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    Rope hockling

    Gotcha. I always wrap the wraps the same direction too now that I'm thinking about it. Suppose I could do wraps and braids opposite direction. Thanks.
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    Rope hockling

    Climbing firs and girdling for the BLM. Anywhere from 60 to 130 ft high. New hyperclimb rope that I've been using about a month. It's a 250' rope that I washed when new, it's milked about 5'. I've run michoacan, knut, and currently trying a VT. Rope hockes bad on decent if I don't get the...
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    1950's Logging Safety Documentary

    Finley was a crack up. Never met him, but I read his stuff for years. Dad was actually in Loggers World, in an issue from the mid 70s. He was a young buck cutting timber with Kenny Parnell. Kenny was the bullbuck for Christian if I remember it right.
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    O.C.G.D. Thread, part two

    Found it. I been thinking about getting a lever Mick, just never got to it. I haven't tried the dowels either, for what it's worth.
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    O.C.G.D. Thread, part two

    Have you guys seen Fiori rolling blocks off a spar by putting dowels in the cut? Seems like a good idea. I probably spelled his name wrong.😁
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    Tree felling vids

    Lack of exercise.
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    What Non Essential Gear Do You Think Is Worth Owning?

    Winter bar oil is thinner so you can pour it. I don't know how you guys wear belts under your harness, suspenders all the way for me. Climbing with bigger saws I have another pair on the treemotion.
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    Carrying An Axe

    How would you hang that on a tool hook, transporter etc? Upside down? On the ground I just run my axe handle through my wedge belt, behind my back mostly. Use axe scabbard on occasion, if in small timber that has a lot of trees that lean back, and nothing to push em with. Big axes and long...
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    Carrying An Axe

    Just an update. Best way I've found. Copied off of Canadians. Eye lag bolt.
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    The dreaded stripped threads, Husky 572

    Weed eater string in the hole might work.
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    Check your chains after they have been derailed

    I break 2 or 3 a year, normally. I generally go through about 100'(a roll) in that same time. Never been injured by it, and don't worry about it. Had a small cut in a few pairs of pants I guess. Non issue for me.
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    Tree felling vids

    To kill em. 😁 They've got some kinda wildlife enhancement thing they're doing.
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    Tree felling vids

    Thanks Cory. We're cutting right a way right now, full manufacture, second growth, kinda boring to me to look at. We're also climbing and girdling tops for the blm. So nothing that's neat to watch, imo. Lotsa traversing with the grapple hook I guess.
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    Tree felling vids

    Bear trap here is generic for any kind of a man killing mess, tree wise. I always thought it came from dead fall type traps, I dunno.
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    Tree felling vids

    We call that a squirrel bridge. Usually try to fall them over backwards, straight away from the hanger. Bridge is usually pushing the stem in that direction. That, or mash the hanger down with another tree.
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    Logging Choker cables

    I've used haywire from 3/16 up to 7/16. Yarder dependant. 3/8 is most common here. 1 1/8" is biggest chokers I ever set. Downhilling with a skavinsky, aka rider block, aka pollocking. Wow, just realized that was 28 years ago. I'm gonna take a nap.
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    Wildlife reintroduction in PNW , Grizzly Bear ... really ?

    One season in se alaska isn't much, I admit. Twenty-two years cutting, and counting, down here in Oregon. I'm not worried about bears for my own safety. I'm worried what they will do to local livestock and wildlife. I put them in the same category as wolves, and if you're a hunter or rancher...
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    knives

    To each their own, that's why they make so many models I guess. My pants have holes in the knees long before the pockets wear out. From cutting trees, on my knees. Just thought I'd be preemptive about the lewd coments. 😁
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    Wildlife reintroduction in PNW , Grizzly Bear ... really ?

    I've seen dozens. Spent a season cutting in Hoonah.
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    Wildlife reintroduction in PNW , Grizzly Bear ... really ?

    I know the feeling. I miss my dog more than most people, by a fair margin.
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