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native beliefs Native americans thought of oaks as the leaders of the plant world, they are strong and hold on to life no matter what. This is why they keep their leaves, natives used oak medicine for people that seemed to no longer want to hold on to life and felt like giving up. It was also...

interresting point, as long as you are going to ride the piece out, other wise, if staying in the tree, you will not be able to retrieve your climbing line (unless you bring another with you) but in that case the crane operator would have to deal with your SRT climbing line hanging down from the...

A.R.T.'s new mechanical acsending/decsending device. http://gear.sherrilltree.com/iwwidb.pvx?;multi_item_submit looks nice, although the new release lever looks like it could get knocked by something (hand, limb, tree) and release accidentally..... guess i won't know until i try it, or hear...

Euro Beech There is a gigantic european beech on the umass campus that i climb often and take dead wood out of when no one is looking. I get a nice look at all the college girls from up there as well :cheers:

Zoo Mass anyone in western MASS that wants to climb UMASS AMHERST campus has lots of great trees .... no one ever bothers me there.... i get some funny looks from the campus police from time to time but thats about it..... as for a large group of climbers i would probably have to get some sort...

Wesspur if you check wesspurs site you can make a custom climbing kit and get everything you need to start off...it will cost you though and they don't offer a new tribe saddle. However you can get most of that stuff from new tribe if you just put together your own kit.... prices should be...

make that three for Norway Maple the nasty syrup would reflect their nasty products

I'll be there on tuesday

too bad, i almost made the same mistake and went for a whole reel of cheap stuff but got talked out of it. if i do buy a whole reel of something it will be velocity

perfect! thanks john that really clears it up..... is it a piece of equipment you use everyday?

what were the problems with it? i've never even heard of it just wondering what you didn't like about it

sorry i should have worded this better in the Art and Science of Practical Rigging they go over what i am trying to explain. Say you were attaching the Portawrap to a tree with an eye sing, you went around the tree counterclockwise with the sling ran it around the splice eye (that is girth...

Can the GRCS be loaded in any direction? for example; the port-a-warap III should not be loaded against the bite of the sling, limiting it from being able to load in that direction. Does the GRCS have a similar factor like this or can it be loaded in any direction?

My Basic rigging this is a bit over 500 but it took me a while to aquire all of it. large steel port-a-wrap 16' tenex eye sling 2 ton steel block pully 12' tenex eye sling 3/4" stable braid 150' 1/2" true blue 150' Tree Pulling Kit (2 Petzl double sheave prusik minding pullys, 2 tenex...

"Please note that Amsteel Blue behaves differently than normal rope and maintains the most strength when used with a spliced termination. Tied knots may severely reduce the breaking strength of Amsteel Blue." (wesspur.com) Amsteel blue is not a climbing line!

020, ever try velocity for foot locking? stuff is great, and once the sticky coating wears off it is great for DRT as well. it is the first 7/16 line i have used and i love it. For 1/2" i found many 16 strand that i like.... arbormaster, yellowjacket, XTC..... IMO if you are gunna go 1/2" then...

type of weight are the bullet shaped weights better in the BS? how are the bullet shape for throwing? i've only used regular weaver pouches and have never used a BS but it will be the next thing i buy.

my saddles i use a butterfly II and also a weaver double sliding D indiv. leg straps. The BII is amazing, forms to my body like nothing i have ever tried, it has a perfect width backpad and is super light. The Weaver was tough at first but as soon as it was broken in it became a great saddle...

Spikes! hands down (for me anyway) have the spikes on, its the fastest way up the tree to set your line, plus you can start the removal (in many cases) on the way up to set your line. There have been very few cases where i found setting the line from the ground would be faster then spiking up...