How do you secure your Port A Wrap?

[MasterBlaster]

I use a length of rope and cinch it up snug to the trunk with a backed up tautline hitch.

[Stuart A-C]

I use one of these!

[Mac McLennan]

I use one of these!

 

[Peter]

I use one of these!

 

Girth hitched to the tree with a large whoopie sling no doubt?

[Marc]

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.

[Scott Farmborough]

A simple large ratchet strap does the job for me!

[bill]

tennex whooppiieeeeeeeeeeee

made them meself which makes them cheap as chips

 

 

show off!

[Jamie]

Bill, Tenex yalex etc are super easy to splice, all you need is some tape, a biro and rope.

 

Jamie

[bob]

show off!

 

will gladly show you how to do one they are very simple even my 12 year old son can do them

[Mac McLennan]

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?