Yep, no top rope and no lanyard until you got high enough to get nervous...or just past the first limb, whichever came first...we would hold on with one hand, reset the lanyard with the other and then climb on...don't know why we didn't use two lanyards, at least.....nutz.
Same here...I have never used pole gaffs...started on tree gaffs and have always used them. Like Burnham, I have never experienced any wobbliness, instability, whatever. I use them on mostly oaks, pines, maples, occasional hickory (I remember one that I almost could not get the spikes...
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