How windy is too windy to climb?

[FireFighterZero]

Thats quite a gig! And for a wild cat even!

I bet that cat makes a stop in the oil patch over here first before going on to California. Lots of wild silly animals over there.

 

[pantheraba]

hahaha...great line, Stephen...crazy cats for sure. FFZ, you'd best hope this cat by-passes your oil fields..it's nutz.

 

[gf beranek]

That's the best cat rescue I've heard yet. Cool.

 

[Tucker943]

Regarding wind, a good question is how high on the tree are you working. High wind won't make me think twice if I'm just doing some work close to big wood in the tree. It's getting up on the little stuff that will make me weigh my options. I hate bucket work in the wind too. Bucket swaying so hard an tree swaying too. Hard to keep your saw in the cut sometimes.

 

[pantheraba]

Yep, that was the problem, small wood in the top. Once I dumped the first lead I felt better since I had taken some weight and "sail effect" out of the equation. I still had some concern about how the spar would react to my belaying of the top being dumped but I don't remember any particular reaction as the top was caught.

I had my gopro knockoff camera but the battery went dead before I started the climb...would have been a good video.

 

[Stumper]

Interesting Gary. I'd have shot the stupid cat for $55.

 

[pantheraba]

Hahaha...yeah...but cat lovers frown on those antics.

 

[Stumper]

I'd expect them to frown on cutting the leader with the cat on it also. I think that pegging kitty with the APTA would be "humane".

 

[Burnham]

Yessir, I'm with Justin all the way here.

 

[pantheraba]

Because it was not their cat, feral as far as we knew, they didn't get all hinky about dumping the top with kitty in it...I had already told them it might be necessary. In all honesty, knowing they were not so emotionally invested in the cat made it easier for me to drop the top...the idea has crossed my mind before but this was a perfect alignment of events to make it the best thing for me to do...my story and I am sticking to it.

 

[Burnham]

Solid story, too...I'd have done exactly the same, Gary. Or aimed the APTA...or in my case, the BigShot loaded with the silver dildo .

 

[pantheraba]

haha...torpedo-ing Kitty...what an image!

The ideas you guys give me to consider...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Stumper]

I think I could make a convincing argument for the feline safety factor built into a shot bag. The silver bullet seems harder to defend....esp. if it leaves a 1.25 inch diameter hole in kitty's chest.

 

[RopeArmour]

You're forgetting something.

 

[RopeArmour]

Solid story, too...I'd have done exactly the same, Gary. Or aimed the APTA...or in my case, the BigShot loaded with the silver dildo .

Cute pet name

50 k in solitary large White pine on the stem at 80' is pushing it for me or 35 to 40 k in a hardwood out on 3 to 4" dia at 70'