Mr. Squirrel
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There have been several generations of celox. Earlier ones produced heat and were perhaps more of an issue to clean up in hospital. More recent ones are allot safer I believe. Interesting stuff re. CAT, I will have to read into this some more... agreed though that I can't imagine applying one in mid air being very practical. Crush injuries and the treatment of spinal injuries is probably a far more important topic though, yeah. Bleeds are simple, stop the blood flow, go to hospital. What do you do if a guy damages his spine in a tree though?
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Agreed with you DJP, to my understanding if a torniquet is left in place for any length of time you can pretty much say goodbye to the limb. While a chainsaw wound or what have you is potentially pretty terrible, it's not an ied. Anyone trying to get one on me would have to wait until I was unconscious or put up a fight. We're tree surgeons after all, not real surgeons, I'll take my chances and wait for the paramedics... Celox bandage, or granules and a bandage are pretty much all I'd consider useful to have on your harness.
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Yeah, I googled the ip address, I'm not sure if it's atall correct but it said it was from Bangladesh. It's not really an issue, just so long as they don't get in the way of my roll as solicitor to the late king of Nigeria. I have $100m USD I have bean entrusted with four his distant cousin Steven!
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Hey, I just got an email saying someone had tried to log into my account 5 times and been temporarily blocked from the site. Kinda surprised someone would want to hack an arbtalk account... anyone else ever had this? Weird...
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Nice vid! I wasn't expecting that after you asking for any pointers, but that's obviously just a great attitude to work with. Every days a school day top job though, looked like a fun one too! Edit: I can't see any fault in it either, but when I'm tying off a couple of branches at a time I prefer to clove hitch the first and then tie off the second. Saves carrying around slings/crabs. But then I don't really rig with slings anyway. Personal preference!
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I get pretty sweaty feet too, after a couple of hours the leather outer of my airstreams has wet patches from sweat leaking through the Gore tex. Everybody I mention this to acts surprised but I'm sure it's not all that rare... Anyhow I've just gotten pretty good at coping with it. If I'm not using a saw/am climbing I usually wear non protective boots, which are slightly more breathable. I also have a couple pairs of cutting boots and 3 pairs of non protective so I stagger them through the week. I definitely use sweaty feet as an excuse to buy more boots... Boots go outside on the window sill to dry, I'd never put them in front of a heart source for fear of gassing myself.
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I used to work with a girl who took a hedge cutter to the boob. That's all I got.
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Suunto.
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If you fancy a bit of a play, tenex is seriously easy, to splice. And pretty satisfying. Check out some kinda guidelines on splicing it and you really can't go far wrong.
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My major concern would be topping the thing. The gear sounds like it could be fine but I'd say fell it or leave it alone.
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Gotta agree with Scotspine. Safety is obviously important in this industry but I think a great deal of that comes from common sense and practical/logical risk assessment. Without that ability most of us would be dead or horribly disfigured, regardless of how much advice hse boffins had provided. That's not to say I'm against health and safety, on the contrary, but I think that most H&S guidelines and especially monitoring are pretty superficial and basically irrelevant. Ultimately I think if you lack that aptitude to look after yourself then you're in the wrong job. Climbing dead trees covered in wasps in a thunderstorm might be pretty dangerous, but it's also pretty cool. Next thing you know those bureaucratic boobys will be telling us we shouldn't be doing that! Pah!
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How about width? The length of pfanners is fine, but their waist sizing is crazy, and the legs are based on the assumption your thighs are like tree trunks, and the same size as you're ankles.
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What is the fit like on sip's? Of all the cutting trousers I've had nothing comes close to the pfanners for durability, but the fit is ridiculous.
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So long as the anodising is colourful enough it's pretty much guaranteed to sell. Just look at zig zag, might well crack, possibly even snap. But make it gold... boobs on a hot plate.
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Haha, they are pernikity wee things, for sure. I think mine is quite old and the spring quite slack, which makes kicking on and off much easier. Thinking about it though, when on my working line it definitely does pop out easier than on the access line. I guess it's the angle it leaves the pantin from, which if you're climbing srt and use it for most ascents might be a right faff when the tail of your rope isn't straight beneath you. I guess the clippy ones might not be all bad...
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I use an old pantin and never really have issues with the rope popping out. I think if you get the technique dialled it's fine. I'd certainly view not being able to kick my rope out and get it back on hands free as more of a disadvantage.
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Haha, been there. I was out on a limb and my lever fell off. The pin was still in place by the grub screw but the rest was gone, never did find it. Put an old short lever back on mine and never been a problem. I prefer them anyway for their resistance to the spider attack.
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Maybe mine is just a duff first batch saw, I wish it came close to the 372! They are both stock though so perhaps I should look at tinkering a bit. I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at a 560 with added grunt. And the 372, oooh... The noise they must make though? What talented individual 'breathed' on it for you? Ha
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What have you done to your 372?!? 560 is obviously lighter with brilliant acceleration but is no match for a 372 when it comes to power...
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Me too, I'm going to start using opposing snap gates instead. Sounds like interesting reading though.
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I suppose that could be a bonus of the spikescender, given that is placed a little back. There is something really cool about a diy job though...
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Free climbing, no question. Even with a rope it looked dodgy enough thanks. Watched the last few days on the live stream, it was like watching paint dry but completely fascinating at the same time. Amazing achievement.
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But then the 560, even with an 18'' bar is, in my opinion, slightly obsolete in climbing. I do everything I can with my 200 & 14'' bar and then go straight to the 372 with 20'' for the big stuff. 560 is just a bit inbetweeny, and mine pretty much never leaves the ground.
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Mine runs an 18'' alright. It isn't crazy fast cutting but it's certainly not bad
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Bonkers! Well, unusual at least...
