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    Eye splicing Yale rope - help !!!

    the tighter braid def means lose the tape-trust me :)
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    Eye splicing Yale rope - help !!!

    i wouldnt bother with the tape bro- it will pull through waaaay easier without it and its def not needed to keep the core trapped in the fid.
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    kauri tree nz

    silent spring by rachel carson. so ahead of its time and telling the truth of todays mistakes
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    Africa 2013

    cheers bro, that was just for you..
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    Africa 2013

    12 months ago we started our forays into the South African tree canopy. This is a short 4 min edit of our time there in January 2013. hope you enjoy. we leave again on feb 19th for another 4 week expedition finding big baobabs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfLd1Sz8CnY
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    kauri tree nz

    i appreciate that that is your opinion but i personally would rather see these great trees standing for another 1000 yrs. out of context but do you take the same view on all diseases?
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    Taking down Cedar Trees

    nice one Bix bro
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    Cape parrot breeding project

    Gotta say big thanks to David Wiles who i go to Africa with and co runs explore-trees. Hes the man behind the editing of the S.Africa vids, i just climb and shoot some footage(with him) for him and just general good stuff in SA. Huge thanks to him.
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    kauri tree nz

    You sure did buddy!! double, single-its all ropes n trees!! because we are barefoot, the doubl makes things a bit easier at times. AdkPk- we do it purely for the passion and the enjoyment, sometimes money can be offered but its by no means a way of living. Our expeditions in south africa have...
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    kauri tree nz

    the outlook is not good. individuals are putting huge efforts into finding resistant individuals. te one saving grace is that a lot of NZ bush is impossible to walk through,almost, so these trees should survive. trees next to a path, not so much :(
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    kauri tree nz

    i appreciate questions a lot more than being attacked online- i think youll find 99% of people do. PTA has been in Nz as far as i know since 1976 ish, Kauri are very vulnerable to root compaction due to the large amount of biomass/leaf litter they generate-thus causing them to have a lot of...
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    Cape parrot breeding project

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRh4yjcSUew This is a short vid/doco of a project we are working on in South Africa. The Cape Parrot is a crtically endangered parrot (less than 1000 in the wild) and we have been installing nesting boxes in the politsi valley were we have monitored a flock of...
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    kauri tree nz

    Thankyou for your reply David but a quick question- on our youtube channel you questioned (as your first reply) whether it was research and then said "be a man and dont delete this comment"-i see you have deleted your own comment.. how come?
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    kauri tree nz

    Hippie dreadlocks? sorry i reread your post-what do you mean? dirt under fingernails? we clean all equipment used on the tree before before going to another tree-what more do you expect? Are you involved in any research yourself ? we are also involved with crown leaf samples to measure the...
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    kauri tree nz

    the preliminarly research is to find the total wood volume of the tree for its age. measuring its location and age means the university can then see how it is reacting to global warming. without knowing the height and the size of the tree they cant work out whether it fits into the paramiters...
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    kauri tree nz

    just a rough edit of a trip into the bush to measure an ancient kauri tree-as normal gopro batteries died before the very end.. This tree was 41.6m tall and had a base of 10.2m-that did not taper for 16m. we are calculating the total wood volume. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZC4yKiLuhE...
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    as if a 6,ooo yrs old tree isnt badass enough , wa

    we stayed at that tree (portaledge and henessy hammocks), drank beer inside it and did a SABC tv show in the crown. we also measured it and it definetly is not the oldest, biggest largest baobab!!! The Sagole baobab is WAAAY bigger but the owners of the sunland baobab will not admit! checkout...
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    Brand new splicer, dbl braid class I question

    when pulling the core back over/through, taper it so it pulls through easier. youll cut the very end off at the end anyway so it doesnt matter.
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    ISC D4

    been running the d4 with kernmaster for a week or 4 and its real sweet. one handed motion is super smooth once you get it, the anti panic is frustrating at first but super simple once its dialled in. noticing a bit of wear on the carabiner hole but there is a tonne of metal there. great base...
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    Armor Prus - what type of splice ?

    id just use the APoly if your unsure though. class 1

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