Gravity and the arborist

TREETX · Nov 3, 2003

This is a cool article on the neat things gravity does for the arborist

http://www.maynepublishing.com.au/arborage/feature.htm

Good points!!

Gravity also works in our favour as it means that if we do fall, we will fall towards other people and cars and hospitals and not off into space.

MasterBlaster · Nov 3, 2003

He's dang right about it happening in a split-second!

Guy Meilleur · Nov 3, 2003

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
He's dang right about it happening in a split-second!

Reminds me of the last time I fell; working on 1 hr. sleep after an all-night drive from FL and a full day of classes, free-climbing a maple because the branches were spaced so evenly it was a snap, leftrightleftright, :Monkey: then you guessed it, SNAP I'd pulled too hard on a dead branch next thing I knew THUD 20 feet later I was on the ground backfirst and rolling to dissipate impact (not my first fall so I knew to do that) and rolled right into a pipe with a spigot on top.

Less than 2 feet away from a grotesque impalement

; since then I've A. slept more the night before climbing and B. freeclimbed a lot less.

One thing wrong in the article; Gravity does not rule the realm of physics anymore, but string theory does. Watch:Eye: Nova on PBS Tuesday night if you want to know more. Warning:it may bend your mind.

MasterBlaster · Nov 3, 2003

Cool. I enjoy bending my mind.

Guy Meilleur · Nov 3, 2003

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
Cool. I enjoy bending my mind.

mb if you want to preview background and even the first two episodes see http://pbs.org/nova/elegant/

Gravity still rules in this dimension, but a lot of evidence suggests there are many more dimensions we are actively involved with. It's something that seems very possible after you've been in a tree for a time...:angel: