Things that likely frustrate every climber at least once in their career

[Neill]

From what I’ve read / seen there’s a small window after coming in contact with it to get the oils off before you have a reaction. The actual cleaning product you use isn’t as important as friction. Think of grease from a vehicle or equipment. You really got to rub hard with something to take it off.

Not sure how much validity there is to this

I get it a lot and can tell you that has a lot of truth. I’ve pretty much tried every remedy there is but realistically I don’t carry a poison ivy emergency washing station to every job I’m sent to so inevitably I tend to get it often, sometimes severely.

@Reach i ivy you, I mean envy your lack of reaction. I know who to call next time though lol

What’s wrong with Poison Ivy? You mean it makes you itch or something? I can roll in it all day and it doesn’t bother me!

 

[Njdelaney]

Wind that magically appears or changes direction to blow saw chips into my eyes, nose and mouth as soon as I start making a cut while aloft.

 

[Bendroctanus]

That wind that comes, no matter where you are, right when you’re about to take a top.

 

[Matias]

From what I’ve read / seen there’s a small window after coming in contact with it to get the oils off before you have a reaction. The actual cleaning product you use isn’t as important as friction. Think of grease from a vehicle or equipment. You really got to rub hard with something to take it off.

Not sure how much validity there is

It’s been 100% true in my experience. I don’t react horribly, but enough that it pisses me off. I heard that medical tidbit and started testing the theory. I’m now comfortable with the idea of mowing it with the weed whacker and pulling it up bare handed. The window is about four hours under average conditions, but if it’s gotten onto open scratches or broken skin of any sort, I play it extra cautious as I have had a little set in; two hours then.
As has been mentioned, you need to wash like its machine grease.

 

[evo]

Cat rescues…

 

[Matias]

Holy shit guys, this might be the most cathartic thread ever. I appreciate every one of you more than you may ever know.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Having to take an unplanned shit early on in the work day.
Then the rest of the day is a nightmare with a ring more painful than a virgin’s at a prison rodeo.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Having to take an unplanned shit early on in the work day.
Then the rest of the day is a nightmare with a ring more painful than a virgin’s at a prison rodeo.

Holy crap, that’s funny.

 

[Vicente]

That’s what compression underwear is for. Add a compression under shirt too and tuck it in your underwear, create a seal.

I thought the undershirt was too try to help me look good.

Cut branches that keep getting hung up and won't drop.
Gaffing out and scratching my nipple.

 

[Chris Schultz]

When I hit the ground with a larger powerhead racked, and the felling dogs stab the back of my calf.

 

[ghostice]

Sickeningly sticky spruce sap, that goes from the tree to your lanyard to your harness to your saw pants to your car seat to your steering wheel to your garage doorknob to your laundry room floor to your washing machine door that makes my wife yell at me . . . . sigh.

 

[Bendroctanus]

When you get your beard stuck in your prusik…

 

[Matias]

Having to take an unplanned shit early on in the work day.
Then the rest of the day is a nightmare with a ring more painful than a virgin’s at a prison rodeo.

Yea, pooping in the chip truck

 

[climbingmonkey24]

Yea, pooping in the chip truck

Make sure not to drop that load off to someone looking for chips…

 

[Jehinten]

When you get your beard stuck in your prusik…

A friend's uncle owns a local tree service and used to climb. From what I hear he has gotten a nipple ring caught in a hitchclimber pulley a few times.

The story I heard, it was quite the sight watching this happen from the ground with all of the screaming and cursing going on in the air.

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[Mick Dempsey]

A friend's uncle owns a local tree service and used to climb. From what I hear he has gotten a nipple ring caught in a hitchclimber pulley a few times.

The story I heard, it was quite the sight watching this happen from the ground with all of the screaming and cursing going on in the air.

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Serve him right, bloody deviant!

 

[Bendroctanus]

Make sure not to drop that load off to someone looking for chips…

Unless you don’t like them.

 

[Matias]

Make sure not to drop that load off to someone looking for chips…

Shit happens bro

 

[rico]

Yea, pooping in the chip truck

Once took a poop in a paper bag at 140 ft in a big OG fir while standing on a limb with my saddle down around my ankles. Took me an agonizing 35-40 minutes of eating bark just to get to the first limb so there was no way I was coming down..I would have shit myself and stewed in it all day before doing that.

 

[Vicente]

Once took a poop in a paper bag at 140 ft in a big OG fir while standing on a limb with my saddle down around my ankles. Took me an agonizing 35-40 minutes of eating bark just to get to the first limb so there was no way I was coming down..I would have shit myself and stewed in it all day before doing that.

Trees that are too fat to comfortably flip up I shoot up a rope and srt up the first section, so much easier.