Recent content by SeanKroll

I've learned to file free- hand on a mountain side with 3 strokes per raker to adjust. A poor method until you know what you're doing and filing cutters well, allowing your brain to gather info about performance into a feedback loop. Like people who use the "pull the chain and the tension...

Do you use the same offset for the entirety of the tooth?

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Subs, here, as seperate entities, aren't covered to drive any vehicles, either. Driving is a common need I have if bringing on an employee. If we need more people, we need more equipment or the same equipment in shorter time-frames.

Here, legally, the two business must operate separately, never together. The Sub-contractor climber can't work with the General Contractor's ground worker. Does that rule get broken? All the time!

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I try to focus on what I want instead of what I don't want. I try to get new climbers to do this. I don't want to fall. Vs. I want to safely and confidently climb and descend from the tree. Also, focus/ walk them through a process of mentally defining the goal, exploring options...

I think it's different being a subcontractor than an employeeas to responsibility for damage. This gets messy when a subcontractor is working with tools and employees of the general (main) contractor. Subs can't use/ work with general contractors', tools, employees, nor supervision/...

I tell people routinely that I like to squeeze the trigger as much as possible to get the wood on the ground, using as little hand handling or rigging/ extra tools as sensible. Binding means pulling extra gear from the truck, hauling to the tree, install, removal from a log that may not need...

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'Contact climber' can mean an Ace or someone who can't put together a small company who works illegally. Many points in between.

Volunteer or compulsory military service?

And consider a progressively raker setting.

Try to avoid gripping the rope when ropewalking... hold yourself upright with the rope. Propel with your legs. Short steps. Dial in your knee ascender length and bungee length/ power.