I remember stealing my parents dish gloves and cutting the fingers off and taping to PVC pipe to make glove guns. Load em with rocks and have wars with ya mates...
Put a butt end of a pine through the windscreen of the bucket truck. Landed on its head and sprung back through the windscreen. Had to cut the stem out to remove it.
I'm rocking the ventilators. About 1 year of climbing and ground work. I've only had a pocket zip break and a few picks on the back from hanging my saw. I love these pants I wear them 5 to 6 days a week and don't even think about em. Every other pair of pants I have used I'm always pulling em up...
I know the concern and i try not to make a cut when I'm tied in above but it does have its advantages for positioning especially with a big saw. My ground guys are also climbers and i do three things before a back cut. Check my lanyard, climb line, get an all clear from the ground. If i can...
Glad you said that. Im pretty new to climbing but when I'm blocking down i like to have a line above to work my notch then retrieve my line. Especially on a leaner or awkward stem.
My mentor hates it because he thinks I'm about to cut my tip all the time....
Do a medium removal with rigging. I know when i first started it seemed easy but was a bit tricky when you thought about it. Makes a dismantle look a bit harder and more professional on tv. Coach and run the ropes...