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    Reputable chainsaw tuner

    Want to put a word in for Walkers Saw shop in Nanaimo BC. if anyone's North of the 49th! Great folks
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    Best 32 strand: blue 32, hyperstatic, squir etc

    The StatX feels heavier and stiffer like a rope that'll cable, but on couple of days up in the trees now (both SRT and MRS on a pulley saver), it didn't. It definitely has a different feel tho. Sterling nailed it I think with Scion - same "full" kinda feel but way more flexible/ better hand. AK2...
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    Squirrel Damage

    We too, have been having bunnies everywhere - really gross late last fall - was minding my own business on an elm prune when I rounded a corner onto a nice wide branch union and found it was a "bunny buffet", for some cat named Bob probably. There were bits of Uncle Benny Bunny and Cousin Clem...
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    Best 32 strand: blue 32, hyperstatic, squir etc

    Been playing with 11.5's - Squir yup, but am now really liking StatX from Drayer and Scion, all in the AK2. I think all three are really nice ropes. I find 11's hard on my hands.
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    Closing Thoughts

    God Bless, Steve. (But it doesn't sound like a closing as much as another sort of journey started . . . . )
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    Show off them splices

    I found this video where Eric Foresman splices Sterling Tendril - he buries the core first. Thanks
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    Milwaukee telescoping polesaw

    Good to see the comments on the polesaw - anyone have any feedback on their telescoping pole pruner?
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    Chain oil in the wind

    A discussion of Oil Mist exposure limits if you want to get more into it. Ontario has health standards for oil mist too. If a worry, or an asthmatic, just use an N95 mask I suppose. And most saws, you can turn down/up the amount of bar oil you're using. Chain oils have an additive to enhance...
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    New RopeRunner?!?

    Try the AK2 and a CT CRIC - awesome 3:1'ing will come to your life ! :-)
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    Squirrel Damage

    Squirrels have chewed thru our ground level deck (PT 2X6 or 2X8's) from the top and the sides to store spruce cones between the gravel and the decking (a 3-4" space). Must now be thousands of spruce cones protected from rain by a membrane covered main floor upper deck. Been using a HavaHart trap...
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    Postcard mailers with photos, "creepy?"

    One thing you might want to check for your city/ town etc. is if you need a permit or license for door to door direct sales. You do in our City. All you'd need is a ticked off lawyer.
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    New device from ISC

    I do find 11.5's like Drayer Tango StatX fill it (the CRIC) up until you put the rope under tension - then things smooth up. Sorry - didn't mean to derail the ISC thred a bit.
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    New device from ISC

    Bart I like this comment - had the same experience when I used a Grillon/ Captain on Tachyon in swing city to an adjacent tree. Wasn't as smooth as lanyard but didn't lock up like a hitch did (did get harder with increasingly flatter rope angles and therefore load and (sigh) sap). This "load...
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    New device from ISC

    CRIC'n - this little thing has changed the way I flounce around in trees lately. For 3:1's it's pretty cool. So CRIC'n
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    New device from ISC

    Looks like it'd be all warm and fuzzy with CRIC'n around too - that's one thing that I like about the AK2 and HitchClimber Pulley . . .
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    Maybe depends on how high you're going but just today I still used a leather cambium saver - easy to install/ uninstall with a slip knot in the line. No bark/ branch damage. I still really like those things. I get back to UIAA fall/ belay practices - the forces are enormous quite quickly. To...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    After 30 or so years in the alpine and waterfall ice and trees, my take is don't fall on an arborist static rope - ever. F= m x a squared. Non arb falls are belayed on dynamic ropes - I'd rather have a system with lotsa dynamic rope in it than a static rope and a screamer or rubber dookies or...
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    Show off them splices

    If I understand, It wasn't end management but more when I was trying to push a fid thru to get the cover into the core - never had a splice where the core went so "all over the place" every time I touched it. Wondered if it could be static or something. In a single malt induced haze (what -...
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    Show off them splices

    Has anyone got any tips for splicing Scion 11.5 mm? I did a Class 1 splice in it this week and had a bear of a time wrestling with the core which seemed to unravel if I looked at it sideways.
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    ART BlackBird for "MRT and SRT"

    Sap on ropes and gear is, around here, an everyday occurrence - tool development without considering this (and how something can be cleaned up) - this is just "McHappy Land" testing in my opinion. I do wish the EN/ CE/ ISO standards would consider it for some sort of testing regimen, but that's...

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