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I worked with a guy who’s MO was to crap in the woods. One day he comes in waddling like he rode a 100 miles on horseback for the first time. Mind you he’s a fair skinned, blued eyed of Polish descent. Then he precedes to admit he used poison ivy by mistake. I can assure you there is nothing...

You can buy dump kits for about $2k? If you're handy. I'm in CA and run a welding shop...too late I guess, haha!

Well, the day has arrived. The rental guys came and took back all of my furniture. Now my apartment is barren, save for the small amounts of personal belongings that still remain, and my footsteps and voice now produce an echo. All I have for furniture is an air mattress, a foldout chair (which...

It's another cloudless, sunny day in Arizona, where it is currently 110 degrees and climbing! Sheesh. Thank goodness for central A/C! It's nice and cool in my apartment but, as soon as I walk outside, I feel like I'm inside of a charcoal grill! Even in the shade it's incredibly hot. All of the...

High 70s, low 80s. that's the low temps...for about an hour before sunrise. 4-5 am.

Everything has already been cut down and sawn. Unfortunately, I didn't take photos and videos today(

...timber sports steaming live recently and got bored after 5 minutes of watching guys balance on logs in pools of water or compete by cutting logs into thin discs with highly modified chainsaws that sounded like they had jet engines. That, to me, is pure silliness and a bit of a snooze-fest. *yawn*

Gnarr! Thanks for the vids. I'm very interested to see how those broken off ones are handled.

You are correct...It numbs the itch. Just have to make sure that you get the microscopic poison oak oil off your skin first...don't ask how I know. I used to scrub with fels naptha laundry bar soap when I got home to shower. Had to take a lot of steps to minimize that stuff, but I would still...

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.