Climbing with spurs/spikes

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Spikes are trash , I am learning to do removals without them , and the day I can throw them in a lake and never wear them again will be a great day . And if your doing spruce/pine you don't need spikes even at the beginning of learning to climb a tree .
That's crazy. Spikes give you so many advantages. Safety being one of them
 
"Spikes are trash" cracks me up every time!

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treeclimber101, you should get your groundsmen to video tape you removing a coniferous tree without spurs and show everyone how fast you are without them. I want to know if you're as fast as you say you are, cuz I just can't picture doing those really excurrent trees fast without spikes. But I'm curious to see how you do. And if you are that fast, some of these zealous spur-advocates might back off.
 
treeclimber101, you should get your groundsmen to video tape you removing a coniferous tree without spurs and show everyone how fast you are without them. I want to know if you're as fast as you say you are, cuz I just can't picture doing those really excurrent trees fast without spikes. But I'm curious to see how you do. And if you are that fast, some of these zealous spur-advocates might back off.
I got some pictures of a monster spruce I posted a months ago ...maybe I should have told you to learn to climb first without them , I think that a new climber becomes awesome quicker when he learns without them . And when you use them you smoke through stuff , instead of vice versa trying to learn after you've depended on them for so long , if feels like something very important Is now missing instead of adding something later for speed and comfort
 
I got some pictures of a monster spruce I posted a months ago ...maybe I should have told you to learn to climb first without them , I think that a new climber becomes awesome quicker when he learns without them . And when you use them you smoke through stuff , instead of vice versa trying to learn after you've depended on them for so long , if feels like something very important Is now missing instead of adding something later for speed and comfort

Yeah, like learning to drive in an automatic before taking on a standard or learning with ascenders before footlocking. I would like to learn what you're talking about, but I don't really get what you're talking about. Is there a name for the technique you do?
 
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