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    climbing pet peeves

    Customers watching my lack of throwline skills.... No customers watching me hit my target 1st try.... Trying to work in a Pin Oak Listening to a line clearance Gorilla and getting a buttstrap saddle... Fogging glasses Sawdust in my ear
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    Sharp edges on Petzl gates.....

    Thanks. Ive had these biners for several years now so i doubt they can be returned. i think the rubber thing spacing the eye from the gate and possibly a light kiss with the dremel will put my mind at ease. The biners have been flawless but those edges have always been a concern to me. Coming...
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    Sharp edges on Petzl gates.....

    Ill try the rubber thing. That is the cheaper option than switching out crabs. Thanks
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    Sharp edges on Petzl gates.....

    Hmmmm, interesting. Ill give the DMM a try amd see how it goes. I guess im just looking to buy more gear! I have a thread about harness' in the climbing forum. Torn between MCRS and the Tree Motion
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    Sharp edges on Petzl gates.....

    Bump ....i cant be the only one that noticed this.
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    Sharp edges on Petzl gates.....

    i use two Petzl O crabs for my Hitchclimber system. I noticed the hinge side of the gate has some edges that are not razor sharp but theres enough edge to cut rope. So when i rotate the bottom crab to hook to my saddle, the eyes of my hitch are scary close to those sharp edges! I retired a hand...
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    saddle advice/ opinions......

    When hanging in the MCRS, do the pads do a good job of spreading out the load from the cordage? Im guessing the MCRS could be rebuilt with cordage of ones choice?
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    saddle advice/ opinions......

    Id like to try the Sequoia as well. Ill be in Indy in late Spring, wonder if i can swing by Treestuff and try on a few saddles and buy one in person?
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    saddle advice/ opinions......

    Looks like i havent posted in over 5 yrs, wtf. Im getting tired of my Weaver floating D buttstrap saddle! i dont climb everyday, or every week for that matter , but enough that im sick of the pinch of the Buttstrap. I briefly tried a Tree Motion saddle at Jambo and had no idea what i was...
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    fisk decender other uses???

    i had some hardware given to me by a cell tower climber. a few steel carabiners and a fisk decender to name a few things. i guess i could use the fisk decender as a light duty lowering device any other clever uses for it???? thanks
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    Making the switch...

    any precautions with the schwabish i need to know?
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    Making the switch...

    looking to make the leep from a blakes hitch to the Schwabish. i havnt been climbing long and like the blakes but i feel just as comfortable if not more with the schwabish, distel and Vt. seems more secure having both ends of my split-tail tied in to the saddle. I have been doing the low and...
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    1/2'xtc fire with 8mm bee line???

    Re: 1/2\'xtc fire with 8mm bee line??? its just hard to get that last wrap cause of the plastic
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    1/2'xtc fire with 8mm bee line???

    Re: 1/2\'xtc fire with 8mm bee line??? thanks. I probly dont have enough time climbing on the blakes hitch to be trying others but ive sampled the distel,schwabish and the v.t. low and slow in a tree out back and all of those hitchs seem to function properly,i like the fact that both ends of...
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    1/2'xtc fire with 8mm bee line???

    1/2\'xtc fire with 8mm bee line??? i have been climbing for a while on a 10mm beeline blakes hitch on 1/2" fire. i ordered a beeline eye to eye to start learning other climbing systems and i meant to get a 10mm but ended up with a 8mm, ive tried low and slow and havnt had problems, but thought...
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