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    Call to regulation pros/cons...

    Selective enforcement / non-enforcement of laws is one of the signature characteristics of tyranny, according to Aristotle. A powerful tool to help political friends and harm political foes. (Not that that's necessarily always the case, I'm just sayin.)
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    College football fans

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    Intentional Barber Chair

    No guts, no glory...YOLO!
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    Call to regulation pros/cons...

    Interesting. I never thought of something lacking N as a fertilizer, but I guess there are fertilizers just for roots and/or flowers, as opposed to just green. Around here, it's hard to get fertilizer with P in it. (Chesapeake Bay watershed.)
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    Music To Chill BY

    Nice arrangement. Coming to you live from Jeff's Lounge.
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    Call to regulation pros/cons...

    One way to cut down on competition for those who are already members of "the club." Will it make the world overall a safer place? There's always the "if it saves one child" argument... All I know is, we need MOAR LAWRS. Free people get away with WAY too much stuff! :hueco:
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    East Coast Climbers, Mosquito Virus Risk

    Permethrin on your clothes works pretty well. I put it on my trousers and shirts when I'm working in the woods, and if mosquitoes land on them, they fall off dead. On contact. In certain pieces of woods, I'd get chewed to pieces by chiggers if I went in there in the late summer, but with...
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    Slabbing wide walnut log

    Oops...yeah, that makes sense. Duh! :oops: Not much sapwood on that log. Do big walnuts typically have that little sapwood? I bet he'll get some chatoyant fiddleback in that crotch that would make some beautiful gun stocks. $$$$$
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    Slabbing wide walnut log

    Interesting, thanks for posting. I'm surprised he didn't use his bandsaw mill to do it. I wonder why not? (Planning to build a bandsaw mill of my own.)
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    Music To Chill BY

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    Osage oranges are amazing trees

    Even a blind squirrel eventually cops a buzz!
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    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    Have we ever seen them both in the same frame at the same time?
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    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    I used some 130# hollow braid dacron trolling line to whip the ends of some Ocean Poly. Seems to work decent, and the ends still fit fine through the dogbone of the HH2, though 50# or 80# would probably work better...but 130# was all I had.
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    Friction hitches

    Anyone tested/used the "symmetrical Distel" that I saw somewhere here on TreeBuzz once? I liked its symmetry and thought it might work better than a vanilla prusik for a 2-in-1 lanyard adjuster, but it still seemed to jam/lock up some if I recall right...
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    Friction hitches

    Interesting. I see how to do a Schwabisch with a split-tail but not with a loop, but I can be dense. I'll have to mess with it some more. When doing it with a loop, do you start out as if tying a Klemheist?
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    Friction hitches

    So I guess the Schwabisch / Asymmetrical Prusik doesn't lock up as bad as a regular prusik? (I was thinking I might use it instead with my prusik loops, but I guess you can't tie it with a loop.)
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    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    Sorry, Brocky! For some reason I kept thinking it was TimBr, but that didn't sound right...maybe you should have called it the Brocky Hitch after all! :sorprendido3:
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    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    What type of hitch cords do you guys like best with your HH2, particularly those of you using 11mm climbing line? I'm new to the HH2, but I've been using Ocean Polyester 8mm with 11 mm Yale Blaze, which seems to work OK. (I'm using the hitch someone here came up with, although I forget who.)
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    What's killing my Thuja "Green Giants"?

    Thanks, Jemco. I'll do that, though I suspect the local outfit guys are tied in with the local farmer good ol boy network pretty well. Maybe I'll send a branch to Virginia Tech or something like that. I appreciate your help. Never would have thought of that. Yeah, I saw that same document...
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    What's killing my Thuja "Green Giants"?

    That's what I thought, too, at first, but that theory doesn't make sense when you consider where the brown spots are appearing (as often as not, on the side that's opposite, rather than adjacent, to the fields) ... or when (in mid- to late-summer, long after the farmers are done with weed...

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