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    "One handing" a chainsaw??!!

    Somewhere I saw an interesting video regarding this a year or two ago...I think it was a presentation to a bunch of arborists by a guy who was arguing that one should never use less than two hands on the saw...IIRC, I think the guy making the presentation sounded like a Brit... Not being an...
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    Redirecting Rope to Limb Walk

    Thanks, Rypie, those were both interesting videos. The second one was kind of surprising. Side question: When you folks use webbing slings and carabiners to redirect your climbing rope in the canopy of a tree, what type of carabiners do you use for those redirects? Spring gate? Screw gate...
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    Work glove suggestions

    Old thread, I know, but has anybody tried these $2 rubber-coated poly/cotton gloves from Harbor Freight? https://www.harborfreight.com/safety/gloves/all-gloves/coated-rubber-grip-gloves-large-90912.html or these $2 polyurethane-coated nylon gloves...
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    Happy Independence Day!

    "...WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving...
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    Redirecting Rope to Limb Walk

    I've been watching these videos. Really well done, and I'm learning a lot. I've accumulated most of the other stuff over the years (saddle, lanyard, spurs, ropes, hitch cord, biners, pulleys, etc etc) and have been having fun working in trees (and on the roof) here in the yard, and Sherrill had...
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    Sam ascending 45' up mahogany in Barbados. 7 years old.

    Huh. Cuban mahogany. Niiiiiiice. I'm envious!
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    Sam ascending 45' up mahogany in Barbados. 7 years old.

    Very cool. He'll be climbing circles around you before you know it, I'll bet. Is that a "mahogany" like a Honduran mahogany / Swietenia macrophylla? That's probably my favorite wood in the world to machine or work by hand...it just always seems to look great, no matter what you do to it...
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    Rock Exotica Omni-Block concerns....

    I have a hunch it was a murder. With the loss of blood pressure you'd get after the first nail (which would cause you to lose consciousness), it'd be pretty hard to shoot five more into the CNS...kind of like shooting yourself in the head with a shotgun five times in a row...or stabbing yourself...
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    Holly freaking crap!

    Heh, heh, sounds like a plan...enjoy!
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    Holly freaking crap!

    That's an interesting falling technique. It looks as if rabid, insane, zombie beavers went after it with roto-tillers.
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    Article: PA inmates learn arborist work

    Used to live near there. Rockview State Prison used to be home of the last electric chair* in Penna (it's still the only prison in PA where they do executions). It's a pretty stark/imposing/forbidding place, up high in the mountains in the middle of a huge tract of land owned by the...
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    Article: PA inmates learn arborist work

    FYI, here: https://www.bayjournal.com/article/pa_program_for_inmates_answers_growing_demand_for_green_jobs One interesting takeaway: "According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the tree care industry will need 30,000 new workers in the next five years."
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    couldnt resist

    (Sorry, I couldn't resist, either!)
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    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    Thanks, Westondeutsch, FWIW, I found this which discusses the issue: https://www.climbing.com/skills/in-defense-of-the-european-death-knot/ As a noob, I would have otherwise avoided something called the "European Death Knot" just as I might avoid the "Circle of Death"...
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    Shop pants

    No, just showing the delightful green welding shirt. They're all that sickly green, but mine doesn't separate like the one in the photo into either "full shirt" or "just sleeves and cape" for when it's hot and you're doing overhead welding...
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    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    Not sure I understand this, in large part because the "X" covers the picture of what's wrong...can anyone clue me in on what this is all about? (I don't "do" Instagram any more than FB or Pinterest or Twitter or anything else, so that may be my difficulty...)
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    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    Interesting. In fishing knots in monofilament and braid, we often say that "a knot needs to slip before it will fail." Don't know whether that's true in every case, but it seems that they usually slip, then bite, and it's that "biting" (pinching/cutting action) that typically causes the...
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    Shop pants

    If you're gonna be welding or cutting, not much beats cotton in my view. If it catches on fire, at least it's easy to put out, and it won't melt into napalm... I use regular blue jeans, with a flame-resistant shirt like this:
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    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    I bet being in the Circle of Death on a big chairing tree would come close!
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    Wise Critter Gives Climbing Advice

    I love hearing the first screech owl of the season...always makes me think of the beginning of fall...
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