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Another good one is a big powder filled fire extinguisher with a hose. Blast the contents into the face - causes choking and blindness, then swing the bottle like a morning star by the hose. However, the power can cause permanent eye damage, apparently...So ware goggles.

Also consider a polycarbanate riot shield, a riot helmet and a stab vest, and drill putting them on quickly. That and some sort of impact weapon will probably be your best bet. Set up a heavy bag and practice whacking it with simple gross motor arm movements, nothing fancy. You need to develop your body and mind to the point where you can dish out a rapid and relentless whacking without getting fatigued. Involve breathing and footwork. People revert to training under stress..

You could also use a system involving a base tie and cammed descender device that would allow the groundie to lower the climber remotely. This would be easy to train as well. Can also be used with Drt - to hoist the drt system. Now, if the climber is stuck, it's not going to work, but it would certainly increase the chance of a rescue overall.

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Dude there's a reason cops don't shoot for the legs - they miss. Police don't shoot to kill - they shoot to stop - and the optimal way to stop an assailant is to shoot several rounds into center mass. Under stress, gross motor function is lost, it's big targets and big movements only, and whatever training you have, that's what you will revert to. Even good marksmen miss in a dynamic stressed confrontation, so they minimise the possibility by aiming for center mass. The objective is to stop the guy, and if he survives, good, if not, too bad. Shooting for the knees does not work in real life, sorry, if it did, that's what armed response LE would do. Also, you're talking about a situation where you have been woken up suddenly by a noise, you are not "on the job" - the crims are. You will be shaking from adrenaline, there will be an unknown number of enemy combatants, it will be dark, or partially lit, and you will not know their mental state or level of preparedness. My advice, buy a pump action shotgun with as big a magazine as allowed by law, and mount the most powerful strobing torch you can find to it. Install a super loud alarm, and a flashing light system around your property that you can activate with a button. This will disorientate them, and they may run before all hell breaks loose. Also get a loudhailer and wake up the neighborhood with "I am in fear of my life, leave now or I will open fire!" - repeat this several times. Shock and awe basically.

Sure wouldnt want to get shot by that, but would it work on someone hopped up I wonder. There's plenty of YouTube vids of American police shooting nutters with multiple .38 rounds and they don't even notice.. until they drop dead.

Speaking of baseball bats, a couple friends of mine (did I tell this story before?) Were coming home from a tree job one evening and were stuck behind a boy racer on a remote country road. The kid threw a can out the window of his car, which pissed off the two tree guys a lot, as they hate littering, so the driver mate beeped and flashed him, and did the shackey heady arm wavey thing. Well, the boy racer slows and stops his car in the middle of the road, and a baseball bat and arm come out the window and hang down the side of the car door. He doesn't get out of his car, just sits there dangling the bat out the window. So my pals stop as well and one says to the other "Y'know, that's just a bit of wood, really. I've got something in the back that can deal with that..." So the saw guy gets out and fetches his 3120 and just walks towards the boy racer, doesn't start the saw or anything, just walks slowly. Well, boy racer kid gets gone in three seconds flat...they actually caught up with him later that evening by chance and gave him a bollocking for littering.

There's loads of ways to violently damage a person. The only thing is, once you start down that road you have to commit 100% because there is a chance they will not be a scared teenager, and they will fight for their lives, as would you. If someone's breaking into your home, you have to assume they mean to do you and your family harm, so you would do whatever it takes to "neutralise" the threat, and let the authorities figure it out later. But some tools in a shed? I dunno. Never been in that position myself, thankfully.

Thank the internet! ?

Absolutely - log weight charts. Or use an online calculator. May want to get a bathroom scale and check a small log to confirm the calculator is accurate. http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_weight

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No worries, I just finally set up my harness properly this afternoon, I keep forgetting to and then I'm in the tree and cursing because I can't get my lanyard through an ivy infested union or whatever. Come across good ideas then forget to implement them. No longer!

And also, don't be ashamed to use a polesaw in the canopy. It's considered bad form, but sometimes it's the only safe way, for me, at any rate. I used mine yesterday, made an hour job into a ten minute job.

And get yourself a stein telescopic "mini reach" for hooking lanyard ends out of reach etc. Very handy. And a carry a throwbag on your harness to weight your climbing line and lanyards when you throw them to advance. And replace the contents of your harness first aid kit with a single Celox Rapid bloodstopper bandage, will be the only thing that gives you or anyone else a chance in case of severe injury. And make sure that first aid pouch is set up so you can reach around and unzip it, or pull it off without fussing with straps. And get a Victorinox Soldier knife and pouch, with a string tether for emergency - serrated blade one hand opening and locking but blunt point so no self-stabbie, and it's got a saw as well. And clip a whistle (should be one comes with the first aid pouch) to the plastic dongle on your helmet strap.

Yup, and that's the problem - one doesn't know how any given individual will function in a real life crisis, untill actually tested. So, unless you're lucky and your groundie has actually performed a rescue for real before, or is a combat hardened veteran, ex-paramedic, etc, you just have to train for scenarios and hope that they have what it takes and will revert to their training under pressure and keep it together. I'd rather have a guy on the ground who will remember to get the risk assessment and communicate effectively with EMS than a guy who can climb but freezes or goes into a brain fog when TSHTF.

+ 1 for the spikes, and ladder. Personally, I want a person who I can trust to not lose the plot if something happens (touch wood) over someone with the ticket who is an unknown quantity, psychology wise. As said before, if the accident is arterial, you have like ten seconds to get to the ground, and the only person who can save you is you. If it's a case of getting stuck, or a non life threatening injury, a second climber could help rescue you, and time would not be crucial.

If you were positively sure his line was undamaged, and his tie in point could carry your combined weight (test before ascent) and that the line was rated for your combined weight with whatever knots etc, then why not? However, you would end up underneath the casualty, so would still have to transition to another system to get close enough to effect the rescue. In terms of using his line to bring both of you down, theoretically yes, but I think would be dodgy with prussics, they would be inclined to either bind from too much weight (all the weight on one leg) or slide too fast, depending on the construction of the line. You would most likely need a dedicated rescue line in a bag to take up with you. Also the standing end of his line could be all over the place, not hanging down conveniently beneath him, making it unclimbable from the ground.

Step 1. Buy an electric hydraulic log splitter! 9 ton vertical, and put bigger wheels on it. Step 2. Split everything in sight while listening to music from your youth on YouTube on your Bluetooth speaker. If it's really really rotten, leave it for wildlife habitat. Step 3. Stack your log pile artistically to attract the ladies, or, if happily married, just chuck randomly in a pallet box with a corrugated sheet roof.

Get yourself some braces for yr pants (the velcro ones, Not the ones with metal jaws) put the braces on bare skin and a long sleeve lycra rash-guard top over the top of the braces and pull it down over the waistband of the pants. Then harness up, it's brill - no chippings in the underwater, ever again.

Suzuki Jimney?

CS38/9 doesn't teach SRT (yet). Assessment allows access to the canopy by a technique of your choosing, but the work positioning and AR is double rope and prussic. Unless I'm mistaken.

I dabbled in MuyThai, boxing, taekwondo, combatives. I trained no gi BJJ for a year and a half. Club was too far from me and the physical toll was affecting my bottom line (knackered next day) so had to pack it in. Great sport for someone who has quick recovery or a sedentary job! Actually, of all the martial arts BJJ has the most in common with tree climbing, many of the movements are cross-compatible, like static pulling, joint flexibility, heel hooking etc. I wear BJJ rash-guard tops for tree work.