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Nice hitch. The helmet...well, it sure will protect yer noggin, which is the main point, but are they all so ugly? :P I shouldn't be so mean...my pair are not all that magnificent to cast one's eyes upon, either :D. FWIW, none of the skulls and Nazi military helmet designs are deemed...

I'm wondering about that, too. How will you anchor it down?

I was thinking exactly the same thing, Willie. Might be worth having even if you had to choose your battles whether to use it or not. It would be an easy, cheap mod for Brendon.

Shiney!

SST, be real careful about pulls that are not in line with the hitch...towing hitches are designed for in-line strength, not for sideways strain. I've seen a hitch mount folded over from winching off to the side only a little. Personally, I'd change it for a permanent mount, but that of course...

That's beautiful, Bren.

Not so much easy starting as easy lifting during the initial phase of tipping the tree forward. If that thin section was short, the tree wouldn't have moved much towards COB before you hit the lower MA section and have to drive harder...but that's pretty much exactly what you concluded :)>

Smarter than you look :lol:

Y'all are correct, but missing one last point...the section with higher lift ratio allows you to get by with a shorter wedge, which can help on smaller stems, as you don't have as great a likelyhood of running into the hinge before the tree is commited.

That's called a double taper wedge.

Pete McTree recommends placing your sticky biners in a pot of water and heating up to hot, but not boiling. Stir them about some. The junk in the mechanism sort of disolves and rinses out. Then remove them and blow out the hinge and gate with compressed air. He likes to lube with something...

Thanks, Leon. I'll be ordering a few to try. Pete McTree was finding all manner of "fail inspection" issues with lots of folk's biners, both at the WCGTG and the FS climbing instructor workshop last month. In some cases brand new biners had sufficient manufactureing tolerance problems to...

Thanks, Leon...I spied that biner in the Sherrill catalog when it came out this spring and thought the same thing. I haven't gotten any yet, but I'm sure I will before too long. When you get them in hand, I'd be real interested in hearing a review.

And put just a drop of light oil on the head of the rivet before you start spinning and cranking.

Just change the brake hand to the other side.

It's easy to reverse, if you want to. I can walk you through it if you can't figure it out yourself.

Set for left hand braking with all 5 bars, right hand with 4...that the way you want it, I reckon? Looks nice.

Start a thread, Jay. A fair number of Housers got to try a rack for the first time at the WCGTG. Possiblities for some feedback there.

So is that a total of 4 bars, or 4 plus the grooved top bar?

Went for the solid aluminum bars, did you?