August Hunicke
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Send me a shirt. I'll send you something.
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
Baby bump?! I guess shaving the beard off a while back worked! 
Congrats manno
Congrats manno
August Hunicke
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Baby bump?! I guess shaving the beard off a while back worked!
Yes it was a sacrifice I was willing to make…
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August Hunicke
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Tell me about the beetle Willy?
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August Hunicke
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Just saying, some of the best advertisement is unspoken. T-shirt is a fun way to make a statement.
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
Some type of long horn beetle, hard to say without close up I.D.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Looks like a ponderous beetle
August Hunicke
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First one I've ever seen. Whatever it is.
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
If that's the critter you've seen them in their other form. Great big whitish yellowish grub in your firewood....
August Hunicke
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Ah yeah. Definitely seen those.
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Cool vid!
Wow that was scary at the end when the saw was coming right toward the screen/viewer's face!
Nice how you communicated a lot of info during the vid, 2 birds with one stone.
So the zigzag is your go to Ddrt friction device?
How did you decide Brush Bandit over Morbark, both good imo.
What was your opinion of the no knot rigging rope, does it beat a non locking rope snap, which you already have 20 of, anchor bent to the end of the bull rope?
Wow that was scary at the end when the saw was coming right toward the screen/viewer's face!
Nice how you communicated a lot of info during the vid, 2 birds with one stone.
So the zigzag is your go to Ddrt friction device?
How did you decide Brush Bandit over Morbark, both good imo.
What was your opinion of the no knot rigging rope, does it beat a non locking rope snap, which you already have 20 of, anchor bent to the end of the bull rope?
August Hunicke
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Ya zz. Love it.
It's morbark Cory. New morbark.
I've used morbark since 1992.
Don't like lowering with non locking snaps : /
Don't know why I didn't think of no knot as a non locking snap.
Perhaps because it's so incredibly bomb tough without a gate.
It's a slick tool for lowering, especially . . .well pretty much exclusively with at high lowering point.
One of the things I liked about rigging with a heavy locking steel snap was the weight of it. I throw it around wherever I want. This thing has more weight. . . easy to throw out where I'm going to use it next.
I also figured it might be a pain to mind two pieces but it wasn't any trouble seeing how you mind two pieces anyway with a snap because you mind the snap and the rope your clipping it to.
Climbing above your rigging point would likely suck if you dropped the "bell."Also, negative rigging with it isn't recommended they say. Makes sense that it isn't.
It's not the be-all end-all to all other lowering but it was nice to find out that it wasn't a gimmick.
I will use it again. I suspect it's a good system for a great many routine jobs.
Oh yeah, one more thing, not the perfect system for use with rings.
Unless you're not going to change your lowering point much or need to add ring redirects frequently.
I'm sure you know all that though.
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It's morbark Cory. New morbark.
I've used morbark since 1992.
Don't like lowering with non locking snaps : /
Don't know why I didn't think of no knot as a non locking snap.
Perhaps because it's so incredibly bomb tough without a gate.
It's a slick tool for lowering, especially . . .well pretty much exclusively with at high lowering point.
One of the things I liked about rigging with a heavy locking steel snap was the weight of it. I throw it around wherever I want. This thing has more weight. . . easy to throw out where I'm going to use it next.
I also figured it might be a pain to mind two pieces but it wasn't any trouble seeing how you mind two pieces anyway with a snap because you mind the snap and the rope your clipping it to.
Climbing above your rigging point would likely suck if you dropped the "bell."Also, negative rigging with it isn't recommended they say. Makes sense that it isn't.
It's not the be-all end-all to all other lowering but it was nice to find out that it wasn't a gimmick.
I will use it again. I suspect it's a good system for a great many routine jobs.
Oh yeah, one more thing, not the perfect system for use with rings.
Unless you're not going to change your lowering point much or need to add ring redirects frequently.
I'm sure you know all that though.
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August Hunicke
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flushcut
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Very cool! I think you did those boys proud.
Bodean
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Dude, that is awesome. Rad stuff.
August Hunicke
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Thanks. Still waiting on chip safe technology to come in the mail from the morbark plant back east.
So I guess I'll be treating them like family soon
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
Love the circle round the chopper!
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Fine video, August. Wonderful you got to work with such an elite crew. The dedication and skill it takes to do work like that is admirable.
You show many of us a part of the tree world we seldom get to see.
You show many of us a part of the tree world we seldom get to see.
NHlocal
TreeHouser
So very well done August, a tight crew for sure.
Huge respect for the responsibility they have and the work they do.
Huge respect for the responsibility they have and the work they do.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Very good, enjoyed that, had to watch it on FB as its "not available" here through The House.
MasterBlaster
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Really?
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Mick!
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Your vid is, but August's one on the last page isn't. Go figure.
