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DonnyCoffey

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Greetings,

I need your help. I am working on an article for TCI magazine: “The more you know, the less you need” and I need a specific photo, that I don’t have in my library. I am looking for a photo of a climber and their harness that is fully loaded with gear. I would prefer of the shot come from an angle or their back side so that you can see all the encouragements hanging on the harness. Everything have to be legit and nothing homemade. No frays, or questionable pieces of equipment. You will get full credit for your photo.

If you could PM me your photos and I will figure out which one to use. Thank you for all your help.

Donny
 
Man, I'm not sharing a photo of my saddle decked out with $1500 worth of labor savers and "groundies need me to plan ahead and make their jobs as easy as possible because the ultimate burden of safe productivity is mine" hanging on me so that it can be implied that I don't know enough to smash out removals (quick like bunnies) on a fucking Blakes. Needing something and knowing how to do what you want three different ways and picking the one that uses a tool to be quicker or easier are very different, and I have little patience for anyone who pretends that tools don't make life easier.
Sorry. /Rant
 
Now I'm curious, what 1500 do you have on your saddle? You can post a pic, it won't be used if you don't want it to.
 
DonnyCoffey said:
Greetings,

I need your help. I am working on an article for TCI magazine: “The more you know, the less you need” and I need a specific photo, that I don’t have in my library. I am looking for a photo of a climber and their harness that is fully loaded with gear. I would prefer of the shot come from an angle or their back side so that you can see all the encouragements hanging on the harness. Everything have to be legit and nothing homemade. No frays, or questionable pieces of equipment. You will get full credit for your photo.

If you could PM me your photos and I will figure out which one to use. Thank you for all your help.

Donny
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so you basically want a picture of someone carrying too much gear to make your point that less gear is needed?
 
MikePowers321 said:
so you basically want a picture of someone carrying too much gear to make your point that less gear is needed?
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Did I ever say that the gear wasn’t needed? What about just not putting all the gear on your harness and having the ground person send it up to you. Hopefully you will take the time to read the article.
 
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Levi.CO said:
Now I'm curious, what 1500 do you have on your saddle? You can post a pic, it won't be used if you don't want it to.
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It could get up around there with a couple of setups to run DSRT, revolver/ring canopy anchors, speedline rack all loaded up, pinto biner that is always on me, original quickie that is also always there (those two solve problems and weigh almost nothing) mini porty and sling for running rigging in the tree, couple small ring ultraslings, I'm sure that I could come up with more.

I'm just saying. I don't know if I have ever been quite that loaded down, but if I needed to, say, set up a whole tree to be worked and had an hour before my hands showed up, I might.
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DonnyCoffey said:
Did I ever say that the gear wasn’t needed? What about just not putting all the gear on your harness and having the ground person send it up to you. Hopefully you will take the time to read the article.
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I will, man. I just won't go get you a picture like I would if it was more about documenting the whole shift of the technologies over the last twenty years. I ate. I feel a little better.
 
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I'm still not seeing where the OP is asking for "loaded down"...
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Thank you. Maybe the potential title of the article is throwing folks off. Most of you that know me can attest that I probably have as much gear hanging on my harness as anyone. Over the years I have simplified my set ups to devices or things that are multi functional. I am simply asking for a photo as a reference, I’m not here to pick apart everything you have on your hardness. That was not my intent.
 
Think of it as paying homage to the pillars of our industry and taking what they have instilled in us and adopting it to the new technology. For example: Using a Pinto pulley and attaching a steal carabiner to the beckett. You could then run a munter off the steel carabiner if you needed more friction to help out the ground person, or you could also just run the rope through the pulley and take a couple wraps on the spine of the steel carabiner to add friction that helping out the ground person as well. A delightful mix of New Age technology, with old-school technique. The more you know, the less you need
 
“The more you know, the less you need.” If this is true then I must be an idiot genius. This old simpleton never leaves the ground without a lanyard, handsaw, and a few binders. Anything else I have sent up as needed. I have never understood the folks who hang everything including the kitchen sink off their saddle. Looks fucking miserable to me!
 
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DonnyCoffey said:
Think of it as paying homage to the pillars of our industry and taking what they have instilled in us and adopting it to the new technology. For example: Using a Pinto pulley and attaching a steal carabiner to the beckett. You could then run a munter off the steel carabiner if you needed more friction to help out the ground person, or you could also just run the rope through the pulley and take a couple wraps on the spine of the steel carabiner to add friction that helping out the ground person as well. A delightful mix of New Age technology, with old-school technique. The more you know, the less you need
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You mean a rig n wrench ? ;)
I like that trick in a pinch but find that the upward slack doesn’t tend well which means you have to be beside the physical anchor for it to be effective. The rigging wrench on the other hand ... :)
 
See, now you guys are getting the picture. If you didn’t have the rig-n-wrench you could still utilize a similar technique based on what knowledge you have acquired over the years. The more you know the less you need. I’m not debating the advantage of the combo. It’s the cats rear end , and have you seen what ISC has done with it?
 
DonnyCoffey said:
See, now you guys are getting the picture. If you didn’t have the rig-n-wrench you could still utilize a similar technique based on what knowledge you have acquired over the years. The more you know the less you need. I’m not debating the advantage of the combo. It’s the cats rear end , and have you seen what ISC has done with it?
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No idea what you’re talking about, do tell !
 
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