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Muggs said:
I was really surprised too, but then again I've never soaked a rope before...
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Good point; that should have been obvious to me, I guess. I will try soaking my other, still nearly new rope from Beal. I will check with them first, as it's a unicore rope and I would hate to mess the bonding agent in my new, fancy rope.
 
southsoundtree said:
I tried a new rope washing way instead of dirtying the bathtub or washing machine.

Using a similar bin, I sprayed the rope while filling, then, once filled, vigorously rocked the bin from one bottom edge to the opposite bottom edge, on the ground. Rinse and repeat several times.

Mine was more chocolate milk-colored after a muddy removal job at the forest edge where there was basically leaf-litter covering covering clay-ish soil.
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I also always do a plastic tub wash before putting it in the machine to really clean it more fully.
 
Muggs said:
I was really surprised too, but then again I've never soaked a rope before...
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Mine did the same - therefore me being in a state of milky water befuddlement post soaking I decided to rinse in a rope bag and washing machine with Teufelberger rope soap as I normally do. Post rope wash and three days hanging dry, I milked about two feet of cover off 200 feet of Squir with a sewn eye. New one on me (soak and wash) for a new rope but it seems to work nicely in an RRP now. Go with the flow.
 
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It looks good for sure. The guy that I like working with the most bids those kinds of jobs a bit high, but we do a lot more smaller cuts. Is that necessary, or better? I can't say with any real confidence- I have only been doing this and paying attention for a few years. I know that on cannabis plants, with which I have 15 years of experience, cuts that deep on mature plants will cost you yield. The equivalency that I infer is that one will lose significant canopy, and the shade it provides for more time than I find desireable. In my climate, most folks are EXTREMELY averse to losing any of their shade, and will often pay more to have someone be super delicate and precise, and we believe that it's ideal, when given the monetary incentive to do our preferred level of detail, to preserve the natural architecture of a given tree as much as possible. But I don't believe what was done here was harmful, or undesirable per se. Different strokes for different folks, right?
 
27RMT0N said:
And right after mentioning it's fairly rare, I got a good one today! Field grown fir, pretty big, here in the hinge-wood you can see an old pruning cut and the stub that takes up a good 4" of the hinge. 3" inside the trunk wood, and with another 3" of bark outside that (I shaved most of it off before cutting the tree and taking that photo) but could see no indication of it before cutting the tree. No harm in this case, but amusing to see right after discussing it.

(putting some previously topped firs surrounding a house out of their misery here)

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And to continue the crazy streak of branches in hinges, I got this one yesterday on a 19" Black Cherry. The branch seen is about 5/8" diameter. Never happened before. Apparently we have collectively manifested this.
 

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cory said:
Meaning more strength in the hinge, ie, a good thing?

Nice pic, have you climbed Rainier?
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No, it can hold a hinge, preventing flexing. Burnham fought that battle with a dead doug-fir. He attributed the stubs to locking the hinge to some degree. He's wedged trees in his time.

I've been partway up on a day hike.

Never been drawn. Don't have the gear. I like rock climbing, especially mild days.

Been cold in the mountains, before... didn't get hypothermia for the weeks by boiling two quart bottles and putting them in my sleeping bag, 10-12,000' in Colorado in the fall with inadequate gear and a three season tent.
 
I climbed Rainier back when I was a teenager, very cool experience.

Had a storm that destroyed half of our groups tents overnight, so we all climbed in two of four to get through the night, getting almost no sleep as the wind and snow raged on. Some of our party had to turn back half way up, one person fell into a crevasses but of course we were roped up and yanked them back to the surface, the summit day was great and at the top (14,411 feet) there is bare dirt from the heat where you can lay on the soil and feel the magma just below the surface, we could see downtown Seattle 60 miles away and and more adventures on the way back down. This was right before I got a digital camera, otherwise I'd share some photos. Hell of an experience though, I've climbed most of the big mountains/volcanos in our region and while generally Rainier isn't a big deal (depending on the route you take), weather is a bigger factor than most places.
 
Not Rainier, but here is Mt Baker a bit north in the volcanic chain that crosses Washington state. If you've never been on the summit of mountains with serious prominence above the surrounding land, pictures never do the scale justice. It's just another world up there.

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