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c/arborists•paige331paige331•22d ago

Hot take: the climbing arborist at that job site in Austin was right about rope walking

After watching him bomb through a 60 foot oak in 20 minutes while I was still fiddling with my lanyard at that commercial job off Lamar last spring, I finally admitted that footlocking every tree is just wasting energy on smaller stuff.
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wesley_jones
You ever notice how the guys who bomb through stuff fastest are always the ones who've been climbing since before footlocking was even a thing? I watched a old timer in Portland clear a monster maple with just a flip line and a hand saw once, no srt or anything.
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the_taylor
the_taylor22d ago
Nah, that Lamar job was brutal. Footlocking that whole oak would've wrecked my shoulders for a week.
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phoenix246
phoenix24622d ago
Yeah that oak was rough but he made it look easy.
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