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    Hacking A Young-ish Ash Tree (Apparently)

    90% of trees better without us and the rest of pruning is fluff?! But be bold for a lasting effect! And sprout management! And injections! PP must be color blind cuz that is black and white.
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    DON'T EVEN TRY IT!

    Its not directly advocating. Its sarcastic. Sit thru several of his videos, and you will notice, they are not exactly instructional and not exactly entertainment. The commentary is very misleading in video and in writing. In a general sense, trial and error should not be a part of the normal...
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    DON'T EVEN TRY IT!

    This isn't censorship, its rejection. The moral liability issue is real. If you dont believe it, okay, but remember that saws and chippers used to have ZERO safety features. The individual responsibility/action argument did not hold up in the case of industrial equipment or employee safety...
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    Welcome to the buzz. Happy reading!

    Welcome to the buzz. Happy reading!
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    Yale Scandere

    Probs a shorty for removals. I have 2 murdering ropes. 80 and 120
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    New Climber

    +Foot ascender and spikes. A lot of the kits will have the low bar gear. Piece it together with some expensive stuff that will stick around longer than a hip prussik flip line. You dont need to go straight for the top shelf either. Spikes and harness are worth spending more on as they will...
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    So.. Free Climbing?

    Sure, it's boring to someone that wants to see tree smashing. The thing about difficult climbing is it's difficult to film well, too. You need multiple camera angles in addition to helmet POV. Then lots of editing to cut out the parts where you're pulling rope tail AGAIN. My coworker has a good...
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    Sticht Hitch

    Nice one Brocky! I don't have any tube style belayers or stitch plates, etc. I liked the ring stitch on a prussik loop because it is a relatively ubiquitous item and it is sigular. These hitches are something I might use as a secondary system and putting together something complicated to tie...
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    DON'T EVEN TRY IT!

    I fail to see what is so ground breaking, cutting edge, outside the box, or advanced about the stuff in the videos. Sure, climbing big hung up trees is challenging. Tripping a cut top with a pull line shows a practical knowledgability of how wood functions. I figured out this never-seen-before...
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    Sticht Hitch

    I was messin and came up with a thing! Tied with a basic ring on a prussik loop. Seems smooth enough for a descent in a pinch. Tending will suffer after full loading, but it can do it will the typical slack-taking motion.
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    Maintaining sharp chains on the work-site

    We have a fleet of saws that go to work, so there is usually a sharp one waiting. And we carry extra chains for when we get those jobs that include bucking everything we dropped in mud and gravel into firewood.
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    No, one wheel is fine as long as you have a self lubricating unit (with plenty of butt grease). The only strict requirements are a full face shield and a spill kit.
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    UK. Two ropes at all times(USA next?)

    Does this count?
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    My hook line is 3/8 pink husky by all gear. It is very light and flexible, splices very easily. I don't use it a lot, but it works fine and has been very not bad in a cinch.
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    Check out this new Saw Lanyard I just got.

    Both. I had the saddle end of my lanyard roll out the gate of a non locking petzl once. On one of the rare occasions that I dropped my saw. Had to replace the whole handle on my 150. I now don't like seeing all these tool lanyards coming stock with a little wire gate clip on the end. Totally...
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    Check out this new Saw Lanyard I just got.

    Just to point it out... Non locking biners to secure a chainsaw is a roll of the dice.
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    UK. Two ropes at all times(USA next?)

    Or scared because the safety net is gone.
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    Moss Cinching Lanyard prototype

    Choking or cinching anchors are the goal. Even a prussik adjusted tightly around a stem doesn't produce the same security as a positive squeeze under load.
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    This is the Akimbo

    It's been awesome on my broken in htp from day 1.
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    Tree police warrant

    Look at that top-rated pro on home advisor!

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