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  1. moss

    SRS rope and hitch

    I can barely lift myself out of bed some mornings! 70 backpack would destroy me ;-) I could hang additional weight on my climbing system without carrying it on my back. On the other hand it would be easier for one my friends up in the 200 lb. Range to test my Rope Wrench setup. -AJ
  2. moss

    SRS rope and hitch

    Are we confused yet? Another way of saying it is: I believe a hitch/length/climbing line combo that works for a light climber like myself will work very well for a heavy climber. I think focusing on hitch cordage and configuration is mostly barking up the wrong tree for heavy climbers. Assuming...
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    SRS rope and hitch

    As mentioned I’m coming from at it from the other end, if you put a typical well dressed arborist hitch on a line and weight it, doesn’t matter how much a person weighs, It may slide at first but with 2 or 3 sequential loadings it will bind up tight. Introduce a bend above the hitch (rope...
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    SRS rope and hitch

    Interesting. Ha. I suspect there might not be enough load on the Hitchhiker friction surface below its hitch for it to engage in a useful way. Slack tending may be difficult. Worth trying though only one way to find out. -AJ
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    SRS rope and hitch

    I think the construction of the static’s core matters for rope wrench/hitch functionality. 10mm Sterling HTP is wild stuff with a wrench. An 8mm hitch cord works but things get weird, the parallel(?) core seems to get twisted and “bunchy”. Even if it didn’t the core fibers become so rigid during...
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    SRS rope and hitch

    Ha! Yeah 10”, jeez. You’d think in the case of the guy with the probable Apex that once he settled back the wrench and the hitch would equalize, they “want” to go to 50/50 weight bearing. Weird thing about climber weight vs. hitch binding. I bind a hitch on rope (no wrench) as hard as anyone...
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    SRS rope and hitch

    I like your thinking but it’s also worth considering that it’s very rare for a hitch to grab so quickly and thoroughly that the “bird” so-to-speak doesn’t have time to drop into the functional angled position. As you mentioned/alluded to if a hitch was configured so snugly it would create too...
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    SRS rope and hitch

    Epicord, Oceans Polyester, ArmorPrus have never disappointed. It is all about matching the eye2eye length and the hitch. A 28” e2e is a good starting point, versatile, you’ll get there. -AJ
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    Popping up all over my lawn

    A clearer photo of a leaf sample would help. The leaf shape matches Lombardy Poplar, Populus nigra well. Eastern Cottonwood, P. deltoides with a very similar leaf is a bit toothier on the leaf margins than P. nigra. P. deltoides and P. nigra have an "acuminate" leaf shape, "Gradually tapering...
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    Hook traversing to get on a leaner black oak

    Coincidentally I was wearing a red shirt similar to @Peter_bomen in his recent beech appreciation video. In this vid I'm not appreciating dealing with all the small branch/sucker/epicormic growth typical on Quercus velutina in my area eastern Massachusetts/U.S.. Makes working with a DMM Captain...
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    The appreciation of a fine beech

    Nice! I found ink caps at around 30’ in a red oak cavity, I was surprised! Great beech. -AJ
  12. moss

    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    yes
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Ha! I hope so! If that's what he wants to be doing. All the weird online disputes I've been in over the years. Started out battling with a handful of southern U.S. rec climbers when I was first learning the ropes. Well... even though I'm not a Yankees fan I was "the Yankee" ;-) My favorite...
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    Watch out for underground bee and hornet nests

    Eating your enemy is a time-honored pastime ;-) -AJ
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    This is amazing, never got stuck, never hit my teeth ;-) And yes, I used to have the habit of enabling/feeding some of the more arrogant types online. Nowadays I don’t bother to engage. Know thyself as they say and carry on. Life is good. -AJ
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    Watch out for underground bee and hornet nests

    Lately I’ve had yellow-jackets investigating me at height in trees where I’m in relatively young wood, no possibilities of hollows containing a nest. Yellow-jackets will nest in trees when the hollows are similar enough to their preferred ground-nesting habitat. In this case I think they were...
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    Watch out for underground bee and hornet nests

    I've been involved with two northern paper wasp nests, one bald-faced hornet nest, and one yellow-jacket ground nest in the last 3 weeks. So far so good, stung by one northern paper wasp when I leaned in working too close to the nest. I was layered with two t-shirts, wasp couldn't get the...
  18. moss

    Canopy Anchors

    Yeah, I was trying to create a cinching SRS lanyard that was kosher not "cross-loading" a carabiner spine. It was interesting but ultimately not what I wanted. I'm currently choking a carabiner to achieve quick one-handed install and de-install without fidgeting around or having extra stuff...
  19. moss

    There's no end to the fun, cats dammit

    I've resorted to crazy arrangements setting up traps in trees. Especially for the ones up high where I have to improvise woven "ramps" to give the cat something to walk on to get to the trap entrance. It works well but is time intensive to set up. -AJ
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    There's no end to the fun, cats dammit

    Yes, great question! My answer would be... fig newtons and a good coffee for the quickest response! -AJ

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