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Wagnaw
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On the main page... you know how there are pictures... Keep Clicking on the heading and look through the pictures. You'll see plenty. or look through the climbing forum. It won't take you long to find some.
Would you do this?
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On the main page... you know how there are pictures... Keep Clicking on the heading and look through the pictures. You'll see plenty. or look through the climbing forum. It won't take you long to find some.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Damn!
Ya know I was just trying to give the dude some benefit of the doubt.
Piss off pal, go spout off elsewhere. The name calling and freaking out doesn't fly here. Ya got something to prove go off and prove it elsewhere.
Idiot.
Sorry John, don't want it to seem like I was backing this freak out artist. We've all seen the pics of your work for years now, which makes this even funnier.
What a joke.
Ya know I was just trying to give the dude some benefit of the doubt.
Piss off pal, go spout off elsewhere. The name calling and freaking out doesn't fly here. Ya got something to prove go off and prove it elsewhere.
Idiot.
Sorry John, don't want it to seem like I was backing this freak out artist. We've all seen the pics of your work for years now, which makes this even funnier.
What a joke.
No_Bivy
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have you trained?
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SkwerI
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cool! Call me when you get down this way, I just spoke with Chip through PM a little while ago and we'll definitely have to meet up while you're here.
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Wagnaw
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I'm still kicking myself for missing the GAA-TCC. ...just bad timing.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Did I miss something? 
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Blinky
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Hell no, just working. I've been footlocking on a knot whenever I set a free hanging rope. Other than that I've been on gaffs 90% of the time. I'll be at the bottom of the ranks because I suck out loud in AR.
I want to score a 9 or a 10 in the footlock, I'll zero AR and belayed speed, I might do OK in throwline if I'm having a good day, work climb, who knows?
I want to score a 9 or a 10 in the footlock, I'll zero AR and belayed speed, I might do OK in throwline if I'm having a good day, work climb, who knows?
SkwerI
Treehouser
They set you in the top of the tree for the work climb. Worst part is trying to get in the groove instantly and fly from limb to limb after standing around all day.
Fat skwerl in a tree a couple years ago. I think I was 3rd out of 12-14 entries on the work climb.
Fat skwerl in a tree a couple years ago. I think I was 3rd out of 12-14 entries on the work climb.
sawinredneck
Treehouser
Did I miss something?
Not a thing Boss, not a thing.
rbtree
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So, I missed the fireworks. Was returning oldschool's first pm, before the shit hit the fan. Then, he sent me two more, saying he was sorry for overreacting. Said he's just not cut out for handling criticism in forums.... apologized-to me..and I hadn't even seen what had gone down.
In real life he's prolly not like that....which he did say to me......
and I'm sure he's very competent. Doing storm work for utilities is high volume, high speed work...and plenty dicey.
In real life he's prolly not like that....which he did say to me......
and I'm sure he's very competent. Doing storm work for utilities is high volume, high speed work...and plenty dicey.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Tell him it's all cool.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Man, I was just gonna say, I'd do that.
Just watched the vids for the first time.
Haha
Just watched the vids for the first time.
Haha
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I'm telling ya'll, I have done that! More than once and on bigger lines. That's how I know it's for real. The first time I nearly decapitated myself.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
No decapitations.
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Blinky
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Doing storm stuff lowers the bar for safety standards... it shouldn't but it does because in that situation, time really is money.
In NOLA we frequently worked inside minimum approach on everything from open secondaries to transmission lines... with frikkin New Orleans drivers running around under us. It was all energized, we couldn't get line drops. If the pay wasn't as good as it was I wouldn't have touched half of those ROEs... but it was, so i did... learned some killer tricks from the Tamarack boys. I didn't see anything like sparky did but I had that metallic taste in my mouth a time or two.
I think you have to judge a climber's actions in those situations as he saw things at the time... not with 20/20 hindsight.
In NOLA we frequently worked inside minimum approach on everything from open secondaries to transmission lines... with frikkin New Orleans drivers running around under us. It was all energized, we couldn't get line drops. If the pay wasn't as good as it was I wouldn't have touched half of those ROEs... but it was, so i did... learned some killer tricks from the Tamarack boys. I didn't see anything like sparky did but I had that metallic taste in my mouth a time or two.
I think you have to judge a climber's actions in those situations as he saw things at the time... not with 20/20 hindsight.
MasterBlaster
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Old Monkey
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No worries the folks who decapitate themselves don't post here.
MasterBlaster
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Their posts would be mindless, anyway.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
ba-da bing!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
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No_Bivy
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Watched the vid a few more times........There is a pole right there with a transformer. I bet the was truck access. NO WAY progress clearance guys would have done it that way. I still think balls have nothing to do with being stupid.........but you get to live.
you guys that pay workers comp.....would you let one of your climbers do that?
you guys that pay workers comp.....would you let one of your climbers do that?
MasterBlaster
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And that's exactly (the "betting" part) what I mean, nobody really knows what was going up except the people that were there. In the video below I had to jump outta the way of the limb being roped - no other way to do it. A casual observer (or even a "Treeman") woulda thought I was NUTS!
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