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Reg, I have to apologize for the derail of your thread Lol. Here a pic of how I isolate a biner on my climbing line. I love long splice eyes as I can girth hitch to my biner and it does not move sideways. Tough old split tail I have used on Blakes hitch for years. It's has this little leather...

I was taught from day one doing aerial chainsaw cuts by work positioned on stem.....always cut with 2 T.I.P. whether it's 2 lanyards or 1 lanyard and 1 climbing rope. Even MB. workplace health and safety officers up here in northern Manitoba watch me for that . As I delimb up a spruce my...

Stay safe Stephen, breaking out tops sounds like a better plan. I get tired just watching you in that video advancing that rope and biner. When I used to have a groundie working spruce climbing removals (never pruned one) I would remove my right side wire core lanyard and run my 200 ft. 1/2"...

Couple more years time mother nature will take those carcasses down for you.

I see your point getting the weight off the spurs hanging from a line Stephen. Day in day out in that beetle kill pine definitely warrants that technique. You must be getting tired of that stuff by now,ponderosa or lodgepole?

Here's a 120 footer that took me 5 minutes to fell down the HO's driveway and another 5 to limb and top it. He cleans up.

Stephen, depends what majority of conifer your set a climbing line in. My majority is spruce which had a thick canopy near impossible to isolate a TiP line in. We have some pine with heavy sparse limbs and strong crotches which are easy to isolate. But these spruce are what I mainly deal with.

Well for conifers I do mostly spruce removals and you can't always get a secure high tie in point with a climbing rope , let alone a strong enough isolated crotch for SRT, spruce limbs are way too thick and bushy. I used to use my rope as a 2nd lanyard on spars but I haven't had a groundie for...

Sean, alternating flip lines with or without a climbing rope always is nice especially in heavy pruning or removals in hardwood and conifer removals.

Pete, No complaints other then the leg straps twist up stupid sometimes. Bridge is still holding out fine, it's got lots of good attachment points. Comfortable and light. But I still liked my old Buckingham Traverse better though, that was one tough comfy saddle. Nothing wrong with it still...

No need to . Look close at the edge of the clevis hole where the head of the threaded pin contacts. There's 4 recesses along that edge where the pin locks onto, I use a small crescent wrench to tighten it. No way is that pin coming out. I only put LocTite on the threads because my OCD told me to :D

Reg, I've been using the Wichard twisted clevis on my lanyard grabs since day one. I always have 2 steel core lanyards on my saddle , one with a Petzl Macro grab and the smaller opposite lanyard a Gibbs Ascender. Both my clevis's are different size to fit the larger and smaller grab/lanyards...