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  1. JeffGu

    Spiking leaners, any advice?

    It's not just you. Two climbing systems really opens the door for not only higher safety, but more positioning options. Also, the older you get the more aware you become to just how busted up you could get from even a short fall, and just how much longer it will take you to heal up if you get...
  2. JeffGu

    RopeWrench Ropewalking Setup - - SOLD

    I used it as an ascender above the Wrench. The small loop is just to hang it on your harness. The fat braided rope handle was comfortable/easy to use.
  3. JeffGu

    SRT RopeWrench Setup - - SOLD

    I'm glad to see it in the hands of someone who will enjoy messing around with it. I hope you find it useful.
  4. JeffGu

    How to train a new/young climber on conifer removals?

    Amen, brother. I'd add that you can also explain to them that climbing trees, no matter how you do it, is not something that you automatically figure out. Your natural fear of heights isn't something you overcome, it's something you learn to deal with until your brain figures out that you can be...
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    We could put a hot tub in a tree... get a bucket of beer... put up a sign (Darwin Awards Tree Climbing Competition this Wednesday! BYOB!)... and give away tiny DMM Vaults as prizes...
  6. JeffGu

    Spiking leaners, any advice?

    Before mechanicals, it was glazed ropes, glazed hitch cords, mis-tied hitches and burning ropes right to the ground. In the 90's, I watched a climber trying to raise his TIP hit at least four limbs on his trip to the ground. In the early 2000's another one, who only lives a few blocks from me...
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    Let me check... "Honey, you ever think it's too big, and wish it was smaller?" "Yes, all the time!" "Well, you're just going to have to suffer, baby." "Unless your mouth shrinks." I'd kill that woman, but she knows where I buried the bodies and might have left a note somewhere.
  8. JeffGu

    SRT RopeWrench Setup - - SOLD

    LoL... yeah, I know. I have DdRT canopy anchors that can easily hold a pickup truck up in the tree.
  9. JeffGu

    Spiking leaners, any advice?

    That's all I was doing, as well. Trying to ascertain how people arrive at the strange notion that fancy, newfangled stuff is somehow inferior to old school technology. It's like being happy climbing on sisal rope because those modern, plastic ropes could melt or turn into Chinese noodles.
  10. JeffGu

    SRT RopeWrench Setup - - SOLD

    Seems to me the splice takes the most abuse in the tree, and I don't like running a mechanical device into the splice... that's just my way of fixing both problems. That used to be a 150' hank, at one time. It had an unfortunate encounter with a chainsaw before it ever saw a tree.
  11. JeffGu

    Spiking leaners, any advice?

    Why on earth would you think that any modern climbing mechanical would bend, or break, or jam up... or in any way be less safe than a little piece of rope? They're not made out of beer cans and coat hangers.
  12. JeffGu

    [Captain Hook usage] Why have a separate hook-lanyard, when you could just use the tail of your line?

    But, if you're just playing horseshoes in a tree, and only have the one horseshoe...
  13. JeffGu

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    You're missing the point, guys.... it will hold a BEER BUCKET!
  14. JeffGu

    Work boots

    Speaking of asylums... I actually spent a year and a half of my life working at one. Can you imagine? Something about a fox blah blah and a chicken house yada yada. Fun times.
  15. JeffGu

    Stein RC-1000 Friction Brake - - SOLD

    No, not any double-sheave ones.
  16. JeffGu

    Stein RC-1000 Friction Brake - - SOLD

    No, sorry... will have some 1/2" rigging stuff listed within the next few days, I believe. Still have a bunch of climbing stuff to work my way through. Heading out to get more boxes, packing tape, etc. right now.
  17. JeffGu

    Work boots

    You wear the shoes, you pay the dues... bitch.
  18. JeffGu

    Zillon/TriTech Lanyard - - SOLD

    No problem, Justin. Hope you like it.
  19. JeffGu

    Stein RC-1000 Friction Brake - - SOLD

    Thanks, bro.
  20. JeffGu

    Stein RC-1000 Friction Brake - - SOLD

    I apologize for getting on here so late, but I had a long night and didn't get to bed until early this morning. I got several PM's about this item. I will deal with them in the order that they were posted, and then update the thread title accordingly.

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