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    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    I learned climbing from an Englishman who had moved to Canada, Andy Lake. He was an expert at mature crown reductions, and a great climber in general. Large crown reductions are the most difficult climbing job there is: taking the tops down while preserving all the undergrowth, AND making it all...
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    There is no "industry"

    Don't ever change Murph
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    There is no "industry"

    Love the arm lanyard story. I'll be thinking about that all week now. I pray that the old-time wisdom outlives us all.
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    Log splitter with capstan winch

    I have long been fascinated by kinetic splitters, so much faster than hydraulic cylinders. Nice design there...
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    There is no "industry"

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    45° limbs

    I know this is heretical, but for a Willow that's going to be hacked anyway, and it's a real difficult climb, I would just spur it. The damage and reaction from cutting all the tops out of a tree vs. making spur holes on the trunk, that's an easy one for me. I wouldn't have done it with spurs...
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    Nerd Alert

    Lignin welding, wooden nails, cool
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    Poetry thread

    "I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." ― John Muir
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    Today....

    More storm damage today. This is a little self-contained rigging setup using the back end of my traveler ring for a Munter. Ground guy held the piece while I cut it, then transferred the line to me to lower it. It was a fairly big oak limb, bigger than I could hold on just a natural crotch.
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    New device from ISC

    Had a chance to play with the Reflex the last couple days. 3 climbs on 3 different ropes, two Yale 11.7's and Squir 11.5. Twice I just spurred up and tied in DdRT, the third climb I rope walked up SRT, then switched over to doubled. Would have liked to play around more with SRT. To anyone who...
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    Battery explosions

    Saw this today
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    WTB - CMI trolley

    Looking for an old CMI Rigging Trolley that is no longer being used that someone might be willing to part with. Thanks.
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    AI affect on arborculture

    Climbing trees as a profession is not going to fizzle out any time soon. AI-powered robotic climbing monkeys with chainsaw arms might sound cool to some, but there's just not enough money in tree work to justify the development. You don't spend 20 dollars to solve a 6 dollar problem.
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    Nerd Alert

    "A strange thing, the butter warmer. We have that. We were cold, man originally was cold so he built a house, hot box to live in, warm box, live inside the warm box, pretty cold out here, warm inside the warm box. Everything was nice until he realized the meat didn’t keep in the warm box. So, he...
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    Nerd Alert

    Crafting a mill shaft from an oak log by hand
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    Throw bag-line accuracy issues

    Ropewalk for show, throwball for dough.
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    Throw bag-line accuracy issues

    I can't throw very well with a helmet on, that always comes off first. After about 5 throws from one spot at a certain target, if it's not going well, I will switch to a different target from a different spot, when possible. Visualization and consistency of technique. It's definitely a mental...
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    Nerd Alert

    Think I had the Fostex XR5, got it in '96. Cool tech at the time. I'm on an old Yamaha acoustic, strung with nylon. I was a Strat guy when I was younger, but now the Tele seems cooler for some reason. Maybe someday...
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    Where do you start training a new climber?

    Sorry for the derail, but I remember on Tim Ferriss's TV show he showed replacing your shoe laces with paracord because it could be very useful in certain situations, one of which he showed was using them to get out of ziptie handcuffs. I'm now adding footloop prusik to that list.
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    Where do you start training a new climber?

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