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I broke my knee in a motorcycle accident about twelve years ago, and my doctor gave me something like as much hydrocodone as a man my weight could ever possible want, which I became immediately, and completely addicted to. I absolutely loved the floaty, lovely, warm feeling of being on that...

Now that was a cool post, Sean. I'll read it again, and think about this stuff. I just wanted to thank you all for the well-wishes, concern, and advise. I went and got Joe out in Seattle so that my wife could feed him dinner, and at least get him out of the daily routine; but, as I said...

Ha!!!!! Jo's doing great!!!! Just talked to him tonight FINALLY. He's gonna be on a ton of Hydrocodone for like three months, but other than that, he's walking around--albeit with great circumspection, and he's feeling like a million bucks. The guy just sits around healing-up and watches...

Thanks so much for the well-wishes. I think he was released from hospital last night, so I should get to see him soon.

No Sean: I simply meant that I felt like Labour and Industries worked out a tad bit better than California's Workman's Comp, but I could very easily be wrong here. Ohhhh, nooooh.... Please DO NOT misunderstand me: the company is trying to throw him under the buss as expediently as they can...

Yeah, up here it's called L and I (Labour and Industries), and he'll be covered even a tad bit better than WC, but this is little consolation for a guy like Joe.

Thanks. Looks good, but maybe not as expedient as Sean's simple idea of just leaving your flip line around the stick, and just using one hand to mind the flip, and one hand under the Munter.

Yes, Stig. I'll definitely be telling him all about your Christmas tree accident, because I KNOW that your comeback would be a huge encouragement to him. Joey's hard to explain. He's completely obsessed with John Krakaur books, and another author who wrote something called Touching the Void...

Uhhh, yeah it matters. Thanks Carl. I hadn't even realized that, but you're absolutely right, and it goes a long way to explaining the loss of line from his hands.

Yeah, he actually "told" (he was on a ton of morphine) our boss in the hospital that this is the one provision, that he should have made.

We do Stig, though we never put hard pulls on them. I always make the provision of a downward angled notch in the top of the spar to run the part of my rope through that will make contact with the ground; but I rarely use pull-lines now, preferring wedges. This kid's only been in tree work for...

We just covet this Gary. He's a believer also.

Sean: Good advice, duly noted. Stumper: Chicken? Smart!! Jim: Thanks. Yeah, he's young and strong. If I had to guess, I'd say he'd heal well. We'll see.

We've got a young climber who gets thrown into the mix a bit more than I'd like right now because we're a bit short-handed. Yesterday, he removed a small Fir, and left his climb line in the stob so that his foreman (not I) could pull it over when he fell it. We always use a running bowline...