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  1. SeanKroll

    Firewood

    I've been working on our wood. We will go through 4 cords easily between 3 stove, 2 houses, where one burns regularly, 2 burn continuously most of the deep winter. I never measure. Thankfully, 2 have large fireboxes in the big house. One is a small fireboxfor a small house, though plenty...
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    I helped Roger B with a sequoia about 15 years ago. The 40'er was a help for taking the stairs. I think it didn't turn into regular flipping up on spurs for a long while. Easier to strand on branches fir a while,, maybe the first 100'.
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    Beginner Tree Climbing Tips

    I know spurs are old news. It's often the little tips that pop in discussions that are little gems that make days easier.
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    Tree felling vids

    They're good. High sound reduction. I don't wear that helmet typically.
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    Beginner Tree Climbing Tips

    @gumboot
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    SRT techniques for beginners

    @gumboot
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    I tie mine with a prussic on the pole that slides up and down the pole to adjust the length. Pre-ropewalker, Is use an extension ladder Very worthwhile. There is a Beginner Tree Climber Tips thread or similar. Full of info beyond beginner. There are a few rope walker videos that are...
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    How'd it go today?

    As a tip, 3 Benjamins and... 6 packs of fish: Blue fin tuna, coho salmon, ling cod. I've got a bunch of last year's beef and berries to eat up. The calves are growing and going to slaughter in s month. If you've ever heard of Eberhardt blueberries from California, they started spitting...
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    Tree felling vids

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    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Bored backcut
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    Taking the 'stairs' (ladder) helps a lot if the tree is bulbous at large, low crotches
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    Hip thrusting is so much work compared to a foot ascender
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    How'd it go today?

    It's a toy/ experiment/ light- duty tool. I'm going fir a different daily driver 4wd work truck/ van before a real mini-x. It's light- weight and small. Can barely swing over the dump trailer wall when at max reach. A flatbed trailer would load over the side better (lower). A hydraulic...
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    Try loosening your hitch with the extra wrap. The knut-h hitchhiker hitch https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/hitch-hiker-hitch.21218/
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    How'd it go today?

    Miniloader sprung a leak yesterday after doing the bulk of the work. Brought the micro-x for the second half of a small clearing job of 26 trees.
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    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Yep. I like that. I usually use plastic.
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    I have tied it with more than 2/1.
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    I leave my HH installed. I slide my HH to where I need it. I use the untie/retie/ adjustment time instead as time for inspecting the rope. I SRT almost always. Safest self- rescue scenario to my way of thinking. Way easier for me, as well. Do you have a foot ascender or rope...
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    The official "Welcome New Members" thread!

    Welcome! How'd you find the TreeHouse?
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    Pros and Cos of various friction hitches in the trees

    It's a standard hitch, useful for adjusting a tarp guyline. If set properly, one can reach out from under the tarp to retension in the rain as thing stretch. We used to tarp camp most of the year in a previous chapter of work life.
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