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bill22
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no,aerial assault with a blowgun.
Big Leaner
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Can you do the backflip over fences and roofs? That is taught in basic ninja 101.
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bill22
Guest
How do you know, are you spying on the secret ninja training programs? we'll have to stop that.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
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Getting up that leaner could be done with just a set of spurs, strong arms and a vise grip. You would have to lay right on the trunk like you were crawling across the ground. 200 feet later you would reach some limbs to grab a hold of, and rest.
Be a lot of thinking in between. A Ninja could do it.
Be a lot of thinking in between. A Ninja could do it.
Jed
TreeHouser
Hey Jer: Our shop manager is from NorCal. He tells a story about some guys he knew who used to be on his line clearance crew who freeclimbed an O.G fir for the fun of it with only spurs and no flipline because they didn't have one long enough. He was as serious as a heart attack telling the story, but I was convinced that I was hearing a tall tale. (No one's that dumb/crazy.) Would you tend to agree, or have you ever heard of similar antics?
flushcut
TreeHouser
With or without poison?
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I guarantee you someone's done that, alright - and probably half drunk at the time!
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NeTree
Guest
Probably started out with "Hey, y'all watch this..."
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bill22
Guest
Yeah, I actually climb alot of removals in that manner. How o you think these would fair climbing a redwood?
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bill22
Guest
We'll have to start a poll on that.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Sam Noonan told similar stories in the redwoods
flushcut
TreeHouser
I vote poison. I mean why not everybody else is doing it.
High Scale
Trust fund lobbyist.
Guy I know free climbed a baby Redwood (120ft) around ten years ago, just spikes, no flipline but he is built like a fricken baboon.
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Knotahippie
Guest
I know a big-tree dude who climbs redwoods with spurs and no safety, often times.
"Just grab onto the bark"
About 7' tall - looks like Golem.
"Just grab onto the bark"
About 7' tall - looks like Golem.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Nah, it wouldn't be safe while lighting a smoke.
Burnham
Woods walker
This conversation takes me back to my first days as a FS certified climber, and a newbie contract administator. I was inspecting on a cone collection contract, and the contract climber I was bagging cones for didn't have a flip line long enough for one of the trees on the list.
He climbed a Doug fir with finger tips and spurs...I was both petrified and amazed. The diameter was far too large for him to have been able to hug it should he have gaffed out. I now know I should have stopped the operation right there, but I was too inexperienced and stoopid back then.
In fact, it is one of the trees I had in mind for Flipfest 2010. Well over 5 feet DBH, back then in 1983. I expect it's 65 feet to the first limb.
That climber clanked when he walked, I seem to recall
. Probably made less than $35 for that tree 
...not worth the risk, in my book.
He climbed a Doug fir with finger tips and spurs...I was both petrified and amazed. The diameter was far too large for him to have been able to hug it should he have gaffed out. I now know I should have stopped the operation right there, but I was too inexperienced and stoopid back then.
In fact, it is one of the trees I had in mind for Flipfest 2010. Well over 5 feet DBH, back then in 1983. I expect it's 65 feet to the first limb.
That climber clanked when he walked, I seem to recall
. Probably made less than $35 for that tree ...not worth the risk, in my book.Attachments
Burnham
Woods walker
I seem to recall we've covered this ground at some point in the past
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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I think Burnham said he painted the gaff wounds on the way down. 
gf beranek
Old Schooler
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There's some pretty crazy people out there. I watched a guy free climb "Big Jack" at the Redwoods River Resort without anything but his hands and feet. 230 feet vertical. Mind you he was on belay, but there was several feet of slack in the line the whole time. He shimmied up between big jack and a smaller tree next to it for better than a hundred feet and then limb hoped in the smaller tree for another 80, then jumped over into Big Jack went to the top.
He did it! Even on belay it was an amazing feat.
Leave it up to a tree climbing fool to push the limits. The fellows name was Rett Richardson. El Presidenta of the CAA at the time. Oh, jeez I'll have to dig through the pics to find the date.
SkwerI
Treehouser
Don't you dare come back and tell us the date without posting the picture!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
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Ha! Sorry to disappoint, but I have not a singe photo of that event. I only have video of some other things that were going on at the time. Bummer
