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    Wtb mini porti

    I misspoke here. Good catch. I confused my fiber details. I meant to say it has a poor, relatively speaking, melting point.
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    Wtb mini porti

    Careful with that. Amsteel is hmpe fibers. They don't handle shock loads or abrasion well. It's meant for steady static loads to get its strength. Shock load it and it'll bust before polyester line will.
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    ART Blackbird

    I wonder if we'll see a tcia article based on this thread
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    Rope Runner Vertec Limited Edition

    Brah, this is all well and good but for someone who was as involved in the heart of the industry as you, to utterly stiff other positive contributers in the industry, via this very forum, via this very type of sales post, we absolutely deserve to know the details, and resolutions to those...
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    Rope Runner Vertec Limited Edition

    i knew that name sounded familiar. I did see this account was created just to post these sales. I am watching these with great interest.
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    You're initial question is asking others opinion on if you are going overboard. You even acknowledge that this might be anxious behavior. You could have framed the question as "Is black knot harmful to people?" but you asked about your behavior around it and then shared tons of details about...
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    Sounds about right. I think the drums are are in the $900-$1000 range.
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    If you want to hedge your bets, look into using alkylate 2 cycle fuel. ASPEN is the og alkylate fuel and now Stihl offers their motomix as well. Don't quote me on this but I think these are the only two alkylate premixes you can get in the states. I use ASPEN all the time. Good stuff. I think...
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    I have never once thought, or heard about black knot being harmful to humans. But in that vein, if you are this worried about black knot or someone else eating a sandwich with dirty hands, you better not research what's in the 2-cycle exhaust of your chainsaw that you are huffing a foot from...
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I have a saying where I work..."no consequences". Meaning folks will do what they damn well please and nothing ever happens so...yeah. You can climb on a screw gate carabiner if you want. No judgement here.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    I see treestuff has that mentioned clearly. Didn't see it on Wespur of Bartlett. Its taken them 3 years to get the "official response to an updated Z 133" published. If they want to make this ruling "official" you can wait another 10 years lol.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    Well if anyone actually cares, I posed this question to members of Z133 comittees at the same time I posed it here. The unofficial/official response was it is not compliant. They also, of their own accord, reached out to Arbsession to request they add language to the product description...
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    Go to canopy anchor?

    This is great insight. Thanks for taking the time to spell that out. Makes sense.
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    Question on life support carabiners with auto locking bypass feature

    A busted/sticky carabiner can be said to do the same thing. "Look, I did two things and it's stuck in push mode but it'll still auto lock if I do this other stuff to it". The logic is the same. The orca operates in a way that a faulty carabiner can operate.
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    Go to canopy anchor?

    I @Muggs I've really wanted to give this anchor a fair shake but never pull my soft 8 out of my gear bag. You've convinced me to put it on my harness so I no longer have excuses lol. I have a couple questions about retrieval though. Do you use a retrieval ball or knot on the tail of your...
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