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Recent content by Bango Skank

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    What are you doing during this winter blast?

    In Western NY, near the Bills stadium. Just switched from coffee to spiced rum. Stew in the slow cooker and fresh hot Italian bread coming out of the oven in a minute with a hot Italian lady baking it. Probably have some chow and curl up with a movie. Nobody is leaving and nobody is coming to...
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    Veterans sound off

    I’m mostly ashamed of my service. Was just an E-4 and later E-5 reserve medic, so I did what I was told and was a pretty good medic, though attached to a combat support hospital, not a combat arms group. My combat support hospital ran medical support operations for Camp Cropper, Abu Ghraib, and...
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    Veterans sound off

    We got a Guard or Reserve Air Refueling unit nearby in Niagara Falls, NY. That midair refueling stuff is fascinating. Such precision.
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    Buy first aid kit or built your own? Especially tourniquet

    I always encourage folks to practice too. CATs don’t need to be sterile, and you should be able to put it on any limb with just your non-dominant hand.
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    Wasted meat, really disappointed in myself

    The nose knows, eh?
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    Do any deer survive 6’ of snow (thinking Buffalo NY)

    Good question. There’s 6’ 5” now here in Orchard Park. The guy in the brown jacket is a half inch under 7’ tall.
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    Veterans sound off

    Retirement before 40. That’s so awesome.
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    Veterans sound off

    US Army Reserve, 98-06. Iraq 6/05-6/06. Combat medical specialist.
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    'Fess Up, Who Hunts out of a Prius?

    I’m not a hunter, but for a couple years I was doing contract climbing tree pruning and removals out of a Corolla. A big USAF flight bag full of climbing gear, another flight bag full of rigging gear and ropes, usually 4 chainsaws but sometimes 7, fuel and bar oil, polesaw head and pole pruner...
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    Introducing the Bibliotether

    Necessity is the mother of invention. - Plato I’m re-reading the series A Song Of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin now. Really probably do need Amsteel for those later volumes. Total bricks of paper.
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    Cheap Stuff that Gets the Job Done

    https://cmigearusa.com/collections/clearance Figured I’d share this. I like CMI pulleys. Not super pretty, but bomber stuff, good quality and made in the US. Factory seconds stuff is that way because of small cosmetic flaws, they won’t sell you life support rated gear that has compromised...
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    Helmets

    I got a couple Kask Super Plasmas, a Kask Zenith, and a Petzl Vertex or something or other with face shield and ear protection. All very light and comfortable, I forget I’m wearing them all the time, until I bonk it when climbing back into my truck. They’re for work pruning, removals, and...
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    Hunting solely for food

    I might try to live trap some rabbits in my own front yard and hopefully end up with a couple breeding pairs which over time would yield more breeding pairs. I’m in the suburbs, but rabbits are everywhere here. Makes sense to me, but I’ve never hunted or trapped (I’m just here for the climbing...
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    Irish whiskey connoisseurs

    Mmmmm…. Midleton Very Rare is hands down, the best whisky I’ve ever tasted. Now that I’ve found the right lady, there may finally be a wedding in my future. I don’t know where we’ll do it, or what month, or what’s on the menu or what we’ll wear, but I do know that the wedding party will be...
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    Question for arborist

    This is what I used briefly, and decided I’m perfectly happy with a single fixed length bridge. I just put this together with a CT rigging plate, but picture that hole on the plate as the hole on your lower D. That’s a Kong Slyde, and when the rope is set like this, it locks the rope in place...
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