Work positioning using srt

[TIMON]

It does to me mate! Basically unless you can get a perfect shot with a throwline, you have to advance your TIP on an srt system, which is a pain.

 

Sometimes it's easier for me to climb up to my anchor how I usually would ddrt, and then work srt from therein. Particularly in large spready trees which are being pruned.

 

Make sense?

 

It does to me.. I recently worked with a guy who uses SRT exclusively. The thing that caught my attention was the way he traversed the tips of the crown and spread the weight across with lots of static re-directs. There’s no way you could have got to to where he did using DRT. Then he just descended the outer crown without the need for branch walks.

(I still can’t get the flaming hang of ascending on it though). [emoji35]

[Sambo]

On 28/11/2017 at 19:49, Joe Newton said:

It does to me mate! Basically unless you can get a perfect shot with a throwline, you have to advance your TIP on an srt system, which is a pain.

Sometimes it's easier for me to climb up to my anchor how I usually would ddrt, and then work srt from therein. Particularly in large spready trees which are being pruned.

Make sense?

Many SRT systems are derived from a DRT system so to me it seems feasible to use the rope doubled over to access and then convert to SRT at the anchor point. It's not as if its "cheating" or anything! ?

[MatthewHawley]

If you think about it like you would rigging the tree down you should be able to get anywhere you need to in the tree on one rope. Using redirects