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You would need a basal anchor, belay device, and someone who understands how to use them. A simple belay device (there are many, the ATC and the petzl reverso are popular) is around $20, but play around with it low and slow first. When the SHTF is not the time to learn new gear. Your...

The second night got more interesting for sure. It was great hanging with you guys.

I was afraid to set my bag down until I got the saddle safely locked away in my hotel room. I ordered the leg pads for mine, they do make a difference.

I was really hoping to run into you at the expo August, between meeting you and getting this saddle I was giddy as a school girl. I took it up my practice tree today. Ascending, lanyarded in, recrotching, hanging from my lanyard in an overhead crotch (lanyard attached to the rigging plates...

August, thank you for hand delivering a few saddles to the shelter tree booth , 1 of them is now mine! That sale is just awesome, Melissa is going to help me dial it in tomorrow. I can't wait to get home and fly it.

Anyone want to grab a beer tonight? 6105688782

5'11" 145lbs, been pretty steady there for about 15 years

Is osha prevalent in your Area? They are very present in factories and such around here, haven't seen them since I went off on my own. The rental places around here don't require any proof of insurance to rent a lift, they'll even send it out without a fall arrest harness. The harness costs...

I'm jealous, hoping to check one out in Baltimore.

2 Stumps from yesterday Customer is a retired high school shop teacher, has pretty nice wood shop, cool property to work at. He also handles all the cleanup after I get everything to the ground :D

And they seem to hold up pretty well except for thorn bushes. They look like I whack my ankles with a saw pretty often

It seems to me that they would come up a bit short on protection. My wife would LOVE that joke! I have the Husqvarna pants, they're hot, and the elastic sections on the sides irritate my boney hips. I don't do tree work every day, but I can get by for about 3 days between washings if I change...

I wear saw pants most of the time. I wore my chaps to climb once, that sucked. The buckle was under the waist belt for my harness, made me sore for a few days. Then I bought pants, been using them ever since. Once in a great while I'll climb without them, when its stupid hot. I don't handle...

Excellent story Mike, glad to hear that your first fell went so well, and I'll second Burnham's comments - those were some rather advanced techniques. You found the right place to learn and ask questions (even the stupid ones, sometimes they're the ones that need to be asked/answered the most)...

I've only climbed with tree gaffs (Kleins), I just got a pair of really old climbers with non replaceable pole gaffs given to me, haven't profiled and tried them out yet. If you're going to use them more than an hour or 2 at a time, get the caddilac pads (Opsal), or one of the other highly...

I was wondering what I was going to do with myself in the evenings after the expo without running up a huge bar tab, now that's solved (with Free Beer!), see you guys there. Btw, I'm staying at the Holiday Inn catty corner from the expo center.

There are tons of forums, and blogs on homesteading. My wife was into it for a while, she was part of the homestead bloggers network. We still like the concepts and ideas, but we tried a little to much right of the bat and burned out a bit. The genius ideas that are out there are amazing...

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Nice view from your office there Rich. I love the views from aloft, when I remember to take a minute to see them

Silly designers, probably a production cost issue. I've never had a single sided swing arm, but every time I've taken the back wheel off I wished I had one.