Mr. Squirrel
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Luckily losing the lever that makes you go down doesn't make you fall. Still a bit of a pain though. I guess you could helicoil the hole so it doesn't happen again? Also obviously you don't actually need to take that lever off to change the clutch either, so in future just leave that wee screw alone...
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Have a small caritool on the left which I have my pulley saver on while I'm going up, occasionally a polesaw, cable bracing gubbins or what have you. Doesn't get used much but still very useful. I wouldn't hang a saw on a caritool though, they're plastic, plastic is not tough. I have a chainsaw hook for that, never seen these in the UK but they're made by Komet... Freeworker - Motorsägenhaken mit kleiner Platte - climb up high!
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Happens from time to time, everybody gets scared up there sometimes. I had a horrible couple days dead wooding some 30m poplars this week. Long, long branches, windy, cold, old 'reduction' cuts. An old russian man came down from his flat and gave me a 6 pack at lunch time, he understood... You just have to rationalise it really, why are you terrified? What is the tree like? what's different? Plus, a polesaw is a perfectly good tool for dead wooding, pain in the arse to climb with but on the tippy bits and around the top it's easier, faster, safer and less scary...
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You mean you don't carry a rescue spanner? To be honest I use a petzl micro grab without a cuttable link. I tried the wee dyneema sling, but it was horrid. Without it it's beautiful. Obviously it's a good idea, but, I think I'm prepared to take the risk.
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Whats your moto, or go to quote?
Mr. Squirrel replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
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I don't generally anchor into branches, I put an anchor on the stem? I'm generally happy if I've got my squirrel saver around 4" of stem I reckon. Varies from tree to tree, day to day, job to job obviously, but for 'hard trees' that seems to work. For 'snappy trees' I go somewhat larger. The branch it's sitting on, small usually. Or choke my squirrel saver on the stem.
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Sounds like the springs have popped out the bottom. You may be able to push them back up and seat them on their wee notches? As above though really I guess because they shouldn't do that.
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Some harness' just do not suit some people. I used a seqouia for a week once and spent most of that time in alot of pain and discomfort, sure you CAN get it done, but why would you fork out all that money for something you'll only live to hate?
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A mate took his top handle on a flight last month, poured all the oil & fuel out, put it in it's box and had no problems. Drew's plan sounds alot more pro though, perhaps he was just lucky...
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I can, I had an alveo and it just feels so cheap. I could poke the brim and it would just bend, leaving a white line and a bit of a crease. It is obviously a lightweight helmet, but I think it's sacrificing durability a little too much for this. I got rid of mine as I was using it as my chainsaw helmet and felt that in the event that I was doing a dismantle and something actually whacked my head it would probably be of limited help.
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I had the same issues with the Salewa mtn trainer as others, all the lower hooks snapped off within a month. I have a pretty good local climbing shop though and he managed to replace them all without damaging the gore tex membrane. My second pair of winter climbing boots are these, Kayland Vertigo high gtx. Difficult to get your hands on but if you can they're definitely worth it, all leather, super tough, not as supple as the Salewas but once they're broken in they're more comfortable. My climbing shop also tell me they can resole them no problem so that's another bonus... Kayland SUMMER Backpacking
