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Hey man, great set of trees and cool new gear! I lost your email, shoot me one so we can get together for another climb soon.
One of my favorite trees that grow around here. Heavy, dense, and strong, but really flexible when green so can safely tie into skinny tops without worrying. Also puts off some serious heat for a long time if you burn it.
The bark is pretty dang sharp sometimes and occasionally there’s lethal thorns, but even then, they’re magnificent trees.
Glad to see you climbing again man!
Are you happy with the decision to go from TreeMotion to Onyx?
The bark is pretty dang sharp sometimes and occasionally there’s lethal thorns, but even then, they’re magnificent trees.
Glad to see you climbing again man!
Are you happy with the decision to go from TreeMotion to Onyx?
moss
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- Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
I'm sooo psyched watching this! My first rope and harness climb (2005) was DdRT on a 120' length of Poison Ivy. My tentative attempt was on a monster 93' Honey Locust in my neighbor's yard. The trunk is on the north side of my house (where I lived at the time) and goes straight up no limbs 10 feet from my 3rd floor kitchen window. A massive high crown then spreads out over the top the total 4-story house. I learned everything on that tree, canopy navigation, solo rigging, overcame fear of height, climbed at night middle of the winter, on and on. Honey Locust is not native to eastern Massachusetts, I would pretty much kill to climb one growing wild.
I was really digging how you were knocking on the wood up high, "Is this shiite safe?". As Jonny mentioned the wood is stupidly strong, I believe it has twisted grain somewhat like elm. It took me awhile to learn to trust the high wood because I knew nothing but it proved to be above trustworthy. The deadwood persists for eons and is very strong until it finally rots at the union. The really old Honey Locust produces less and less thorns until (like my neighbor's tree), no thorns except a few that would grow in spring but never harden up. Also referencing Jonny's comments, at some point I was thinking of wearing knee pads on the Honey Locust after banging my knees on big bark plate edges, ended up getting better at keeping my knees off the tree.
First off, yer carrying the torch for rec adventure climbing: poison ivy, thorns, couldn't be better. On Yale Poison is a nice touch. You're convincing me to switch to PMI 9mm EZ-Bend (yours is 9mm right?) for my Hook line. I'm still using 10mm Reep Schnur and even though I continue to commit with it on high traverses I don't actually trust it the way I should. Are you using 60'? The swivel looks good, I like the way it easily responds to changing load angles when you have a couple of things hooked into it.
I still have to finish the video, part way through, great stuff!
You can see my cordage tied to the fence, that's pull line to install rope choked Running Bowline at a super robust union 75'. Before I went west to climb Sierras old-growth in 2010 I did 6 SRT ascents in a row to that anchor every night after work to train. I could do it in one go the first run, rest once second go, and by the 6th probably stopped 4 times on the way up ;-) It worked.
The dormers on the front of the house are the 4th floor attic. Eventually I went to every top of every leader on the tree, took a few years to get there skill-wise and overcoming fear. No concept of SRS multicenders/redirects for me then so it was challenging.
-AJ
I was really digging how you were knocking on the wood up high, "Is this shiite safe?". As Jonny mentioned the wood is stupidly strong, I believe it has twisted grain somewhat like elm. It took me awhile to learn to trust the high wood because I knew nothing but it proved to be above trustworthy. The deadwood persists for eons and is very strong until it finally rots at the union. The really old Honey Locust produces less and less thorns until (like my neighbor's tree), no thorns except a few that would grow in spring but never harden up. Also referencing Jonny's comments, at some point I was thinking of wearing knee pads on the Honey Locust after banging my knees on big bark plate edges, ended up getting better at keeping my knees off the tree.
First off, yer carrying the torch for rec adventure climbing: poison ivy, thorns, couldn't be better. On Yale Poison is a nice touch. You're convincing me to switch to PMI 9mm EZ-Bend (yours is 9mm right?) for my Hook line. I'm still using 10mm Reep Schnur and even though I continue to commit with it on high traverses I don't actually trust it the way I should. Are you using 60'? The swivel looks good, I like the way it easily responds to changing load angles when you have a couple of things hooked into it.
I still have to finish the video, part way through, great stuff!
You can see my cordage tied to the fence, that's pull line to install rope choked Running Bowline at a super robust union 75'. Before I went west to climb Sierras old-growth in 2010 I did 6 SRT ascents in a row to that anchor every night after work to train. I could do it in one go the first run, rest once second go, and by the 6th probably stopped 4 times on the way up ;-) It worked.
The dormers on the front of the house are the 4th floor attic. Eventually I went to every top of every leader on the tree, took a few years to get there skill-wise and overcoming fear. No concept of SRS multicenders/redirects for me then so it was challenging.
-AJ
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moss
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Aha, yeah I couldn’t remember if it was 9 of 10mm EZ-Bend. The thing with the Hook is... not considered life support by DMM. Some may recall that in pull tests on very lightly used 10mm Reep Schnur it broke as I remember in the 2600-2700 range.
9mm PMI EZ-Bend is rated at 18.3 kn, I’m fine with that for the Hook.
-AJ
9mm PMI EZ-Bend is rated at 18.3 kn, I’m fine with that for the Hook.
-AJ
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moss
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Looking good! I ordered the orange and black pattern 9mm PMI EZ-Bend to become my new hook line, I’ll report back. -AJ
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