GRCS for sale

Roger_Barnett said:
I had both. Bought the Hobbs from ex ITCC champ Dan Kraus for $700 (He'd won it in a comp), then sold it back to him years later when he started Champion Tree Care--for the same $.. so I used it fo free! The GRCS is very capable of handling the same large loads and has the advantage of being able to employ rapid slack removal during negative rigging, to reduce the free fall distance. I've neg rigged up to perhaps 2500 lb! Yikes.

My GRCS was #343.... cost me $1200 as an arb bud and I shared it.... he ran a slightly larger co, then moved to Bartlett and Arborwell, taking it along.. But I always used it more as I love the tech rigging challenges. Got the longer arborist capstan which allowed for a full 5 wraps with larger lines! Sold it back, as I'm retired..but stand by for pics and vids from a recent job. Even you will be impressed!

By the way, Dan, about to turn 58, is still competing... he came 2nd last weekend, and twice in the top three at a couple NAOM events. HE's amazing. I'm 75, fat lazy and old... but have worked 9 days this year... climbed a few trees but had my buds do the big firs on the log job---we got 6100' on one log truck!.. tall forest grade logs but on a large residential lot. Heck, over 10 years ago, we removed some 160' cottonwoods at another place... that were under 40" dbh!!

I will be sure to do a bit more work, at least into October..as that will mean I've officially worked in the trees for half a danged century!! Actually, I logged in Ak off a floating quarters for three weeks back in 1972... but was a total greenhorn who had started a job for a landscaper a bit before that, and went back to it after getting a slight injury in Ak, 3.5 years later, I started at Washington Tree Seervice--was fired 1.5 years later for screaming at the estimator for 5 crews "why are we topping these trees----in half?!!" Found a slightly better position, still did some tree topping (small tops, shaped the tops and did some thinning) Then, stated Barnett Tree Care in '85, joined the ISA in '89 and started learning better and proper tree care.
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You're a good story teller Roger!
 
Roger_Barnett said:
I had both. Bought the Hobbs from ex ITCC champ Dan Kraus for $700 (He'd won it in a comp), then sold it back to him years later when he started Champion Tree Care--for the same $.. so I used it fo free! The GRCS is very capable of handling the same large loads and has the advantage of being able to employ rapid slack removal during negative rigging, to reduce the free fall distance. I've neg rigged up to perhaps 2500 lb! Yikes.

My GRCS was #343.... cost me $1200 as an arb bud and I shared it.... he ran a slightly larger co, then moved to Bartlett and Arborwell, taking it along.. But I always used it more as I love the tech rigging challenges. Got the longer arborist capstan which allowed for a full 5 wraps with larger lines! Sold it back, as I'm retired..but stand by for pics and vids from a recent job. Even you will be impressed!

By the way, Dan, about to turn 58, is still competing... he came 2nd last weekend, and twice in the top three at a couple NAOM events. HE's amazing. I'm 75, fat lazy and old... but have worked 9 days this year... climbed a few trees but had my buds do the big firs on the log job---we got 6100' on one log truck!.. tall forest grade logs but on a large residential lot. Heck, over 10 years ago, we removed some 160' cottonwoods at another place... that were under 40" dbh!!

I will be sure to do a bit more work, at least into October..as that will mean I've officially worked in the trees for half a danged century!! Actually, I logged in Ak off a floating quarters for three weeks back in 1972... but was a total greenhorn who had started a job for a landscaper a bit before that, and went back to it after getting a slight injury in Ak, 3.5 years later, I started at Washington Tree Seervice--was fired 1.5 years later for screaming at the estimator for 5 crews "why are we topping these trees----in half?!!" Found a slightly better position, still did some tree topping (small tops, shaped the tops and did some thinning) Then, stated Barnett Tree Care in '85, joined the ISA in '89 and started learning better and proper tree care.
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You are my hero Rog. At 57 I want to grow up just like you. Even if you are a flat earther according to Jesse.
 
Roger_Barnett said:
I had both. Bought the Hobbs from ex ITCC champ Dan Kraus for $700 (He'd won it in a comp), then sold it back to him years later when he started Champion Tree Care--for the same $.. so I used it fo free! The GRCS is very capable of handling the same large loads and has the advantage of being able to employ rapid slack removal during negative rigging, to reduce the free fall distance. I've neg rigged up to perhaps 2500 lb! Yikes.

My GRCS was #343.... cost me $1200 as an arb bud and I shared it.... he ran a slightly larger co, then moved to Bartlett and Arborwell, taking it along.. But I always used it more as I love the tech rigging challenges. Got the longer arborist capstan which allowed for a full 5 wraps with larger lines! Sold it back, as I'm retired..but stand by for pics and vids from a recent job. Even you will be impressed!

By the way, Dan, about to turn 58, is still competing... he came 2nd last weekend, and twice in the top three at a couple NAOM events. HE's amazing. I'm 75, fat lazy and old... but have worked 9 days this year... climbed a few trees but had my buds do the big firs on the log job---we got 6100' on one log truck!.. tall forest grade logs but on a large residential lot. Heck, over 10 years ago, we removed some 160' cottonwoods at another place... that were under 40" dbh!!

I will be sure to do a bit more work, at least into October..as that will mean I've officially worked in the trees for half a danged century!! Actually, I logged in Ak off a floating quarters for three weeks back in 1972... but was a total greenhorn who had started a job for a landscaper a bit before that, and went back to it after getting a slight injury in Ak, 3.5 years later, I started at Washington Tree Seervice--was fired 1.5 years later for screaming at the estimator for 5 crews "why are we topping these trees----in half?!!" Found a slightly better position, still did some tree topping (small tops, shaped the tops and did some thinning) Then, stated Barnett Tree Care in '85, joined the ISA in '89 and started learning better and proper tree care.
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Logging in AK in the 70’s and 80’s. Nothing like it, and some of the best times of my life.
 
In all seriousness, I now have three acquaintances that think the earth is flat. ( a gal from college that I haven't seen since 1970, a chap that gave me some bitchin' weed, and a gal that I met in 2010 and who worked for me a bit. She's also a flaming MAGAt, a faux Christian like tRump and is a Karenx10 for the way she treat her husband who I'm now Great friends with. And more than a couple facebook "friends" that are tree workersflaseem to have fallen for the cult that is the flat earth nonsense .

Jesse, you saw that 4800' live oak wild swing posted on the PNW Arborist group by a Jordan x x? He's a flaming flatatohead... and not the only one. Sigh.....
 
Roger_Barnett said:
In all seriousness, I now have three acquaintances that think the earth is flat. ( a gal from college that I haven't seen since 1970, a chap that gave me some bitchin' weed, and a gal that I met in 2010 and who worked for me a bit. She's also a flaming MAGAt, a faux Christian like tRump and is a Karenx10 for the way she treat her husband who I'm now Great friends with. And more than a couple facebook "friends" that are tree workersflaseem to have fallen for the cult that is the flat earth nonsense .

Jesse, you saw that 4800' live oak wild swing posted on the PNW Arborist group by a Jordan x x? He's a flaming flatatohead... and not the only one. Sigh.....
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Yeah I gotta figure out how to delete that dude. Obviously just a troll on the page.
So @Roger_Barnett how in the hell do flat earthers explain gravity? Maybe he was rigging that shit as not punch holes through the frisbee
 
Roger_Barnett said:
In all seriousness, I now have three acquaintances that think the earth is flat. ( a gal from college that I haven't seen since 1970, a chap that gave me some bitchin' weed, and a gal that I met in 2010 and who worked for me a bit. She's also a flaming MAGAt, a faux Christian like tRump and is a Karenx10 for the way she treat her husband who I'm now Great friends with. And more than a couple facebook "friends" that are tree workersflaseem to have fallen for the cult that is the flat earth nonsense .

Jesse, you saw that 4800' live oak wild swing posted on the PNW Arborist group by a Jordan x x? He's a flaming flatatohead... and not the only one. Sigh.....
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I have one acquaintance that is a flat earther. As soon as I found out, I told him that if he wants to hang out with me, he should never say that in front of my friends. They already think I'm weird enough...

I've been at the conspiracy theories long enough to recognize a psy op that puts a red herring into the conspiracy theory lexicon to make those who fall for it seem crazy, casting doubt on the rest of their conspiracy theories.


And learned to recognize at least some of the cabal insiders that are purveyor of garbage to make us look crazy on sew discord and doubt.

I would put Brian Ardis in that category for spreading the garbage that the covid had snake venom in it.

David Martin is a total cabal insider... he told us that it's not the international bankers that are the root of all evil, but instead the life insurance company executives.


And David Wilcox puts garbage into the ancient alien theories.

Then of course there is the fact that the magnetic poles are shifting on the planet... and fairly quickly... Big John, my old tree climbing mentor, became a pilot and told me that runways are labeled according to their position relative to magnetic north. Magnetic north has changed so much they had to relabel the runways.
 
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WHen I was in 8th grade Earth Science class we learned about magnetic north moving as well as continental drift. This was in about '67 or '68

FAA has been renumbering runways for years. Common knowledge.

Where is the conspiracy theory in either of these?
 
I think Dan's actually in agreement with the observable facts on this particular subject. He is saying that the renumbering is proof that we live on a ball full of liquid metal, with all the physical properties one would expect based on the established laws of physics. I dropped out of the conspiracy thread early, cuz i ran outta time for that shit long ago, but I had definitely taken it for granted that Daniel was a flat earther. Reading otherwise has me thinking that it is possible that he will come to his senses about the rest of that noise. I am likely wrong about that, but I just had a lot of coffee and am feeling cheery and optimistic as fuck.
 
Talk about derails

Has anyone made an offer? I used one again last weekend and remembered why I never bought one. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool tool, but lowering off the winch is not my favorite activity.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
WHen I was in 8th grade Earth Science class we learned about magnetic north moving as well as continental drift. This was in about '67 or '68

FAA has been renumbering runways for years. Common knowledge.

Where is the conspiracy theory in either of these?
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it's speeding up Tom...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate—10 kilometres (6.2 mi) per year at the beginning of the 1900s, up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) per year in 2003,[26] and since then has only accelerated.[
 
Daniel said:
it's speeding up Tom...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate—10 kilometres (6.2 mi) per year at the beginning of the 1900s, up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) per year in 2003,[26] and since then has only accelerated.[
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Well that’s because it has to… our flat earth has tipped past its center of gravity, essentially the hinge broke and it’s falling faster.
 
evo said:
Well that’s because it has to… our flat earth has tipped past its center of gravity, essentially the hinge broke and it’s falling faster.
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how does anyone fall for that garbage? every planet, the sun and the moon.. none are flat.. so then how? think about it... this isn't an accident.. it came from somewhere..
 
Daniel said:
it's speeding up Tom...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate—10 kilometres (6.2 mi) per year at the beginning of the 1900s, up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) per year in 2003,[26] and since then has only accelerated.[
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Where is that data from?

A Google search (I am not claiming accuracy) said otherwise.
 
Daniel said:
t's speeding up Tom...
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LOL

I;ve known about the variables of Magnetic North since junior high in science class as well as learning map and compass navigation in Boy Scouts and Dad.

This is YEARS and DECADES before the science was corrupted by empty headed flatearth conspiracy flakes

What silliness!
 
southsoundtree said:
Where is that data from?

A Google search (I am not claiming accuracy) said otherwise.
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The position of Earth's magnetic north pole was first precisely located in 1831. Since then, it's gradually drifted north-northwest by more than 600 miles (1,100 kilometers), and its forward speed has increased from about 10 miles (16 kilometers) per year to about 34 miles (55 kilometers) per year.Aug 3, 2021
https://science.nasa.gov/science-re...of Earth's magnetic,(55 kilometers) per year.

Flip Flop: Why Variations in Earth's Magnetic Field Aren't ...​

https://science.nasa.gov/science-re...of Earth's magnetic,(55 kilometers) per year.
this is from google answer to :


has the movement of the mangfnetic poles been increasing in speed
 
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