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[MasterBlaster]

Someone needs to turn this guy on to some CF Geckos!

 

[Paul B]

we have enough equipment to keep 5 guys up the tree with all the safety stuff.

Must have a source for them invisible hardhats and ear covers...

hick.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The shock loading caught my attention.

 

[Paul B]

just get up there and git it done...

I could barely unnerstand those boys, I must live too far North eh?

 

[Old Monkey]

He's clearly one of the best. Its interesting that they have safety gear for five guys... I wonder where they keep it? Somewhere safe I hope.

 

[FJR]

Did he say he likes adrenaline or he likes drinking...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hey hey hey .. looks like he has Bashlins like me... And I a hillbilly.. that make me a hick??? Oh well.. LOL
Geter Done!.. LOL

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm envious of his six-pac abs!

 

[Old Monkey]

The PC police have already posted in comments area of that site. Evidently they think he might be guilty of one or two safety violations. Who da thunk it?

 

[Canuck]

I don't understand people that talk about the adrenaline rush of tree work. People regularly comment on how dangerous my job looks, or that I must be some sort of adrenaline junky. But I don't feel that way at all. When I'm working a tree there's no adrenaline involved. That would suggest not being in control of the situation and when we work a tree its highly planned and controlled with an understanding of whats going to happen, when its going to happen and why its going to happen.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I feel the adrenaline about the time I hear the buzz of the Africanized Bees I just disturbed...

 

[rangerdanger]

Man. that was odd. It freaked me in the end with that big top on that one spar. Alot of shock loading there.

 

[sotc]

more entertainin than the circus

 

[Stumper]

I'm envious of his six-pac abs!

Butch those are keggers.

 

[Koa Man]

Very primitive operation IMO. No rigging block and no lowering device. Taking wraps around the tree is slow and the amount of friction is never the same. I would not hire those guys.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Mmmm, I can go Old School if I don't have my porty.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I do old school all the time ... I am upgrading though.. Nuttin like a strong crotch.. some inginuity... creative cuts and some friction to bring her down with.. I get bull tape from PG&E for free also.. just means smaller sections.. NP.

 

[stig]

Very primitive operation IMO. No rigging block and no lowering device. Taking wraps around the tree is slow and the amount of friction is never the same. I would not hire those guys.

All those of us, who have been doing this work for a long time, started up with naked crotches and trunk wraps.
Then we evolved.
Apparently these guys didn't.

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

Was it just me, or did that guy climb that tree with no flip line, just his hands?

Holy shnikies!

 

[pantheraba]

Was it just me, or did that guy climb that tree with no flip line, just his hands?

Holy shnikies!

I saw that, too...that's how I learned in the 70's...climb up to your first lanyard point...if the tree was too big for the lanyard you climbed until you could wrap off onto something...that is also how I broke my wrist.

It taught me to not leave the ground unless I was safetied in.

 

[OTGBOSTON]

Was it just me, or did that guy climb that tree with no flip line, just his hands?

Holy shnikies!

only for the first few feet, no biggie

Anyone else notice the focked climbing hitch???

 

[JIML]

Only thing ive ever used a block for in a tree is when catching chunks of wood We have no lowering devises either..

 

[Brimmstone]

Come on guys be somewhat nice to the spikes. Alot of climbers I'm sure started of with a set of Bashlins. I still have my first set which are in desperate need of new leather. They are the only things I have left from my first set of climbing gear. All the rest was stolen several years ago. They got my newer set of spurs, my harness, fliplines, and numerous other things.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What's wrong with Bashlins?

 

[Burnham]

Not one darn thing!