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    Free overnight RV parking

    What's dispersed camping?
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    Free overnight RV parking

    Not yet, I'm going to have to look that one up! Another book I've been recommended is "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck
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    Decoding Patterns of Forces

    Good insight! For what it's worth, if you wanted to calculate that I think you can account for the angle of the rope this way.
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    Free overnight RV parking

    In my 20's I had a Ford Bronco and it was just big enough for me to sleep diagonally with the back seats down. The tinted windows were dark enough I would park all kinds of places and jump in the back for the night. It was great just being able to take off on a whim with fishing pole in hand and...
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    Decoding Patterns of Forces

    It seems counterintuitive but the contact area isn't actually factored into the friction force calculation and explained in the article.
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    Decoding Patterns of Forces

    Thanks for posting the link to the article. A few years ago when there was a discussion here about rope tension in an SRT access line that was threaded over multiple branches I had started making a spreadsheet to estimate tension. Since the project was for my own enrichment I didn't research...
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    WTF?

    I know right! After Don explained some of the history behind it there was no chance I was walking out of there with anything else :D. It was funny, some of the guys I worked with always ribbed me about it being "old school" and all that. Then one weekend we all went to an ISA comp and afterward...
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    WTF?

    Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I drove up there to his shop from San Luis in 1998 I think it was. I didn't really know who Don was at the time, I just had been told it was a legit Arborist supply shop and if I wanted a saddle that was the place to go. Rolled in like a Tuesday morning so...
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    Electric Hand Pruners ... Expensive but worth it !!

    Keep your fingers clear! When I did tree work in SF, a LRP version of that could've been a huge time/energy saver with all the pole pruner work.
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    Wald Disney world hiring experienced arborist

    When I was a Horticulture student in college, the landscape related positions at Disneyland were highly sought after and the people that worked there loved it. Challenging work but big budgets and lot of freedom for creativity. I'm sure there'd be some headaches associated with it but also the...
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    vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

    Personally I prefer Ninja Tabi's to climb in :D
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    Stihl in tree saw prices

    If a person paid a few hundred more ($800?) for an 066 in the early 90's (1992?), that's equivalent to about $1450 in 2018 money. By comparison in today's dollars, $600 for a high end trim saw is pretty reasonable. I have zero recollection what I paid for an MS200 in '05ish but pretty sure I...
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    Work during small game hunting season

    In Louisiana anyway, everybody on public hunting land is required to wear a min of 400? square inches of hunter orange during an firearm hunting season (not 100% sure if archery only seasons are exempt for non-hunters). Good idea though even if not required by law.
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    Alcohol free gas or alternatives

    ethanol free + full synthetic mix = happy equipment Gasoline has more energy than ethanol so engines burning it have more power, better gas mileage, etc. 3 or 4 stations in town have it and about 30 cents more a gallon I think.
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    Tree gear, climbing and user interface design

    My dad was a metalurgist by schooling but spent most of his life as a machinist/welder designing and building stuff. He used to say, it's easy to make something complicated, the hard part is to make it simple.
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    SRT DRT DmRT vs. MRS SRS What do we call it?

    I appreciate the thoughtful response and certainly wouldn't expect anybody to jump up and change the way of going about what you're doing based on a forum post. I know how those committees go though. I was involved in my other organization debating definitions and terms for a decade and while I...
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    SRT DRT DmRT vs. MRS SRS What do we call it?

    I've actually done some reading on lexicography (dictionary writing) when in another unrelated industry I was involved in went through this same kind of situation of going round and round trying to define and redefine words with no resolution. As an outside observer, the issue you guys are...
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    What kind of rope is this and how do I splice it?

    Tack stores have tons of that stuff because it comes in a lot of different colors so they use it for horse leads and dog leashes. Hardware stores always have it too, usually solid white or two color like in the pic.
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    HC/RW tending

    My first place out of college I rented a room from a couple guys and one them worked on a tug boat in the SF bay. He was doing some big splicing like that too. The numbers are a little hazy now (20 yrs ago) but I think I remember him saying they'd recently switched to 3" Plasma that was insanely...
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    Miscellaneous Hardware for sale

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