DrewB

or maybe get some grippier rope?

ladders scare the sh!t out of me.....

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

gotta agree with ya there mb!

totally agree dean, good point. but i think we need to remember that not all cuts are from chainsaws and silky cuts can be just as bad. sometimes it will be the shock that stops people self rescueing themselves and if we climb up and apply some first aid to them and then get them down, then its good for everyone. and i now think this is going in circles.......

i agree bro about improvisation but my first aid kit is for climbing and not finding caualties in the middle of nowhere:001_smile:

why do either when your first aid kit is already on your harness?

its handy for little things like silky cuts. if you have to rescue someone its good to have a compression bandage or such so that when you climb up to them you can imediately do something for them, if its a real bad cut every second will count. if you cut yourself its the same deal. and like mb said, its not like they take up much room. and it for me it makes the treemotion fit a little bit better as the first aid kit fits into the small of your back.

glad its not just me then...

thats what we do here also. i reckon as long as its the correct species its sweet as. hides the lines from view as well (unless you stand at the top of the street) they look really cool when the crown comes back over the top as well-lophostemon do it real good.

i just cant believe you didnt lanyard in, attach a fig 8 and then descend safely to be honest............

ouch steve

white russians through the night and tonnes of water before collapsing. and a masive bacon sarnie in the morning......

chuck it in the wash mate and itll come up nice again....and its not too expensive anyway. and i think its the best hitch cord available.

jst used ropes and pulleys to crank the bigger branches back and bits of string for the twiggy bits.had to go back today actually to move another branch for them

the branches were only being held back for an hour or so whilst the pile driver was putting 12 m holes in and then filling with concrete. then jump over and try and make another gap in the crown for the next one.and so on. was good fun and really wished id taken camera.ah well next time...

been working on a building site the last few days in the CBD (not as a builder by the way). the new building had its plans totally redesigned due to works being within the dripline of 3 plane trees and is now horsehoe shaped for the first 5 floors to allow for canopy spread. no damage whatsoever was allowed to the trees and the council put a $80 000 bond on them. our job (2 climbers) was to tie branches so that machinery could work in the crown without damaging the branches (ive never carried so many pulleys and carabiners, spare rope, etc...) we were allowed to do no pruning to allow for machinery access. on site during all works was a monitoring arborist who could shut work down at any time if trees were getting damaged. the cool thing was that all the contractors were pleased to work around the trees instead of breaking them (hourly rate though so cant blame em). and then at the end the transporter turned up to take a digger away and the digger fell off and nearly wiped a tree out!!!!!!!!!!! would of been an expensive mistake......................

. a double braided polyester rope would be spliced differently to a double braided dyneema. One of my problems with Yales Beeline is i've heard people splicing the 10mm in the same maner as they would splice the 8mm. both are totally different ropes. Jamie same here mate.dodgy.

not too high melting though-the op cord glazed my blaze up. and just because it isnt melting doesnt mean it isnt getting damaged by the heat. cheap is good though but not too cheap as you are tied into it.

blue meanies:001_cool:

inspirational video reg.

yeah i know. i dont think you could sell it like that but its sweet to climb on imo. it was hard to do so definetly aint cutting it off:001_tongue:

yeah i think its the same steve, details and diagrams are from new england ropes

just completed a "heavy duty kernmantle eye splice". still to slide on the heat shrink tube though. after all that hard work it turned out to be a ugly little thing!

phoenix bloody palms