What kind of spurs do you guys use?

I too liked geckos. Hell I use gecko pole gaffs in my KKs. But am buying some trees which I will try and mod for a bit more length. I like my points sharp so I can just step in. I always found buck tis to be easier. These you have to step pretty firm down. But tropical trees are super hard and shaped weird. Lots of doglegs.
 
I caught a treestuff video about knee spikes that they have coming down the pipeline. Apparently you use them in conjunction with traditional spikes. They look a little silly to me.
 
Pretty soon you'll be able to buy a chainmail jumper suit that's covered with spikes, and you can just slither up the tree like a snake.

Of course, you'll look like something straight out of a Monty Python movie.
 
I mostly drag the spur up the trunk, and step down. No stomping. If I need to set it right, in funky wood, I'll look, and set it in place. This drag gives me subconscious information about what I'm doing. Its harder to spike your rope, if you smoothly lift your foot, slightly dragging, and step down, keeping your rope on top of your foot, going to the outside.

Stomp it in, reverse-stomp out, whatever that is. I do know that is unnecessary wear and tear.

When I'm climbing in pole spurs, particularly bigleaf maples, I know that I occasionally will start to slide down the bark/ wood interface with a long slice, if I haven't set the spur a bit before standing up tall for a reach...no big deal, and I'll take the trade-off for greater stability in small wood, and less torquing on my joints. It probably exacerbated by me not looking to see if they are 'barking-up" and need a little clean-off.
 
Bashlin sells a set of pole spikes that are "polished". I could see that making more difference on power poles - especially the green gas impregnated ones. It also might be worth trying to polish the three sides if a climber is not having his gaffs set smoothly and well by just stepping up.
 
Merle Nelson said:
Bashlin sells a set of pole spikes that are "polished". I could see that making more difference on power poles - especially the green gas impregnated ones. It also might be worth trying to polish the three sides if a climber is not having his gaffs set smoothly and well by just stepping up.
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Is the green gas you're talking about the same as chromated copper arsenate? I got a set of titanium Buckinghams with CCA gaffs. They got got grooves cut along the length of the spike. Still never tried them out yet, just impulse buy because they were 60$ buy it now with nice steel insert Velcro wrap pads.


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Bango Skank said:
Is the green gas you're talking about the same as chromated copper arsenate? I got a set of titanium Buckinghams with CCA gaffs. They got got grooves cut along the length of the spike. Still never tried them out yet, just impulse buy because they were 60$ buy it now with nice steel insert Velcro wrap pads.


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You stole em. I don't know about the points, but $60 is a spectacular price for the shanks and the pads.
 
Z'sTrees said:
10-4 thanks Rico.
klein hydra cools or big buck wraps? Or is there something else better?
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Big Bucks are not my favorites as they are just to bulky and hot for me. I really like the Buck Cushion Wraps with the inserts though. Make sure and get them with the inserts that fit the BuckAlloys.

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