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Yeah... Reg and August have it down, for sure. I've often lamented on the one hand and rejoiced on the other, that no two trees are the same. The lamentation is that you never get a pure scientific scenario in which to race yourself between two different methods. The rejoicing part is for...

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Sean: If I could see you doing it with a proficient ground crew... I may well agree or even change my ways. On the other hand, most of the guys that I HAVE seen utilizing it would have been far faster with simple straight up and down rigging. I know about the multiple limbs on one biner...

SL?? :|:?

Yeah, man seriously. Whether because of the mere setup time with a haul back, or else the ridiculous hassle of pulling the stupid little deals back up on your stupid climb line every time... yeah... I insist that it's only faster in a tiny little minority of situations.

Physical troubles, Daniel, or just too busy scaring up the jobs, and maintaining trucks and chippers?

I know that I'll catch a ton of flack for this. (And, yes, I'm relatively sober at the moment), but, nonetheless, I hereby state that speed lining is by far the most overrated and overused practice in this trade. Pretty fun once in a while though... faster even... about once in a thousand.