Need a stronger more powerful groundman?

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Hello and welcome to the TreeHouse jomoco! :hello2:


A very interesting youtube post you have there, had not seen that one before. Very cool.

The Tree House is a very relaxed site to hang out at and share work related & non work related topics. I caution you now...this place grows on you after a while!

Once you get to know some of the guys & gals here a little better, you may want to add something to your user profile so the rest of us can get to know you. Its a Tree House thing!

BTW, My name is Bob and go by "Hobby Climber". There you go, I've broken the ice for ya!;)

Soon, many others will chime in to say hello so sit back & enjoy the show.



HC
 
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Hobby Climber said:
Hello and welcome to the TreeHouse jomoco! :hello2:


A very interesting youtube post you have there, had not seen that one before. Very cool.

The Tree House is a very relaxed site to hang out at and share work related & non work related topics. I caution you now...this place grows on you after a while!

Once you get to know some of the guys & gals here a little better, you may want to add something to your user profile so the rest of us can get to know you. Its a Tree House thing!

BTW, My name is Bob and go by "Hobby Climber". There you go, I've broken the ice for ya!;)

Soon, many others will chime in to say hello so sit back & enjoy the show.



HC
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Howdy HC,

Thanks for the kind welcome.

I'm an old orthopedic wreck of a veteran oldschool climber that needs carbon fiber braces to chop trees down in comfort with.

I'll be 50 this year, I've been climbing commercially snce the age of 14 ere in socal.

I'm somewhat well known as the inventor of the leather cambium saver in 91 and making the cover of arbor age mag in june of 92 with it.

I like R&D projects that push the tree industry into a higher realm of training, tools and techniques that will break us away from the cheap labor addiction killing us right now.

I look forward to checkin out your cool treehouse and the pro climbers hanging out in it.

My name is Jon Mooring and I live and climb in San Diego,CA.

jomoco
 
Welcome to the TreeHouse, Jon!

My name's Brett, but most folks here call me ... :/: Well, never mind. Just call me Brett. :D
 
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OTGBOSTON said:
welcome to da houze Jon! I gotta say I never used one of those leather cambium savers, but I do use the new ones made out of conduit. Its a great concept!

BTW my name is Greg.
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Wouldn't happen to have any Irish blood in yu like me would yu Greg?

Not alot of clover to climb these days it seems!

Leather CS's are great as long as you're very liberal applying baby powder to your ropes, particularly after sappy trees. It's dirt ceap at longs drugs, and keeps my rope boxes smelling good too.

jomoco
 
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OTGBOSTON said:
http://www.newtribe.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=31_57&products_id=281

No lube needed!

I do have Irish blood, I've been celebrating St Paddys Day for almost a week now;)
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Interesting stuff Greg,

I played around with almost every concievable hose I could think of in 1990 that wouldn't melt either the tube or rope. In fact I was repairing a melted fulcrum point in a vinyl hose with a taped on strip of leaher cut off my old wesco boots, and it took the heat so well that it finally occurred to my thick head to make the whole dang thing out of thick leather, shiny side in, rough side out. And it woiked!

jomoco
 
Hey, Jon, welcome to the House...OTG, I have TWO of the leather cambium savers, use them almost always.

Jon, it's great to "meet" the man who came up with such a great idea. I luvs 'em, they make for very smooth rope movement...I like the "plop" sound when they come hurtling down about 60 feet, too. 8)

I look forward to your input.
 
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pantheraba said:
Hey, Jon, welcome to the House...OTG, I have TWO of the leather cambium savers, use them almost always.

Jon, it's great to "meet" the man who came up with such a great idea. I luvs 'em, they make for very smooth rope movement...I like the "plop" sound when they come hurtling down about 60 feet, too. 8)

I look forward to your input.
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Howdy Panther,

I'd rather get whacked in the head with a leather CS than that mass of rings pullies and whatnot these high tech dudes use these days!

I wonder if any groundies get nervous when the climber gets his friction saver stuck and asks for a hand pulling it out?

A journeyman climber needs to be as good a rope handler as Roy Rogers to avoid getting his stuff stuck in a tight crotch these days.

That's for after work anyway!

jomoco
 
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Skwerl said:
Welcome to da House, Jon. Just what we need around here, more old farts! :lol:
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I once heard tale of an old fart arborist with a pnuematic throw bag gun that could shoot squirrels out of a tree at pert near 85 feet up!

Course most guys like slingshots better than the gun this fictional old fart uses cuz you won't get the cops called on yu for shootin squirrels with a slingshot.

I once met a linesetter that comes in after the polesetter crew for our local power company. He showed me his high caliber line throwing gun that shot a slotted steel bolt out of it's barrel about 12 inches long with a small nylon line attached fed out of a bucket. He said it would shoot a line over a 1/4 mile if done just right, which according to him wasn't very often, saying most times the line wouldn't feed fast enough and the bolt lost. Of course these guys are stringing new line in very remote mountain and desert terrain using these unusual blank gunpowder high caliber rifles. Apparrently they are or were very common in the navy to shoot lines between ships at sea.

So much of our industry has it's roots in the mariners of old, that I'll bet the first climber ever was a sailor choppin a tree down for use as a new mast pole!

Nice tu meet yu Skwerl!

jomoco
 
Hello and Welcome

that is a neat youtube vid- the guy leans forward a alot would that not put your body out of balance?

i also like the conduit sleeve, never used the leather, just not ON HAND when i put my from SOME house guy in Kanasa
 
Hey Jon, my names Paul. I too like to tinker with things in the attempt to make our tough job a little easier. Ive got a product developed that will be to market in April that I think could be interesting to you as a hurting vet climber, check it out......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE_nChvOfmg

I really believe this one piece of gear will keep aging climbers like us in the game a lot longer.:)
 
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PCTREE said:
Hey Jon, my names Paul. I too like to tinker with things in the attempt to make our tough job a little easier. Ive got a product developed that will be to market in April that I think could be interesting to you as a hurting vet climber, check it out......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE_nChvOfmg

I really believe this one piece of gear will keep aging climbers like us in the game a lot longer.:)
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Your wraptor totally rocks Paul!

I think the McMahon's in Australia have one a little bigger than yours.

I like your smaller one better though.

The real breakthrough will be a powered rope reel at the base of the tree, a pulley at the top, and you on the end of that rope like a spider that has push button control of the reel's in or out function.

I'm still workin on that one.

Way to push the envelope Paul!

jomoco
 
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2001 was an interesting year for me in many ways in engineering terms. About the most unusual project I did that crazy year was building a pair of pogo moonboots to run around on.
I bought two heavy springed pogo sticks and cut them down so that each could be firmly mounted to a motox boot on the outer instep. This was done with heavy zip ties and duct tape of course, but the end product was a total blast as well as extremely dangerous, so much so that I wore my chest protector and helmet just to be sure.
But after a bit of practice I found I could hit very high running speeds as well as jump high enough to land on my garages rooftop after running up my dirt driveway and bouncing with both feet together to get there.
Now I know it sounds crazy, but I did it, and it worked, which leads me to think that mechanically enhanced sprinting and obstacle courses will someday be an olympic event, probably led by teams from the US miltary.
Once you get your high speed running synchopation timing wired, you can adjust it for a longer lateral stride rather than height. They have these jumper boots and pogo sticks all high tech now with gas shocks and stuff.
I've photos of my custom moonboots somewhere. Unfortunately they burned along with alot of my other projects in the 03 cedar fire here that took out my garage, but atleast it wasn't attached to my house!

jomoco
 
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