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  1. eyehearttrees

    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    Did you have to do anything "special" to set it up? Did you enter CC/$ info? I ask because I was hoping to use that - had a very brutal rejection from new-client ($300 easy canopy-lift, woulda been polesaw only) when I showed-up to do the work because "I wasn't on google" so I setup the...
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    Angie's List: Getting "Certified" worth it? And any help/insight on this, really!

    I had an awesome talk with a really successful tree-sevice-owner and he swore by Angie's List (though he has like a dozen trucks & 30yrs buildup, but still he was recommending I utilize it) I already setup a "Facebook business Page" account which went surprisingly better than expected (I've...
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    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    Whoa now I'm confused if I understood your prior setup-- when you had the bungee going from SAKA to your opposite shoulder, up&over the shoulder & back to the SAKA side's gear-loop....was the bungee, en route to the gear loop to terminate, was that last leg of bungee crossing your chest or your...
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    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    Thanks that is cool to know (was thinking "My high strength//weight ratio will let me go so quick w/ high-step strides") but yeah that is just speed which isn't inherently = efficiency (IE you're saying "Sure you could take giant steps but that isn't the most efficient, the most efficient is a...
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    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    SO glad I posted, thanks a ton everyone :) tl;dr? I really hope someone can help me Re "Maximal Efficiency Ascension" (ie setting-up so that I can take the largest-possible strides the system alloww), I have a Q that I feel dumb asking but.... IF I'm aiming to take the largest strides...
  6. eyehearttrees

    [job/career q] Choice-- 50k/yr as a climber, to abandon my just-started solo venture?

    I'm in FL FWIW! I've been climbing a few years (maybe just-under 3 right now actually) but took it really seriously/dove in, was already doing a lot of landscaping (as a "general services" freelancer, in FL that led to much work being outdoor/landscape stuff including basic trees) but when I...
  7. eyehearttrees

    Is there a "Main"/generic Ropewalker configuration, or are there myriad?

    Nope, only know SRT, wanna learn DdRT for work positioning but it's low on "training priorities" Have just never really gotten the need for a Wrench, I think it's an artifact of me being so small (140lbs) using slick ropes because I've never had desire to get it, my hitch bites when I lean into...
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    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    Whew, came back to cast my own vote and already several cast - with chest-harness taking a quick lead!! Would love to hear if the use of chest-harnesses are "just for pulling/tending" or if there's also a lot of advantage to their "body alignment" of 'pinning you' to the line? I'm getting...
  9. eyehearttrees

    [poll] Knee ascenders- how do you tend yours? (also curious if anyone's using them *w/* handled ascenders?)

    I was doing just foot&hand ascenders for a while, micropulleys getting dusty / still brand new.... After making a batch of hitches recently, I decided to try something besides standard-prussik configuration (found VT's worked well) and realized the different 'jamming' of a VT, versus a prussik...
  10. eyehearttrees

    [Sharpening/rakers] Can't keep-even, just bent a bar and saw was cutting 'sideways' when in-cut, any tips?

    I've watched hours (cumulatively) of videos on sharpening, have probably gone through half a dozen files sharpening the many chains I have for 5 bars, always thought I was OK....then it happened. Last week I was bucking-up a large Oak I'd felled and had just 'got the saw's chain ready' the...
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    Is there a "Main"/generic Ropewalker configuration, or are there myriad?

    Long story short: I spent all my time using E2E's in the classic "3 wraps up, 3 wraps down" 6-finger prussik-loop friction hitching. My micropulleys didn't perform that well with such a hitch, so they collected dust nearly 2yrs, during which time I've climbed by using my right foot & hand...
  12. eyehearttrees

    E2E brummelling -- possible without unbraiding?

    I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a proper triple-(or double-)brummelling on the second leg of a lanyard, IE the end whose brummelling requires you to pass an already-brummelled leg of rope through the standing body of rope (step 5 of Samson's great write-up) I'd figured "Shops...
  13. eyehearttrees

    Double-headed X-Ring splice

    [[crap I meant to add--- if that's 5/8, which it looks to be, then why 3-ring it anyways? The rope is the weak factor, anything the 5/8 tec can take it can take on 2 rings I would bet....I wish the specific data were available, everyone goes by "you need 3" or "you need >1" to "do terminal...
  14. eyehearttrees

    Double-headed X-Ring splice

    So cool to hear (actually think IIRC I knew you did, hard remembering usernames & past threads sometimes :P ), I truly believe that a vast majority of non-users would make it a routine part of their setups if they'd only try it (what size bullrope do you use? Original Bloc was larger, holes...
  15. eyehearttrees

    Show off them splices

    Thanks!! Honestly I was struggling trying to make a chest tether that 'sat right' (without it having to be "suspenders style", any "1 shoulder sling" did, as you say, 'bunch up' and become problematic so I abandoned it and still slide my prussiks up the line by-hand as I swap which foot I'm...
  16. eyehearttrees

    Show off them splices

    Ultrasling....A+!! I don't know how I went so long w/o making myself one lol!! How heavy / what uses do you have in mind for that single-XL Ultra? I always hear "terminal anchorage has to be >1 ring", but it's spoken like a rule when it's really a principle (ie you're not going to rip a...
  17. eyehearttrees

    Show off them splices

    Wait so you just put that right around your neck? Why not a chest&shoulder "throw over" instead? Something about cordage on the neck that just looks unsafe IMO :/ (Think it was Fiori who has a video on the danger) That said, I still pull up my prussik (prussikS, usually) by hand....I've got...
  18. eyehearttrees

    When your saw's been "field tuned" far beyond recognition of OEM-spec, how do *you* begin getting it right?

    Oh I don't leave those caps on ;D (well my 266 polesaw's are still there, need to get to that but unit screams as-is so...) Glad you replied especially seeing you've used them -- I'd been discussing the rebuild of one on OPE forum and was told I'd be better going with the 2300 (I was just given...
  19. eyehearttrees

    The "Poulan PP4218a and-similar" saws....I've got a pair and have a handful of Q's for anyone in-the-know :)

    So I got a pair of saws to work on, both were more work than client wanted so gave them to me. One was a decades'-old poulan 25d-type (and I already have one, so finally - hopefully - will get one to work!) But the other almost went right into the bin, some "Craftsman 42cc" with rotten fuel...
  20. eyehearttrees

    Double-headed X-Ring splice

    My "threshold" is around 5', if going longer I wouldn't bother filling the whole rope unless I had the cordage to do so, it's not just "it looks good w/o that thin spot" but, when pushing a splice to failure, a main failing-point is the spot in the rope where the buried-tail ends (at least if...

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