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[taffupatree]

Not sure if this has been covered before (sorry if it has.) Took a look at the new guidance notes today and the first thing that grabbed me is the cover(obviously.) More in point the amount of kit the guy was taking up with him. in my opinion a bit excessive. I take strop, cambium saver and maybe a redirect.find i can handle most things wit that.

 

what kit do other people take up with them?

[Heads up]

It does look like alot of stuff. If you check out honey brothers website their tree motion pictures have tons of stuff on too.

Is the tree motion primarily used by hoarders?

 

I take the least i can, you can always get stuff sent up. All i take are cambium saver, strop/flipline and a small sling with a lowering carbabiner which gets used for all sorts.

[Barney]

I like to keep it very simple, one end of my rope with a prussik, a steel strop a chainsaw and sometimes a silky. Very rarely use a cambium saver.

[Mesterh]

Except for rope, prussik, karabiner, side strop with karabiner, first aid kit There is nothing else attached to my harness.

 

This is on a basic climb if I'm feeling technical I will carry another karabiner and sling

[dannyT]

side strop with rope grab, mini first aid pouch, silky and occasionly a cabium saver (if the trees wet and slimy, like my ropes clean LOL) and somtimes a re-direct, depends on the job in hand. But usually keep things simple, as others have said you can usually get thing sent up as you need them

[John Shutler]

strop, fig 8, sling and krab for redirect, cambium saver

[Marc]

8m lanyard stuffed in a silverbull dity bag, 4 revolvers with 2 dyneema slings one long one short for redirects or making 3-1 advantage systems etc. 1 large biner for various stuff also takes the place of a fig 8 as i can use a munter to descend with it. Another sling and biner for lowering and a mini prussik.

A homemade friction saver which i use on every single climb no matter what, i'll never natural crotch.

I use a sawpod for my Silky my silky is the single most used cutting instrument i own more than my 200t

I use everything on my harness at least once a week and i don't want to be calling down for it.

 

Oh yes and i climb on a treemotion, maybe that says something about me!

All the gear and no idea, perhaps.

[Joe]

0ther than my climbing line and strop i only have a first aid kit on my harness. why carry loads of kit with you when you can just get the groundie to tie it on for you?

[Marc]

For me all the crap on my harness and in my kit bag is there because i get bored easily, i'm under no illusion that you need all that junk on your harness to do this job.

 

For me i get excited (yes i know its a little sad) by finding different and novel ways of carrying out repetitive tasks, i also find it makes me better equiped to tackle some potentially very difficult situations i encounter with ease, speed and safety by finding alternate soloutions to a problem.

[Red.Squirrel]

For me, strop, silky, spare krab, and cambium saver.

 

And a tiny lucky mascot , can't be only one with one can I?!