Rope Runner Pro steel slick pin price

ghostice said:
Not only where you are . . last summer I marvelled at a "Certified Arb" company (another set of stickers told me) with their truck plastered in "Partnerships in Safety" (a Provincial safety auditing program) stickers all over their trucks, felling and chainsawing a tree while working in running shoes, shorts and T shirts, no lid or any eye or hearing protection and the music blaring while they crammed branches into their diesel chipper. Or another crew where the ground guys looked like they had slept in the mud in a culvert somewhere, spitting and cussing loudly in a residential neighbourhood while trying to work out a jam in their chipper feed, with sticks and branches, and they kept kicking the fence gate while wrestling with brush. These types of company's are everywhere. A wonder to behold.
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Unfortunately we have a lot of those around here too. One local lawn service claims to have Ten Certified Arborists on Staff! and they are only a lawn service, they’re definitely not tree professionals.

A good friend of mine down south hired a TCIA Accredited company with a couple Certified Arborists, and couldn’t find a hard hat or pair of earplugs anywhere in the crew, much less chainsaw protection of any sort. He was watching them kick things into the chipper too, one guy was even standing on the tray to get more leverage as he was kicking!
 
oldoakman said:
I do too, and I missed that one. One thing with the quickie, at the 2019 Legends comp I was setting the access line for the AR event as I normally tie my canopy anchor and was stopped and told I could not use the Quickie. I complained that it had passed the gear check to which they mumbled some incoherent response. I later have been informed that the issue is that the two catches that have to be depressed to release the slick pin are not or have not been rated. If that is the case, it raises the question, What about the pins in the OG RR, RRP and RW? Just throwing that out there for discussion.
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I’ve been told that it only takes 400lbs of force to push the pin through the quickie by breaking the catch, then another 400 to break the second one. Of course that force has to come from somewhere, as long as the quickie is oriented properly the pin should never see any force. That said my company doesn’t allow them except for spar tie ins


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Yes side loading it. Should be almost impossible to do if installed correctly, but force inline with the pin is where my 400 figure came from. I’ll say again I have no data, just what I’ve been told. But looking at the pin it seems about right


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Bwdysart said:
Yes side loading it. Should be almost impossible to do if installed correctly, but force inline with the pin is where my 400 figure came from. I’ll say again I have no data, just what I’ve been told. But looking at the pin it seems about right


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Never heard 400 lbs. I've heard 600 lbs and 700 lbs. Not sure where those numbers come from.
 
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Has anyone found a source for this part yet? Mine ejected itself from a tree last week while I was switching climbing systems and I never found it. TreeStuff still wants $49.99 for the replacement stainless steel slic pin. Buying a complete V3 quickie is cheaper than the replacement RRP slic pin but the quickie pin is too large for the RRP. The rope wrench pin fits but it only has one locking feature. As others have pointed out, other replacement slic pins are around the $10 range. Why the steep price jump?
 
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