Another 40 year old just starting

[Dbikeguy]

Nice truck! good way to spend the money. i have an F150 itch to scratch next, older one as i don’t have 45k to spend haha.
how close together are the trees? if you were SRT i would say anchor into tree 1, then swing to tree 2, add in a sling with krab redirect and so on. till you get to the end. work backwards to tree 1 allowing easy access to each tree.
drt, never really tried redirects as the friction gets too much.
Are they close enough together to swing?
2nd rope fired into the 2nd tree, base tie then take it up with you, pull yourself over? get your ground guy to repeat it with tree 3 and send the end up to you, pull along again?

[forestboy1978]

2 minutes ago, Dbikeguy said:

Nice truck! good way to spend the money. i have an F150 itch to scratch next, older one as i don’t have 45k to spend haha.
how close together are the trees? if you were SRT i would say anchor into tree 1, then swing to tree 2, add in a sling with krab redirect and so on. till you get to the end. work backwards to tree 1 allowing easy access to each tree.
drt, never really tried redirects as the friction gets too much.
Are they close enough together to swing?
2nd rope fired into the 2nd tree, base tie then take it up with you, pull yourself over? get your ground guy to repeat it with tree 3 and send the end up to you, pull along again?

Where I need to be is about 30 ft up for the best pruning points and we are looking at about 10ft to each trunk. 

 

Yeah, I work 100 hours a week mate, got 2 jobs so I figured aaaah, fook it re the truck. 

 

Jo beau drives into back of van and I gotta say I love that chipper. After sales are great too. Will do them a photo and facebook shout when I get time. 

[forestboy1978]

Oh I also bought ropes, helmet, prussicks etc etc etc. Reckon 48k in the end. 

[forestboy1978]

Here's the trees. Can't really guage it will from photos but it's the best I can do.

 

[Dbikeguy]

I would SRT for that using as high a tie in point as you could get. they just redirect through branch forks. if you get up high on the left branch fork,you should be able to swing to the other side. lanyard in then move your main climbing line over?

[forestboy1978]

Do you think I'm taking on too much for a nonvice climber?

 

I mean im not gonna quit. But could have done with some easy take downs for a while.

 

Was gonna get help but he le me down so I figured it'd see what I'm made of. Achy tendons and muscless evidently lol

[Mick Dempsey]

It’s not lack of gear giving you issues, it’s lack of experience.

 

That’s standard fare for a guy with three strand and a prussik.

 

5 hours ago, forestboy1978 said:

Do you think I'm taking on too much for a nonvice climber?

 

 

Getting around the tree economically and not having to go back (exhausting yourself) is the key.

[forestboy1978]

Mich my dodgy shoulder wouldn't alloe me to pull up 40 ft

 

If I hadn't of put a lower prussick for the foot I wouldn't have made it

 

Shoulder is foooked

 

[forestboy1978]

It's 4 trees btw!

[forestboy1978]

I'm going out now to rig them with anchor hitches and cambian savers and ab sail around like spider man.

 

Not another word Mick, its being done! lol