Grover
"1. Standing on your spikes longer than is necessary"
You should be working, not standing around waiting for the groundies to catch up processing the huge limbs you have dropped
"2. Being suspending in an awkward position at the end of a branch."
Just cut them all there and then, why...
Nice work as usual Steve
Grover, so you would rather sit at the top of the tree, watching your groundies break themselves rather than process the branch up in the air if it is an easy and viable option?
It takes a climber less time to make a few extra cuts, than it takes anyone else to even...
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I've seen it happen to some good people, they've become institutionalised, walking arborzombies on permanent walkabout seeking fellow treepeople to harass and imbibe in endless converstions about the relative merits of SRT and progressive rope technology.
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Where as you...
I've been getting used to the hitch climber, and up until yesterday I thought I had adapted well to it. I had been using it with my longer climbing rope which has a spliced eye, but I was felling trees roadside so i decided to use a shorter rope without. As per usual I tied a double fishermans...
Being slower in dead trees is no bad thing ryan. I still do a few dead elms a month here in the north of the UK and a little care with gaff placement on them is definatley the order of the day.
Re: Dangerous technique alert!!!
I guess we will have to agree to disagree Grover. It's a sound technique in my books, making for better cuts and less fatigue.
I like my lanyard above the block and my lifeline choked lower, and in a position where it cannot be fouled by the block when the load is applied. Gives me the extra security and options if things go wrong
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PS Don't go with the red wine, it'll never show on that carpet then there's no point!
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Only drink red so will have to aim for the yellow bucket i suppose
I have the harness 90% set up, the fine tuning may take a while as it molds and settles. Already comfortable but...