Is it just me?

I've been daydreaming about a certain swamp with young maples, cypress, and two or three captain hooks. Only takes twenty minutes to cross, lol...
 
colb said:
I've been daydreaming about a certain swamp with young maples, cypress, and two or three captain hooks. Only takes twenty minutes to cross, lol...
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Yep, I'm thinking about two hooks in play for fun stuff. Two auto take-up reels strapped to the sides of your chest, lines run through mini conduit/hoses up your arms, mini multi-ascenders attached (with titanium bolts) to your forearms, hook and go spider/monkey style.
-AJ
 
Now, that is what is known as "thinking outside the box". Just last night I was thinking about the much more obvious "Spiderman" idea, or "Batman", with his explosively charged grappling hooks, attached to the thinnest, strongest wire ever invented, with a high speed winch attached to his waist.

All really cool ideas. I don't remember for sure whether or not I've discussed an idea for a mini-APTA that would convert a small, portable, high-pressure bike pump into use as the compression chamber for short, accurate in-tree throw bag shots.

Wild brainstorming is what leads to great ideas, some of which might actually work, and change the way we do things. Just ask Kevin Bingham (@treebing) about that one.

Tim
 
I wish I could defy physics like Spidie.

When I drop, gravity doesn't let me swoosh in an arc (before my super samson web is deployed) like he does. Nice trick that!
 
WaitakKauri said:
I wish I could defy physics like Spidie.

When I drop, gravity doesn't let me swoosh in an arc (before my super samson web is deployed) like he does. Nice trick that!
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I just had another partial post wiped out by a glitch. Here's a link to video of the guy who comes closest to living the dream of a Spiderman existence. He's got a good friend who shoots and edits video professionally, can't remember the guy's name off the top of my head, but he deserves credit.

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jLPYZKBkQ3o

JohnnyPro forever! (@JohnnyPro27)

Tim
 
More hookage today, yeah working on a Sunday. Others have mentioned this but it is great for busting out small deadwood below, saves time climbing down to it.

Edit, well shoot, I posted this in the wrong thread. Hopefully I won't be suspended, fined or arrested for having too much fun on rope!
 
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About 40 years ago I got busted for rappelling off the balcony on the 5th floor of Nash Hall at Oregon State University. I was just trying out my fancy new goldline rope and figured nobody would see me. Plus I seem to recall there was a cute college girl I was trying to impress. Somebody called the campus cops and they showed up when I was at about the 3rd floor. All would have been fine if I had just kept my mouth shut, but when the cop started to lecture me about how what I was doing was dangerous I told him that I was safer hanging on my rope than he was leaning out over the balcony rail. That did not amuse him.
 
ARLO said:
About 40 years ago I got busted for rappelling off the balcony on the 5th floor of Nash Hall at Oregon State University. I was just trying out my fancy new goldline rope and figured nobody would see me. Plus I seem to recall there was a cute college girl I was trying to impress. Somebody called the campus cops and they showed up when I was at about the 3rd floor. All would have been fine if I had just kept my mouth shut, but when the cop started to lecture me about how what I was doing was dangerous I told him that I was safer hanging on my rope than he was leaning out over the balcony rail. That did not amuse him.
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Great story.

We're more life experienced now and if this situation was to occur again, we'd distract the cop with our superior negotiation skills, complete the abseil, then have the cop retrive our rope while we went off to impress the girl.
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Just last week I ALMOST swung down 5 floors. My car was parked directly under my balcony, it was wet and windy, and i had forgotten my wind cheater at work. Instead of taking the (very slow) lift then walking the full circumference of the building, I could have been in my car with the heating on warming the engine whilst coiling cord into my boot(..../trunk) in LESS than 3 minutes! ...

Thought better of it, as didn't have much kit with me that morning. No way to get back up if it went wrong... other than prussic loops.

...and it was wet and windy!

I now happen to have almost a full kit at my place, but the weather has been nice for now :(
 
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TimBr said:
Now, that is what is known as "thinking outside the box". Just last night I was thinking about the much more obvious "Spiderman" idea, or "Batman", with his explosively charged grappling hooks, attached to the thinnest, strongest wire ever invented, with a high speed winch attached to his waist.

All really cool ideas. I don't remember for sure whether or not I've discussed an idea for a mini-APTA that would convert a small, portable, high-pressure bike pump into use as the compression chamber for short, accurate in-tree throw bag shots.

Wild brainstorming is what leads to great ideas, some of which might actually work, and change the way we do things. Just ask Kevin Bingham (@treebing) about that one.

Tim
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Yeah I'm working on it!!.... Where's Tree-Q when you need him?

...dude in the vid is AWSOME by the way!!

... bet he burns through A LOT of kit though!!
 
matamorph said:
Just last week I ALMOST swung down 5 floors. My car was parked directly under my balcony, it was wet and windy, and i had forgotten my wind cheater at work. Instead of taking the (very slow) lift then walking the full circumference of the building, I could have been in my car with the heating on warming the engine whilst coiling cord into my boot(..../trunk) in LESS than 3 minutes! ...

Thought better of it, as didn't have much kit with me that morning. No way to get back up if it went wrong... other than prussic loops.

...and it was wet and windy!

I now happen to have almost a full kit at my place, but the weather has been nice for now :(
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..I also have a perfect view, and angle + PERFECT anchor points, to set up a zip line between my balcony and the local tram stop!!

...but I can't trust my neighbours not to steal as much rope as they could reach, or simply set fire to it because 'it's there'... Yes. I live in that kind of neibourhood! LOVE IT!
 
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matamorph said:
..I also have a perfect view, and angle + PERFECT anchor points, to set up a zip line between my balcony and the local tram stop!!

...but I can't trust my neighbours not to steal as much rope as they could reach, or simply set fire to it because 'it's there'... Yes. I live in that kind of neibourhood! LOVE IT!
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That would be cool, even a one-off on the weekend. :)
 
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