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    How to keep spikes from coming loose

    Ditto above. I've always used full shank or 3/4 shank boots with a heel of some kind for tree spurs. For crampons, if they are the flexible kind, 3/4 or even heavy hiking boots will do but if you're into rigid front points I think you're better off with a more rigid mountaineering boot, even a...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Seems we're headed that way - no more teflon lube spray, no more snowblower anti clog spray, hard to get lacquer auto spray paint , no more fertiilizers we used to get, but the Montreal condo dwellers that now rule Cant- ada with an iron (French) fist know whats best if we are to become pure of...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Habit I guess from alpine. We've always gone with ATC & shunt or ATC and munter on lower D or leg loop. The munter in winter strips ice/ snow/ glop from the rope (at times your waist or leg will be white). Lots of folks just used a ring and biner too (an old Teufelberger video - Hitchclimbers...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Can't find any difference in the bird "springiness" before or now after my wake up call. It still hops up at about the same rate. Keep it dry lubed (good old teflon spray lube is another thing banned in Cant-ada now). Rope was older (cuz of the sap fest) Cherry Bomb (I not II) which've used for...
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    Free fall with Rope Runner Pro

    Was finishing up a really really pitchy spruce wreck out yesterday and was comin' down to fell the spar to finish up. Was a great day. Rope and everything else was pitchy/ sappy but only here and there - the tree was loaded with cones dripping sap after prolonged spell of rains last month or...
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    Canopy Anchors

    This thread?
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    Bad Petzl, Good Bartlett Arborist Supply

    I had Sequoia buckle failure too last year (mine was an almost used harness kept as standby) - probably first or second gen. buckle but whatever - link
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    The Elm

    On a hot summer day, walking under the canopy of old elms arching over the streets is like walking in nature's cathedral. Some neighbourhoods even bear signs with quotes from Shakespeare and Keats to ponder as you're walking. Old homes line the streets with porches and verandas and real...
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    Let's talk about electrical awareness

    I had an experience with our City electrical utility and a tall gangly spruce at a church. The spindly top was getting too close to the primaries on the top of the poles (now well within 10 feet anyway) and would probably only grow more and whip around in the wind until one day . . . It is a...
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    Let's talk about electrical awareness

    End of the day, newbie or Journeymen - always, always be on guard for working on "Autopilot". So many incidents in so many industries are caused by autopilot or cruise control work, in a rush to finish or not. Same can be said of coming to work after a fight at home or money or something, where...
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    Has EAB arrived on the west coast now?

    In what may be a completely single malt induced haze, I keep wondering why somebody (ISA are you there????) doesn't elect to establish and maintain a webpage/ site with a compendium of current research and methods of control of insect/ fungal etc. pests. Lotsa Master Arb types around? Take the...
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    White pines in The Pine Tree State appear threatened.

    When I was young I remember being in awe of stands of Red Pines in the SW corner of Manitoba new Minnesota border and Shoal Lake area. Red Pine is threatened apparently.
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    Has EAB arrived on the west coast now?

    Is a EAB Biological control option coming . . . ?
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    Has EAB arrived on the west coast now?

    (Bold hi-light mine). Good article on ASH tree decay process hazard in Lilley, Christopher Ash to Ashes: Don't Be Part of the Process TCIA Magazine Volume 36(6) June 2025 pp 20-25 FYI Cheers
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    Has EAB arrived on the west coast now?

    That is music to me guy. Years ago in a corporate life I led, we lived in Whitby, ON on White Ash Dr - all the houses had a concession line of huge (what else?) white ash trees at tha backs of the yards. They were magnificent, but if you look now, all of them are gone. A true disaster frankly...
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    XM

    If you have radio/ stereo controls on your steering wheel it can sometimes kick in radio or turn the volume up/down uncommanded. Warranty repair - maybe even look for a recall/ service bulletin. Future fix may be coming in an electric truck even (hand crank windows anyone?) ? That and a 24M...
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    Has EAB arrived on the west coast now?

    Just saw this story about possible arrival of EAB on the the west coast (Vancouver BC). Early days maybe but oh oh. FYI
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    New device from buckingham

    Dave Stice and Nick Bonner have both posted YouTube review videos on the A2 today (11-Jul-2025). Dave makes the comment that the A2 is less affected (or not affected) by sap than the A1. This would be great where I work. Addenda: Well blush - gave in to Shiny New Thingy Syndrome and took the...
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    Weight calculation app

    Had the same problem when I switched to iPhone 16 - Uncle Timmy nuked a buncha apps including a little game my son used to sell in the AppStore. World Domination has its price! But what you might be able to do is get ahold of a spreadsheet style log weight chart (TCIA has one I think) and import...
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    Cabling this Birch tree

    Around here when birch develop lotsa stem cracks they are usually prone to decay and even failure a few years later. They may stand and hang around a while but I've generally found they don't cope well with structural issues and give up the ghost within five to ten years. We have been drought...

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