I've only seen redwoods in person once, when on vacation in CA, but it seemed like the bark was super thick, way thicker than the length of spurs. Does it hurt them to spur up them? Or is the issue that it's unsafe to spur up them because (maybe) the bark isn't strong enough to hold spurs well...
Reminds me of a story a friend told about being at a concert, and he was sitting right behind the guy running the sound board, and the music was blisteringly loud, so my friend goes up to the sound guy, who's jamming out to the music, and he tries yelling at the guy, "It's TOO F$CKING LOUD!" and...
I have one, a Buckingham Traverse I bought 10-15 years ago.
It's a little bulky and overkill for roofing a house, IMHO. (My OP on this thread related to work practices while re-roofing my house.) I just want something to prevent me from falling off a 12-pitch roof, and a small amount of...
Feels much more secure with two biners, don't know why I was so dense not to think of it myself, thanks guys.
Next question: Carabiner Lubrication?
I noticed one of my autolock biners sometimes gets sticky where it will kinda sorta lock, but not completely. Googled how to lubricate carabiners...
Thanks Climbstihl and Jan. Just to clarify, my prusik loop isn't loaded when I switch from one prusik loop to another...I switch when standing on scaffolding, and could be off-rope if I wanted, but just prefer to stay clipped-in whenever up there...I mean, I get it that it could be bad if I fell...
Rather than start a new thread with every dumb question I have, I figured I'd start one thread and put them all into the same thread as I go along, so it won't pollute the forum (and so you all can ignore the thread if you want)...
Here's a question about "dipping lines" or "dipping loops"...
Thanks, guys, this all sounds like great advice.
The main dead limb I'm concerned about is up high and directly overhead from where I'll be cutting but maybe it's not that much of a hazard yet. (I'll try to add a pic of it tomorrow.) Good idea on trying to pull the dead limbs down with a rope...
Hey, guys,
I have a diseased and lightning-wrecked 20" DBH black cherry I need to take down in the yard, as it has some dead limbs and a massive canker going most of the way through. It's becoming a hazard. I'm not an arborist but plan to take it down myself.
I want to fall it toward the...
Yep, somewhere along the line I saw a thing on the Internet where some guy bought some really crazy strong weapons-grade magnets, I forget what he was doing with them but they got too close together and grabbed each other with one or two of his fingertips in-between. Lots of blood, and I think a...