Damn that is too bad...the entertainment value of the thread was worth the price of the saddle.
Oh well off to buy goat balls or thick skin....
Never under estimate the price for entertainment or education.
Thanks Oceans. When I watched your DSRT video I saw you toss the bone on redirects. So I assumed you still did it that way and I could not figure the extra benefit of the delta versus the cost (slowness) of taking it on/off/on the delta with the Oceans-Toss-Bone-Method. Thanks for the help...
@oceans I have tried numerous connections to the bridge including yours. I like it a lot until I have to disconnect one of the systems (redirects for example). Then it seems a pain, so I continually drift back to your setup sans the delta. I replace the delta with two biners (one to each...
Gosh when I read the title, I was thinking galvanic reactions which generally are bad as they eat one or both metals away with corrosion - overtime. So maybe that is the little mantra you are playing telling you it is not good. But in climbing, as Boomslang offered...go for it.
I have the new adjustable arm for the bone and so far the results are very interesting and I am a fan. I haven't worked it too hard yet, but I have been goofing with the adjustments a bit. Currently I have the bone set to always touch the rope even when fully collapsed. At first I thought this...
I know you are talking muscle, but how do you not start laughing with some one walks up to you and says "Excuse me Mr. Monkeylove"?
I don't know what the next line is, but I ain't listening. :-)
Surveyor should chime in, but until he does, I would say the new upper arms adds almost all the latest parts to the whole device. The only thing that is missing is the lower arm pin (which isn't that big of deal on the lower arm I am thinking) OR, and I know I should not say this but I...
Never thought I would post here...but
http://www.wkow.com/story/32170392/2016/06/08/man-seriously-injured-while-trimming-tree
Don't know anymore than this...
What is the life expectancy of a tree like that?
I have a bunch of big (not as big as that one :-) ) burr and white oaks on my property and they go about 150 years and rot from the middle, though the still look good (warning I am a tree lover, not an expert) before a storm tips them over...
The ability to "glue" a redirect any ol' place with very little to no rope hauling (ex. dragging a rope through a crotch) with a fiddle stick is very alluring. I get that excitement. Having said that I quickly cool to it thinking about the myriad of ways that something could pull the "rip"...
When I was a young lad, my parents had kids thus no money...we did a lot of work with our play wagon. One minute it would be hauling dirt and the next my brother and I would take it for a ride down the hill. So if you would have come and cut our tree, we would have been in that picture :-)