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    Hunting setup

    Well, maybe tree saddles are made for working for hours at a time in trees, but if you could work for hours at a time in a tree stand instead of a saddle, wouldn't you do it? I mean, you'd have better circulation in your feet and legs, you could move your legs and feet around to improve...
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    Hunting setup

    I use a climbing tree stand. I wouldn't do it in a saddle on a bet. Sounds like a good way to lose a leg or two. And I have enough trouble getting blood into, and out of, my boots as it is, without a bunch of constriction and stagnation. YMMV.
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    homemade ring-and-ring friction saver - Which rope?

    Thanks. If the leather version works a lot better than the ring-ring, then I might just pay the money and go that way. I'm sick of screwing with it, honestly. It's been an ongoing battle for too long now.
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    homemade ring-and-ring friction saver - Which rope?

    Why? And what are you using instead when you want a friction / cambium saver? I was thinking the ring-ring makes your climbing rope make a pretty sharp turn, definitely sharper than you would get over a branch with a leather cambium saver... Hoping to do mostly SRT before long (just got...
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    homemade ring-and-ring friction saver - Which rope?

    Thanks guys. Would prefer to do a simple "Chinese finger trap" braid-type splice rather than 3-strand splice...BTDT and would avoid it again if I could. @Birdyman, I found that Teufelberger T-Rex at Treestuff and people are raving about how easy it is to splice and how great it is, so I think we...
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    homemade ring-and-ring friction saver - Which rope?

    Hey guys, I want to make a homemade ring and ring cambium/fricton saver. I'm sick of fighting with garden hose, fire hose, PVC electrical conduit, etc., which never stay put. I have the rings. I have the videos from Samson on how to do eye splices (have done this before with other ropes...
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    Double rope bridge

    Does anyone know how well straight polyester double braid holds up? (Something like 1/2" Yale XTC Fire?)
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    Rope bridge recommendations

    Now you've got me thinking. Since I only want one bridge, but one that I know is strong enough, maybe I'll forget about replacing their webbing bridge with a rope bridge, and replace it with my own webbing bridge by tying a loop of webbing through the rings with a water knot. I have some nylon...
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    Rope bridge recommendations

    Bango Skank - How will you attach the XTC Fire to your saddle? Fisherman's knot to each ring? I bought a Chinese Xinda saddle with ~ 2.6" diameter aluminum rings and I want to replace their sewn webbing bridge with a rope bridge, and I also have a hank of older XTC Fire... (I'll use my old...
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    American Chestnut and the Chestnut Blight

    I bought some supposed "American Chestnut" seedlings on ebay a few years back and planted them on some land I own in coastal Virginia...I was surprised to find recently that they were still alive...
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    Guess what I’m building?

    I'll just leave this here.
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    Socks?

    But it's so ITCHY, Sarge! Well, if you do, you'll never go back to chickens and cats!
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    Socks?

    I like the merino wool socks, too, but not the price. I also use the cheapo Walmart Dickies wool blend socks...nothing beats wool for keeping your feet warm even when wet, and for beating the stink. When wearing boots, I wear wool socks year-round now.
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    Guess what I’m building?

    Are you hitting on the underside of the machine you're loading? If so, could you arch, instead of just angling, the dovetailed section? I had that happen with a ramp for getting a bike into a truck bed. PITA, but arching it fixed it. Or, if it's too steep for the machine to manage the grade...
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    Big black walnut

    I know this is an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one to ask this: How are black walnuts to climb? Got one about 40' tall, maybe 26" DBH in yard that I want to start messing with (new to me) SRT method and gadgetry...but I have never climbed one. Are they brittle? Would like to...
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    Guess what I’m building?

    Scaffolding bucks for elephants?
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    Saddle recommendations

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    Saddle recommendations

    Most of the stuff we buy nowadays is made in China, anyway, and it's not like making a saddle is rocket surgery. It's about as technically challenging as sewing a shoe. But to each their own.
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    Saddle recommendations

    Only saddle I've ever had, or used, is the Buckingham Traverse #1292, but it has served me well. I think it was JeffGu who said he was pleasantly surprised by a $50 Chicom saddle he found on ebay (I think it was branded "XYGOOD") for a young relative, so I recently ordered a $55 Xinda chinee...
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    Friction device

    I made my own portawrap. It ain't pretty, but I'm a decent weldor, and I'm confident that it's about 10,000 to 100,000 times stronger in every measure than it needs to be. Even A36 mild steel has a tensile yield strength of 36ksi...

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