This is the Akimbo

[NickfromWI]

I like the rubber grommet idea. I'd pay extra to have it in mine!


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nick

 

[biggun]

Ssshh! It looks lovely just as it is to me...

 

[BeaverMonkey]

I'll take one any way I can get it at this point! Any updates??? 😇


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[sotc]

 

[Magnum783]

Wow Jamie I didn't realize the thread was so huge here. I just spent my whole snow day reading this.

 

[BeaverMonkey]

Man! Every single time I'm up in a tree now I start thinking about this thing and if it would make what I'm up to safer/easier/more fun.... I'm parched for updates! Videos? Pictures? Gratuitous marketing efforts? Anything?

 

[Porkbrick]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0T447OtoaQ
It won't embed for some reason

 

[cory]

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[sotc]

Nice Jamie, great exhibition

 

[cory]

One word: FREAKING BAD ASS AWESOME!!

 

[Tim_B.]

Nice video, Jaime! Thanks for the update!

Tim

 

[Porkbrick]

Jim Fairfield made that vid. I'm far too busy for playing around

 

[Jed]

O.k. that kid seriously just owned it on your rig Jaime. It's my honest gut feel that if I were spurless pruning in a tree next to that kid... he would just plain put me to shame. I gotsta get me some kit.

Where's that kid from? Spoke like an East-coast Canukian.

 

[PCTREE]

nice

 

[NickfromWI]

Looked so freaking smooth. Can't wait to incorporate this into my ropewalker system!

 

[pigwot]

Jim lives in Southeast PA; I like that term: "East Coast Canuckian"

 

[cory]

Btw, it weirds me out a bit to see people climbing over cement, anyone else feel that way?

 

[woodslinger]

nah, I've climbed right off a driveway like that a few times.

 

[cory]

Me too, I just don't love it, just psychological though.

 

[DMc]

Does anyone know what type of carabiner Jim is using to attach the Akimbo to his harness?

 

[NickfromWI]

nah, I've climbed right off a driveway like that a few times.

In LA half of the trees we climb are over cement!

 

[treebilly]

And the other half is over a building.

 

[Climbhigh]

Does anyone know what type of carabiner Jim is using to attach the Akimbo to his harness?

looks like an Omega Pacific D.

 

[BeaverMonkey]

Instant grits on that video! Thank you!

 

[Porkbrick]

Quick update on where things stand at the moment. From the few tester I've sent out I'm getting a lot of great feedback. There are so many little details that can make a big difference! I'm looking at installing a bushing on the upper and lower cam bolts so that the cams are free to turn but the bolts can be torqued down. I'm looking at tuning in the leverage the lower cam puts on the arm so that the akimbo works for the widest range of climber weights possible and so that it grabs solid but releases easy... More soon