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  1. kevin bingham
    I shouldnt say that, there is a good population of junkie climbers in the world that I have met, many of them spur trims. I do not mean to Generalize though.
  2. kevin bingham
    I call trees that have been spurred, junkie trees cause they are all tracked up. Regardless if it hurts the tree, it looks terrible and unprofessional. I have never seen a tree that couldn't be climbed without spurs. It's funny because most of the guys that spur trim jobs around here are junkies themselves.
  3. kevin bingham
    you get your throwball up there, pull up a running bowline and SRT the tree.
  4. kevin bingham
    Im sorry, $14 for shipping anywhere in the world .
  5. kevin bingham
    The problem with the gri gri or Id or Rig, is that they must be taken on and off the line. unless you are content with RADS for ascent which is painfully slow in My experience. Easy but slow. Frog walkin is the quickest way for ascent but all that time is lost changine over to a RIG or ID for work. None of them have the amount of stop and go control that a hitch has.
  6. kevin bingham
    No, during ascent, the rope wrench does nothing. It is just there. I use an ascender to clip my foot loop into but I do not clip myself into the ascender. This allows me to descend in a moments notice without having to unclip myself of perform any sort of changeover. Going up and down is as simple as it is in ddrt. For shorter ascents I don't even bother with the footloop and only use my pantin. a little more work but less gear.
  7. kevin bingham
    sometimes I ascend ddrt and then changeover to SRT to work the tree. If it works out that way.
  8. kevin bingham
    If you order a rope wrench from treestuff.com it will cost $14 but you must email Luke and he will reimburse the difference if you buy directly online. The online shipping calculator will charge you more. That is only if you are buying just a wrench and no other supplies.
  9. kevin bingham
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcb8oSGc2kk]YouTube - ‪Rope Wrenching‬‏[/ame]
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    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLC0yBq7bsE]YouTube - ‪Rope Wrench at the house 5-29-11‬‏[/ame] This is Jesse. He leaves his front door into a tree, over to another tree, into another tree, over to another tree, over the roof, under his porch, and then tries to get in the back door but....
  11. kevin bingham
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcb8oSGc2kk]YouTube - ‪Rope Wrenching‬‏[/ame]
  12. kevin bingham
    what style harness do you have? You may also want to shorten your hitch if you have a long hitch. I like everything to fits in between your bridge and collar bone. The tether can be too short too, when it is too short it cant disengage and also kind of jams your fingers in the hitch during descent. If anyone comes up with good tether designs, post it. I personally Dont like carabiners in my tether system, but others have done so and seem to like it.
  13. kevin bingham
    I have found that the trick is to clip the lanyard over the shoulder onto the back of the wrench, not the Hitch climber. the wrench pulls the hitch up as you go. If you clip into your hitch climber, the wrench will not ride up smooth. The other thing that works is to attach the back of the wrench to the upper ascender so it pulls everything up as you ascend.
  14. kevin bingham
    I think that is the first time I have ever heard that about the bowline. I was taught that knot before all others as THE most basic knot out out there and THE easiest to untie. I would love to learn a simpler knot that is easier to untie. What is the anglers loop?
  15. kevin bingham
    other thing that may help is to tighten up the lower bushing so it fits a little tighter on the rope. Messing with the adjustible bushing is a bit of a pain but once you dial it in for the rope your using its good. If it is too wide I find the wrench gets a bit sloppy, too tight and you have to pull yourself down the rope. It is fun to play around with different sized ropes. A fat rope is cool to swing around on while my static 10mm KM3 I can really go fast with the pantin and ascender, but is a little more difficult to get a good grip on for footlocking.
  16. kevin bingham
    there is a fence row on my parents land where many of the Robinia fence posts sprouted and have grown into full on trees.
  17. kevin bingham
    shorter tether?
  18. kevin bingham
    http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/images/upload/141655-oldschool.jpg I like this way of pulling up the 3:1 into the tree as well.
  19. kevin bingham
    here it the post I made at treebuzz at the time . TreeBuzz Board: I love the hitch climber if you have the rig all set up in a bag ready to go it rocks. I used this in three different comps and did well in all of them although they dinged me real hard at the ITCC for incorporating a CMI pulley which they said could side load.
  20. kevin bingham
    Thats pretty much how I ran my ariel rescue in the 2008 ITCC. It is cool as hell but I think completely impractical for anywhere but a comp. Your never going to have that rig sitting around in the truck ready to go unless you have a lot of extra space and money. SImpler is better. These are terrible unclear videos of how I set up my system for the ITCC but on a rec climb to get a friend into the tree. There is no trunk tie and it can be done with one rope or two. YouTube - ‪treebing49's Channel‬‏ YouTube - ‪treebing49's Channel‬‏ YouTube - ‪treebing49's Channel‬‏
  21. kevin bingham
    that set up is 2009 and it needs to be taken off before ascent. only the rope wrench stays on line during ascent
  22. kevin bingham
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXwrXgN0qw]YouTube - the F8 revolver[/ame]
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  24. kevin bingham
    I guess my point is that descending and ascending are very different functions and it is a stretch to ask one device to do both. The uni comes close but I see it as almost a descender built into an ascender. I do not see a gri gri as an ascender at all even in a RADS config. Ascending would be much faster if it were not on the rope impeding progress. It does not help one ascend. But your right, its all semantics and a matter of perspective.
  25. kevin bingham
    in Srt you should not need a swivel

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