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Go get some giant puppies . Can’t put a price on pets, they improve our quality of living dramatically IMO . I hear you on the lack of stress not owning a business or interacting with idiots/customers. I am lucky that I will be in a good financial position and have options to make money that...

The original intent was to get enough out of the sale to enable me to move to Costa Rica and retire. Due to COVID and my wife not really being on board with moving yet I don’t know if that is going to happen.

I remember and you became a chimney sweep right? I just want less stress, couldn’t come close to the income doing anything else but at least I might be able to enjoy life again What are you doing now, how’s your spread doing, still got the big dogs?

I did too. As crane cabled up and my weight came off of my lanyard I undid it like thousands of times before. this was our 4th day in brutal heat after a storm. However I had been running the crane for a couple of days so figured I was fresher than the others. I was feeling good that day too...

Took me 2 weeks to figure out what went wrong. My wife didn’t understand why it was so important to figure out what happened. How could I climb again if I didn’t know what caused it. Period. I knew he second I pulled the HH I fell. I knew I tie a stopper. Finally found how this miss tie will...

Nutball and lkskllr yes the first picture is of my life line termination. Safe as houses is how the English put it. 2nd unfortunately isn’t. Tied that knot thousands of times.

Very similar but potentially fatally different

This is how I assume I miss tied in

This is how I have tied in for years

Yes Dave, double rope with the end terminated through the ring on bridge with a double over hand stopper just like the dogbone on HH however I screwed up and tied the overhands before the ring instead of after so the load pulled the knot undone

Thanks Brian That was a good time wasn’t it, climbing that monster hickory that John/Nobivy found. Remember sneaking Rufus into the hotel...

Costa Rica is looking pretty good to me. Was supposed to be down there next week with the family but Covid frigged that up No Cory I don’t think our justice system is the best, if you have money here you are untouchable. Good friend of mine from way back drives a Porsche. He says he regularly...

That is a very sore point. One of the many reasons I’m selling the business. The case kept getting postponed. Finally we get a court date of the Friday before Xmas . My own lawyer calls me up and said he worked very hard and got me a plea deal for disturbing the peace. I said no way I didn’t do...

Took me 2 weeks to figure out what went wrong. I always terminate my climbing line by putting the end through a steel ring on my rope bridge and tying a double over hand stopper knot. I knew that somehow pulling my hitch had started the fall. Turns out that I think I put the rope through the...

So back home. so got back on the ground and the homeowner wanted to call 911. I told him no way, we can get me to the hospital. Last thing I needed was osha being called! Anyways I ended up with 3 broken vertebrae 4 broken ribs and a prolapsed rectum which was no fun. After a night in hospital...

Ok so 2019 was a bad year for me all around. Started with the site I dump my wood where I had been operating out of for 15 years which is our local mulch place handed over the operation to their niece. Niece emails me in February and notifies me that my lease is up at the end of the month and we...