Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
You get the BR800 with the front start?
O.C.G.D. Thread, part two
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
I’m not to fond of my drenaline for long assents Sean. Seems a bit bouncy. Could be the tie in points flexing though.
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TreeHouser
Congrats on the new toys fellas!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Yes. It's a funny starter that is like the Easy-start on saws. I like it. I don't know how its done, but I like it. The throttle-lock has twist-lever adjustability up and down, and the standard kill-switch. Easy to adjust telescopic discharge tube, with adjustable throttle-handle position on the stationary part of the tube for different arm-lengths/ body shapes. Nice storage hanger for the tube, and folds down shorter than my BR600 with upright tube. Waist and chest harness.
2 thumbs up.
Heavy...no replacement for displacement.
Face two of them, just offset from face-to-face, and start a tornado.
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TreeHouser
Thank you Wesspur!
1" block, 200' of 1" Stable Braid, and the xl Porty. And some 1" tennex to arrive later this week. I should be good on the heavy rigging for a while.
1" block, 200' of 1" Stable Braid, and the xl Porty. And some 1" tennex to arrive later this week. I should be good on the heavy rigging for a while.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Let it run!!!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
That's some heavy shat right there. Surprised you did not land a Hobbs to go with it ...
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Meh, they pay for themselves right quick.
Needed two plus a pulley and trolley today.
Needed two plus a pulley and trolley today.
Yea, I imagine they do when you're making your living with them. A lot of things make more sense when you're using them every day, even if it's just a quality of life improvement that makes life a little nicer while you work. I'd have liked to have gotten a Rock Exotica Transporter to clip my saw to my saddle, but $70 is a lot of money for a hack that doesn't even climb that much. Well worth it imo if you're in a tree every day. I settled for a blocky... Not sure what it is exactly. A biner with a camlock for people that don't want to learn a truckers hitch, and have $16 to burn :^D I lashed that to my saddle with paracord, and it works pretty well, but it isn't as nice as a Transporter.
That stuff will pay for itself in 1 or 2 trees, depending on what he had before. A big oak or cottonwood will be short work when you can drop pieces that weigh a ton and catch them. I've luckily never needed to catch stuff that big, but i don't do trees full time and have been lucky that i didn't get a monster right next to a driveway or over a deck (that i couldn't manage with a vertical speedline).
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Buying gear is FUN!!!
That it is. Anyone else love the smell of new rope? They should make an air freshener with that scent :^D My vertex helmet smells like that(rope) still, even after sweating in it. I'm gonna miss it when it loses that new helmet smell :^D
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Manila rope is the smell I like. 3 strand from the old days.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Hard on the hands, though. One of the reasons I started wearing gloves...
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TreeHouser
I bought that stuff for pulling with machinery. No way do I want to neg rig with that gear, the rope alone weighs 78lbs it was a bitch just setting it from the lift.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Purely out of curiosity....why the XL Porty if your rigging stuff big enough to warrant 1" Stable's Braid? I prefer either my fixed bollard or the GRCS when rigging anything that big. That split second of tipping/catching large chunks puts a wallop on a porty when it's flopping around. I personally prefer a stable bollard for absorbing that much force.
Edit: Just saw the post about pulling with machinery.....I fully agree with Carl about using the Porty as a termination point. I was responding to the "I should be good on the heavy rigging for a while" statement. Heavy rigging (to me) implied lowering large stuff!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I prefer an extra large porty. Why not?
lumberjack
Young man on the go
And the party can be used as a termination point on the rope to keep from being tied to something with a less favorable bend radius.
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TreeHouser
Xl porty is for attaching the rope to a machine. Better bend radius easier on the rope for hard pulls. I didn't buy it for rigging so much as pulling. I'd scared to rig that big. But you never know
pantheraba
More biners!!!
And I was just thinking, "how smart he is"...and then you ended "But you never know"
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TreeHouser
Still scared of the size of the tree to warrant that kind of rigging. Plus big rigging=big wood=big saw=backache. Lets just put it this way "I'd rather not"
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Aww cmon.... Its just wash, rinse, repeat all day on spurs.......
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