Treetopflyer
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Another angle for the butcher
what's in your rigging bags?! Show em up !
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jmaher
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Treetopflyer
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Lol ....
MikePowers321
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- Leeds, Ny
I'll give you $1,200 for the lot 
JeffGu
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And it all fell out of that one sidebox, right?
Stihlmadd
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it's like being in a candy store 
Treetopflyer
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Its my magic tool box
Treetopflyer
Been here much more than a while
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- Coastal N.J
I'll give you $1,200 for the lot
Stihlmadd
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- Adelaide South Australia
I'm thinking a K-boom with a grapple then lay that goodness out and try your luck 
just a note: I've been sending out XRR slings to those in the list earlier. Still got plenty more to send out. They will be coming as promised. I always gotta be dealing with major important things first. Sorry to place you second priority, but that's how it is with freebies with me. They coming , don't worry.
monkeylove
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No worries X, you pay bills by cutting trees not given away free stuff.
Crash
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Crash
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Apparently New Hampshire's geographic lies vertical compared to everywhere else. 
Damn I forgot to put my guitar in the pic, oh well.
Damn I forgot to put my guitar in the pic, oh well.
Treetopflyer
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What kind of capacity for weight does that lift on back of truck handle crash?. Like the guns and booze mixed in the yard sale style table setup ! Hhahaaa! Your propane torch is for phc?; )
Crash
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Hey Treetop, the amsteel on the winch is, if I remember correctly 1/4" , 7,700# break strength, 4,000# winching. I will replace it w/larger diameter soon, I can't seem to get my brain to trust such thin line. The truck hoist has a 1,000# rating. I hoist my wood splitter no problem, granite steps, wood furnace, scrap metal etc. I love it. For the record the whiskey stays home, also Old Crow bourbon tastes the same as Jim Beam at a 3rd the price. My flame thrower I use to cauterize Tarzans espalier wounds, then I pour the bourbon over that. More vertical gear pics coming soon.
TimBr
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- Northern Virginia
I started with that same block and sling combo setup and porti as well. That's saying something. I love all the awezome gear out these days . Those rockblock pulleys , mid line attach and swivel ..whooo!Got one buried in that bag as well ! I'd like to hear some testimonials from olds users or the belay spool users . I'm interested in adding something like that to arsenal. Be better than hauling a porty up or using a stub in the tree. I work with one guy on ground for myself and hold ropes while up there quite often . heavier stuff I've found having groundy throw an extra half wrap on p.o.w or more and while he wrangles branch I'll can hold rope and feed down with out too much trouble . Sometimes I have to work to let it down with that added friction ,but depends . I like the idea of holding rope myself when feasible . belay spool I think might be a real asset I don't have in the bag
The mini port-a-wrap weighs 1.45 pounds, I think, and is pretty small. Handles up to 1/2" rope. Rated for 1,000 pounds. Pricey at $109.00, but I bought it anyway, along with a tenex loopie sling to attach it to a nearby limb.
Nick Bonner from TreeStuff deserves huge props for his service related to this sale. The weight info for the various sizes of portawrap was not listed on website. Nick broke open boxes and weighed them all himself, and had the info up on website within about 2 to 3 days max.
The mini is small enough and light enough that if I have a doubt in my mind about being able to hold the weight of a limb I'm planning to cut, I take it with me. Hope this helps.
Tim
Treetopflyer
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Show it up Tim
MikePowers321
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- Leeds, Ny
so you're using the mini with you while climbing?
TimBr
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- Northern Virginia
Yes, Mike. I'm a relatively new climber compared to most folks on this forum. I'm not a pro arb, just do stuff for friends and family. As a result, I usually work alone. I tend to carry what most pros I'd imagine would think of as way too much stuff on my harness, just because if I end up needing something there is nobody there to send up something I've forgotten.
If I'm cutting something that requires my half inch rigging rope and a pulley, I leave all that heavy stuff on the ground and connect it to a haul line. I have one of those small progress capture pulleys, the MicroTraxion, that I use to pull the rope and rigging pulley plus Big Dan rigging biner, etc. up to me when I get to my first stopping point, usually 60 or 70 feet up, I'd guess. If I'm already planning to pull all that stuff up anyway, I might just add the mini port-a-wrap to the mix.
Having said that, there have been plenty of times when I've just gone ahead and hung it off my saddle for the climb up. The important thing for me in these instances is to get the mini port-a-wrap laying so that it hangs kind of flat against my side. I've had it configured wrong sometimes, and there are parts of the thing that want to poke at you when this happens.
I'm no speed climber. It means more to me to have stuff I need on me, than to travel light and be faster.
I climbed today, but wasn't cutting anything big enough to require the mini, so it stayed down on the ground.
I hope to climb tomorrow, with my neighbor's indulgence, so pictures of the mini will have to wait until my next "off" day. We've got great weather in the forecast for the next two days, so I want to climb while the conditions are nearly ideal. It's going to get really hot after that, and rainy. When I do post pics, I'll try to go to the trouble of laying the mini next to a more normal size of lowering device.
I have used this device to lower and maintain control over pieces that probably weighed about 90 pounds, and it worked like a champ.
I hope this helps.
Tim
If I'm cutting something that requires my half inch rigging rope and a pulley, I leave all that heavy stuff on the ground and connect it to a haul line. I have one of those small progress capture pulleys, the MicroTraxion, that I use to pull the rope and rigging pulley plus Big Dan rigging biner, etc. up to me when I get to my first stopping point, usually 60 or 70 feet up, I'd guess. If I'm already planning to pull all that stuff up anyway, I might just add the mini port-a-wrap to the mix.
Having said that, there have been plenty of times when I've just gone ahead and hung it off my saddle for the climb up. The important thing for me in these instances is to get the mini port-a-wrap laying so that it hangs kind of flat against my side. I've had it configured wrong sometimes, and there are parts of the thing that want to poke at you when this happens.
I'm no speed climber. It means more to me to have stuff I need on me, than to travel light and be faster.
I climbed today, but wasn't cutting anything big enough to require the mini, so it stayed down on the ground.
I hope to climb tomorrow, with my neighbor's indulgence, so pictures of the mini will have to wait until my next "off" day. We've got great weather in the forecast for the next two days, so I want to climb while the conditions are nearly ideal. It's going to get really hot after that, and rainy. When I do post pics, I'll try to go to the trouble of laying the mini next to a more normal size of lowering device.
I have used this device to lower and maintain control over pieces that probably weighed about 90 pounds, and it worked like a champ.
I hope this helps.
Tim
