Recent content by Elliott Lifton

its settled...Bucklites with angled pads! That's the spur for me.

I will be trying out a pair of bashlins with big buck pads today. My boss thinks I will fall in love with them haha. Il let you know what I think of them.

Again guys, thanks for all the welcomes! Last night I was looking through my wesspur catalog and reconsidered my harness choice...This is probably going to be the most difficult purchase because I am not going to be able to try on any that I am interested in. But anyways instead of the Tree...

I can't say the same for me, my steel bucks piss me off. Especially every time I have to jimmy them back together to finish the day.

Hey guys, a fellow climber we work with sometimes has a pair of geckos and CRs so hopefully he will let me try them out and see what I think. I'm getting impatient though haha...you guys would all laugh at the spikes I'm using right now.

I looked them up online to see the cost...it said around $550.00usd...does that sound about right? Also I was planning on getting my equipment from wesspur. Would you guys recommend anywhere else?

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Thanks NHlocal! I plan to stick around

Yup...that's old school haha. Great pic. Burnham, I know what you mean about harnesses. Kinda hard to know until you try it.

Thanks Burnham! I live on Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada. A lot of big tall conifers and big wide deciduous. Id say 70% of my job is in fir, cedar or spruce. But we also get into maples, poplars, alders, arbutus, oaks... I find myself swinging to adjacent trees quite often.

I am not much of gear head right now. I have been taught the old school way and know that you can get anything done that way. Right now I'm belt, spurs, two fliplines and a 150' 1/2" climbing line (which I use the Blakes Hitch on). I would like to start using the french prusik with micro...

Hi all, Just want to introduce myself, I am new to the Tree House. I have been climbing for almost a year now and I love it. Every day its turning into more of a passion than just a job and I am eager to learn as much as possible. So far I have been using equipment provided by my employer...