John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
Does anyone use these? Do they stay on? Do the get lost easily?
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Does anyone use these? Do they stay on? Do the get lost easily?
Blakesmaster
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A similar version came with my original Buckingham spikes a few years back. I chuckled, said, " That's cute, but they'll just get lost before long. " Think I had them a month or so. Good idea just not quite worth the trouble IMO.
John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
I use 1/4 inch pipe insulation
SINGLE-JACK
ArboristSite Guru
I use a 3/4" piece of extra auto heater hose cut at angle a little longer than the gaff - stays on in the truck and pulls off easy enough - cost $0
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treemandan
Tree Freak
Does anyone use these? Do they stay on? Do the get lost easily?
Oh gee, now you sound like Plasmech, oh dear. He must have left his random question genrator lying around and you hit the button... a lot.
treemandan
Tree Freak
I use a 3/4" piece of extra auto heater hose cut at angle a little longer than the gaff - stays on in the truck and pulls off easy enough - cost $0
Sorry JPS, sorry.
I used to use tubing but now just stow the spikes in a 5 gal bucket.
John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
Darn, and here I thought i was going to be able to start taunting you again
I've got three pickup bed boxes in my truck for nearly all my gear. the bucket sounds good for in a bigger truck though.
jomoco
Tree Freak
There's definitely something about you, or your threads, that brings out the inventor's aha moment in me JPS!
Once again your thread has resulted in an almost spontaneous new invention that will find it's way into alot of takedown climber's tool bags or boxes in the coming years.
Who are the best gaff manufacturers, buckingham, bashlin, klein?
I'm going to have to start paying you some kinda commission or royalty payments soon if you keep this up yu know JPS.
What do most you guys on the east coast use, tree gaffs or pole gaffs?
This will be one of my very best arborist's inventions ever.
It will make gaffs both safer and longer lasting than they are currently.
It won't take me long to build them and test them either.
Thanks again JPS, you're the spookiest online fellow climber I've met.
jomoco
Once again your thread has resulted in an almost spontaneous new invention that will find it's way into alot of takedown climber's tool bags or boxes in the coming years.
Who are the best gaff manufacturers, buckingham, bashlin, klein?
I'm going to have to start paying you some kinda commission or royalty payments soon if you keep this up yu know JPS.
What do most you guys on the east coast use, tree gaffs or pole gaffs?
This will be one of my very best arborist's inventions ever.
It will make gaffs both safer and longer lasting than they are currently.
It won't take me long to build them and test them either.
Thanks again JPS, you're the spookiest online fellow climber I've met.
jomoco
John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
Just email me and I'll let you know where to send the quarterly royalty check ;-D
jomoco
Tree Freak
I'll atleast send you out an early pair of prototypes for free so you can test them and then post your results here online.
What type of spurstays do you prefer?
jomoco
John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
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