common mode failure - say redundant systems connected to a single swivel or single bridge. Many incidents take place with new workers...
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    Looking for a descender or climbing device with a "neutral" mode

    Kinda going thru this thread again - would a D4 work - it has a panic feature that puts the thing back into sorta"neutral" or just hanging there. There's other ISC models that don't have this feature though. Crank the lever some more and you get descending mode back. I've used it both in tree...
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    Courant Squir

    I didn't soak my Squir rope but just washed it as usual with Teufelberger rope wash in mesh bag and it's fine with my RRP - in fact that's all I use it with now. The RRP stripped it's adjustment hex nut/ bolt and I bought a new one, adjusted it once and am afraid to touch it again so there it...
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    Switching between SRS & MRS....

    I've just used a DMM ring and "Bunny ear alpine"? Basically a big loop with the ring on it. It gets rid of rope on rope friction at the loop when yankin' stuff down (esp. with any redirect(s) ).
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    Switching between SRS & MRS....

    Or sometimes I still carry up my good old Uni - no mods - just for coming down. Gettin stuck on a hitch is one reason I often still carry up the ZZ and leather cambium saver to try and stay away from sap as much as possible for the down. Going back into older stuff, Richard Mumford had a video...
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    Switching between SRS & MRS....

    Back to descending on a hitch - never by itself, but you can use a round top biner and a ring on say your leg loop or a flatter topped biner and a munter to add more friction for descent. Either is quick. I've talked earlier about the biner/munter in winter to strip frost/ ice/ snow/ glop off...
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    Lightning kills line clearance worker

    I remember in University days I had summer jobs working on the ramp in CYWG putting commissary on tincans. Some mornings/ evenings you would see a black black wall approaching with fingers of lightning as far as the eye could see and the first distant peals of thunder. It was usually less than...
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    use tail to setup secondary system

    So lately I've been climbing still with my trusty double ended long lanyard which is stowable, and using a basal tie SRT line for access/ left for rescue, Lord forbid. If I'm doing anything much scootin' around a tree though, I still pull up a separate MRS line (fits back there beside the...
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    Lightning kills line clearance worker

    So here's some of my experiences with lightning over the last 25 - 30 or so years. As a long time soccer ref, we lived in fear of thunderstorms out in the open on a big a$$ field. Many years ago, while ref'ing an evening game we saw a whispy white little cloud float over. There was a sudden...
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    FIDO Finds Fly

    New one on me for routing out spotted lanternfly . . . Go FIDO
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    Wildfires

    Southern Alberta has for the most part been clear - maybe one day or two of smelly air but thats about it. Been lucky. And we're heading into our first couple weeks of warmer weather - haven't hit +30C yet!
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    Wildfires

    This has made the news all over Canada and Europe - gives new meaning to "At Work We Were Kinda Close To The Fire" . . . . Wonder how those wooden railroad ties are faring?
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    Nesting birds and tree workers

    I still remember a job where we were working some spruces and one of them had a magpie nest (around here there are literally clouds of them to the exclusion of all other bird life). When the stem and branches/ large nest (condo?) hit the deck, a whole bunch of magpies congregated over the magpie...
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    Nesting birds and tree workers

    I was working on buncha spruce this spring getting rid of deadwood and scragglers - on one of the tree trunks was a small birdhouse. When I started on that tree Mama Nuthatch made a great amount of noise and went up (headfirst) and down (headfirst upside down) the trunk. As soon as the noise...
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