squirrels!!!!

Dude, I thought I pioneered the spikeless removal! I took major heat from my ops mngr for not wearing spikes - but I just felt more comfortable without them. What you do is think like a chess player - three steps ahead of your current move. Leave yourself little stubs on the way up the tree - or cut off larger branches with a horizontal finish cut so you can stand up. try to have your plan for dismantle in your head while you work. After you rope out the top, just descend down to the footholds you purposely left yourself & take the chunks as you planned. When you get low enough, be cool & tie a tag rope to the pole - then tie your blakes hitch to the tag line & zip to the ground - single line stylee!
OLD SCHOOL - we are encouraged not to use Blakes anymore, but its a good knot to know. Freakin Germans & thier improv.
P.S. - Spikes would be easier. But wheres the ART, man???
 
you could also use an hms biner and a munter hitch or just a figure eight to come down the tag if the blakes isn't your thing. or is the munter what you meant by the german improv? the remote suspension point technique is pretty awesome too. that way you can stay off a knicked up tag line. but if you're true old school you might like that kind of thing. but spikeless removals are fun. two less sharp objects in the tree.
p.s. the strategic stub can quickly become murphy's friggin law when rigging. sometimes your foot is occupying the same stub.
 
as far as squirrels go--i had a pet one for a while named guido. took him to the southern chapter comp in 2006 in alabama. snuck him in to the hotel, forget which one but a nice place. well me and my buddy lucas were going up the elevator when i was first sneeking him in. luckily there was no one else in the elevator because he chewed through his box and quickly climbed my arm and perched quite obviously on my shoulder. he also got loose during the work climb event while i was watching the other contestants climb. i thought he was going to get stepped on by a judge. if you're wondering why i brought a squirrel to a tree climbing comp, well, sometimes you just can't find a sitter.
 
dude, i don't use nicked up tag lines! thats for the lucky & the dead - which i am neither. I'm fake old school.
as far as germans, i was talking about swabish knot- I think thats right - you know those skinny little twisted knots with micro-pulleys & crap?. there's about as many variations on the prussik as people who tie it. thats how people keep getting new friction knots named after themselves - by screwing up what they were trying to do & ending up with something else that works pretty good!
wait a minute is swabish swedish?

Yah, and you do have to be careful with stub-a-rellas - they tend to catch tag lines like a mo-fo... usually when you rope out something big, leafy & cumbersome with a rookie groundman running the ropes. stoopid rookies. learn to grasp with your knees & flick the chainsaw off with your thumb - then yell I TOLD YOU TO LET IT RUUUUUNN!!!
 
we must know some of the same ground men. i swear some of them sit around thinking of ways to kill us. i guess its for making them drag all the brush. on the other hand a great goundman is worth his weight in gold. best i ever had was an ex-defensive end from clemson. 6'7' 315. he'd put on a pair of gloves and we wouldn't need the porta wrap. i don't know if he was worth 315lbs of gold but he sure knew what it meant to let it run.
 
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as far as squirrels go--i had a pet one for a while named guido. took him to the southern chapter comp in 2006 in alabama. snuck him in to the hotel, forget which one but a nice place. well me and my buddy lucas were going up the elevator when i was first sneeking him in. luckily there was no one else in the elevator because he chewed through his box and quickly climbed my arm and perched quite obviously on my shoulder. he also got loose during the work climb event while i was watching the other contestants climb. i thought he was going to get stepped on by a judge. if you're wondering why i brought a squirrel to a tree climbing comp, well, sometimes you just can't find a sitter.

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He was a sweet little guy too! Sometimes you just have to bring those "special ones" along.
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"...they just kept chewing through everything we used to seal the hole."

I have a friend who lives on an island off the coast of Maine and who used to have a Swedish rat problem; the rats would chew through whatever he used to plug the holes.

Until he embedded double-edged razor blades in the expanding foam that he sprayed into every opening he could find, that is.

Problem solved.
 
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