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  1. moss

    45° limbs

    Choke I think in terms of a Bowline loop, Quickie, or carabiner used as a running piece to capture the standing part of a line around a tree trunk, limb or branch. Many ways to create a running choke, I named three. Girth I think of as a choking technique based on the Girth Hitch. Two parts of...
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    45° limbs

    I like to girth sling runner footholds to progress up angled limbs like that. Under rope support of course. It can be done with one sling, keep moving it up or reinstall as needed. Hold position with lanyard or moveable redirect to move the sling up. Takes the fight out of the climbing so the...
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    Sycamore and Elm climbing.

    DdRT on sycamore with Liquid-tite conduit sleeve 2009 (!) SRT base ties (or canobase) will easily cut into upper/younger white pine limbs and younger wood no matter the species. It is pretty much guaranteed. A smoother climbing motion helps but the digging in happens no matter what. A leather...
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    Favourite SRS rope?

    A pinch point more than a bend right? Probably a bend in the mix technically. I was just looking at the Yale Cordage web site and was glad to see 11mm 24-strand Bandit is back and a return of some of the excellent 11.7mm 24 strands like Calamine and Arrow Frog. I guess I'm a vintage rope...
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    Favourite SRS rope?

    Same results with 10mm HTP? I love that stuff but my early early attempts with a rope wrench on it were not good. -AJ
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    Favourite SRS rope?

    Multicenders and hitches don't play well with Sterling HTP 10mm, probably not with 11mm either since the core material/construction is the same. There's been a lot of discussion on this going back years. Great access line but weird core bunching/twisting has happened for the typical up and down...
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    Favourite SRS rope?

    I've tried a lot of different lines, super static kernmantles, double-braids and the in-between variants. I always land back on the Yale 11.7mm 24-strand double braids. Static enough and yet soft enough for great knot functionality. So many variables in what a climber needs for the range of tree...
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    New device from ISC

    Yeah these are subtle details, I can smear/sideload a rope wrench and hitch without messing up my hands. This is such a niche functionality it's mostly irrelevant but good to know you see the Reflex as robust in construction and materials. -AJ
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    New device from ISC

    Also... love the entire 9mm-10.5mm rope diameter discussion. I'm regularly using a 9mm static line for super flexible positioning options. It greatly improves safety and reduces fatigue for a climber in more "extreme" work positions. Efficient stability is everything for physically sustainable...
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    New device from ISC

    Great analysis and detail, thank you! One challenge for mechanicals is the "smear", descending over limbs or trunk bends where the rope angle and climber route causes the device to be loaded hard against a tree surface. The rope wrench aces this, a slightly flexible wrench tether and hitch have...
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    Life in cold slow lane, cat rescue, new climber on rope

    Yes. Besides the interesting challenges and opportunities to go places and climb where I wouldn't ordinarily be... being around grateful people may be the best part of it. In regular work and life it's not always easy to find gratitude out there! -AJ
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    London plane being the most likely sycamore in Belgium makes sense. And correct on the hybrid, the Wiki entry describes two theories of 17th century hybridization: "The species was formed by hybridization in the 17th century after P. orientalis and P. occidentalis had been planted in proximity...
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    Cuising a beautiful line in a massive London plane

    I’ll never tire of the amazing limb structures of planes/sycamores. We have both, the planes are usually in yards, parks, and along streets. I developed a nemonic to differentiate American Sycamore and London Plane leaf form, “Planes have flames, Americans are plain”. The easiest way for me...
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    Life in cold slow lane, cat rescue, new climber on rope

    Got a text 4 AM last Sunday, “Can you get my cat down?”. Turns out it was 2 brothers, young men early twenties who shared the cat responsibilities. One of them had been researching climbing technique all night, wanted to do it himself. After the cat was down he started talking about Blake’s...
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    Cottonwood climbing

    I think that was Joe Maher out of Dawsonville, GA, he was a well known rec/research climber/teacher. One of his students William Cottrell posted a couple pages from Joe's climbing journal on FB, maybe you saw that. I'm lazy, I document with photos or vid, writing it down is a much more durable...
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    Cottonwood climbing

    Eastern cottonwoods are pretty interesting to climb to say the least! My favorite was 110', a beastly tree surrounded by poison ivy until a straight line storm took it down. Damn, was checking my photos, was last in it 2009! Went down about 5 years ago. There's a nice northern water snake and...
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    Hung white pine dropped and trailer build

    Thanks! I built a foot bridge and a boardwalk for a customer. They wanted it decked with ipe. I have some short lengths left over to work with. Crazy hard/dense wood for sure! Anyone who's worked with ipe knows you have to pre-drill and counter sink for the deck screws, especially stainless...
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    Hung white pine dropped and trailer build

    A white pine failed and was hung suspended over my outdoor wood work/milling area for too long. Every time I put my small trailer under it I looked up and was unhappy. Took it out in two short sessions after work. In both cases I was up against sunset. First session I got up into a tangled mess...
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    How brainwashed are you?

    Yep. Oops, facts are so inconvenient. No Fentanyl coming from Venezuela. To be consistent, why isn’t the U.S. taking out narco terrorists off the Florida coast? Rhetorical question, too many wealthy friends of Mar-a-Lago in the mix. -AJ
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    How brainwashed are you?

    “Conspiracy” is everywhere, choose your battles wisely. After his father was killed by Sirhan Sirhan RFK Jr. stated that there was a second shooter firing from the hotel kitchen. A bullet to the skull is deadly the majority the time. Whether there was a second shooter or not there or in Dallas...

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