Compact Bulldog Bone

Personally I think a single line with one or two grapples makes more sense. I suppose it depends on the circumstances.
I have not tried it with just two ropes. Another difficulty is that the bottom arms will only allow two ropes to be loaded
mid-line. You would need to release the teardrop bolt, and swivel one side of the bottom arm aside in order to load three ropes mid-line.
 
Brother, you've got until January to devise an all in one system for DRT, otherwise I'm stuck with buying a crap load of gear (including a second bone) to make a better DRT system (that is hopefully more symmetrical than what I am currently using). Thanks again for bringing this to market.
 
Yale 11.7's all day! probably helps that im a smaller dude (175-185lb range without gear, havent been on a scale since the last doc visit) but thats my shit on the 3/4" bollard. i feel like Swingdude talking about ropes, but ive been all Yale since my first line (only have had 4 so not saying much). if these 11.7mm lines havent been so flippin' awesome for me then maybe id try cougar

Love the bone. Love it. thing is suuuweet for spar work. its short so you can have it close to the point on the spar where your line's choked. i grip the rope and push the bone down the line with the bottom of my hand all the time and i love it so much.
and p.s. i dont wear gloves like no ninny
 
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That's bacon, banana, and almond butter on ciabatta. Be jealous.
 
No I get it. The first time I worked in a pecan or black walnut I was a little worried. No issues. I don't routinely lick my saw but that being said even the dust chipping doesn't bother me. The black walnut saw dust burns my skin in the summer when I'm sweating really bad but so does mulberry. I generally just hose my arm face and neck off when I get down as well as trying to stay upwind on trunk cuts or at least keeping the saw dust out of my mouth. I've hear of other guys having slight skin burns from walnut. Oddly sycamore doesn't bother me a bit and it makes a lot of guys cough quite a bit breathI get in the sawdust from a sycamore. It is a legitimate question. Thanks for the interest.
 
Well, it's good to knkw you are still capible of working those trees. The allergy could be much worse, to the point where you couldn't. I started working trees on right of ways. One of the other climbing foreman ' s name was Lako, and that man's wife lost her job.....so Lako got her hired as his groundie. She wasn't deathly allergic to juniper, but you better believe it was uncomfotable. When they got an assignment for a load of juniper, she'd be red as a lobster, eyes half the size as they should be, wheezing up a storm, and producing copious amounts of snot. Her loving husband would offer her golden nuggets of encouragement consisting of many four letter words......woman kept up. She ought to be sainted just for agreeing to come out and make a hand in a primarily man's world, not to mention the loevly encouragment her husband offered. I always think about Lako's wife when I hear tree allergy.
 
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