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Yesterday, I had a terrible alder and a maple with a defect in the base. I threw 4 times to get a tight TIP-window in a maple with the defect, installed my rope with a base-tie. Bounce tested it. Gingerly climbed up the alder, not tying in locally, in case it broke, but a lanyard in a decent...

I'll look in my shop today. They should be "standard" size. Are you around average height?

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I think i have 1 or 2 pairs of fixed steel tree spurs that I'll never use. Likely no pads or straps. I'll look. Throwline skills pay the bills. A lot of 4 letter words earning them. You can only sit in your saddle with a rope in place.

Yes. Therefore, choose which to wear. I rarely pull out tree gaffs, even though they are way, way more expensive and fancy than my $25 steel, fixed spur, and cheap as can be (comfy, too) L-pads. All trees have thin bark up top where the stability is very important, imo. Ymmv

Having both is important. Let's see a picture of your gaffs' profile and such. Are you typicsally spurring with or without a preset climb- line? Was it the low (oldest,thickest) bark that caused you problems?