The money is more important than the safety. If they were really concerned with the safety aspect, they would be throwing these from the rooftops.
It's a racket.
I had to put down my skateboard, I was getting too beat up and with no health insurance, work is more important. I still hop on every once in a while, but I'm a bit more cautious these days. Jeezuz, I sound like an old man. I did have nollie 360 flips on lock in my heyday. Sorry I'm ranting...
Tree Logic, I have no experience with Safety Blue, but have used True blue for a while. TB does have some stretch, the rope kind of "squares" up, but not as much as our other Arborplex rigging lines (my father bought two spools cheap). Did you rig with SB as well or just climb on it? The load...
Shoot, I'm up there if it's an easier way to do it. Like you said if it's too steep, stay tied into the tree. These standards are killing common sense!
Just wanted to follow up and say what a great workshop Brian and Mark put on. Thanks guys, we learned quite a bit, and it's always cool getting together with the local tree dudes. Didn't hear any thrash though, have to talk to Eartech about channelling it in through the radios
Very cool.
We've got one, and run a 441Mag with it, but we've been ripping a lot bigger logs. Biggest we've done is a 30" DBH American Elm log. White and red cedar seem to be my favorites so far, most useful for me. What is that you've got there? Ash?