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  1. MikoDel

    Recreational climbing fun: swinging

    Swinging around the base before an ascent helps me to warm up and stretch. It's also got some practical benefts... the more I learn to use my weight to shift position the better I'm able to deal with scenarios aloft where I've fallen off my balance point and end up swinging "out in the middle of...
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    New DMM 'Director' Carabiners

    Following up, I eventually DID find a very compact twist locker by Mammut, this 24kN rated, 4" high little "Micro". Still have yet to try it but I believe it will sub in for the small blue fusion just fine, keeping the ropes staggered. Now when I'm working or rec climbing I have an added margin...
  3. MikoDel

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    Hey there, just FYI I'm using that same accessory cord, and I noticed two of my ugly plastic white loops with that cord inside were coming off the other day when I got down!! Man, lucky I wasn't doing any real work, hanging stuff from them w/people below. I would offer that it's worth...
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    Really practical, the new attachment possibilities! The second rope bridge is just too perfect for lateral movement and positioning. Combined some leisure climbing with an annual check to verify all my installed lines are secure, safe and not girdling the trees at the TIP's. The tree swing...
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    Samsquanch I like how you put an attachment point on the leg support. I was thinking of doing the same. I'm w/you and BobBob, I ditched the Caritools entirely from my TM. I was gonna send them back but they're already proving useful hanging equipment in storage. Don't those rigid alum Vault...
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    How long did you get out of them and do you climb every day?
  7. MikoDel

    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    Kind of off-topic I know, but the surgeon's bend, as a rigging bend the way I learned it (pic called SurgeonsBend) is excellent for being breakable after heavy loading. I learned it as right over left, twist both ends in opposite directions 360* until 4 intersections are formed. Then switch...
  8. MikoDel

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    Leftover tubing from a residential reverse-osmosis water unit and some of my fave kernmantle accessory cord. White loops look like hell (BLEH) but they're pretty rigid for clipping to. Went up yesterday and brought my reach tool along. Happy to find that the little dog snap that comes w/the...
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    Knots for joining two ropes for life support

    Had to look up the Zeppelin bend. Thought it was the same as the Hunter's but the copy specifically says it is not. I'm a big fan of the Hunter's and would use it for life support without any worry. Learned the Yosemite bowline from Jepson, always breakable even when loaded heavy, fantastic for...
  10. MikoDel

    New DMM 'Director' Carabiners

    RANT!!!!! Did you say RANT? Get in line.
  11. MikoDel

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    I added a brass snap for my Silky saw, a DMM roller 'biner for my running end and I'm trying out a double attachment pulley on the bridge. The pulley worked brilliantly during descent yesterday with a rope snap and Fig 8. A carabiner for the running end is something I use during ascent only...
  12. MikoDel

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    okay real quik, i apologize for my use of CAPS and shouting at Teufel and all, they know more about this stuff than i ever will, granted. But in my defense, the terminology is confusing. A double overhand and a DFL as I learned them (from various sources, Morrow, web, etc.) are tied differently...
  13. MikoDel

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    Hello again. I finally read thru all the posts in this thread and I learned a lot. Took a look at that Rock Exotica Hydra, that's a sharp piece. I think I might opt to keep a ring on both bridges, but sub in something like a CMI double tie-in micro pulley if I want. I'd rather have the CMI piece...
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    New DMM 'Director' Carabiners

    thx for this, always love to see what the lads and lassies at Denny M. are up to. Their website is really ultimately cool - provides hours of engagement. It's important to try out options like these because getting the dimensions of your climbing system "just right" really takes a lot of the...
  15. MikoDel

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    What additional pieces NOT SUPPLIED by TreeMOTION might you deem as neccessities for this EVO piece? I expect my new EVO harness to arrive sometime next week. As far as the attachment point(s) goes, the ring supplied on the rope bridge doesn't look as large as the floating ring on my Skylotec...
  16. MikoDel

    Stihl MS310 stops cutting for "no reason"

    These replies are appreciated. I did file. There were 2 burs on each side of the tip, presumably from kick. I also checked chain wiggle. It rocks back and forth. (side to side, whatever makes sense.) Because that movement might be on the sloppy side, I'm gonna go w/a new bar and new chain. As...
  17. MikoDel

    Stihl MS310 stops cutting for "no reason"

    I have a Stihl MS310 with a 20" bar. The bar is newer than the saw, replaced with an Oregon bar around 2011. I swapped in a new bar precisely because I am having this problem. My chains are SHARP, they throw spaghetti and huge chunks at the beginning of the cut. Just the other day I was bucking...
  18. MikoDel

    Tales of the Tail - eye-to-eye prusiks - Careful!

    i appreciate all the education insofar as mechanical ascenders. I'm still a tie-on fric hitch, doubled-rope person but i am very interested in new technology, always. not being able to remove or re-attach a friction device aloft would, for me, take some getting used to. plus i work for myself...
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    Tales of the Tail - eye-to-eye prusiks - Careful!

    As a sometime tree worker and avid rec climber, I've had unexpected results with certain types and sizes of I-2-I prusiks. Unexpected literally meaning, HOLY JESUS MY SCHWABISCH WAS HOLDING FAST THE FIRST 30' UP, WHY'S IT SLIPPING NOW?!?!?!?!? Ya know, no big deal when you've been climbing a...
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