Jed
TreeHouser
DANGIT! Butch that's just settin the bar waaay too freakin high. Try to be fair to the inbred.
Cory: Yes. I am actually trying to pass my ugly self off as a real, live Taughtline man. I think that, unless I find yer "Taught-Line Appreciation Thread," soon... my next several posts in here will probly contain a ton of "Ode to a Taughtline," type sentiments. The thing is, that all these years later the Taughtline remains undiminished in the universality of it's gripping capacity AND workability. I never even discovered till only just recently that a taughtline which is run hard-up against the stopper knot is able to be ran SUPER loose by virtue of keeping a ton of slack from the bridge worked between the "two sets of wraps," (2 down, 2 up). You can kinda run it with yer middle finger right in between the two sets. You can climb trees with a TON of pitch this way. You can climb on snotty, pitch-impregnated lines that are so freakin stiff that a Blake Hitch won't even go into em. You could find people who would say that a Taughty ran that way would be dangerous, but it's not. Because the Taughty creaps so much... it (ran super loose) just immediatly slams into the stopper knot and catches up if it immediately becomes weighted because you slipped or whatever. I freakin LOVE it, where I used to hate it. Owe the whole business to Butch and Gerry really. He used to always have that picture of his 2 down 1 up Taughty, on orange and white New England Safety Blue up on the rotator. Remember that? I used to always see it when it'd come up (like 10 years ago) and think, "Man, that knot sucks. Poor old-timers. They didn't even know about the Blake. How could anybody still stand to climb on that? That and his comment about the Taughtline being, "a living, breathing thing." Gerry's got some pretty compelling stuff about it in his Fundamentals. Also: I'm pretty sure that the BC training standards (British Columbia) for years stipulated the Taughty as the only acceptable climbers knot for their woods climbing training program. (It's what certifies all their heli-logger guys). You guys are lucky that I gotta go, or else you'd have to skip about ten more paragraphs while I address the 11 mil. vs. half inch/ 24 strand vs. 16 strand stuff. You lucky gents!
Rich: Almost fergot to say... crackin pics, mate. Seriously. LOVE those trees you guys got. I fergot there even WAS such a thing as a Lime tree.
. We're in the accepted pruning time now.
