The return of Bounce

[flushcut]

Jim could be from Texas.

Welcome back tree brother from another mother.

 

[Altissimus]

I remember being pissed off at Sherrill over an error , called Sean at Wesspur and dropped almost $3K on a GRCS. Drop ship right from Gregg.

 

[Bounce]

Thanks for the welcome everybody. It's good to be back. I mostly work in Yakima (central Washington) and the San Juan Islands these days, Burnham. Nice to meet ya Jim.

 

[Bodean]

Welcome back, Sean!

Highs and Lows!

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[gf beranek]

Must be wearing contacts, now, I see. Ah, but Lasik maybe?

 

[Burnham]

That's some commute, Sean .
So glad to have you back around, brother. You have been missed.

 

[oldachonoak]

Thanks guys. Its good to be back. Since I left 6 years ago, I quit my job (twice), sold my house, moved to a different city (twice), got divorced, fell into a bottle, died (literally), and came back to life. But I've finally got things back on the track again. Now I have my own tree service business again, and am doing quite well.

That is the exact story of my life in a seriousness the only difference I don't have my own tree service. I climb part time for a guy when his bucket truck doesn't fit.
Ted

 

[Bermy]

Wow, what ride in 6 years! Glad you have come out the other side intact
Good you came back here, get used to Jim (he only has one tree) we let him join the club.

 

[Burnham]

 

[SeanKroll]

Hey Other Sean 1 or Other Sean 2, hard to tell you guys apart.

When I was first starting out in climbing and business you walked me through some orders, and we met once at the Wesspur warehouse, buying gear and a saddle, not that you'd have remembered.



I've had a variation on that story, too. Probably a fair number of tree climbers. Good to see you've Bounced back.


I'm in Olympia.
Used to have the username after my company SouthSoundTree.

I think I came into the House about the time you were heading out the door.

 

[Burnham]

For those not with us back then...7 years ago now!!! And for members of longer standing who'd like to wander down memory lane .

Sean the Bounce absolutely killed it in our spur climbing festival getogether. A great climber, old school and new. Link to the thread, lots of great pictures, many by Jerry Beranek. That was some fun.

https://www.masterblasterhome.com/showthread.php?13393-Treehouse-Flipfest-2010&highlight=flipfest

 

[sotc]

Yep, he was a beast

 

[Burnham]

Darin was just as strong on that huge Doug. Amazing abilities the climbers here in Butch's Treehouse have displayed, time and again.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wish I could have made it.

You'd have seen me stepping and flipping, no problemo!

 

[Burnham]

No doubt.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It might have taken me a few minutes to adjust up...

 

[sotc]

Greg and I were climbing a sandy mountain. 3 steps up , 2 steps back 😀

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I probably would have been in that camp back then had I made it. Still prefer not to flip up any bigger than 36 dbh with out a high tie in...

 

[Burnham]

These being over 100 inch dbh...yup, probably . Not that an overhead safety line helps except if you have to bail .

Bounce and Old Monkey were the only contemporary aged 'Housers to really knock it down. That's no slam...it is harder than it looks, and without some trial, error, and blood, sweat, and tears it is nothing short of a tough go.

Jerry B. and I, enjoying our Elderhood to the max, just set the high safety line and stood around looking important . Been there, done that, pictures do exist, so we had not much to prove, thankfully. And now that I think about it...I don't recall any overhead safety lines back in the good ol' days...Do you, Jer? .

Sure was a fun getogether, absolutely.

 

[sotc]

Didn't have one in my tree till I made it to the first limbs!

 

[Burnham]

Right, forgot about that little 90something incher .

 

[sotc]

M 😬😢

 

[gf beranek]

Outcrops of basalt lava, vast stands of old-growth Douglas fir, high running mountain rivers, the moss draping forests of coastal red cedar, and beaver ponds thousands of feet up into the mountains. Oh my, such magnificent country!

The GTG was pretty good, too. Good times to say the very least. Thanks, B!