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Most spur comps require you to get up as fast as you can. On the way down, both gaffs must "spike" (read:contact) the spar in each designated section, which is why most of the poles have a stripe or two on them. The nature of the poles being climbed also raises a point: its closer to lineman...

According to the landlord, everything happened in 10 seconds.

The gaff rigs that spur climbing competitors use are nothing like what a working climber has. Very specialized, and worthless to work from. Pivoting spurs mounted nearer to the toes, usually.

Wow! Those trees went down fast!

Here are a couple of surveillance footage of what it was like.

It’s interesting, I’m sure that techniques used migrate over to the real working environment. I am sure those guys make a decent buck doing it as well. I watched a climbing comp once, really skillful guys getting around a tree really quickly, lightfooting it to the end of branches to ring a...

I mentioned before I'd like to see timbersports done with real working climbers using real working gear. Not timbersport athletes that practice solely on regulated equipment and scenarios. It would be a fun day having the local treecos get together and compete. It would be hard preventing people...

The rule is, fastest time wins. You don't get demerit points, or time penalties, for arriving on the ground injured, or permanently disabled, or dead. Just like the NFL, the NHL, or even pole vaulting :D.

Beautiful work. Well done.

Very nice. I like that first shot with the saw.

Lotuses and roses are blooming -

Says someone that never encountered a rabid fox or had his chickens or rabbits raided by them. But yes. Coyotes can be way more bothersome.

I think fox are harmless and nice to watch. Not like coyotes. Got lots of woodchucks I would like to feed some lead to.

You might be talking about Indians in the west. I just have to remember that I chose to live amongst the foxes. Back in the day...I used to kill everything that was annoying. I still do...but I used to as well.

I have a grudge against mine cause he stole Spot's water bowl, and pooped next to her food dish. They're also common carriers of rabies, so I'm not fond of having them around, but they're amusing animals.

Ha! I don't know why everyone hates them. I found a fox hole next to an abandoned cistern that is used as a roost for pigeons. The fox hole is covered up in pigeon bones!

If you think foxes sound like someone being murdered, listen to this goat...

Who needs a descender when you can just intentionally gaff out to the ground? Why is that a part of timber sport? Shouldn't they be competing to spike back down the spar after they climb up? The one guy made an effort to spike down quickly and impressively, but then he just gaffed out and...

Finally got around to fixing the eye splice that got loose at the cross over point, and I finally got a dsplice soft fid, made it so much easier. took it apart, reset the cross over point nice and even, and finished the splice, just need to whiplock it and its all good. 11.7 Donaghys Cougar.

I knew a kid in middle school who caught a few bumble bees, put them in the freezer and then, once they were catatonic, he tied strings around them, then he let them warm up and was able to have some flighty new pets on long, 1mm polyester leashes. I thought that was kind of clever, but also...