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  1. CanadianStan

    Cheeky rec climb in Aus

    What's the equivalent area in NZ with big old growth trees? I'm trying to strategically plan where I'll work when I move to kiwiland
  2. CanadianStan

    Cheeky rec climb in Aus

    Albany or Bunbury? We were somewhere in between the two. Near Pemberton. The Australian Pemberton, not the Canadian one
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    Square trees?

    That's creepy Did anyone else catch the part where they mentioned that they engineered the wood to be softer ??
  4. CanadianStan

    What is this mechanical advantage rig for SRT?

    Looks like an ISC fixed plate pulley and a Lifeguard / Safeguard belay device ... That's not it but it's something similar Setup as a RAD system
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    Cheeky rec climb in Aus

    Yeah .. I serendipitously chose an area South of Perth to live in ... fortunately for me it's the only corner of Australia not on fire. Yeah I moved to Aus for an indefinite period of time. I was getting sick of Canadian winters tbh We threw the traverse from within the tree via throwline...
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    This is the Akimbo

    I I'll put my Akimbo on my Vega within the next week and let you know. I have a feeling the Vega will deform a lot but we'll see
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    Cheeky rec climb in Aus

    And for bonus points, I slept atop an old fire lookout on a recent bikepacking trip (Camping + biking) through WA. 60 metres up and there's a convenient little platform from which I got to watch the sunset, the local NYE fireworks and then awoke to a beautiful sunrise on the first day of 2020...
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    Cheeky rec climb in Aus

    A couple of buddies and I headed up a nice 75 metre Karri tree down south from where I live. We climbed up to the top, had a beer (oooooo yep, that's australia), then set a treeverse to an adjacent 60m tree about 30-40m away ... we headed back up this morning and treeversed across a pretty big...
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    Root rot and high wind tonight.

    You live in the PNW and you haven't heard of LRR ? :O
  10. CanadianStan

    Looking for sources. Root loss due to topping

    Where abouts in the Pnw is this ? Black / Norway spruce tend to be good, cottonwoods are bulletproof (for overall tree failure, obvs limb failures) and good at rooting / managing storm water... Vine maples are good understory trees Yeah grand firs / Doug firs.. ehhhh. Doug firs maybe...
  11. CanadianStan

    Few things laying around

    Awh thanks anyways, I'm climbing on dinosaur Buckingham's
  12. CanadianStan

    Few things laying around

    Which spurs is the spikescender for ?
  13. CanadianStan

    heavy climber

    i found that was also the case ... there's a sweet spot to be had. another thing that helped was tending symmetrically once the bollard is tightened up .. the asymmetric tending point has always been a pretty big flaw in my eyes
  14. CanadianStan

    heavy climber

    Did you try adjusting the upper bollard?
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    Wat

    Wat
  16. CanadianStan

    Stein tal-lite lanyard available

    100% I love mine. I bought it from HB originally - good for Wesspur for getting them. They seem to be sticking a lot more niche blingy blingy stuff now
  17. CanadianStan

    When a prospective customer calls and...

    "How big is your ladder?"
  18. CanadianStan

    Tropical removal.....latest action.....lofuckingl

    It's long sleeves down here in Australia, by law ... to prevent the god damn giant nuclear furnace in the sky from roasting you to a crispy, flaky brown. UV Index has been 13 (On a scale from 1 to 10...) for the past two weeks. Long sleeves are the way to go, even if it's 37C
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    vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

    Call your local tree care companies and let them know SPCA and animal sanctuaries are a good place to leave a business card / poster Fire departments and local animal control outlets will also happily refer you Lastly ... Start up a Facebook page or join Cat in a Tree Rescue ran by Dan Kraus
  20. CanadianStan

    Who is splicing Teufelberger drenaLINE ?

    Check out the splice rack on Facebook. A bunch of guys have successfully spliced it a-la Slaice TB was more or less trying to keep it secretive

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