Recent content by moss

  1. moss

    New device from ISC

    Thx for the report! Looks like 32-strand covers are not the issue. -AJ
  2. moss

    GoPro cameras for tree work

    Bill Mason, Canadian documentary filmmaker of nature and adventure subjects. Film camera helmet cam back in the day!
  3. moss

    GoPro cameras for tree work

    “Is it on or is it off? That is the question.” -William Shakespeare Yep. Leave it running and run down batteries and fill memory cards? Or selectively run the camera when you think something is going to be interesting. If I lose track of whether it’s on or off it’s usually an indicator of...
  4. moss

    GoPro cameras for tree work

    There are some f'ing wild and weird behavioral changes that occur after climbers use a GoPro for a while. I find myself standing in a room or out on a trail with a friend and I'm talking to them with my head facing away, as if I have some god-like voice that everyone can hear no matter where I'm...
  5. moss

    New device from ISC

    Am I missing something? Has anyone else climbed on a 32 strand cover line SRT mode with the Reflex? Seems too obvious. Super smooth cover line, Reflex top "bird" doesn't engage without a finger nudge. Possible it is not the spring gummed up with pitch, new 24-strand cover lines and 32 strand...
  6. moss

    GoPro cameras for tree work

    I would dip your toes into it. Get a basic GoPro kit, all you need is the camera, helmet mount, a couple of high capacity MicroSD cards and 4 batteries. There's a ton of other crap you can buy for your GoPro but it's like a newbie buying tree climbing gear, how do you know what to buy if you...
  7. moss

    Add quick buckle to TM Essential

    I didn't like the functionality of the slider buckle on my "new" used/unused TM Superlite (similar or same as the Essentials buckle). I mod'd to replace with a rated stainless parachute buckle. Still going strong 3 years later. It has a lot of tree work hours on it, been through all my rescue...
  8. moss

    Visiting The Redwoods (Crescent City?)

    Jed Smith yes
  9. moss

    If DMM made more carabiners that locked on a ring like the Revolver

    It's the design conundrum of flexibility vs. certainty. It's awesome to be able to rotate the gate of a carabiner through a device opening when you want to. It's also great to have the room to make two device/carabiner connections to a single point on a swivel or other life support connector...
  10. moss

    Documenting my hand-sewn eye process

    That looks excellent, thx for posting. For my Speedy Stitcher awl I have to grind down the shanks of my ball-tipped industrial sewing machine needles to fit the collet. The shoemaker awl collet opening looks big enough diameter to fit them. -AJ
  11. moss

    Life in the slow lane - screech owl nest box install

    He's been taloned enough by raptors to know how to avoid it but still, I'll bet he gives a little blood every year ;-) Yes he is a master of his craft. When he was a teenager he climbed to a red-tailed hawk nest in a dead tree, the tree failed. Norman has paid his dues for sure. -AJ
  12. moss

    Life in the slow lane - screech owl nest box install

    Just watched the film and I'm reminded once again about the depth of his knowledge. He's educated by his own persistent fieldwork and questioning previous natural history assumptions throughout his life. The film doesn't mention his innovations around putting tracking devices on snowy owls. One...
  13. moss

    Life in the slow lane - screech owl nest box install

    Norman Smith (featured in the vid) is a legend of legends in the New England and beyond raptor and nature education world. He’s still at it making a huge difference. I get to work with him sometimes, he gets a little cranky about my “modern” climbing technique, he’s always spiked trees to do...
  14. moss

    Life in the slow lane - screech owl nest box install

    Thx! Your assumption is correct, anything that wants to be in a tree cavity of that size will use it. A screech owl box opening is tight for a gray squirrel but they'll eventually widen it and get in. I had a flicker occupy one of my screech owl boxes and a gray squirrel move in to a kestrel...
  15. moss

    Life in the slow lane - screech owl nest box install

    Thanks! Later November can be bitter cold or mild, depends which direction the weather is blowing from.
See more

New threads New posts

Back
Top Bottom