Powers spur scender

MikePowers321 · Mar 23, 2016

treegongfu said:
Hi Mike,

I made a spacer plate and installed the powerscender as soon as they arrived today. I`m excited to try them out!

The Powerscender is beautifully made.

I`ll provide more details later tonight.

Thanks man!
I'm all ears...

treegongfu · Mar 24, 2016

Ok, I got the pole gaffs because I thought the addition of the spacer would make the tree gaffs stick out too far. I no longer beleive that and think they would work.

Here is a picture of the pole gaffs installed.

treegongfu · Mar 24, 2016

The spacer is 0.1875" x 0.75" and is the same length as the powerscender plate.

I had to round off the edgesto make it sit flush between the contoured ridges of tge DMM Distels.

treegongfu · Mar 24, 2016

The 0.1875" plate is a little too thick and sits about 1mm proud.( exhausted my knowledge of fractions of an inch and demand the imperialists use a little metric)

Finally, here is a pic with the tree gaff installed on the bottom spur.(sorry about bluriness of pictures my camera lense is cracked)

MikePowers321 · Mar 24, 2016

Looks great. I hope that set up works nice for you.

I'll have to give this a try in the so called 'future'

Huskyman · Apr 26, 2016

Has anybody tried a DMM XSRE biner for hooking up the HAAS connection plate?
Maybe it's too weak? It's rated for 4kN only. A regular biner is a bit bulky....

macswan · Apr 26, 2016

From haas to spur? Any reasonable micro biner will do. The xsre will be plenty good, more than enough.

Huskyman said:
Has anybody tried a DMM XSRE biner for hooking up the HAAS connection plate?
Maybe it's too weak? It's rated for 4kN only. A regular biner is a bit bulky....

Worthaug · Apr 26, 2016

macswan said:
From haas to spur? Any reasonable micro binder will do. The care will be plenty good, more than enough.

Fugggn autocorrect!

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A

treebilly · Apr 27, 2016

I would think it would work fine. 4KN is around a thousand pounds of force isn't it? Nothing on the HAAS is life support either.

bonner1040 · Apr 27, 2016

Those XSREs are STRONG

macswan · Apr 27, 2016

Worthaug said:
Fugggn autocorrect!

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A

Indeed

treegongfu · May 17, 2017

My powerscender separated from the backing plate today. I am distressed !

I I've come to rely on them.

Does anyone know of they were rivited on and the type of rivet?

And where is Mike Powers?

macswan · May 17, 2017

@MikePowers321 where you be at?

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · May 17, 2017

treegongfu said:
My powerscender separated from the backing plate today. I am distressed !

I I've come to rely on them.

Does anyone know of they were rivited on and the type of rivet?

And where is Mike Powers?

It is a solid rivet of sorts that takes about 3,000 psi to install.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/to...ci_sku=21300&gclid=CIDx-bzcmssCFcNkhgodopQFBQ

treegongfu · May 18, 2017

Thank you yoyoman!

I'll have to try to bolt it back on as that looks expensive.

MikePowers321 · May 19, 2017

Here!

Pm sent - Treegongfu - I'll take care of ya : )

treegongfu · May 20, 2017

Thank you Mike!

I will look for the PM.

I was wondering where you were in general but also because I knew that you would have the answer on how or if I cld re-rivet the ascender.

I wasn't demanding anything.

Spur climbing without the powerscender is like hitchhiking without a thumb.

macswan · May 20, 2017

I use mine literally every time I have my Spurs on

MikePowers321 · May 20, 2017

treegongfu said:
I was wondering where you were in general but also because I knew that you would have the answer on how or if I cld re-rivet the ascender.

I have been around here and there, I suppose . Been real busy and haven't played on the internet much lately. Though I have been drooling over the Akimbo for some time now.

This whole "owning your own small business" stuff is alot of work. Especially building up from pretty much nothing in terms of equipment. However, its been satisfying as well. I kinda miss leaving work, at work, at the end of the day

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Oh, and...

I use an air powered rivet squeezer similar to what yoyoman linked above. Though you could probably get away with a manual squeezer like so....though I have not attempted it as it would would likely be a little awkward.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-Rivet-...%3A277ac32815c0aa11ecda3c29fffd5785%7Ciid%3A1