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I've not done much rigging, i was a fan of whoopies or loopies because they are easy to set-up, now though i'm a dead eye sling convert, so much more versatile and with a good stratergy, a lot! quicker to set-up and move.

 

I hope i explain this clearly, get the groundie to set the aerial rigging kit on the ground, by tying the bowline on the rope atatching biner and sling, set the dead eye sling and the rigging rope on the lowering pulley then tie the end of the sling to the climbers rope. Then all the climber has to do is pull it into the tree untie the end of the dead eye sling and put it in place then your all ready to rock. You can't do that with a whoppie

 

Back the cow's hitch up with to half hitches before the pulley, that way you can start untying the cows whilst the ground crew faff about laying that big log down, again you can't start to untie a whoppie or timber hitch under any kind of load. Saves a few more minutes.

 

When snatching you don't have to keep taking the block off a dead eye sling to move, with a whoppie you do.

 

With a long dead eye sling you can set the pulley in a fork a little ways out from the stem then tie it to the main stem and not compromise the strength of your anchor point, kinda like the fishing line method.

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A simple large ratchet strap does the job for me!

 

I;ve never thought of doing that.....Had a Beech to do and my whoopie wasn't long enough......Grrrrr. Ended up using the tree strop.

 

I shall find a hench rachet strap and give that a go. I use a Buckingham Porty.....how is your porty attached to the rachet strap?

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