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  1. ARLO

    Show off them splices

    Nice idea for using up those little scraps of Beeline!
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    Renesting a fallen Great Horned Owl

    Although great-horns do occasionally feed on small cats or dogs, it is often hard to tell if those are healthy animals or are scavenged road kill. I once necropsied a dead red tailed hawk that was hit by a car when feeding on a dead cat in the highway. The hawk had a big white cat's foot in...
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    The Akimbo and Bulldog Bone should work really well with the Moss lanyard system because they make it really easy to switch back and forth from SRS to MRS, and can also be sucked up really tight to the spar in the SRS mode. That is a nice feature for spar work. Do you agree or am I missing...
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Those rat parts are probably not discarded. Owls commonly store excess food on tree limbs and then retrieve it later. They don't waste much. And regarding the Quickie, I was wondering if I send you the Quickie and 65' of brand new Velocity would you be willing to make me a Moss canopy rope...
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    Make Us Laugh :)

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    Renesting a fallen Great Horned Owl

    Actually, if you find a bird that is obviously injured or sick you can stick it in a box and take it to a rehab facility. Nobody is going to give you a ticket for that. But if the bird looks healthy and is in a place where it is not likely to get run over or killed by the neighborhood cat, you...
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    Renesting a fallen Great Horned Owl

    But not as nasty as golden eagles. Goldens are big whimps when it comes to nest defense against humans, but they love to eat great-horns.
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    Renesting a fallen Great Horned Owl

    PS -glad to see you have your eye protection on. Great-horns can be really nasty.
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    Renesting a fallen Great Horned Owl

    Hey Moss, I think you did the right thing in this case, but as an owl biologist I gotta do my spiel about rescuing owlets that are found on the ground. Although they do occasionally fall from the nest, the majority of owlets leave the nest before they are capable of flight. They just bail out...
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Definitely knot as pretty as the sewn version, but it works. I just stole Climbstihl's idea and ran with it.
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    New Buckingham saddle coming out at TCIA?

    What does it weigh?
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    I made a knotted version using a Quickie shackle this morning and it seems to work fine. Probably not as smooth as your version with the round shackle, but definitely good enough to experiment with.
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    I have been off on an extended road trip and am coming late to this thread. But after reading through all 16 pages I must say it makes me want to convert some of my canopy ropes to the Moss configuration. Way to think outside the box!
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    UK. Two ropes at all times(USA next?)

    Mostly research work, but also contract climbing for surveys of tree voles and murrelets on US Forest Service and BLM lands. I realize this is not like urban forestry work or line clearance work, but I am pretty sure that the feds will eventually adopt any regs that are mandated for the rest of...
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    Oh, no!! I felt some lumps in my rope while descending.

    Good on you. Just FYI, we deal with pitchy ropes all the time and use GOOP (the white stuff) to soak the pitch loose before washing the rope. It really helps to break up heavy pitch layers.
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    UK. Two ropes at all times(USA next?)

    So, here is a typical scenario in Oregon. A team of two climbers is going to climb a 260' Doug fir and rig it so that other climbers can follow. They are packing 600' of rope, two saddles with full gear, helmets and radio gear, a 10lb crossbow, 2 cubes with 600' of haul cord each, binoculars...
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    Oh, no!! I felt some lumps in my rope while descending.

    In my experience nearly all ropes develop some unevenness after they have been climbed on for a while. I generally attribute this to all of the ascenders/descenders that we run up and down the rope when climbing, which tends to flatten out the core and create some movement of the core inside...
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    Is there a name for this loop knot? Is it safe for climbing use?

    Looks nice. If you learn to splice you can get rid of the knot entirely and it will be even stronger! ;)
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    Is there a name for this loop knot? Is it safe for climbing use?

    This is one of those cases where knot terminology is a mess. Ashley shows a fixed loop that is tied with two single overhand knots that lock together to form a fixed loop. He gives this knot several names, including the Englishman's loop, Fisherman's loop, Angler's loop, and True Lover's knot...
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    Today....

    Nice stuff Rico!

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