did a walkthrough today for an upcoming job next week. it's a big fir, shaped like the letter s, pushing 175' maybe 200'. forested rural Woodland, Wa. Owner says it's making noise and scared of it. They want it reduced to a 50' spar. chip and remove all wood. There's nowhere to fell the tree...
Does anyone know what this technique is called? It's like a one legged span rig saving that extra 1/3 of rope length. Next chance I get, that's what I'm going to use it for.
the nerdy climber stuff starts around 12 and it gets into "rewind, pause, rewind, scratch head, rewind" territory shortly after.
I learned so much from this man. Somehow he still comes up with new spins I just don't see in my zip code.
Also some peeks at his mulitcender device which seems to...
you love doing a job that folks come out and wait patiently to record on their iphone, then completely explain how they have shared each one to their coworkers and family, respectable adductor cramps at 3am that are frankly baddass in their own right, then the very next day your coworker texts...
PDX area here. noone around here has a Reflex or even seen one IRL. none of the local shops carry them. Whenever I check online, they are always out of stock.
Is there no market for this product or is the sales/distro side of this company really that inept?
I highly recommend replacing the alpine butterfly with the span loop as your midline knot. It's got the little bowline handle you just pry up for reliably untying every time. Even use it for rigging. fasg and secure and never fight it to untie.
I use the pinto 99% of the time esp when set from the ground because it just works reliably and I can move on to the next thing requiring consideration. the soft8 always is always forgotten in the bag, I know it works well but just rarely grab for it.
here are mine in descending order of preference: knot choke, carabiner+pulley, proper pinto pulley texas tug, hitch-climber eccentric for retrieval like no other. and you can always install a pulley a bit lower to help more with retrieval.
would it be possible to make a an exact version for standard 11.7mm 24 strand climbline to be used ddrt and srt? This looks like it will perform very reliably sap or not.
some of the rigging combinations in the mix. It's what I mostly run throughout the week only use it with 1/2" rigging rope and porta-wrap never comes out. big removals has different gear completely.
just added a pair of wesspur 28x3&mm rigging rings to the personal stash, going to run them with 1/2" rigging rope mostly removals. tied them on 18' and 24' scraps. the radius looks like it's going to be butter.