ISA pittsburg conference pics

[murphy4trees]

This is Big Jon and Jim Roach....
Roachy really has a baby face and the youthful enthusiasm to go with it...
A quarter pont... now that hurts... gotta go for it again next year.... any given Sunday... Kraus was soooo close... if it was up to me I would have made them co-champions.... My belief is that you can win this thing Jim....

I remember when I first met Roach at a diner with his boss, during a snow storm... I thought he was some kid they had hired to do the shovelling at first... that's saying something for a man in his early thirties.... I think it has to do with the cardio conditioning...

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's the AS crew:
roachy, me jon, rich hoffman, and steve ?... husky

in abstensia, guy, tom d., and dan nelson...treeco

 

[murphy4trees]

here's the pic

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's the floor of the trade show area in big size so you can look around in detail... notice the Sherrill truck (white and green box truck) on the left side... that was right as you walked in the entrance.. after that the Stihl area, where Mark Chisholm had his new climbing system strung....

 

[murphy4trees]

And the other half of the floor... altogether not a lot floor space....

 

[murphy4trees]

Here a a few bright eyed hippy types... I hear a couple of them are decent climbers...

 

[murphy4trees]

And another not so hippy climber

 

[murphy4trees]

Chisholm's new climbing rig...

 

[murphy4trees]

Rob Thigpen and Big Jon checking it out..

 

[Burnham]

Daniel, I hope you can answer a couple of questions regarding Chisom's setup you've shown. If I have it right, the grey rope is a saddle attachment line, and he footlocks the single blue rope up to his desired position on that single line. From there he works on the doubled rope run through the pulley. Is this correct? Is the advantage to this that he need not isolate the single line when placing it in the tree, same as with ascending SRT? No need to use a friction saver? Any others? Thanks.

 

[jkrueger]

Thank you very much, it was great to see what I missed. OH, well, ..., back to work.

Jack

 

[NickfromWI]

So what were the results?

 

[murphy4trees]

Burham,
You pretty much have it....
The blue line is set single line.... he footlocks and can work anywhere he wants.... I didn't catch too much of the detail, but he did mention that when he sets the system for working doubled line (off the fly on that harken block), he released the ascender and lets the prussic grab and hold the weight and then sets the ascender so it is backing up the prussic, rather than the other way around.... The pulley also has a switch and he can set it to a one way position, so he'll get some friction on the pulley when descending....
Not great for every job, but I can think of a few jobs i did with Big Jon, that it would have saved a lot of trouble....

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's another... Joey Cornell, Big Jon and me..

If they look a little tired it's cause they were out the hotel roof playing spidermen..... At 4 o'clock in the morning...

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's Tom D.

After meeting himin person, I have more respect than ever for him!

 

[murphy4trees]

Anybody want to see Chisholm's lanyard ?

 

[rumination]

That's a rhetorical question, right?

 

[Burnham]

I'm with Leon...don't tease .

 

[murphy4trees]

OK

 

[murphy4trees]

That's Chisholm's saddle... but not Chisholm in it....
Did you notice the stopper ball from the rope guide hanging behind his lanyard... That looks like some extra fat knot on one of the barrel hitches to the D ring... maybe he ties it like that so the knot doesn't pull through the D... The lanyard is also daisy chained up and and then hung tight on the biner by clipping every third loop or so to the biner...
Having heard what Mark has to say about his set ups... I'd expect there is a good reason everything you see there...