How do you secure your Port A Wrap?

[Anna]

Woopie sling

[Bodean]

The best way is whatever way it secures the device

steadfast so as not to move at all (damage tree).

 

G7ree, your avatar shows a bit of movement of the device.

 

My buddy Shamrock told me of a time that he took a Euc top and the groundie held tight.

 

The hobbs skirted 60' up the tree.

 

"If it's not tight, it's not right."

Also used for returning fisherman from sea.

[Anna]

What are you meant to do when the woopie(in our case) is too small? i just used slings as well as but i have the feeling that isn't the correct way of doing it.

[Lee Winger]

A wide lifting sling choked

 

 

same as this dude....

[Bodean]

When a whoopie won't reach, you need something else.

 

Whoopies are good for fast adjustment say in a tree.

 

Just talking PW, not hobbs or grcs, which use straps cranked tight.

 

With your standard eye sling you can make a nice fit snug attachment with a cowhitch. or the hitch of your choosing.

 

Nick made a 25' 1" eye sling for me, this fits almost all of the trees that I prune.

 

Use tufflex slings they have 4'. 6' 8' and I think 10'.

They make a nice girth hitch or however you want to attach.

[Shansen]

I use a cow hitch if the trunk is small or a timber hitch if the trunk is large with a 3/4" tenex sling. Planning on purchasing a whoopie.

[Anna]

I never heard of cows hitch what does this look like?

[Andy Collins]

looks like this: http://www.iwillknot.com/cow_hitch/

[Shansen]

I never heard of cows hitch what does this look like?

 

http://www.treemettlenexus.com/class5.html

[Bodean]

kinda like this, (sloppy example) but use the PW instead of a block.

 

A timber hitch (minimum 7 wraps) tends to roll up, very difficult to get snug and stay put.

 

A cow hitch takes the shock on the device and doesn't roll as the force is double collared on it self and minimum four wraps with the tail.