Compact Bulldog Bone
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TylerHoffman
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Thanks! And wow. i cannot imagine the pain he was dealing with. 
Hello everybody. First post on this forum. 
Have been reading the whole thread now and the bone seems to be the next thing to get.
I'm climbing mostly SRT on New England Hi-Vee with a Hitch climber and a VT. Anybody who has used the bone with Hi-Vee?
Would that work or do you recommend to swith to another rope?
Have been reading the whole thread now and the bone seems to be the next thing to get.
I'm climbing mostly SRT on New England Hi-Vee with a Hitch climber and a VT. Anybody who has used the bone with Hi-Vee?
Would that work or do you recommend to swith to another rope?
Steve Connally
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Bdb. Ct foot ascender and haas for the first time pruning a very wide canopy oak. A zillion redirects. None retrieve able. Just can't seem to remember them when I'm up there so lots of ups and downs. Got to places I normally wouldn't have gotten to. Very very happy with the set up. The haas blows my homemade version away. Great investment.
The BDB definitely tends slack better if you un-weight it. I find it better to grab the rope above it to produce slack at the BDB first rather than trying to pull the rope against the bone as you would with say a Hitchclimber.
macswan
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Took my kids to the mountain for the first time this past weekend, whole time thinking maybe I should grab some skis and go up. Nah I'll just hurt myself.Swing ain't got nuttin on this! sorry to derail
I'm sorry you got hurt Tyler, but you reenforced my decision. So thank you. Heal up
TylerHoffman
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ha! just don't do underflips and you should be good
monkeylove
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Thats not your wiping hand I hope Tyler. That was the worst part of my many injuries. Trying to wipe with the other hand just never works well, haha.
TylerHoffman
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Thats too funny! I still have my good wiping hand. A guy from my work took the winter off to get carpool tunnel surgery on both wrists. Still have yet to ask him how thats going.
monkeylove
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Eric if you have the raw video of your DSRT vid where your running bones can you post it. I like the vid but in a few spots you show throwing the second rope what appears to pretty far away. In the next sceen you are addressing the line and hooking back up the second bone. I would like to see how you got over there. I'm assuming you just swung over old school, but maybe you have some technical way that I need to learn.
Monkey, that's a great question, but my reply is a bunch of wording for something fairly simple.
That scenario you just described is one I do A LOT while climbing SRT, and even more so DSRT. I would call it "Forwarding my Tail". sometimes I put a throwbag on the end to send the whole thing, and other times I forward a bight (when you do that, be super careful to load the BDB on the proper leg of the bight).
What I do next is descend to where I have a safe rope angle to move laterally and grab what I advanced. Sometimes I have to descend quite a bit but I don't mind in DSRT since its so easy to go back up.
This is where DSRT is so rad, because I can stay in a primary system if I'm in small wood while I load up and connect into the new redirect. This technique allows you to load redirects you could not really safely get to.
After that you can slack out your "back line" and then forward it. This can result in one of the two lines going under branches before going over the next redirect so you do it with care, but this all allows you to unlace and work back to center.
I think it's time for another vid of my most current DSRT rig, but that's going to take some time cuz once I'm done with my trailer, I'm going to build a half pipe in my shop.
monkeylove
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Thanks for the explanation, it makes more sense now. I will definitely have to have that a try. Watch those half pipes, I hear they can dangerous lol.
TylerHoffman
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A new vid sounds good to me! Used to have a halfpipe. 14' on one side with 2' of vert and 8'on the other side with 1' of vert for some wicked air time.
Treetopflyer
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You have any drop test plans Gordon if you throw me a freakin bone here I'll drop test the shiit out of one . Im extremely confident in the capabilities ,but would love to bomb one out the tree with an overweight rescueman i mean dummy on it.
Seems like your on to something husky if you think the bones the next big thing . There's a man goes by hammer running the hivee I believe but don't quote me on that . Its in this thread some pages back . many seem happy and are successful on tachyon ,but with three different bollards to equip the bone most any 11mm through 13mm line will work . I've personally ran my bone on Yale 11.7 mm with 3/4 bollard which worked well at first then developed a slight creep over sections of the line that were heavily ran(Think there's a pivot point change that can be made to suit this rope better, but that's a conversation in itself) . The Yale imori 12mm was good with 5/8 bollard ,didn't tend as smooth for me , but I was not settled with my current tending spot which now is flawless for me , so I may run it again . I've really settled on orange and blue tachyon for my go to line for the bone 5/8 bollard as well,but I'm not a fan of thin diameter cord ,just enjoy the performance they provide in some ways that make it worth climbing on , so I may try some 13 mm 16 strands in the future they lack a bit of working flex that the 24strand lines provide ,but nothing that can't be overcome for me . I know quite a few like cougar 11.7 lines. Some static line users on this thread as well . I believe from my experience of what ive seen and what I've read here on the buzz to confirm my thoughts that a rope that stays round will work well in this bad ass multicender .Many choices with the bones capabilities! Good luck!
John_KAYS
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Exactly, Back in 2010 I was breaking a piece of kindling over my knee while starting a fire and a piece of it shot up into my eye. Long story short - piece was removed, stitches went in, lens cam out, iris is all screwed up and my vision in that eye is lensless. I have a +20 contact lens that is painted dark brown to give me some clarity and to help with light sensitivity. Eye-ronically every Dr. was telling me I should have been wearing safety glasses...But I work with chippers, stump grinders, chainsaws, stabbing twigs, saw dust, and you name it....and I always wear safety glasses and a visor. But they are right, I should have been wearing safety glasses while lighting a fire...now I know.
I never have broken a bone or had stitches...other than those in my eye now...actually I just had them removed in October of 2014, because one broke and that's painful right there.
Of course it didn't happen at work. One little, tiny, teensy splinter can change your life in a big way.
Take care of yourselves at work, at home, or at play.
And careful not to break your bulldog bone - that would hurt.
Wow, what a story, John. Man, I really feel for you, but especially since such a life changing thing happened so unexpectedly. It sounds like you're managing that well. Think I'm gonna just go ahead and wear my climbing helmet at all times, complete with visor and ear pro. That's such sobering story.
TylerHoffman
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I feel for u too John. I feel so uncomfortable when stuff gets in my eyes.
To be honest, I don't think the bulldog bone can break. I would really enjoy seeing it pushed to its limits!
Treetopflyer
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Damn JC. Thats crazy man .. In Oct your saying a contact broke in your eye ,but the original accident with the splinter occurred in 2010? Am I getting that correctly? Not that this will make you feel any better ,but is similar,I'm lucky it wasn't worse like your story . When I was a little boy maybe 5 my dad was cutting fire wood with a chainsaw (did I mention I loved chainsaws even then) and I walked up near him being the curious little dude I was (am haha) and got a wood chip lodged in my eye. Had to go to hospital for removal, no stitches luckily . I remember it pretty vividly because it sucked bad and was painful as hell. So I feel your pain at least a little bit. I have astigmatism and poor eyesight ,but my visions are great.
I know another guy who took a bb in the eye and has a split pupil ( looks scary as hell) but can see 20/20 out of it. Ain't that some shit! The pupil is literally split in two. I could go on cracking jokes about seeing double as well ,but eye won't . I am fascinated by the complexity of the eyes. They do a serious job and I run safety glasses and a face shield while cutting ,but its always when you least expect it that accidents happen. There's a song by Jerry Garcia/David Grisman I like called drink up and go home . In the third verse he talks about a blind man. Even though I don't have super sharp eyesight the song makes me feel better about it. Stay safe!Cheers!
John_KAYS
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Not the contact lens, but one of the 4 microscopic wire stitches broke which felt like a piece of glass in my eye. At that point, in Oct, the Dr. removed all of the stitches and told me I would hate him for it. After the numbing drops wore off I did hate him for not sending me home with the bottle of drops or at least a spoon to scoop my eye out...sheesh, that was more painful than the actual accident!
The vision is a constant reminder, as it always blurs and halos light, that things can happen. My brain has gotten really good at using my good eye to dominate and give me a clear picture, but it's always very present and constant. I'm just glad it still provides depth perception and peripheral...just not perfect.
I am dealing with it well, so enough enough about me!
Now all I need is to find that sock I hid all of that cash TreeLogic was telling me about and get me a freakin bone!
14' down to 8'?!?!?!? I'm surprised you've come back to Earth!
