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  1. Willber

    Today....

    Removing some Ash limbs near driveway and over a shed. Also, went out of my way, to cut all the reachable detrimental deadwood, and suckers. Some of the deadwood was large limbs and stubs that were about 3in. in diameter. I always try to cut reachable large dead limbs/stubs and obvious...
  2. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    Yes, if the cordage is only used as a bridge, it won't get exposed to silica, as a rope would, and especially if the rope is used only as an MRS rope, for tree ascent. I brought up about the fine sand getting in this possible "new cordage" you guys were starting to talk about, as a possible...
  3. Willber

    Is it possible to swap out disc of Morbark Storm 12"?

    @Reach Thanks. I think I like the disc chipper, and we're not big enough to justify a drum chipper. Would you say the drum chippers make as desirable chips as the disc chippers? Because when the WoodChuck chips an 8in log it makes nice "park like" chips, very desirable chips.
  4. Willber

    Is it possible to swap out disc of Morbark Storm 12"?

    @VenasNursery @Reach We have adjusted the "not new anvil", to a credit card tolerance from the knives. It did improve the abrupt chewing, but needs adjustment much more than the WoodChuck (very old anvil), even though they chip the same quantity. It just appears the simple apposing layout is...
  5. Willber

    Is it possible to swap out disc of Morbark Storm 12"?

    The Morbark 12" Storm's disc has staggered placement of the 4 separate knives. It seems the staggering makes, the chipper more finicky when chipping large diameter logs, if the anvil is slightly gapped from the knives. It also seems, staggering is more likely to abruptly chew too much of a big...
  6. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    Well, there must be some microscopic particles of sand that get beneath the cover. How is it not possible, fine "dust" gets everywhere, hence the need for clean rooms in electronic manufacturing. And, it's just that Dyneema being very susceptible to abrasion, is the reason for the mention.
  7. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    A maintenance of roundness is necessary for optimum tending through a device. A stiff round rope like the 11mm Beal Access rope, was surprisingly flexible, and held almost every knot. Best of both, a cable and rope. Edit: another advantage of a very round rope is that it datches better than a...
  8. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    @moss If Dyneema could safely function well as a compressed core, having nylon or possibly poly as the cover, is interesting. Yes, the goals differ in that, flattening of a bridge is ideal to reduce over stretching of the outer strands, of the core. And, flattening provides more surface for...
  9. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    @moss That’s good to hear that Dyneema does not fatigue from rapid flexing and can survive the abrasion of slight cover on core movement. Then possibly an ideal bridge cordage could be made, that has a poly cover tightly woven over a 100% Dyneema core, causing the core to be compressed within...
  10. Willber

    Redundant Bridge vs. Second Bridge

    Why does the bridge cordage need to be Dyneema or such techy material. Wouldn't a good cordage be at least 13mm, high braid count and very stiff.
  11. Willber

    Today....

    Carefully cut and moved 2 branches that had broken from a Sugar Maple, and were heavily leaning on an Apple tree. Some main branches had to be clean cut from the Apple tree, for they had broken and caused partial deep wood fiber separation into one of the leaders.
  12. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    Oh, well, in MRS it's more difficult to pull oneself up on an oval rope, and for MRS (and I'd think SRT also) the climb line, does not tend through device as likely/easily, because the rope will bend more easily on the shorter cross section of the rope - very frustrating. Easy tending, is a...
  13. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    One of the many samples I bought, was Poison Moon, by Yale, Rope.com said it is the same rope as BlueMoon just different color scheme, but clearly would flatten less, when pressed between thumb and finger, seemed to have a bulkier core. I see what evo says about difference in seemingly similar...
  14. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @islandarb Well, it's my friends Velocity, that is quite well used, or some might say worn, but it's never been used with ascenders of any kind, so the rope may have less pick wear than ones you use with foot ascender(s), for 2yrs. He used the Zillon with it for 4yrs, then the last year the ZZ...
  15. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @Lignotuber I concur, the very fine particles of chalk are either filling in voids between the cover and core and/or voids in the core itself. Reducing flattening of the rope. Yea, premature rope wear from chalk inside, might take a year of life off the rope, and the rope could easily be in...
  16. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @Brocky Well, I never saw my friend's Velocity when it was new, but understand Voyager is the same rope, just larger diameter. When my Voyager was new, it could easily be folded over on itself completely, so the folded "eye" would close completely. My friend said he never milked his Velocity...
  17. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @Lignotuber I've seen on TreeStuff and ArbSession that people like Xstatic, I think it's about as static as BlueMoon. I guess when using SRT it isn't as important to have a splice, as with MRS. Xstatic can only have a sewn eye. I did feel it had better grip than all other ropes except, a...
  18. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @Shadowscape Yes, isn't it engraved on the ZZ, something like: 11.5mm > 13mm I used the 11mm Beal in the ZZ for 2yrs, but never used a friction saver, so the bark of the trees, gave plenty of resistance to hold me up with no creeping. And, the Velocity my friend uses fluffed out to be more like...
  19. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    @Lignotuber I've only been using this Drenaline for about 5 different climbs. It is less stretchy than Velocity, Scandere and DirectionUp, of the ropes I've used. Xstatic is a fully parallel strand core, like TowerLine. So it may flatten less than other double braids. But, I think when a well...
  20. Willber

    Rope Flattening Issues

    I used a 160ft length of yellow Scandere for about 3 months, it flattened more than HyperClimb, more than Voyager, and even more than 12mm TowerLine by AllGear (which flattened the least out of the 3 ropes) The Scandere would also slowly creep through the ZigZag, when using the Weaver leather...

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