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    SRT canopy anchor with cambium saver & controlled retrieval

    After quite a few requests for a video on my anchor setup and retrieval, I made this video after remembering to film te retrieval part :) Here we are with 2 climbers. And normally we connect our climbing lines individually to the access line. But here my friend's end of the line was too short...
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    Life in cold slow lane, cat rescue, new climber on rope

    Nice :) I love animal rescues. The people are so grateful!!
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    Nice! Thanks for the information :)
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    Indeed! Here in Belgium we mostly have London plane. The sycamore apparently does grow well here, but I've never seen mature ones. If I'm not mistaken the London plane is a hybrid between the occidentalis and the orientalis...
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    This are barefoot shoes, from vivobarefoot.. and the pulley/cam I use is the CT cric. A very great and versatile little thing :)
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    This was such a beautiful line! I reduced the tops of these massive limbs because of some mechanical issues, but I don't show the pruning itself in this video. Some of the main mechanical features why I pruned the way I did are not on video... And it is difficult to show this clearly with the...
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    Little trick passing a natural redirect

    It's the ISC apex (new rope wrench) with the short Arbsession caralink tether (V1 for perfect-O, but installed with a normal size oval carabiner). This is the combination I use in wet weather or with wet ropes. In this conditions the zigzag shines :) I don't think it's an obvious combo, never...
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    Little trick passing a natural redirect

    Well, I always thought the same. Using toothed cams only in static situations. But recently a friend of mine with a lot of speleo experience told me they (general in speleo) have always worked with toothed cams in dynamic situations, and never had problems with them shredding ropes... Well, I...
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    Little trick passing a natural redirect

    That's a CT cric. Nice versatile little thing... Indeed you have to unload the lanyard to release the cam. But the cric has this little cord that you can pull to open the cam inside. So you can easily slide it closer to your position for uninstalling. A prussik still works super nice for this...
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    Little trick passing a natural redirect

    Just one way to pass a natural redirect without unloading the climbing line. Using my lanyard through the union is something I started doing when making fixed redirects under tension, which makes that much easier. I tend to do this a lot lately..
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    The appreciation of a fine beech

    what a beautiful tree this is!
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    A master in the art of living

    Just wanted to share this beautiful poem :) This reflects so much how I feel about my work and play as an arborist. I choose to not use the most interesting footage with this poem to let the words sink in a bit better..
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    Dead willow winching

    It doesn't always have to be big trees to be fun. The laurel bush was kind of sacred for the owner, so we had fun puzzling this tree apart without (or minimal) damage to the laurel. The anchor tree next to the dead willow was an Acer negundo, so we were pretty careful with the force vectors on...
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    unedited climbing a huge old oak (quite boring stuff)

    Here at around 8:15 you see how I can pull slack with one hand. Sometimes it need a bit of a wiggle at first (like here) but then it pulls slack very smoothly...
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    unedited climbing a huge old oak (quite boring stuff)

    I use the CT cric for a 3:1. Genius little device in my book! And indeed I use a 10mm Sirius for lanyard. The reason for this is because it works so well with the trango cinch that I use as lanyard adjuster. The most magical thing it does is allowing me to take slack with 1 hand.. I’ll see if I...
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