another place that I constantly see is spar work, guys just are essentially double lanyard’d when there’s so many easy options to have an actual descendable tie in which A makes life easier and neater, and B allows for a better chance at successful rescue should something occur.
I shared the same opinion, all the fancy vented pants are great but still when it’s above 70 or good and humid hot is hot and to me the risk of heat stroke or heat related issues outweighs the benefits of protection in the tree.
in a draft back in marchish? There was discussion of chainsaw protection being required all the time not just on the ground, I think that drew heavy criticism from the monetary aspect.
Spongy (gypsy) moth DECIMATED us from flint to port Austin in 21, I mean miles of complete defoliation by mid June. The stress of that mixed with our changing weather patterns (lack of rain, warmer than average winters allowing for constant fungal/ bacterial growth) would be my best guess, I’m...
I will say as far as ear pro is concerned I think pfanner is the gold standard, I find all helmets hot above 80 here but I find the pfanner to be far more comfortable
The new kask zeniths aren’t worth a damn, we’ve had lots of issues with the ear pro slots expanding out so anytime you flip them up they come out into your hand, the back adjustment dials have also been breaking quite often. It’s a shame because I loved the superplasma
I frequent indeed, problem at least in my area any of the industry buzz words (tree, forestry, apprentice, grounds, plant etc) tends to drown out most of the legitimate industry jobs with any kind of landscape, mowing, or industrial “plant” jobs. Although it’s still where most municipalities...
Utility snags some pretty good guys around here, pay and benefits are hard to compete with but they’re struggling to find quality entry level groundies at $21/hr with no employee cost insurance. On the other side of the coin I’ve seen some really good guys get burnt out on utility and say screw...
Climbing comps wouldn’t be a bad place to prospect around, like others have said in this industry guys are constantly chasing the money or chasing a better employer or both.
wool socks are a game changer for sure, I like the Point6 socks and they’re usually on some kind of special and even cheaper if you don’t care what color is hidden in your boot.
Not a fan of 11.5 blue32 for SRS with this device, had to bump to almost max settings and it was either full speed or nothing. Ran beautiful MRS though.
I had an issue with the husky 540I top handle on two of the real hot humid days here, full battery but saw would keep triggering the overload, grabbed the milwaukee top handle and it ran without issue. I remember when the top handle milwaukees first came out there was reports of melted batteries...
Only rope I’ve ran so far that I personally didn’t like it with is the Marlow Maverick, the rope runs hot for whatever reason even flaking it fast into the bag the rope gets hot in the hand. It tends to creep on me if I run it and if I bump the friction up it’s too stiff but that’s just my...
Beat me to the experimentation! I didn’t have the DMM grommet but I did have the grommet inserts from my Gyro 3, however they’re slightly undersized so I used one of the rubber locks from a DMM wire gate tool carrier to keep it from sliding down the spine. I’ll give it an official run tomorrow...
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For hardware this is a decent bag, a guy I ran into found a very very similar style bag for hiking for less. I can’t remember what it...