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    Postcard mailers with photos, "creepy?"

    One thing you might want to check for your city/ town etc. is if you need a permit or license for door to door direct sales. You do in our City. All you'd need is a ticked off lawyer.
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    New device from ISC

    I do find 11.5's like Drayer Tango StatX fill it (the CRIC) up until you put the rope under tension - then things smooth up. Sorry - didn't mean to derail the ISC thred a bit.
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    New device from ISC

    Bart I like this comment - had the same experience when I used a Grillon/ Captain on Tachyon in swing city to an adjacent tree. Wasn't as smooth as lanyard but didn't lock up like a hitch did (did get harder with increasingly flatter rope angles and therefore load and (sigh) sap). This "load...
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    New device from ISC

    CRIC'n - this little thing has changed the way I flounce around in trees lately. For 3:1's it's pretty cool. So CRIC'n
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    New device from ISC

    Looks like it'd be all warm and fuzzy with CRIC'n around too - that's one thing that I like about the AK2 and HitchClimber Pulley . . .
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    Maybe depends on how high you're going but just today I still used a leather cambium saver - easy to install/ uninstall with a slip knot in the line. No bark/ branch damage. I still really like those things. I get back to UIAA fall/ belay practices - the forces are enormous quite quickly. To...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    After 30 or so years in the alpine and waterfall ice and trees, my take is don't fall on an arborist static rope - ever. F= m x a squared. Non arb falls are belayed on dynamic ropes - I'd rather have a system with lotsa dynamic rope in it than a static rope and a screamer or rubber dookies or...
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    Show off them splices

    If I understand, It wasn't end management but more when I was trying to push a fid thru to get the cover into the core - never had a splice where the core went so "all over the place" every time I touched it. Wondered if it could be static or something. In a single malt induced haze (what -...
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    Show off them splices

    Has anyone got any tips for splicing Scion 11.5 mm? I did a Class 1 splice in it this week and had a bear of a time wrestling with the core which seemed to unravel if I looked at it sideways.
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    ART BlackBird for "MRT and SRT"

    Sap on ropes and gear is, around here, an everyday occurrence - tool development without considering this (and how something can be cleaned up) - this is just "McHappy Land" testing in my opinion. I do wish the EN/ CE/ ISO standards would consider it for some sort of testing regimen, but that's...
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    Tree having Sunday morning smoke...

    I liked: "Produce oxygen all day without a single thank you. But take one smoke break and people lose their shit." :)
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I still like (and more importantly HO's do as well) the smaller chips these things make with sharp knives and the anvil to chipper blade gap set correctly anyway. It's great for flower beds and small ornamental trees. And as Dad said, "It gives the goodness back into the soil"! As for branching...
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    Rigging ring as primary rigging point for negative rigging.

    I've often thought about break testing - in the case of the rings, I wonder if some engineering department somewhere would be able to measure how much heat is generated in the ropes in different bend/ ring cases - maybe IR readings. Internal friction would probably be dissipated as heat as the...
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    The Akimbo 2

    Had the AK2 on Squir and it worked well too (different settings than Scion of 'course) if that's any help. I think from my messin' around it will probably work with any more modern rope that keeps it's "round" relatively. Next few weeks should be more telling 'cuz I have jobs that I will have to...
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    The Akimbo 2

    So as a followup to above I too have been playing on Sterling Scion with the AK2 set to F6 for me (~ 185 lbs with gear) in SRT and have hit some sort of sweet spot - the catch is instant, starting the down has the buttery smooth feel of the ZZ without hammering your hand and control is down to...
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    Two Rope Climbing

    Yeah ! Although if you've ever seen me climb in my case it would be crashing thru the trees . . . no Ghosting here. Great videos - thank you.
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    Baby chipper won’t chip!…Fixed!

    Mine was set up bevel up. I. E. when it passes the anvil there is a "flat to flat" action (??) and small chips shear cleanly - with a sharp blade. I think.
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    Baby chipper won’t chip!…Fixed!

    Have a small PA chipper a la Reg Coates. Maybe check your belts - I now use cog belts (Timken BX 40's or BX 39's) rather than the ones that came with it. I drilled out a hole pattern on the belt cover to allow more air in - the belts get quite warm on a hot day chipping for a couple of hours...
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    Saddle setup (picture thread)

    Same for zippers on ice climbs where screw placement leaves one wondering a bit - but never had one go on a whipper. As I understand they are designed to unzip and spread peak force out over time until you reach the end where you have essentially a solid connection/ loop at rated strength of the...
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    Mini and micro chippers

    If in the US and buying ANY offshore equipment I'd have a look at any effect of the US Tariffs on pricing. Here in Canada I found a big chocolate surprise to have to pay almost 50% tariffs trying to ship down there recently. Ouch

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