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ya, Jed, no lies, day in and day out risk of death or damage to a person, and risk of damage to property is mentally fatiguing. I have been feeling burned out and taking a lot more working these big firs of late than it would have taken 4 months ago. The cold weather needs adaptation, too (and...

Good luck Joey. Hope the pills don't kick his ass in the long term. An auto block belay backup is a French prussic/ valdotain (not VT) tied with a loop of accessory cord below the rappel device, clipped into the leg loop. Your brake hand keeps pushing open the auto block when you are in...

At Dept of LnI, your Worker's Comp Insurance is technically called Industrial Insurance. Our rates are planned to go up soon, btw. ~$4.45/ hour for residential tree work. Logging Felling rates are something like $30/ hour. Jed, do you mean your company will be looking out for Joey when you say...

Jed works for a national company. Must have WC.

Ya, and if he spun around the spar, apparently, add in the diameter across the top.

I have definitely seen pull ropes hit bunk logs. If so, you can cut the end off. I usually use a junk rope for it. Wedges and undercutting the COG instead of pulling also help. I know my ropes (nobody else rigs on them), not a luxury that all climbers have. If I doubt a rope will hold...

I tape my all gear with lemon yellow for life support, red for rigging. Easy. With rock climbing, you often mix gear with your partner, then have to sort it out. Taping a biner's spine is par for course to differentiate between two people's gear that looks the same. Nail polish works better...

Somehow, isn't that against the law? Is it a 'Should' or a 'shall', if I have my terms correct? My two cents, its stupid not to swap a rigging line. Of all the effort in a day, pulling a rigging line up, keeping life support separate from rigging, keeping the climb line free from being...

Jed, were you at the accident? I"ll sometimes put a little notch/ groove with my saw on the rappeler's side of the spar. Keeps the rope in place on a smaller diameter spar.

Sucks, Jed. Hope he heals well, and quickly, and W/C doesn't f&^k him over. A munter hitch rappel is fine, with your spurs and lanyard around the spar just in case. When lowering with one hand the other easily minds the flipline down the trunk, IME. A fireman's belay is another option as a...