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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    And maybe something for moving your small chipper around? Add a winch drum somewhere for those steep side yards . . . . .
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    New device from ISC

    I just use a DMM Ultra O - the plastic grommet allows easy install/ removal and I like that the biner doesn't flop around - makes a great setup with an Arbsession Caralink tether (mine is glued rigid) with an ISC Apex.
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    Maybe have a look along these lines . . . ?
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    New device from ISC

    Thanks very much for this - good work.
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    New device from ISC

    Thanks very much ! Please be so kind as to forward any info you receive from them. Cheers and stay safe.
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    New device from ISC

    So have another question about the Reflex - does anyone out there have any experience with it in a V rig or M rig kind of situation? The ZZ is OK and Hitch Climber is nifty for these. If Reflex is OK with it then it would about complete it for me (not climbing now - still shovelling white stuff...
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    Replace suspension in kask super plasma?

    Offshore scramble competitor for Petzl? Sure has the bits and pieces and has CE marking? Who knows . . . I like my Protos but not at the new prices, up here anyway. So I'd probably go with a good old Petzl esp. if I didn't have to buy visor and muffs separately too. Somebody in another thread...
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    Do I have a problem?

    This is right up there with a question my wife asks me from time to time . . . . "Don't you think 11 pairs of backcountry skis are a little too much"? "Em, no" (and then quickly disappearing back into the Cave of Wonders)?
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    New device from ISC

    I think it's not just the top "bird" somehow (maybe a stiffer spring here would be nice?). For all the ropes I've tried so far, smoothest descent was when I've switched to a leather glove on the left hand, holding the whole zig zaggy bit and throttling the links with the leather glove. ISC...
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    New device from ISC

    Around ~82 kg (~180 lbs) w/o harness and the kitchen sink. StatX just fits into the CRIC but I'm not sure if the 11.8's or larger would so for me that's a "rope selection criteria" too. After using StatX last fall on all sorts of jobs I still really like it. It kinda feels to me like a slightly...
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    New device from ISC

    So based on False Hemlock's post above this is today's experient: ISC Apex Rope Wrench Arbsession CaraLINK Black Rope Wrench Tether v2 DMM PerfectO Locksafe Carabiner - Note - shoe goo'd/ glued onto Arbsession Caralink Tether - makes one stiff connection On Drayer StatX (gee this is a nice...
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    Tell me about cottonwoods

    If you're new to Populus, watch some videos from Poplar Mechanic - he worked in Medicine Hat Alberta area where there's lots of poplars of different ages. (One classic vid you have to see is where a limb he's on just fails but he calls out to ground folk below to warn them on the way down...
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    New device from ISC

    Looking back on the last few months, I think the AK2 and now the Reflex (and Blackbird etc.) are all large steps forwards that together with new rope designs/ engineering give us way more options than in the past. Look at the refinements on the RR from the original. If the company's have strong...
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    New device from ISC

    Great thread. In addition to my other comments above, and post #174 on rope types that are in the manual, I did find yesterday that I got kinda different behaviour on different Tachyon ropes I had - a old trusted friend sample of Ash worked fine, a relatively new 200' of Orange worked great but...
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    New device from ISC

    Bino H talks about biners and the Reflex. I found DMM Ultra O's/ Perfect O's go in just fine, including all the way around so you can clip into an MRS eye from the top. Not sure about 11.7's and 11.8's but the Reflex and CRIC work fine for a 3:1 on 11.5's like Tachyon, up as well as ambling out...
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    New device from ISC

    No not all arb ropes are EN1891A - I believe it requires a rope with a nylon core or something to get a bit more bounce (maybe giving rise to ISC's statement in the "manual" about not using rope that's too static but using one that has a bit more give or bounce). There are two things that gave...
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    New device from ISC

    At lunch today I sat down with the little manual/ instructions that comes with it. There's a bunch of use tips in there about hand position, and gloves (leather not rubber surfaced) that should help with different ropes. Instructions also state: "recommended that EN 1891-A rope, made of Nylon...
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    New device from ISC

    Yup just starting down - am working the rest of the zig zag links but it still seemed to release more suddenly than I liked. On one of the ropes it kinda kept going too (similar to Kevin's comment above). It looked like with "smaller" diameter ropes, the links spread out more vertically or more...
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    New device from ISC

    So today (in a weak moment) I sprang for yet one more shiny new climby thingy. Gotta say Reflex is slick me thinks. Tried SRT Reflexing around on: Blaze 11 Scion 11.5 Voyager 11.8 Found these all REALLY jerky to get started. The Force is not strong with these ropes it seems. Midway easy: Squir...
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    A spray bottle that lasts?

    I use FF and I do heat it up before filling the sprayer can and keep the gun/ can warm in a pot of hot water rather than setting it down if I'm moving around while spraying an underside winter coat. I use FF's spray rig and compressor though. Gave up on Blaster cans cuz they always plugged on me...

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