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  1. LordFarkwad

    70-90cc saw recommendation please

    Where are these sold now? All I could find was the Notch version that's way heavier.
  2. LordFarkwad

    70-90cc saw recommendation please

    Does the 592xp have a standing in this discussion? 395 replacement?
  3. LordFarkwad

    Rope Runner Pro & Compact BullDog Bone (BOTH ARE SOLD)

    10-4. I hear you. I'm loving that Cornell when I run a hitch nowadays. Sideways related: do you run into sap much?
  4. LordFarkwad

    Rope Runner Pro & Compact BullDog Bone (BOTH ARE SOLD)

    RRP not your thing? Prefer the original?
  5. LordFarkwad

    Accident report on Facebook

    Great to know. Thanks, @moss!
  6. LordFarkwad

    Accident report on Facebook

    Is that the core, fully exposed?
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    Accident report on Facebook

    This has concerned me before, and this thread brought it again to my mind. It looks lumpy in that area, so I'm wondering what an internal failure at this point would look like as compared with the normal lumpiness.
  8. LordFarkwad

    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    Are you saying that a tube with wall cross sectional area = X is stronger than a solid cylinder with cross sectional area = X? That makes sense, if so. I initially read this as a tube with diameter = X is stronger than the same diameter tube with the center hollowed out. That would be very...
  9. LordFarkwad

    Accident report on Facebook

    Is it absolutely necessary that, leading up to this failure, the bridge had some sort of lumpiness to it, where the inner strands had begun successively failing? Or is it possible that this very old bridge did indeed go from ratty-looking to every single stand failing in a cascade, more or less...
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    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    Just a joke! Edit: I deal with a certain baseline level of fear of heights (I know this because I know people who aren't afraid of heights, and...I'm not like them). I started having jaw pain when I first started climbing, and realized that it was because I was constantly clenching my teeth...
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    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    You been in prison, by chance?
  12. LordFarkwad

    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    This. Confidence-inspiring. Edit: Even just a hundred pounds of side-load from a horizontal pull line would likely be more than you could apply without some major jumping around and limb-walking far out. @climbingmonkey24, does your discomfort persist after you've dropped your bodyweight's...
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    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    Would it be possible to have another climber you respect come out and get their opinion on the tree AND/OR simply be there to watch you climb? I'm nowhere near as far along as you in my treework/climbing CV, but I know that one thing which helps me immensely is having a climber on site, on the...
  14. LordFarkwad

    Set up a new swing...

    This is something I've wondered about: if a swing is anchored with a cinching knot of some kind, will the limb/trunk still be able to grow underneath and the cinch simply expand to accommodate the increased diameter without causing damage?
  15. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    @climbingmonkey24 Thanks for the drawings! Excellent. Apologies for making you go through all that - that's what I call double-whipping. Use it a lot, even without the pulley, for smaller stuff (it still effectively halves the load). The 'gotcha' with that system, at least for me, is that...
  16. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    Actually, I think that exact thing is from a Reg Coates video.
  17. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    Yeah, I've done that before, except with porty in tree. These were some larger pieces that I wanted to allow to run, however (porty not locked off, take several wraps, enough that I know it'll stop before hitting ground, but will run a little when the initial load hits it).
  18. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    I'd never had an alpine butterfly lock up until the first time I tried this technique (using the whole rigging line up by sequentially rigging and lowering pieces along its length). Had to use the vice grips to break the knot afterwards.
  19. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    Could work in that application, I suppose, where it's not being loaded from both tails. Bowline WITH a bight would work too, but would consume more line than BoaB and AB.
  20. LordFarkwad

    You Ever Work Solo?

    "Clear" = bring it back to you? Or, clear it out from getting stuck under brush? Can you describe this setup, when you have time? This is one of the most painful parts of me doing solo work - if you have opportunity, can you describe your setup? I've taken to using a longer rigging rope...

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