Climbing the tree vs climbing a rope in the tree

[SeanKroll]

Different strokes and all that.

Don’t get me wrong, in many/most circumstances, getting a high tying in point quickly with a throw line is undoubtedly a more effective way of getting up there.
In the great scheme of things though, on a one or two tree day, with one or two groundworkers, the time saved is negligible.

The ergonomics are better.

I'm definitely for efficiency, however I'm thinking career long marathon not daily sprints.





I have taken an hour for a hard shot at 80'. That's where the work was, 2 large fir branches to prune from over the house. It wasn't a tree to advance from the bottom spurlessly.

I'm usually good for 60' hand throw in 1-3 tries.10,000th time is the charm! Starting to experiment with the Dan Kraus hook shot.
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[Mick!]

We had a long journey to work today, and I was impressing on my young climber the need for him to throwline/srt/spurless.

He gets it (he says) but he mustn’t get stuck with me in the mid 90s, though to be fair it is rather cool here, no mobiles, girls look better and Weezer have released ‘Just like Buddy Holly’. Good times.

 

[Mick!]

I had a thought today about that video from Weezer.
Here we are in the mid 2020s posting a video from 30 years ago (1994)
In the video you see Happy Days which aired 20 years (1974 approx) before the Weezer video.
Happy Days is set in the mid 50s, 20 years before the release of Happy Days.

So you have a line of modern cultural references spanning 70 years.

My point? I don’t know if I have one, just something to think about on the way to work.

 

[Mick!]

Ok I have a point, what links Me/Weezer/Happy Days is phony nostalgia.

 

[levi r]

Whyz it gotta be phony, Mick?

 

[SeanKroll]

Especially with sore knee from a tight IT band, I liked having a TIP 15'different from the topping point. Lots of sitting in my saddle during and between cuts with an easy to swing around to get good positioning.


PSP/ redirection point for the base-tie at 80% height. Had to join ropes as the 200' ( or more likely longer) didn't reach the base-tie tree.

 

[Mick!]

@levi r
Well, in the 70s there was this kind of re-imagining of the 50s as some kind of golden era, Happy Days was symptomatic of that, in the UK we had pop bands dressed up and singing in 50 styles clothing. It drifted into the eighties but then died out.
There is a strong nostalgia these days for the 90s, pre-internet and Covid, booming house prices, plenty of work etc. I was kind of playing on that in my original comment.

You have a constant circle of older people telling younger ones how things were better in their days and romanticising it, and younger people sort of believing them and reshaping it and forming an image of it that isn’t real.

Phony wrong word then, maybe idealised or seen through rose tinted glasses, dunno.

 

[cory]

Especially with sore knee from a tight IT band,

My IT band is beat up and f'g wit my hip. How'd yours get beat up and got any plan to whup it?

 

[levi r]

@levi r
Well, in the 70s there was this kind of re-imagining of the 50s as some kind of golden era, Happy Days was symptomatic of that, in the UK we had pop bands dressed up and singing in 50 styles clothing. It drifted into the eighties but then died out.
There is a strong nostalgia these days for the 90s, pre-internet and Covid, booming house prices, plenty of work etc. I was kind of playing on that in my original comment.

You have a constant circle of older people telling younger ones how things were better in their days and romanticising it, and younger people sort of believing them and reshaping it and forming an image of it that isn’t real.

Phony wrong word then, maybe idealised or seen through rose tinted glasses, dunno.

I dig it, great line of thought imo. As a 90's kid I am often nostalgic for those times. I've long been interested in the romanticizing of the past. Done it myself plenty, from my own life and from times I'd never experienced. In the end I decided now was by far the best time for me to be alive, longing for the past is kind of silly.

When I think of the 50's in the usa I think of angry guys with ptsd drinking too much and terrorizing their families, lots of racism and oppression of women. Not a time I'd like to return to! And the 90's in the usa was a joke, from what I remember. We really took it too far, paying dearly for it now lol.

 

[levi r]

Especially with sore knee from a tight IT band, I liked having a TIP 15'different from the topping point. Lots of sitting in my saddle during and between cuts with an easy to swing around to get good positioning.


PSP/ redirection point for the base-tie at 80% height. Had to join ropes as the 200' ( or more likely longer) didn't reach the base-tie tree.

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So you're going up on the left or right side of the rope there? Do you scope it with binocs when it's that high up?

 

[SeanKroll]

My IT band is beat up and f'g wit my hip. How'd yours get beat up and got any plan to whup it?

Hip stretching and anti-inflammatory.

Dr google.


I stand in my right leg more than my left. Tree work is asymmetrical.

 

[Tommy_B]

Ok I have a point, what links Me/Weezer/Happy Days is phony nostalgia.

Nostalgia isnt what it used to be