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  1. Cereal_Killer

    best climbing boots?

    I'm not downplaying the HIAX, they're great boots (as long as you don't have wide feet) but they're made for chainsaw protection first and foremost. Sure they're made for our line of work but their number one design spec was saw protection not comfort while on spikes, and it's the saw protection...
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    Why no hitch for SRT?

    In your scenerio you're overlooking friction completely. Even on the best pully there's still some additional friction. Even if you had a theoretically perfect pully that really did add no extra friction just simply bending the rope 180° adds friction. The tie in point is contributing a good...
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    best climbing boots?

    Save your money, they're horrible. Take whatever money you might spend on a set of plates and put that towards the best boots you can buy.
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    Who want to be an Urban Forest Specialist?!?!? www.josephtreeservice.com/employment/

    I'm local and I can tell you your pay rate is well below the area average for what you're seeking. I don't have a CDL, nor am I a certified arb (I am highly skilled with a long list of good references) and I make more than that. Infact I made more than your top out pay starting out at the last 2...
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    SRT safety for spikes

    The singing tree milled one is the OG. Personally I use the notch V3's but these guys have got me wondering if I'm missing out on the original.
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    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    I already answered the poll and posted a response but since getting my RRP I changed up how I tend my SAKA. I have a DMM PerfectO captive eye attached to the RRP and tend the RRP with its standard tenting point, then I clip my SAKA to the captive bar of the perfectO.
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    SRT safety for spikes

    I choke it up with a notch quickie on a AB with a retrivable tail in the length I'm gonna want the logs so I can just descend, reset my rope, make the cut quickly then repeat. Before notch started making the cheap quickies I used delta links. You can use the tree squeeze that nice gentleman...
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    Songs of Perfection

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    In search of good winter climbing gloves

    I didn't read back through old posts when this thread got brought up last week but those harbor freight "Hardy" gloves are fanfreakingtastic! I can get a week of hard work out of a pair of atlas 451's and 2-3 days out of the hardy. That puts them on par in my mind since they're half the cost and...
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    Wow, I looked at the second pic first and I did not expect him to have the Kubota in the van. That is a slick setup! I bet the little tractor is pretty good on lawns. He could probably put some A/T tread pattern float tires on there and not even have to blow his tracks off after.
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    Ok had a morning toke and decided to let your ignorance go and actually give a real opinion why this is bad... If a kid free climbs a tree starting at ground level, makes it 10' up and falls he's good, young bones bounce, a 10' fall is no more energy then crashing a bike at full speed or...
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    The legal term is "attractive nuisance", you may also find some useful tidbits reading up on tort law. I wish I was still a kid so I could know everything, you're allright though treesap so apparently it's somewhere between your age and graduate student age where you become the smartest person...
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    OK I'll bite if it's an argument you want , since you're not a tree climber what the fuck are you doing trying to "invent" tree climbing gear? I bet you're also not a parent and don't understand / fully realize the liability issues involved. Go back to school and try to learn some things about...
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    You are correct that more tree workers are killed by contact with equipment than falls themselves however to downplay the fall risk is foolish. We also wear helmets, will head protection be included in your "device"? Since we're posting links here's literally the first two off Google when you...
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    Distel hitch no good for lanyard? Or a different lanyard hitch rec

    @Jonny what instructions do you use for HRC?
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    I free climbed trees as a kid too, didn't even die. Does that make it safe, fuck no. I think we're done here, I don't speak for everyone but personally I can't condone, and definitely can't assist in this debauchery. Real quick why don't you look up the most deadly jobs in America. Climbing a...
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    I made up this friction hitch (but I'm sure it's not original). What is it?

    Not calling you out at all, you say it works [for you] and I don't doubt that but personally I never got any hitch where the legs come off the same direction to function even remotely good enough on a hitchhiker. Everything I've read and my own findings always led me to believe you need the legs...
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    Distel hitch no good for lanyard? Or a different lanyard hitch rec

    I use a mitchocan on my lanyard. Your hand me down cord may be too wore out to release in any hitch configuration. What's the cord / rope combo?
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    Hey man those Swiss tree grippers ain't cheap. If the climber dies his boss probably wants them back out of the tree!
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    Gear for kids/beginners?

    A graduate student in industrial design and your idea is to toss a rope over a limb?! That would of never flew with my professors (and hell I only went to one semester of freshman year, and I wasn't even a good student). I was gonna be a dick to you but I think it's probably more to do with your...

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