Best sling length for speed line?

[T82517]

Hi all, might be a silly question but I've planning on using a speed line on a job next week and would like to know what length slings everyone uses to choke branches? Going to order 5 or 6, was thinking 1 meter would be all round best?

 

Cheers

[Andrew Gale]

I tend to have a number of differing lengths making the set up more adaptable.

 

I think the smallest is 0.6m and the biggest 1.2m.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I just use 1.2m.

I always found having a bunch of different lengths sent up made tangles.

Although I do have three longer slings for fatter things.

 

No matter what length you have, one always seems to disappear.

No one has ever been able to explain why. Same happens with spanners, rakes, hammer and log vice etc.

Strange. Mmm!!?

 

 

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[Andrew Gale]

I tended to use one sling as a bandolier and place the spares on that, the ground crew knew that when that sling was on the ground the group were sent back up.

[treequip]

Get a variety of lengths, a long sling can be hitched to shorten it if need be but a long sling wont stretch

[peatff]

No matter what length you have, one always seems to disappear.

No one has ever been able to explain why. Same happens with spanners, rakes, hammer and log vice etc.

Strange. Mmm!!?

 

Socks do it in the washing machine as well