Annual CT rec climb Sandy Hook CT

moss · Feb 17, 2017

My board is much different. I came up with it and posted video more than two years ago, before I'd ever seen or heard of the Swurfer. Swurfer is a cool swing, very different principle, on two separate ropes, different stance, arm positions etc. I installed one for a friend last fall. Good fun. The single rope swing board that I made/use really capitalizes on the benefits of a stationary single rope. Much like SRT for climbing, an SRT swing can take advantage of amazing anchor positioning, create big swing range and a allows a large 360 degree swing area. It also encourages a lot of footwork more like skateboarding and snowboarding and it can be bounced off ramps and obstacles etc., possibilities are endless. I'm opposed to patents, crazy I know. These days they're used primarily to stifle innovation and as a bonus, crush the competition. I'd rather see the Tree-O-Board as open source. Let's see what you can come up with! I have some tricks up my sleeve, multiple movement modes in one swing, lateral (zip) and circular at the same time. Seasick is nothing compared to this ;-) It was great hearing excellent ideas from the folks at the rec climb after they'd taken a ride, more fun ahead!
-AJ

FreeFallin · Feb 17, 2017

papadirk said:
Has everyone seen that TreeStuff now carries a version of @moss swing! I hope you got that patent submitted Moss.

http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=16808

Wow! I mean if you openly share an idea I guess it's fair game, and that is the business Tree Stuff is in....

But still, it does make you pause before posting something cool you tried.

moss · Feb 18, 2017

FreeFallin said:
Wow! I mean if you openly share an idea I guess it's fair game, and that is the business Tree Stuff is in....

But still, it does make you pause before posting something cool you tried.

Swurfer is not a copy of my swing, it's their own original idea, the two swings are very different. TreeStuff had nothing to do with the development of the Swurfer. Just want to keep alt-facts from developing ;-)
-AJ

FreeFallin · Feb 18, 2017

moss said:
Swurfer is not a copy of my swing, it's their own original idea, the two swings are very different. TreeStuff had nothing to do with the development of the Swurfer. Just want to keep alt-facts from developing ;-)
-AJ

Thank you for the clarification, I did not see your original response before I typed mine. I guess I don't have to be the idea police today...

But I'm watching, always watching :boxeador:

moss · Feb 18, 2017

FreeFallin said:
Thank you for the clarification, I did not see your original response before I typed mine. I guess I don't have to be the idea police today...

But I'm watching, always watching

thanks for watching my back ;-)

moss · Feb 28, 2017

I returned to the site of Ian's winter rec climb to measure some of the big tuliptrees we climbed. Not as tall as I'd hoped but still decent. The biggest tree in the grove has a massive crown and a substantial trunk, no other trees in the grove have the magnitude of the big one but there are several with nearly equal height.

Since no one else has named this tree I'm calling it The Gouda King ;-)

The tree is 130' to the top twig. The CBH is 12.3', no slouch for New England. The natural range of tuliptrees only extends north to the Connecticut River and Houstanic River watersheds in southwest Massachusetts. In Connecticut the tuliptree is widespread and is the dominant tall tree. The tallest reliably measured Connecticut tuliptree is 155'.

For scale I'm next to the trunk of The Gouda King:

Crown is huge, tough to capture that in a photo:

Some other fine trees and sights in this excellent forest, an old Yellow Birch and the stream that has been watering it for likely over 200 hundred years:

-AJ

D x D · Mar 2, 2017

That is nice.

MattT · Mar 8, 2017

moss said:
I returned to the site of Ian's winter rec climb to measure some of the big tuliptrees we climbed. Not as tall as I'd hoped but still decent. The biggest tree in the grove has a massive crown and a substantial trunk, no other trees in the grove have the magnitude of the big one but there are several with nearly equal height.

Since no one else has named this tree I'm calling it The Gouda King ;-)

The tree is 130' to the top twig. The CBH is 12.3', no slouch for New England. The natural range of tuliptrees only extends north to the Connecticut River and Houstanic River watersheds in southwest Massachusetts. In Connecticut the tuliptree is widespread and is the dominant tall tree. The tallest reliably measured Connecticut tuliptree is 155'.

For scale I'm next to the trunk of The Gouda King:

Crown is huge, tough to capture that in a photo:

Some other fine trees and sights in this excellent forest, an old Yellow Birch and the stream that has been watering it for likely over 200 hundred years:

-AJ

Next Time I am back at my parents place in CT, There's a huge tulip, that needs to be climbed. Its girth can rival the avg redwood out here. Although its 1/2 as tall. I miss nice big open branch structures of deciduous tree back east, so nice for fun climbing and easy to get into.