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Any suggestions on the safest and least harmful way to attach a child's rope swing to a sycamore? Mine has a branch that's horizontal and about 5in in diameter about 15' out from the main trunk. Searching on 'swing' in this forum turned up one suggestion to just screw in steel eyebolts. Any...

They're rock climbing gear I'm not a rock climber, so others can probably contribute more, but the metal shapes on the lanyards are rock climbing jam nuts. They go by a couple of different trade names. The lead climber jams them into a crack in the rock face, then snaps a biner and the climbing...

Thanks, JPS, Nick Yeah, I was just wondering. -Kevin

Reading the Color Coding Slings thread made me think of something. Can you make a loopie or whoopie with hollow tubular nylon webbing? Take, say, an 8' piece of 1" tubing, make a slit (parallel to the length, I would think) 8" from one end (to give an 8" handle), and another slit 24" further...

Maybe it was a Slippery Bend? Can't remember; I'll look it up at home tonight. -Kevin

Man, that photographer takes some fine pictures. I think a comparison can be seen between the work of 'tree hacks' compared to professional arborists, and the quality of some of the pictures we take and post here, compared to the photographs of a professional. Thanks for the pictures...

Highwayman's hitch If I understand correctly, I've sometimes heard this referred to as a Highwayman's Hitch. How is this different from the Slippery Hitch described in the Tree Climber's Companion? Just curious. -Kevin [Also an IGKT member since, whoo, October!]

Someone sent me this link to photos taken during the climb on USS CONSTELLATION during the TCI Expo just held in Baltimore. I think this is from the student chapter out at Purdue. They seemed to have a lot of fun. They even took the time to caption the photos, so you can recognize some of us by...

How'd I miss you? You all must have showed up just after I left. Brian (Rocky) came and cleaned a tree gratis for the City of Baltimore, but had to go back to the show to pick up a saw. I waited around until 1:45, but decided no one else was going to show, so I packed up and went home...

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... Sorry, I dropped the ball on this one. I put off calling the City Forester until just Monday of this week. At first, he said that he couldn't allow us to climb without official saction from TCI and coverage under their insurance. Then, a moment later...

Final arrangements for CONSTELLATION climb Thank you all for your interest in the nautical climb aboard USS CONSTELLATION in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The ship is just 4-5 blocks east of the Convention Center on Pratt Street. If you go to the harbor area, it's the largest and most prominently...

I'll be there; and badges I'll be on the Expo. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off from work all day, but I don't think cruising the Expo floor will take two days. Tom sent me the schedule for the climbing tree. I want to spend most of my time there. However, anyone who wants to break away and...

PPE on CONSTELLATION climb Oh, man, I don't know what to say about personal safety gear on the CONSTELLATION climb. Tom's right, most of the harnesses we use are cheap rock-climbing harnesses with no rings and ratty-looking 4-6 foot non-adjustable lanyards with non-locking biners in each end. I...

"Two,six" "Heave" and other nautical trivia Rob, I'm as confused on the heaving command as you might be. I've heard it two ways. The professional rigger that taught me used to call, "Two, SIX" and we'd all heave on the "SIX" in silence. He told me the numbers were the positions in the gun crew...

Further thoughts on climbing CONSTALLATION Another arborist, in a private message, asked about heights. Here's my long-winded reply. I'm just guessing at the heights; I'll have to look them up. =========================== I think you can go as high as you want. The second yardarm (horizontal...

Relation to trapeze spotters? A fiction book I read involved circus trapeze artists and riggers. It seemed well researched and authoritative. For the life of me, I can't remember the title. It talked about the spotters who work under the trapeze artist. Their job was to break the fall of a...

Some of you know that I got interested in arborist's work as an outgrowth of my work in ship rigging. I'm a volunteer rigger on USS CONSTELLATION, the US Navy's last all-sail warship. We're currently replacing the ratlines, the horizontal, ladder-rung-like ropes going up the shrouds. You can...

Can I help? I'm a local living in Baltimore. I started the thread on area hotels at http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9967. If I can be of any assistance, drop me a note, either here through AS, or directly at [email protected]. On a personal, side note, if you use...

If anyone will be staying on in Baltimore after TCI in November and would like to attend religious services, drop me a note with your denomination, where you're staying in Baltimore and any other preferences and I'll do some investigating to see if I can match you with a service. Baltimore...

[Apologies to Ivan Doig, Dancing at the Rascal Fair (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2ULLDH033O&isbn=0684831058&itm=1). Good book.] If anyone is coming into Baltimore the night before the TCI Expo, the regular Wednesday night contra dance will be held by the...