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  1. SomethingWitty

    Has anyone tried waxing the inside of their chip box?

    If diesel makes a difference, I haven't noticed. We did try it briefly, but it made walking insides the box for any reason really fucking sketchy. It also feels dirty. Someone might use some of those chips. Just use a pole. We have about a 10' stick inside the long box for poking the corners out.
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    That really does make all the difference in the world. If you're scared, try rigging things on small points in circumstances where a failure won't hurt anything. It will make you more confident pretty quickly.
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    I was mostly joking. I know you're seasoned.
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    No. Those are for guys who don't like climbing.
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    Chainsaws

    I think the changeover point was when shindaiwa was acquired. I know that the 600sx will give my old 036 hell and we ran two hard through hurricane clean up and they really handled it. The 620p is identical to the ones I've been playing with and I'm starting to mess with the one that's mine...
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    Chainsaws

    Having people to service your equipment is worth way more than the small performance and price differences between brands, but I am not sure that applies to chainsaws. I've never had warranty work done on one. The new wave of echo/shindaiwa saws is all-around impressive. The company I work for...
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    You're not wrong, but I like to race. Contracting or working with contract climbers that will run with me is my idea of a good time. I appreciate your sentiment. I also don't feel an obligation to tell any impressionable climbers anything but the truth. If they die, they weren't paying...
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    I wish I had your gift of brevity.
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    Furthermore, a good climber becomes a great climber when they transition from just being safe into being safe and not being the bottleneck.
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    I am not saying that isn't true. Efficiency is far too underemphasized in safe spaces like this when it is so obviously rewarded in the real world by virtually every workplace. I've worked with several climbers who would waste the whole day trying to keep from climbing when they were already in...
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    The biggest "aha!" moment in my career was realizing that there is a secret to being fast. That secret is to just get out there and cut it. Stopping and thinking is something you do while you wait on groundies to get out of the way, not when you're supposed to be going to set rigging at the spot...
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    Moving in the canopy with near vertical limbs

    Usually there is something to climb. Changing your perspective is a huge help. The TIP is down. Keep your crotch pointed towards it. There are tons of times that I find myself trying to stand on a basically vertical branch and the solution is to swing around and use all four limbs to just climb...
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    Pain in hands after climbing

    I have been emulating those stretches with my steering wheel almost every day just to try to keep the kinks worked out. I can't believe I never thought about looking at gymnastics training stuff. They never feel very done, like I always need more. I'm excited to try them more properly. My wife...
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    15 years of doing tree work and had my first property damage today.

    Not just that, it's really deceptively heavy. We don't have them here, but a few hours north of here there are a few. I found out that they're dumb, weak trees on the same day that I found out that they give me a rash. I didn't break anything, but I had a scare in that little tree.
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    Covid Close To You

    This whole thread is getting petty. Nobody posting for the last couple of pages has not looked like an asshole. I've appreciated @DSMc having reasonable input, especially the comment about these posts having no purpose other than the propagation of fear and depression. I have noticed a clear...
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    notch jet step

    It is a real concern. If I'm zipping down from 50 feet I can't touch my slic pin on my wrench, and I'm not a big guy. Storrick has two portawrap style devices in there somewhere. He mentioned stuffing wet sponges into the barrel before descending to keep it cool for longer, and that cool...
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    to steel core or not to steel core

    Tom is right. I've put quite a few people in their first tree and showed several others a lot of the options that exist. Hell, I've had a couple of teenagers off the ground on a job site after we pruned their family's trees. I climb for fun. My trainee always wants to climb after work.
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    to steel core or not to steel core

    Yes. @treesap Read this entire forum. Look up the things that you don't understand as you find them.
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    to steel core or not to steel core

    I have never tried this. I bet it's great. I'm always grinding things anyway.
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    Documenting my hand-sewn eye process

    It also says "spliced by the experts at rope logic." There's no desire for precision in that description. It is funny though.

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