When did you first hear?

All of my coffeemakers have a METH LAB label on them, that I make with a P-Touch labelmaker. But, they've never blown up and left a crater where my house was standing, and narco squad doesn't kick my door down and confiscate my machines.

I once contemplated putting a coffee machine in the bathroom, for those times when you just know you're going to be there for awhile.
 
JeffGu said:
All of my coffeemakers have a METH LAB label on them, that I make with a P-Touch labelmaker. But, they've never blown up and left a crater where my house was standing, and narco squad doesn't kick my door down and confiscate my machines.

I once contemplated putting a coffee machine in the bathroom, for those times when you just know you're going to be there for awhile.
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Coffee is apparently good for the colon. My neighbor did a colonic cleanse with a series of mild coffee enemas and said he felt ten years younger. Then I read online that King Charles II used to receive the Privy Council while having a coffee enema, even had music composed for the Royal Enema. This particular use of the stuff while in the loo may not be what you were talking about however?
 
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Coffee is apparently good for the colon. My neighbor did a colonic cleanse with a series of mild coffee enemas and said he felt ten years younger. Then I read online that King Charles II used to receive the Privy Council while having a coffee enema, even had music composed for the Royal Enema. This particular use of the stuff while in the loo may not be what you were talking about however?
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I too heard that coffee enemas are amazing shit
 
Raven said:
SRT is the mother of DRT.

WHere do you thunk this all came from? Just read "On Rope" and you may get it.

DdRT is just another variation of SRWP - ropes and hitches tied in various combinations, some mechanical, all to aid in safe work positioning aloft.

I love it all, especially my "Magic Shoes".
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One of my favourite comments ever read on the buzz!
 
ARLO said:
I started on spurs in 1964 and SRT in 1970. My first SRT climbs were in old-growth trees on a goldline rope with a ropewalker system that I made out of 2 Jumars, a couple of long footloops and a chest harness, with a short webbing loop between one of the Jumars and the harness so I could stop and rest while hanging from the chest harness. Not particularly safe or comfortable, but it worked. Goldline was terrible stuff for SRT because it was so stretchy and because it would twist while you climbed, spinning you in circles until you were seasick. I still use SRT extensively in my work but I have joined the modern world and have much better stuff now! I am a researcher, not an arborist.
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Ah yes--goldline. Hated it back in the late 60's. Used it for caving. Horrible stuff. Most cavers used Bluewater II by early-70's. So much more comfortable.

Based on a caving background, when I started climbing trees about a year ago I started SRT. Had no idea how to do DRT, but SRT seemed like an obvious choice.

My first climb over 6 feet high I had trouble switching to my Figure 8 while just hanging from the rope. Seems very funny now. From my caving background we often switched from ascending on 3 Gibbs (ropewalker with a chest harness) to a rappel rack to descend. I couldn't figure out how to get slack in the rope to attach the Fig 8 and then undo the rope grab I used to ascend so I could descend. I wish I had video of my efforts. It didn't take me long to figure out how to use my friction hitch to descend the short climbs I do. So far I think my biggest climb has been about 50 feet, and pretty happy with my setup. I did get some great instruction on DRT, and have done some just for practice and work positioning. SRT is still my go-to system.
 
Maybe 1996? Used rock climbing aiders and Clog ascenders to get into a big tree, and immediately switched over to Ddrt. I also prussiked into a tree I didn’t want to hip thrust into around that time.
This wasn’t innovation, though, it was sheer laziness.
I didn’t really fool much with SRT until recently, when much more ambitious and capable people had ironed out all the kinks.
 
I first heard about srt in arb shortly after I started working (10 years ago) but it was mostly here say and videos, no in life demonstration.

I first started climbing srt nearly 5 years ago now. The more tools in the mental toolbox the safer and more effective I can be, and the better I can teach those who follow.
 
I first heard about srt when I first started reading about the climbing side of tree care, about 20 years ago. I heard it was complicated, gear intensive, and potentially dangerous.

I didn't start climbing seriously until about 12 years ago. I became more curious about srt, but it seemed more about conserving energy when ascending big trees. Since we don't have a lot of big ascents on the praries, it seems like an idea for later.

About 8 years ago, I started using an f8 here and there, to see what it felt like. Then Mr. Bingham released his diagram for the wrench (I loved the concept, but also the open source philosophy). The person I worked for, at the time, worked with wood as a hobby. He made me a wooden wrench. I was instantly hooked. I love seeing static rope systems sweep through the community of climbing arborists I know.
 
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I first heard about SRT two years ago, from my brother. I first climbed using it this last November, only used it twice. Once to quickly ascend back up to an oak I was pruning.
Then that same day, later, I used SRT to ascend up on a rope to be used as a winch line, that was put up in a white pine, to lift another pine of the oak I was pruning.

The SRT I did, was with a Climbing Technology right footed ascender on, my left foot, the only other gear was the rope and my ZZ. I had to pull the ZZ up with my hand to the highest it would go, so I could continue ascending with my left leg. Which is the reason people use chest anchors for their hitch, in the form of RW, Akimboo, RRP, FTS, BBD, TRS, WTF etc.

Ascending (I won't call it climbing, because it was too easy) SRT those two times, was easy, and fast.
 
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Around 2006 when I saw Mike Stanonik tie a running bowline around the base of a Masters Challenge Tree. Never forget it . So cool.
I immediately tried footlocking up a single leg and didn’t like it. Once I got to the top I was freaked out about how much weight I was putting on my rope. I was pretty good back then too. Best footlock time of 16.44. Then I went municipal and faded away.
I never climbed srt. Every year I see the Illinois guys at a convention with mechanical ascenders. Only now is it starting to fascinate me. The whole Bingham revolution that is. Is Kevin B. the beginning of all arborist mechanical ascenders?
 
Redbud33 said:
Around 2006 when I saw Mike Stanonik tie a running bowline around the base of a Masters Challenge Tree. Never forget it . So cool.
I immediately tried footlocking up a single leg and didn’t like it. Once I got to the top I was freaked out about how much weight I was putting on my rope. I was pretty good back then too. Best footlock time of 16.44. Then I went municipal and faded away.
I never climbed srt. Every year I see the Illinois guys at a convention with mechanical ascenders. Only now is it starting to fascinate me. The whole Bingham revolution that is. Is Kevin B. the beginning of all arborist mechanical ascenders?
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See: https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/sr-timeline.39310/#post-584824 Post #15, etc
 
Redbud33 said:
Is Kevin B. the beginning of all arborist mechanical ascenders?
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Morgan Thompson built the Unicender, He debuted it at TCIA Expo in Long Beach in March 2005. I had the good fortune to be there.

The Uni was the first multi-cender. This is the start of true SRT/SRS climbing where a tool is used as an ascender and descender without a changeover.

AAAA Unicender Morgan Thompson.jpg

I hope that Kevin chimes in with the debut date of his first Rope Wrench.
 
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Tom Dunlap said:
Morgan Thompson built the Unicender, He debuted it at TCIA Expo in Long Beach in March 2005. I had the good fortune to be there.

The Uni was the first multi-cender. This is the start of true SRT/SRS climbing where a tool is used as an ascender and descender without a changeover.

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Acsenders were being offered by Tom Ness in at least 1994 New Tribe Catalog.
And a "mini-rack" w/ change-over for decent.
 
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