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Not the orange kind though

Also Known as cone harvesting

Oooooops. Forgot Coulter, Bugger of a thing with VERY large spiney cones that also include much sap. Long sweeping branches. I think the cones get bigger than the gray. Also large and spiney. And sappy. We had a rock go through the chipper once stuck in a cone on a branch working on a tree on...

I would Imagine a black pine would be like a grey. Ive climbed some cedars that will muck it up. White pine, sugar pine, white fir (piss fir?), Monterey, Scots, Italian stone. One particular Cypress comes to mind. My god that was a sticky mess. Sargents cypress I believe. We had to pressure wash...

Best way to mitigate pitch is working SRT. Less rope in front of you and less in the tree. One leg. It still happens. But less. If you are taking down a conifer, way less rope contacting the tree. In a prune more. Best I can describe it. Pitch will have a tendency to be in the first three feet...

No such thing as worse. Pitch sucks. It will just as easy lock a hitch as it will a mech. Sometimes it is "easier" to loosen the hitch to release than an mech. Until you hit the next bit of pitch. Folly to even get into that conversation. Pitch sucks period. Embrace the suck, finish the job...

Pitch is hateful no matter what IMHO. Adapt, overcome, finish the task, move on.

Pulled my rope past all the pitch after releasing it. Let myself down a ways with my flip line weighting back into the Akimmbo and double check if I can release for descent. Once confirmed, I unclipped the flip line and came down. If that had not worked, I would have had another rope sent up to...

Got my Akimbo pitchy with the pine yeasterday. Bad JuJu. Pitch got on rope and locked the Akimbo. I forgot my HH at the shop. On one of my other ropes.

Yup.