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Will you mail to Hong Kong?
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A Husky sales rep told me that Husqvarna will release a totally redesigned top handled saw sometime in 2008.
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First was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, most recent was the Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir. I'm patiently waiting for the next Portishead album.
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I'm down with Jamie's methodology:
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Lanyard, silky, extra locking biner, first aid, and a ditty bag containing a loop runner, another locking biner, Cinch, cambium saver retrieval link, and all the excess tail of the lanyard. I'm waiting for Butch's Weaver to show up.
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SWEET!
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Yes, I've had the same problem. The hitch can get caught underneath the termination knot when it collapses. Solutions are to use as small a carabiner as possible for the termination knot, use a longer hitch cord to make the friction hitch "taller", and use a stiffer cord that won't collapse as much. Or get a nice spliced eye.
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Aloha everybody. A job for an arborist has been posted at Harold L. Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu, HI. The Arboretum is owned and operated by the University of Hawaii, but is unattached to any campus. The Arboretum consists of 194 acres of native and non-native managed rainforest in a truly beautiful setting. Here is a link to the job description with instructions on how to apply: http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/zoom_job.php?8367 Please note that the posted salary is only the base minimum, and is definitely negotiable upwards depending on the candidate's qualifications. If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at [email protected] . Also, please pass this on to anyone that you think might be interested. Thanks.
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For sure. Getting failed on an exam because you use a different name for a certain cut is just stupid.
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Ah, I call that a quarter cut, good for small trees with backlean. With all the different names for all the techniqes it's a wonder that we can understand what we're all talking about.
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In response to High Scale, I don't understand how you would use that cut for a backleaning tree. How would you get wedges in, and what would be the point of bore cutting it? Steve, that's good to know about the release cut, thanks.
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I call that a bore cut with a back strap. I was always taught to make the backstrap release cut horizontal, and just slightly lower than the bore cut, which would supposedly keep the tree from grabbing your saw if the strap let go early. I'm not sure that it makes a difference, though.
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What's a dogtooth cut?
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I had a student from Myerscough come do a one year work placement with me that past year. It worked out quite well. I believe he had been at the college for one year before coming out to work with me and I was impressed with the amount of basic arboricultural knowledge he had from that one year of schooling. It certainly surpassed what most folks in this country might have even after years in the industry. I think he forgot most of it over the course of the year here, though...
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I'm not sure that's an American name. Like you guys, I have used that type of cutting technique before, but I'd never heard it called a letterbox cut.
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Those Who Have The Treemotion Saddle???
rumination replied to BoogieWithStu's topic in Climbers talk
Here's my current setup, but I just got the saddle so I'll probably be changing it around some as I use it more.
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Those Who Have The Treemotion Saddle???
rumination replied to BoogieWithStu's topic in Climbers talk
Rich, I borrowed a friends TreeMotion for a couple weeks (and will be getting my own very soon). I also keep saws on right, lanyard on left. I can't remember exactly where I put the handsaw, but the chainsaw stayed attached to a petzl caritool that was fitted through a convenient passthrough spot on the right side of the backpad. This kept the chainsaw in a good spot for me. -
Those Who Have The Treemotion Saddle???
rumination replied to BoogieWithStu's topic in Climbers talk
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Hot damn!
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Zubat here as well.
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So if I understand correctly you have to go back and take the marlinspike out of the footlock line before it can be retrieved from the tree?
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It's locally known as Octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla). I believe it is commonly grown as an indoor potted plant in more temperate regions, although it doesn't get near as large!
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cutting cookies today
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Not often, but occasionally I will attach a pulley with my Ddrt system to the bottom hole of the ascender and use that as my tether to the ascender. I have a prusik backup on the top of the ascender and when I get to where I want to work I put my weight on the prusik and disengage the ascender. After watching the most recent round of competition I'm going to start putting a marlinspike in the SRT line underneath the prusik. I'd like to get a Rocker at some point as that seems like it would be easier and smoother than the prusik.
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I haven't given it another try yet. In the end I decided it was more trouble than it was worth. I did notice that Steve was using it in one of the photos he posted here somewhere.
