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I can see it as fun, in my younger years. I heard that it was hard on the body, so I understand how to footlock, have done it very, very, very little, and bet my body thanks me for it, which goes back to the career climber perspective of FL'ing being obsolete. You can easily wear a floating foot...

Foot ascenders have somewhat made footlocking obsolete for a career climber, if you want to preserve your body, from what I hear. I never learned, really. I could do it, and have, as needed. Call a Pantin a $60 investment into longevity.

How's the swivel snap fit in? 3/8" tenex? Good list. By the way. A starter rope bucket is okay if you're not packing all over the place. Any bucket or cardboard box of decent size could work, more or less. Rockman has helmets (structural chin strap) for about $30.

FWIW, and it might have been said, you can add as much mechanical advantage as you want in a climbing system for rope ascent. Typical Doubled Rope Techique is 2:1 (minus a bunch for friction, unless you use a pulley). There are ways to increase this. A big guy might need extra wraps on a...

A basic saddle is meant to keep you safe, not comfortable. Comfort, or less discomfort, is what we are after. This costs.

How about a bosun's seat if a guy really has a lot of foot pressure that would turn into saddle pressure if switched to load the saddle? I am sore from my saddle on my hips from a three hours of spurless, largely free-hanging climbing in two sessions yesterday. I have recently gone from lean to...

I will use a steel biner and throw weight. A steel snap with weight is as good. My steel core flipline has a snap! I like to try to advance my line 8-12+' at a time, and choke it off. The steel and weight is needed for me, frequently. I just leave the weight on the biner on my saddle.

Jim, its just a matter of having a connection on the front of the saddle. Are you top heavy in a saddle? You might consider a saddle with an add-on structural chest harness. Its possible to fall out of a tree saddle. In addition to fall-out protection, and a rescue aid (a ventral/ dorsal...

Merle, re: foot plates. The commercial ones are going to be a challenge to fit some spurs, but could be well worth it, especially if you don't have steel shank boots. I tried some that needed a bit of grinding to fit the shank. A guy around here said he made a plywood sandwich around the...

I think that for a bigger person, more gaff penetration will be more important. I bet I am only in bark a lot at the bottom of doug-fir with pole gaffs, but don't gaff out. Much less torque on the knee as the bark gets thinner and thinner, I believe.

Proof is in the pudding on the offset pad, Randy. You might not mind too much right now, if you can't return them. Hopefully you can. Its definitely not ideal. I have pretty much those exact pad and spurs. Most people would hate them, I think they are sweet, and I got them for $41 shipped in...

You might be able to make some out of plywood, too. I ran into a guy that would plywood foot plates that would last several months or more of our wet weather. Don't know how they compared. One thing with the foot plates, if you wear a big heel boot, it will shift your foot up, possibly causing...

Cool. Treestuff is a good company to buy from. Nobody is local to you. Wesspur, too. An employee of each is on the forum. You can start with a rope and a basic saddle, but would be better off to buy a used advanced saddle from someone here or on TreeBuzz that will be reputable. You can...

FFZ- Treestuff.com and Sherrilltree.com have great Learning Centers (or something similar). Where are you in your less than a beginnerhood? What gear do you have? Anybody to learn with? A buddy, and belayer alike, and add a margin of safety, and fun.

http://www.treebuzz.com/articles.php Lots of good info in the articles. I particularly like Engineering a Tree Removal, which is one of the articles.

You can practice this slide stop at ground level, I'd imagine. I usually roll with a cinched or overhead TIP. I like to leave a temporary stub for my lanyard to hold on when I am futzing around trying to get a new high TIP, where my hands will not only be away from my lanyard, but full of other...

I'm going to order a backup pouch/ rubber tube so I am never without. If mine breaks unexpectedly, can I really wait 2 days, most times, yes, at a significant production loss.

You're losing money not having one! A cheap trigger can be made, too. I've hit 150'+ with halibut line twice for two trees. An accurately placed, high-TIP is a enormous help overall, short term (the individual tree) and long (body preservation by working smarter). Setting pull lines for felling...

A double wrap on any stem will increase stability, sometimes at the expense of move-ability that a more experienced climber will be doing, unbeknownst to the climber (micro adjustments with a little hip-shimmy. I find fir bark to be more dependable than pondo pine bark, which is our most...

Do you use a fall arrest system for stripping limbs, either Ddrt above limbs above you, a double wrap lanyard, or SRT cinched up top or redirected to the base? The assurance that if you spur-out, you will not take the Bark Highway Express is very reassuring. If you aren't ever nervous in your...