The thing I was notorious for as a removal specialist in tight confines?
Taking my my pull rope in either hand, and wearing only gaffs, running up the trunk like a Hawaiian lumberjack, where if yu let go of the rope having kicked out? Down yu go,
Now as an old fella, I use my bigshot n a trunk...
Wrestling shoes make it much easier!
I firmly believe the athleticism involved with fine pruning far exceeds that involved with strategic removals.
I want a quickly detachable blade interchange system where a single 13 inch handsaw blade's universal to a short or long polesaw.
A universal...
Yes, footlocking up a single 1/2 inch line's doable, but I seriously doubt many novice climbers could actually do it for any considerable distance.
I remember well the dirty look Blair gave me when I trapped him into demonstrating a single line footlock at a seminar we gave together on a...
I think most the skepticism's voiced about SRT's directly due to so many novices not realizing base tied SRT in certain configurations are a powerful force multiplier quite capable or tearing out an upper redirect, resulting in the climber hittin the ground hard.
Mechanical advantage needs to...
SRT still gives me the creeps in that it's so dang skinny the thought of powering up the rope hand over hand's a fantasy without a foot ascender, knee ascender, or hand ascender.
If yur gadget breaks, you pretty much have only one way out, down.
Now SRT on a one inch fat rope.......
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Yeah, my gut instinct's to do a bare minimum to it now, then revisit in the winter.
I may just utilize a towing strap to keep the compromised leader in place this summer, then cable it proper this coming winter.
If I buzz the snot out of it now, the chances of a beetle kill go way up.
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I'll let the two clients make the final decision of course, but suspect they'll follow my advice.
It'd be pretty embarrassing for me to get all elaborate tryin to save this ancient ole Stone, only to have it wind up a dead beetle kill by summer's end.
Another day or two spent in it should...
I'm sorely tempted to start usin two separate saddles these days.
My current heavy duty old school 4 D demolition saddle, plus an ultra lightweight pruning saddle similar to rock climbing.
So I can be as light as possible out on those skinny little leaders demanding foot stirrups. Fine prunin...
Since it's a midsection leader, and not the one over the house, it may be worth attempting, in that removing it entirely would pop a huge hole in the mid canopy.
This thread'll drag on a bit since it'll take me a while to sort this ole Stone out.
I did something sorta similar cablin n roddin a...
Getting to the tips when pruning's made a lot easier with a couple foot stirrups used in conjunction with a speedline loop n biner.
I like keepin my bodyline in fairly beefy wood below me. It's hard to be comfortable without secure footing IME.
These foot stirrups were custom made for me.
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