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    Video: Insane climber

    Dano was one of rock climbing's most extreme showmen. Speed ascents, free solos, and then his favorite was freefalling onto a length of climbing rope. The jump he died on started with a 1200 foot tyrolean 1150 feet off the ground, anchored to a rock pillar called the Leaning Tower. It was...
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    New Biner

    Nice keyring, lol.
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    People do the strangest things

    Check out this news article, college bloke in London spent a drunken night 100' up a pine and had to be rescued. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/05/16/1582515-ap.html Anyone from over the big ol' pond have a better article, maybe even one with pictures? 90 minutes to get the...
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    Loop runners for climbing

    Roger, you bring up a good point in reference to static vs dynamic ropes. In a sweeping generalization, lol, ropes come in dynamic, high stretch static, low stretch static, and then the newer superfibers are pretty much no-stretch. I don't have figures handy, but dynamic climbing rope...
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    Loop runners for climbing

    Roger, The whole minimum strength requirements schtick makes me laugh as well, especially considering some of the pieces I've used in rock climbing. Specifically aid climbing items like cam hooks, copperheads, and ring heads. All three of these types of "protection" are designed for body...
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    Loop runners for climbing

    Heya eric, nice to see another cheesehead onsite. AFIK, nylon runners not being useable for life support was because they weren't rated to 5,400#. I don't have the old catalog anymore(I knew I shouldn't have bothered cleaning, lol), but I do seem to recall last years sherrill cat having a...
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    Mexican Worker Protest

    Two and a half billion for 850 miles of fence? that's $600 per linear foot. The last security chain link I put up was around a municipal pool; 500 feet of fencing, posts, barbed wire with angled posttop brackets, and the concrete needed to set the posts only ran us $750 for an 8 ft fence. Sumo
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    Treehouse

    Scott, Haven't had a chance to visit the Ponderosa Course in person, but a quick google pulled up their website. http://www.soaringcanopytours.com/ Looks like a fairly nice course to me. I like the idea of platforms that need no tree penetrations, but I do have to wonder just how they're...
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    Video: Rescue Kit

    Dang, that hemcon is expensive. Couldn't find a price off their site, so I found it on US calvary's site. http://www.uscav.com/Productinfo.aspx?productID=10312&TabID=1 $170 for a bandage? Yeouch. Also states right on their packaging "Federal Law restricts this device to sale by or on...
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    Whats the Coolest thing youever bought?

    Hmmm, the coolest/weirdest item I've ever used in a tree was more constructed than bought, though we did go through two rolls of 1" tubular webbing in the process. Back in high school, my rock climbing buddies and I salvaged quite a bit of cargo netting, camoflauge vehicle netting, and an...
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    Spider Crane ??

    tnt, Haven't found a company in the US that owns one to call and get an hourly rate off of. AFIK, setup and takedown is sub 30 minutes. They were designed for European cities, where the horizontal reach, coupled with quick setup and takedown lets them do the job with less time closing off the...
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    Spider Crane ??

    Hey Mark, the mobile tower crane you posted looks a lot like the Liebherr MK80 or MK100 Self-Erecting Mobile Tower Cranes. Very Impressive machines, but I don't even want to guess what they cost. Their crane cabs are actually on elevator tracks on the main mast of the crane, and can ride up...
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    The new rope guide

    Does anyone know of a website for ART? I tried googling it to no avail. SC
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    Remote computer access

    Tom Over the past few years, I've used all of the software mentioned as well as a couple other programs. I'm using GoToMyPC's big brother as we speak. Gotomypc is the "home" version of a program called Remotely Anywhere. RA is a fairly good program, and even while on dial up, it still gives a...
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    green laser pointer

    Mark, Sherril's green laser pointer is a standard 5mw IIIA. The ones from wickedlaser are classed as IIIb, rather than being overclocked IIIA's. SC
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    green laser pointer

    Here's the site I picked up my green lasers from. A bit pricey, but the sheer power of these compared to the 5mw lasers is amazing. http://www.wickedlasers.com/index.php I have the 35mw Classic and the 95mw Nexus models, along with a standard 5mw I picked up off ebay. The 95mw is absolute...
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    tree knife?

    Nick, only Be Prepared I can think of(besides Tom Lehrers version) would be from the Lion King. As for emergency knives, I own one of these, use it for scuba, and I think they'd make a nice rescue knife for arborist work as well. It's blunt-tipped and can be slid underneath rope, webbing, etc...
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    breakaway flipline or harness

    Tom, thanks for remembering Yates, they totally slipped my mind. Their scream-aids, a screamer shock absorber designed for aid climbing with marginal placements, activates at a little more than 1.5 kn and totally fails at 7kn. I'm sure yates could custom stich a screamer with whatever load...
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    breakaway flipline or harness

    I dug out my old contacts and gave one of my old suppliers a call, boy, was I wrong on the cost of the breakaway. The breakaway swivel glens and I have been mentioning from greenlee costs $230 for the swivel body and another $25 for the pin kit(10 replacement breakaway pins). Pretty darned...
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    breakaway flipline or harness

    Thanks to the thread about finger traps, I was reminded about breakaway swivels we used when pulling cable. I actually have these part #'s in my palm pilot(yep, ex-geek here. well, I'm still a geek, I just don't earn my bacon that way any longer). 7/8" diameter swivel body is catalog #39298...

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