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    SRS rope and hitch

    Richard Mumford had a great video on hitches a long while back. My own experience was I continued to flounder between 8, 9.something and 10 mm hitchcords and a variety of hitches until I found the arbsession hitch. Still use Distel and VT from time to time but that hitch was a sweet spot for me...
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    The Akimbo 2

    So suggested to DMM - maybe what'd be nice for AK2 MRS'ing is a wide topped biner with a larger "horn" on the top of the long side to retain the AK2 - the DMM Ceros biner's isn't large enough - (keep a wire snap retainer on the bottom end) - call it the AKIMBiner? A DMM spacer between the AK2...
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    The Akimbo 2

    Just been playing with AK2 for MRS in the Cave of Wonders (has AC on!). It works for me with same settings as SRT kinda - depends on what I used as a branch saver/ friction saver up top. If it's a pulley, not that much diff (say a Teuf Pulley Saver). If it's a leather cambium saver or bark, you...
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    The Akimbo 2

    Come on . . . ya know ya wannnaaa . . . . . :-)
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    The Akimbo 2

    Akimbo 2 is worth the purchase in my opinion. Don't know Jaime but really great job - the changes/ upgrades are noticeable on vastly different ropes so far in the cave of wonders. Also had some sap "slicks" (not globs) on KM III and it went right over them with some vibes but nothing else (good...
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    I cut myself..... with a stick. (warning: blood)

    Years ago while skiing the Dolomite traverse in Banff Park we were coming back down to the highway at the end of the day and I skied a turn a little too close to a skinny spruce that had a broken stub (frozen at -25 degC), It was so "sharp" that it cut my ski pant like a razor blade and left a...
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    TreeStuff $75 Ships-Today-Guarantee

    Right, for the most part of course, but some stuff just isn't made here (other countries too - it's not just us) and in a lot of cases the US has the distributorship for N America - Teuf and Silky I can think of to name a few. This is, I think, going to result in a big re-alignment of brand...
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    TreeStuff $75 Ships-Today-Guarantee

    One other BIG issue that seems to have now popped up is the new US de minimis shipping rule put in place on the 29th of August 2025. It seems that if anything is wrong with your gear shipment to any of the 20 to 30 countries stopping US parcel shipments currently, if a piece is missing or a...
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    Kudos to Arbsession

    I can say the same for shipments N of 49th - had a problem where Canadian Border Services wouldn't let in an order of fertilizer that we've previously brought in for ages. Arbsession were real gentlemen about it. First class.
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    New saddle for heavy guy?

    All that ever increasing number means is that one still CAN race a car with used parts . . . . . . .
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    How to keep spikes from coming loose

    Ditto above. I've always used full shank or 3/4 shank boots with a heel of some kind for tree spurs. For crampons, if they are the flexible kind, 3/4 or even heavy hiking boots will do but if you're into rigid front points I think you're better off with a more rigid mountaineering boot, even a...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Seems we're headed that way - no more teflon lube spray, no more snowblower anti clog spray, hard to get lacquer auto spray paint , no more fertiilizers we used to get, but the Montreal condo dwellers that now rule Cant- ada with an iron (French) fist know whats best if we are to become pure of...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Habit I guess from alpine. We've always gone with ATC & shunt or ATC and munter on lower D or leg loop. The munter in winter strips ice/ snow/ glop from the rope (at times your waist or leg will be white). Lots of folks just used a ring and biner too (an old Teufelberger video - Hitchclimbers...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Can't find any difference in the bird "springiness" before or now after my wake up call. It still hops up at about the same rate. Keep it dry lubed (good old teflon spray lube is another thing banned in Cant-ada now). Rope was older (cuz of the sap fest) Cherry Bomb (I not II) which've used for...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Was finishing up a really really pitchy spruce wreck out yesterday and was comin' down to fell the spar to finish up. Was a great day. Rope and everything else was pitchy/ sappy but only here and there - the tree was loaded with cones dripping sap after prolonged spell of rains last month or...
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    Canopy Anchors

    This thread?
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    Bad Petzl, Good Bartlett Arborist Supply

    I had Sequoia buckle failure too last year (mine was an almost used harness kept as standby) - probably first or second gen. buckle but whatever - link
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    The Elm

    On a hot summer day, walking under the canopy of old elms arching over the streets is like walking in nature's cathedral. Some neighbourhoods even bear signs with quotes from Shakespeare and Keats to ponder as you're walking. Old homes line the streets with porches and verandas and real...
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    Let's talk about electrical awareness

    I had an experience with our City electrical utility and a tall gangly spruce at a church. The spindly top was getting too close to the primaries on the top of the poles (now well within 10 feet anyway) and would probably only grow more and whip around in the wind until one day . . . It is a...
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    Let's talk about electrical awareness

    End of the day, newbie or Journeymen - always, always be on guard for working on "Autopilot". So many incidents in so many industries are caused by autopilot or cruise control work, in a rush to finish or not. Same can be said of coming to work after a fight at home or money or something, where...

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