Kenny, you are 100% right...I was overwhelmed by all the possibilities that existed to try...reading about VT's and all the variants was mind-blowing. I was doing it from reading Jepson and Mahk Adams (over on the Buzz) and such and working to understand what guys on these forums were talking...
Thanks, Squishy...not wanting to be a bullet butt is exactly what was going on.
I had a bit of trouble getting Beddes to listen closely to me...glad to see he is coming around. ;)
Hey, realtreeslayer...my step from end-of-line tautline to a split tail Blake's was THE biggest step of...
Hahaha...darkness is my friend...we get along just fine.
But, I'll say it ONE more time...it AIN't that way NOW. I am beginning to regret that I just even showed the picts. :?
It's not that way anymore...it was a "phase". Though when I run two TIP's it can get pretty busy with gear.
So far, Nate, "old" is mostly a number. I still workout and do a fair amount of several types of yoga so's I can keep up with you young whippersnappers. :P
I also seem to remember that Burnham saw the 2nd picture and suggested I rotate that pear link so the knurl didn't rub on the two webbing attachments...I do it his way now.
I finally had to give it up...thank goodness the hitches did what they were supposed to. Carl was pretty instrumental in convincing (shaming?!) me to "just stop it" and use one.
I'm tellin' ya, he is a meanie.
OK...Carl told on me and it is true...I did climb on 2 hitches for awhile. I learned on manila with a taut line in the 70's; I didn't know about Blake's or Knuts until mid 90's when I found out treeclimbing existed on the internet...I climbed in a vacuum until that time [I was like a lost...
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