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  1. LordFarkwad

    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    Tried the micro pulley with neck tender just now - so, SAKA, foot ascender, prussik to bridge, and neck-tender for prussik; felt just like a normal rope-walking ascent. Pretty neat. Figure 8 to descend worked great. Also, went back up and doubled down (MRS, DdRT, etc.) - didn't even undo my...
  2. LordFarkwad

    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    I don't personally have a problem with it. Just wondering. Felt fine to me.
  3. LordFarkwad

    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    You getting complicated now, @Jeninten! xD But yeah, definitely would have lanyard. However, I have a couple little tender options (neck, chest, over the shoulder webbing) that would be lightweight and work just as well. My neck one is paracord in a Calamine cover, so the colors might be a...
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    Minimalist rope walking setups?

    Went out and tried a figure 8, hitch cord (prog cap on ascent), and foot/knee ascenders last night - wayyyyy more minimalist than I'm used to. Just pushed the prusik up the line on ascent, then removed ascenders, added the f8, and repelled down while collapsing the prusik. Very neat little...
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    Hitch hiker/2/x thread

    @Brocky - soft shackle on the bottom?
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    Makita XCU08/09 (14"/16") vs. ...?

    That is a must have, imo
  7. LordFarkwad

    Makita XCU08/09 (14"/16") vs. ...?

    It is my preferred saw now. I pretty much always start with this saw until 14" isn't enough - and that goes for hard woods, too. Love it.
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    Tips/techniques for reducing the "kick"/push-back of a top from the trunk it's being cut-from?(minimizing the sway of the standing trunk)

    Are you talking about guying the spar below you so that it can't rock but so far, after the top pushes it?
  9. LordFarkwad

    Tips/techniques for reducing the "kick"/push-back of a top from the trunk it's being cut-from?(minimizing the sway of the standing trunk)

    Narrow opening - 15deg vs. 60deg, for example. The idea, as best as I understand it, is to promote breaking of the hinge before the top begins to exert a subsequent pulling influence on the remaining spar. I'll see if I have a sec later to find wherever I heard/read about that. I'm not 100%...
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    The latest Matt Cornell harness

    Do you run them fully stock?
  11. LordFarkwad

    2016 srtwp redirects

    Did you delete your other post? I don't see it now, but wanted to check the pic.
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    Tips/techniques for reducing the "kick"/push-back of a top from the trunk it's being cut-from?(minimizing the sway of the standing trunk)

    As a counter example, wherever I got this info from also stated that an extremely wide notch can actually cause push initially, then - because the hinge remains intact through a large arc of travel - cause a pulling action prior to departure/hinge-fracture, making the resulting spar wobble more...
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    Tips/techniques for reducing the "kick"/push-back of a top from the trunk it's being cut-from?(minimizing the sway of the standing trunk)

    I think it was either in a Reg video, or from Beranek's 'Fundamentals', or both, where the width of the notch/face-cut is cited as a major control knob for the amount of pull the departing top places on the remaining spar. With a narrower notch, the top isn't allowed to push back against the...
  14. LordFarkwad

    Swingdude's Chester at Wesspur

    You just using an over-the-shoulder webbing loop?
  15. LordFarkwad

    rope runner pro

    It's the little carabiner attachment point that results in major re-disassembly woes, if it is installed facing the wrong way, at least in my one experience.
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    rope runner pro

    Oh boy - putting that carabiner attachment point on there backwards...I had to use a stick/tool to get it disassembled again once I did that accidentally (because of the slick pin release you referred to). Not a mistake that one will make two times, I wouldn't think :ROFLMAO:
  17. LordFarkwad

    Outlaw saws

    Right on, brother. I drive them until the wheels fall off too, and maintain the crap out of em the whole time. People around here start getting "antsy", for lack of a better word, when their vehicles get 50k/3yrs on em, so that's part of the reason I say that the whole issue is "we" are simply...
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    rope runner pro

    I run mine straight to the bridge sometimes, to eliminate the leg interaction. Happened to me a few times at first while fumbling around with it, but I think that you kind of develop a procedure for handling it, or start doing it in a consistent manner after a while, and it happens less and...
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    Outlaw saws

    Feel free to disregard! That wasn't an attempt at a derail, honest! :LOL:
  20. LordFarkwad

    Outlaw saws

    I always thought, growing up, that inflation would manifest itself as higher prices, which might be true, in part. But, I think the lion's share of is hitting, and has hit, as same prices, but lower quality goods. However, there's a bit of a 'chicken vs. egg' situation here, as, at least in...

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