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    4th generation slingshot tubing connectors...

    The 1st gens eventually slipped and failed. Well, one did, the second held securely until I had to remove it. The second gen, similar to the first, faired no better. Then Hunabku sketched out how speargun tubing attaches so I went with that concept to design a 3rd generation - it's the one on...
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    Can't get to On Rope 1? Here it is....

    Can\'t get to On Rope 1? Here it is.... Thought you might enjoy a look-see. Oh, I left out three displays; I may go back and shoot those and splice them in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qQ6-QME_Ik Ron
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    FWIW, I have a video series on rope and pulleys...

    They are posted on YouTube, and they start from the basics and go through more complicated systems. I explain the 'T' system for determining MA; show lots of pulley systems with discussions. I define simple, compound, and complex pulley systems and illustrate them. There are 14 segments so far...
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    Looks pretty simple to me...

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    Hey, I thought Ice was brumel spliced...

    I thought Samson Ice Tail was suppose to be eye spliced with a locked brumel and a tail tuck. I am on the wrong splicing instructions from Samson or what? Ice Tail is 12 strand technora - right? http://www.samsonrope.com/index.cfm?rope=454 and splicing instructions from Samson for 12 strand...
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    Do you ever do dumb things because you’re tired?

    Strengths of limbs and TIPs are just two of my weaknesses about tree climbing. Of course, I'm just a babe compared to you guys, and I probably overdo limbs and TIPs, meaning they have to be big and I have to be tied in near the crotch, but... Last weekend, I was taking out some limbs in a tree...
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    kids climbing trees say the darndest things...

    You young whippersnappers (and be glad you are; gettin' old isn't fun, and that senior discount isn't nearly what it's made out to be) won't remember this, but Art Linkletter had a show called, "Kid's Say the Darndest Things". It was always funny, often hillarious, sometimes embarassing (for the...
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    My other hobby-If guns offend, don't open-video

    My other hobby-If guns offend, don\'t open-video Now that a responsibility my wife and I have had, has passed, I can get back to other things I enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFIlpttkq4
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    SRTropewalkers are hard on knees???

    I've had the impression for a long time that ropewalkers seem to be harder on knees than sit-stand systems, i.e. frog, RADS, Texas, etc. I think that notion was pretty much confirmed, to me anyway, while I was making the Uncender videos. During and after shooting the Unicender-Mitchel...
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    Three things I've noticed about Lava (Tachyon)

    Three things I\'ve noticed about Lava (Tachyon) One, the rope identifiers on each end of the rope says Tachyon. The name 'Lava' is not anywhere on the rope. Two, it seems slicker than every other rope I've used. Three, it seems pretty stretchy to me. I'd been climbing on Velocity with the...
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    Unicender-Mitchell ropewalker - a little more

    The Mitchell rope walker is one of the simplest walkers available. Although not quite as simple as the tree frog, it's chest harness does a lot to help control the upper body. It only requires two ascenders and neither is a foot type ascender. The Mitchell walker is the only walker that walks...
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    Bloopers: So ya wanna make and edit videos...

    Just some of the things that happened making the Unicender DdRT sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnezJ4dpio
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    My Unicender review(s) UPDATE-3 OP

    This is a bit premature, but I've already let the cat out of the bag in another thread. I have a rock exotica Uni - it arrived last Friday from Sherrill Tree. I was waiting to get my discussion video done before posting 'application' videos, but I'll go ahead and post them anyway. I started...
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    soft ascend-descend-got it right-videos-how to tie

    Once again, this is experimental. Be extremely careful if you experiment with this. It looks solid in the video, but the video doesn’t show all the stuff that didn’t work. Here's how it performed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_txN9rMbQbk Here's how I tied it...
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    "soft" combo ascender-descender -videos back up!!!

    \"soft\" combo ascender-descender -videos back up!!! Update: 7-JUL-2010 7:30PM First, I changed the cordage and turns and it works and worked well. In fact it works so well that now I am very uneasy about presenting an experimental system that I have little experience with and no real testing...
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    Trunk cinch climbing- see update in OP

    Update: In one of my posts below, I state that the Rig or Grigri could be used as an ascender. It occurs to me the Rig or Grigri can <u>NOT</u> be used. This is a Texas configuration with the foot ascender below the harness ascender. When you stand on the foot ascender you could not move the Rig...
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    SCREW LINKS! SCREW LINKS! SCREW LINKS!

    I see you too are interested in this exciting piece of hardware. Well, as mundane and unexciting as screw links can be, maybe there's still some helpful things about them. These have come to be my favorites. The delta is a 10mm zicral an aluminum alloy. It is very lightweight and from all the...
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    The Zeppelin loop vs the F8 in pulls

    What an interesting test! I pulled an F8 against an F8 tied in PMI 9mm (I had formerly posted 10mm; it was in fact 9mm)EzBend to get a baseline and one of the F8s failed at 3465 lbs. I think that's a bit low, but.... This is the version of the Zeppelin loop I tested: I then pulled a ZL...
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    Gonna be off-line for 2-3 days....

    My wife and I are taking a little time off. We've had a whirlwind summer so far - nothing like what I was expecting. Saturday morning I went over to Bruce Smith's house (On Rope owner) to help him (more like so he could help me) take down a dead tree. We had to rig it and lower it, thankfully...
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    Pulling a Zeppelin bend to failure...

    I had about 30' of unsed 10mm PMI EzBend rope laying around so I thought I'd put a ZB in it and pull it to failure. Nothin' really fancy here, just measure the force it takes to break it. The ZB failed at 3800 lbs in 10mm PMI EzBend rope. This rope is rated right at 6000 lbs. That suggests...

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