Unusual for me to have a device and not fly it....but it's more personal....I wanted back my black runner I sold late last year....it was a personalized swing runner...I sold a uni and the bone to pay the 350 for the gold runner which gets me back my black swing runner....no brainer for me did not want to use it...and then it become used......lol
Compact Bulldog Bone
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JTree
Participating member
- Location
- East Texas
Is what it is, man. Only so many hours in the day to climb. I'm sure if days were as long as weeks and you never got tired, you'd have been able to break us off a little of your expierience while bone flyin, but as it stands, the days are short and we don't get a lot of them, so you gotta do what's keeping you safe and happy.
JTree
Participating member
- Location
- East Texas
.....doesn't mean you can't come to the bone meet to get a feel on what you gave up......j/s
Man, I hope I can make the time and invest the money to come. I want to show up even worse than I want to go to a fids and fibers by the fireside meet. You coming gordon?
Man, I hope I can make the time and invest the money to come. I want to show up even worse than I want to go to a fids and fibers by the fireside meet. You coming gordon?
Worthaug
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- North Cakilaki
Riding, Biggun?
- Location
- Philly suburbs
Lol. Riding the bone.
I dismantled a large Declining Maple in the centre of Oslo this morning using the BDB. Works really well with the green and blue tachyon I have out here.
Then this afternoon we had to weight reduce some long laterals on Mature Lime trees overhanging a kindergarten. I managed to get a decent anchor but it was right on the limits of my throw lining skills and the big shot was at the yard. For one tree I was stood on a fence tieing my base tie off at arms reach, (I am 6'4" btw) and the other end was still two metres of the floor.
The bone worked flawlessly but I think I need a new rope, LOL.
Then this afternoon we had to weight reduce some long laterals on Mature Lime trees overhanging a kindergarten. I managed to get a decent anchor but it was right on the limits of my throw lining skills and the big shot was at the yard. For one tree I was stood on a fence tieing my base tie off at arms reach, (I am 6'4" btw) and the other end was still two metres of the floor.
The bone worked flawlessly but I think I need a new rope, LOL.
Perhaps just build a nice anchor sling, that way your rope doesn't have to lose all the length needed to tie in at the base.
I like a separate sling, since you can more easily tune the length of line in the system for the tree at hand.Well, here it is...or better... they are. Treeworker.co.uk just delivered at my door the two cougar blue I ordered...One is 40 meters the other 15m. Each rope has one splice on one termination. Wonderful ropes, nice design and color...but........they don't match my BDB at all...not even with the largest bollard on the top arms and another one on the lower arms...nada!!! In a way not to bad because I really like the way the bone is behaving with my 13mm Petzl 'Grip' rope...smooth as it could be...so I realized that after all as I don't want to change the bone to fit the cougars at this point I feel like selling them both (sigh) and stick with my bone and in case I want to get an extra rope I will consider only 12+mm. and that's it!!! The 40m. cougar blue with one end spliced I haven't touched at all. The 15m. cougar blue only a short length of the rope first with the 5/8 bollard and then with the bigger one, just to try the BDB on it...Let's face it...the bone was built to support fatter ropes from 12mm up, anything slimmer would be a real danger for the way it was thought for me.
Thanks Gordon but no Cougar Blue for me...I followed some "buzz" ideas without considering the fact that my bone was different...
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Perhaps just build a nice anchor sling, that way your rope doesn't have to lose all the length needed to tie in at the base.
That would be nice but in this case I still need a longer rope and my longer ropes are in the UK. I think I will just tie two together tomorrow for the remainder of the trees.
What are peoples preferred method of joining two lifelines?
Zeppelin Bend is my favorite.
monkeylove
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Roslyn, Pa.
Zepplin but I then tie the ends together. Probably not needed but it makes me feel better.
- Location
- Philly suburbs
I've got a bunch of small to medium removals over the next couple days that I'm looking forward to running the bone on. 2 of the days is work over a large koi pond. It should be pretty interesting.
Bone on Prism.
5/8" bollard at 170 lbs. Held well. Slow descent worked fine. A quicker descent turned into a controlled glide, easily stopped with a slight nudge upward on the top arm. After a few rides, I got the hang of lightly modulating pressure on the top arm with my thumb and index finger to control the speed.
