Originally posted by SRT-Tech
. . . limbed it, dropped both tops, then tied off the trunk with the bull line and headed down for lunch. . .

. . . CEEEERRACK tIMBER!!!!!! it landed dead on target with a resounding wooooommmmp!!!!

Nothing i like more than making that backcut, poundig in the wedge and high tialing it out of there.

Yeah, I know this is a Rec forum, and not really intended for work-talk but I just wanted to say I enjoyed your di_script_ion of the removal of that Cypress.
It’s exilerating to do a “drop” and all goes as planned.
Thanks for the vivid di_script_ion, complete with sound effects.
Regards,
Electrojake

P.S. Cannondale hard-tail lover here!
An F700 that’s outfitted to my likings, (speciffically to lug my climbing gear into the thorn infested swamps of Jersey looking for that “perfect climber”.
-Ej-

do they still refer to certain areas are being "PINEY"S"

check out the watchung range for trees

jz

Ahh, a completely off-topic thread
The Pineys.
The Jersey Devil.
People that have never been south of the Mason-Dixon Line but somehow have developed a southern drawl in their speech.
And my favorite: UFO sightings in cranberry bogs.
The New Jersey that nobody ever sees. The Pineys.
Note: Ya gotta go south, then west, to get to the “real” Pineys.

As for the Watchang Reservation and Jersey trees. . .
I do most of my climbing here in Middlesex County, Spotswood, East Brunswick, Hel_meta_ area.
I am fortunate to have a 1500 acre reserve a few blocks from my house. It’s called a wetlands-aquifer but that’s a code word for Swamp, however its got trees so off into the soupy, bug & briar infested swamps I go with GPS in hand.

In the fall I climb The Pequest Wildlife Management Area, (Warren County). Some nice mature hardwoods up there, Poplar, Beech, Oak. Its all on solid rock and earth, not swamps, and no stinking capillar infested pine or Maple, just nice clean hardwoods.

Were you doing much climbing when you were still in Jersey?
Just Wondering,
-Ej-

No i hvae no climbed in nj - i just started to climbin april down here - there is a cemertay in rahway that is allowing climbers in IF you talk to the grounds crew first - the historic one - i lived in Iselin - the cemeraty has great BIG Beech trees - also can you climb at the middlesex college?

deep roots in NJ - 47 years there.

i plan a trip back that way in late october - maybe a planned climb also?

GEE was that a nice clear hello jack of the tread?

maybe SRT can bring it all back

thanks

jz

I would imagine there are a lot of places to climb if one was to get involved in the community and go from place to place trying to get legitimate permission. Your success rate might be as good as 50% at the various private facilities and schools.

In my case being able to conveniently climb at my leisure keeps me in the local off-beat tracks of undeveloped woodlands. I feel most comfortable Nina Climbing in wooded areas where the locals are usually doing things just as unsavory as me (but I’m in the trees and they’re on the ground).

Rahway? Iselin you say?
I’m Carteret High class of 74.
I am sure that at some point in the last 47 years our paths have crossed.
However, my self indulgent off-topic rants on this forum are legendary so its best we save the details for email and get back to tight saddles, loose Blake’s hitches, and dropped biners.

Perhaps in October
Regards,
Electrojake