I do not know Sam Robinson personally but I have seen him climb at a competion.
He is one of those small wirey strong guys. He makes treeclimbing look graceful. Guys like Sam are an inspiration to new climbers, and a reminder to all us older climbers of how good we could be if we put the time...
I've seen three trees over 100 ft taken out at washington D.c. Zoo in the same day using crane/giant log truck/7 workers 3 years ago, total cost - $11K
Show me a 10k tree and i'll show you a conman.
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The knot I was talking about can best be seen here http://www.iwillknot.com/slip_knot/ I consider this such a powerful and valuable knot because it is so fast to tie (a kid can tie it in less than a second) and can be used in a lot of applications. There is a catch, however. If I...
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if you took your weight off the VT (stepping on a limb, etc) and your hand wasn't on the VT then it would release until it was weighted again. Scary as chit when you weren't expecting it, and it slowed me down as a climber because I had to be conscious of whether or not my weight was...
When its like that the figure 8 looks rock solid.
Also looks like the only carabiner you'd want to using is the Petzl Ball Lock, Other 3 way twist locking biners may open when downward force is applied to the rope.
Maybe a Maillon Rapide instead of a biner?
Nice stove TreeCo, shame about the...
Ok, you win.
Carry on using your tag/pull line for rappelling.
Its no wonder the Industrial Rope Access Industry looks at the current practices in Arboriculture and worries that we could be so ignorant of proper rope use.
I for one have never used a Tag/Pull line for rappelling from a spar in...
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I had forgotten about that! Are you back to normal?
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No wonder you had forgotten, all you ever think of is you.
MasterBlaster's Philosophy - ME, ME, ME.
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Thats fine, but all of this stuff is poisoning this board,
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How can highlighting a person in a self appointed position of responsibility in the arb industry openly advocating unsafe work practices be poisoning the board?
Alves you are in danger of becoming a passive...
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Not where this belongs!
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Wherever there is space to discredit MasterBlaster I will do it.
The guy has an extremely negative view on issues of health and safety in our industry.