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    Invasive Species Removal?

    A couple of years ago had a bunch of willows to get rid of with stumps in the 8 to 10" size. We just cut them low and took a battery drill with a 1 1/2" spade bit and drilled a bunch of holes a couple of inches deep and filled them with Roundup full strength. Because the stumps were smaller, to...
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    Willow on a hot tub

    I kinda liked the site built dimensional lumber jack shown in this video if it could come in handy.
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    just another tool the icx

    Price I saw (w/o batteries or charger) was in the order of 5K UK pounds and I think it was about 6K Euros at Freeworker. Ouch! I'll walk up at those prices . . . . great idea with the Husky BLi300 battery though.
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    New device from buckingham

    Thanks Steve, you're very kind - kinda made my day - well no kinda - it did! Me too. I would love to make it down to something or other in the US (have lots of friends down there from work over the years) or maybe get over to Augsburg some year (maybe runnin' outta years tho???). Hitchhikers...
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    Compact Bulldog Bone

    I remember way ago I was blown away by Kevin Bingham in the Idea Lab or some such in a video, able to search file patents, prototype etc. Very nice.
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    Compact Bulldog Bone

    Never suggested printing climbing gear outta concrete. But considering Rolls Royce is "growing' turbine compressor blades outta titanium "crystals' to align the metal's structure, who knows if we couldn't come up with some composite material in the future? The stuff in advanced aerospace...
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    Compact Bulldog Bone

    Dunno Kevin - they are printing houses/ neighbourhoods now in Texas I think it was. What do they say in astronomy - Given enough time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible becomes probable and the probable definate. Can't break down plastics and yet . . plastics breakthrough? I am a...
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    Compact Bulldog Bone

    Cowtown to the east of you is now home. Background was scientific/ regulatory but started doing treework with my Dad, being a scared little guy holding onto a handle on a 60" bar on elm and oak removals (before there was hair). Ended my career in process safety for European engineering outfits...
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    Compact Bulldog Bone

    Couple of other points to the ones Reg has made maybe, but I think they need to be said (pls don't shoot the messenger). In most juridictions there are some sort of H&S regulations requiring that life support gear meet some standard of certification, be that CSA/ European or ANSI or something...
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    New device from buckingham

    Dry vermouth . . . . olives for those more formal climbs? I am picturing a Monty Python (the Everest Hair Salon Skit) like string of cocktail stations scattered about in the trees. Might catch on . . . . :) So sorry for the derail?
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    Safest and best sap remover for your climbing rope

    So I should probably update my comments here to reflect another thread somewhere on Buzz. After more materials compatibility discussions there, I've now settled on Everclear for ropes - as close as you can get to pure ethanol. In the other thread, someone suggested this (if I could find it I'd...
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    New device from buckingham

    In a brake bar I think the rope contacts one side on the first bar, then alternates to the other side of the rope on the next and alternates thru the rack. Maybe something in that. Uni alternates too? BDB seems to alternate rope sides as well (don't own one yet). Whereas at least on the RRP the...
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    New device from buckingham

    All kidding about scotch aside, I have used a scarab now a couple of times on rigging out bits and pieces on less than sap free rigging rope and haven't yet had jogs in the lowering/ friction. Use of a rap rack in my old days on gritted up rope (glacier and caving) didn't give me the impression...
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    New device from buckingham

    I had speculated at one time, assisted by single malt, that it might be possible to come up with a mechanical with longer/ larger friction surfaces or a "pre bent" rope path, but with coated surfaces so pitch wouldn't "stick" as much. The single malt speculated that this might be something like...
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    ART BlackBird for "MRT and SRT"

    There's a much closer look at the Art Blackbird here (starting about 2:57 in the video) - upper cam configuration SRT/MRS is slick as heck . . . and they talk about an adjustable cam. Quizzical addenda: Arbsession's webpage and I think Treetools, say that the BB can be used for two person...
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    ART BlackBird for "MRT and SRT"

    I'm wondering how this new shiny thing would cope with sap or might work with a 3:1 on the tail or not (as per RR collapsing and work arounds v.s. Akimbo). The video shows a falling tail me thinks? I also wonder about pricing - ouch in the pre-orders I've seen so far. Maybe more on pricing in...
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    Small Jobs

    Maybe just me but haven't really had a "small job" (esp. stuff like pruning out black knot for example) in the last ten years that has taken me less than 1/2 to maybe even 2/3 of a day when you count travel, cleaning tools etc. so $400.00 is about it for me. Otherwise it's charity work, which...
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    Large, uprooted doug-fir laying into another doug-fir... thoughts?

    Rope up in the standing tree to a winch with MA system, set up your hinge on the standing tree and bore cut to a healthy sized strap (listen for any popping - the tree is kinda the same as a leaner with all the added stress on it), tension the MA up and cut strap lower than the back cut so you...
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    Large, uprooted doug-fir laying into another doug-fir... thoughts?

    Just wondering if you could fall both trees and sell the logs? Might help these folks out and deal with the hazard if kids are around.
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    I fell yesterday

    Matias, Re #26 above, DMM had a Kinisi bridge video bit from Augsburg I think it was first alluded to in a Buzz thread on the Kinisi harness where they did failure testing on the bridge itself. There's a link to the video in here somewhere I think. Myself, I'd replace the cam side and the other...
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