The Invention Barn
- Thread starter Jemco
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A man's gotta know his limits JD!
And juggling half a dozen gadgets at one time's real close to my limit ole buddy.
Jemco
You could probably make the camera idea happen with a couple cheap or old smartphones.
Drones or GoPro knock-offs too, but prepaid smartphones would probably be least expensive and have a good selection of apps to use.
I’ve always wanted a pruner head that cuts from the top down, like an upside down version of every other one.
It’d be a little difficult to get used to, harder than just hooking what you want to cut and pulling the cord, but if it’s no longer fighting the gravity induced pinch, might be capable of bigger capacity.
Also want a do-dad that goes on our common Jameson type poles that will discharge spray cans of insecticide when one pulls the cord.
Just a couple of things I daydream of lol.
Drones or GoPro knock-offs too, but prepaid smartphones would probably be least expensive and have a good selection of apps to use.
I’ve always wanted a pruner head that cuts from the top down, like an upside down version of every other one.
It’d be a little difficult to get used to, harder than just hooking what you want to cut and pulling the cord, but if it’s no longer fighting the gravity induced pinch, might be capable of bigger capacity.
Also want a do-dad that goes on our common Jameson type poles that will discharge spray cans of insecticide when one pulls the cord.
Just a couple of things I daydream of lol.
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@Bango Skank
There are several of those doo daad spray can units made. Be clever with a google search you'll find them
There are several of those doo daad spray can units made. Be clever with a google search you'll find them
TimBr
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Too funny, JeffGu!
Reach
Been here much more than a while
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- Atglen, PA
I have seen inverted style pole pruners before, I just forget where. I’ve also seen pole mounted aerosol can activators. Try Forestry Suppliers, for some reason I think that’s where I saw both.
I love the plush ride!
But I'm not happy with how thin the steel is at the receptor tube that's been milled n slotted.
Makes me uneasy about turning hard, or riding hard.
Gonna have to slide a reinforcement tube onto the existing tube, and tack it in place, and slot it too.
I may have the only unicycle with a suspension system in the world!
Jemco
But I'm not happy with how thin the steel is at the receptor tube that's been milled n slotted.
Makes me uneasy about turning hard, or riding hard.
Gonna have to slide a reinforcement tube onto the existing tube, and tack it in place, and slot it too.
I may have the only unicycle with a suspension system in the world!
Jemco
Burrapeg
Been here a while
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- Puget Sound
It would be cool to see you towing a little bike trailer with your climbing gear on it!
There are lots of unicycles with handlebars n saddlebags n stuff.
But none with suspension that I've seen or heard tale of.
I'm far from finished with suspension tho.
A combination of coil spring seat posts, hydraulic disc brakes, and telescoping cranks with heavy duty tension springs, should allow a good rider to pogo up or down a fairly steep mountainside.
My current unicycle's far too light duty n cheap to withstand that kinda pounding tho!
Jemco
But none with suspension that I've seen or heard tale of.
I'm far from finished with suspension tho.
A combination of coil spring seat posts, hydraulic disc brakes, and telescoping cranks with heavy duty tension springs, should allow a good rider to pogo up or down a fairly steep mountainside.
My current unicycle's far too light duty n cheap to withstand that kinda pounding tho!
Jemco
So I'm doin allota prunin with no gaffs lately, and find myself usin my speedline loops as girth hitches on leaders to form a foot stirrup, to obtain optimum work position, and as a means of ascending.
The frustrating thing's getting the loops open wide enough, long enough, to step into it!
So invention number 79's gonna be made to work in tandem with my loops, and insure a wide open stirrup to easily step into, that can collapse into a small streamline folding triangle, to clip onto your saddle, one for each foot.
Jemco
The frustrating thing's getting the loops open wide enough, long enough, to step into it!
So invention number 79's gonna be made to work in tandem with my loops, and insure a wide open stirrup to easily step into, that can collapse into a small streamline folding triangle, to clip onto your saddle, one for each foot.
Jemco
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- Retired in Minneapolis
Or slip the webbing through a piece of garden hose. Just enough to hold open a loop.
Look at how etriers are built.
Look at how etriers are built.
A couple of 22KN rated aluminum rings, attached to each end of about 15 inches of nylon webbing, and sewn on Velcro to keep it streamlined once folded.
Perhaps some urethane plastic stiffener sewn into the triangle's base.
Each should weigh less than a quarter pound.
Folding Triangle Stirrups!
Jemco
Perhaps some urethane plastic stiffener sewn into the triangle's base.
Each should weigh less than a quarter pound.
Folding Triangle Stirrups!
Jemco
DumpyMcDoodleface
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Wow you are my kind of people @Jemco
I gotta get to work on my stand up saddle design.
Been sittin on the shelf too long.
I'm convinced I can make it an addendum design feature for military parachute harnesses, and tree saddle harnesses.
The traditional parachute harness designs make perfect sense for recovering and becoming vertically oriented from an uncontrolled tumbling fall/jump.
But once vertical orientation's achieved?
Once stable, it makes perfect sense to be able to quickly clip into a standup lower leg/foot/boot harness, allowing you to stand up and fill your leg muscles with an unrestricted blood flow, prior to impact.
Which is one of the reasons EMT's are taught to treat suspension trauma victims by having them stand on leg loops provided to them, in situations where immediate rescue's not possible.
Not all that complicated really......
A modified webbing gator foot harness will be considerably cheaper than my customized 750 dollar Highliners!
Jemco
Been sittin on the shelf too long.
I'm convinced I can make it an addendum design feature for military parachute harnesses, and tree saddle harnesses.
The traditional parachute harness designs make perfect sense for recovering and becoming vertically oriented from an uncontrolled tumbling fall/jump.
But once vertical orientation's achieved?
Once stable, it makes perfect sense to be able to quickly clip into a standup lower leg/foot/boot harness, allowing you to stand up and fill your leg muscles with an unrestricted blood flow, prior to impact.
Which is one of the reasons EMT's are taught to treat suspension trauma victims by having them stand on leg loops provided to them, in situations where immediate rescue's not possible.
Not all that complicated really......
A modified webbing gator foot harness will be considerably cheaper than my customized 750 dollar Highliners!
Jemco
My expectations for this industry's future has been described as radical by some fairly experienced practitioners of it.
Whether it's an automated 600 ft rope spool strapped to the base of a tree, or the bed of a telescoping truck/crane, it'll be the ropespool doing all the lifting n lowering, at the touch of a button/toggle/trigger.
Which brings us to the subject of optimal terminations of the rope assembly for the climber, which I believe to be a T bar, splitting the rope into two webbing straps on each side, at just about shoulder width, thread through both the upper and lower D rings, of a standard 4 D ring tree harness.
I am one of few, and perhaps the only climbing arborist that has experienced what it's like to be suspended in just such a harness, with an added lower leg attachment, allowing you to standup and support all your weight on your feet, attached to an overhead T bar, with the pivot point at your upper D rings on either side.
It is a very peculiar sensation indeed, and far more conducive to unrestricted spider man maneuvering about such as a free climber would.
Since the single line attachment to the T bar is so far from the climber's cutting range, and there are now two webbing straps suspending you, cutting yourself out of a tree accidentally, becomes twice as hard to do.
Jemco
Whether it's an automated 600 ft rope spool strapped to the base of a tree, or the bed of a telescoping truck/crane, it'll be the ropespool doing all the lifting n lowering, at the touch of a button/toggle/trigger.
Which brings us to the subject of optimal terminations of the rope assembly for the climber, which I believe to be a T bar, splitting the rope into two webbing straps on each side, at just about shoulder width, thread through both the upper and lower D rings, of a standard 4 D ring tree harness.
I am one of few, and perhaps the only climbing arborist that has experienced what it's like to be suspended in just such a harness, with an added lower leg attachment, allowing you to standup and support all your weight on your feet, attached to an overhead T bar, with the pivot point at your upper D rings on either side.
It is a very peculiar sensation indeed, and far more conducive to unrestricted spider man maneuvering about such as a free climber would.
Since the single line attachment to the T bar is so far from the climber's cutting range, and there are now two webbing straps suspending you, cutting yourself out of a tree accidentally, becomes twice as hard to do.
Jemco
