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Put a Walnut on my back, don't see any reason to take my Aluminum off the front.
Also tried out the baby bump today along with my body and the stock body. It really depends on the rope more than I ever imagined. One of my Yale 11.7's prefers the stock body, my other (Prism 11.7) really likes the baby bump and both colors of my Vortex prefer my custom body hands down. All of this was leaving the bird alone and just switching bodies. So all in all not bad, depending which rope I feel like that day I will just use the corresponding body.

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monkeylove said:
Put a Walnut on my back, don't see any reason to take my Aluminum off the front.
Also tried out the baby bump today along with my body and the stock body. It really depends on the rope more than I ever imagined. One of my Yale 11.7's prefers the stock body, my other (Prism 11.7) really likes the baby bump and both colors of my Vortex prefer my custom body hands down. All of this was leaving the bird alone and just switching bodies. So all in all not bad, depending which rope I feel like that day I will just use the corresponding body.

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Variety IS the spice of life Frank (y)
 
All you guys who sent me a PM should have gotten the Walnut blanks by now (Except Swing and Kevin) if you did not get them or at least by Saturday let me know. Kevin, yours went out a couple days ago. Swing, they are somewhere in a dug out canoe being paddled by a one arm midget. I will be surprised if they get to you this year. Wood, foreign country and Customs usually don't mix well, lol.
 
I just gotta say, I encounter enough situations in which I'm pruning heavy deadwood from the lower main trunk of a tree, that positioning without spikes can be necessary. You've got to make proper collar cuts in those scenarios, and you can't rely on spikes for positioning.

Once I really began to tap the true capabilities of SRWP, positioning for such cuts became more fluent. I got into spikeless removal to recreate some of those positioning challenges. Then I found that moving around 1:1 without spikes was advantageous in some cases.

I still wear my spikes from time to time, but far less often than when I began. I have a "comfortable" pair of Antal Axess, but I fly sans more often than not. ;)
 
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[emoji106], the guys that do some of the tree work around here do wear pole spurs. Some on here say it doesn't damage the tree, and they may be accurate, a woodpecker does more damage in a day. The joke John is the fact that I will never wear spurs while pruning!


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JontreeHI said:
Me too, and enjoy reading him, but why spikeless? Easier faster arguably safer with spikes. Just cuz he can?
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If u create a plan before u access the tree where ur cuts are going to be made, spikes may not be necessary. This benefits climbers that can access the outer third of the canopy WITHOUT a pole saw. Not all of us have ascender mounted spikes lol. I believe climbers who are truly comfortable at height are slowed down with spikes. Unless it's a pine and there is no need to get out on the limbs, spikes are useful.

Just my two pennies
 
Dave Rohach said:
[emoji106], the guys that do some of the tree work around here do wear pole spurs. Some on here say it doesn't damage the tree, and they may be accurate, a woodpecker does more damage in a day. The joke John is the fact that I will never wear spurs while pruning!


Dave6390 in WI
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I figured you were. Although, the argument that a woodpecker does more damage does not hold any weight, 'cause that goes back to the old saying, "Just because somebody/thing else did it doesn't make it right." We shouldn't base what is healthy for a tree off a bird excavating for bugs. And Dave, this is not directed at you, I am just saying spiking a prune job is bad practice. We should try to be as minimally invasive as we can when caring for trees. Any wound, no mater how small, is still a wound...an entry point, a scar, an unsightly deformation of the natural growth and beauty of a tree. We try to balance our decisions to better the tree's future with the infliction of wounds throughout its system...trying to do just enough, or the smallest amount of wounding to provide for a healthy structure and living asset.

But I guess this is straying from the focus of the Rope Runner in this particular thread, but those thoughts just came out...sorry.
 
I get it but whilst blocking down the spar, how does one comfortably and effectively do that spikeless? And for the record my spikes aren't uncomfortable. The are hardly noticible unless I'm in them for greater than 5 or 6 hours.
 
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