Getting back in from a limb walk using SRT

[Valeman]

I've been playing around with SRT for some time now using a rope wrench and vt.  All in all I am a total convert but I occasionally run into difficulty returning from limb walks.  These are typically long limb walks along dropping branches.  For the most part I am ok but where I run into trouble is at the end of a long day where my muscles are fatiguing.  Jumping off the limb and swinging into the trunk isn't always an option.  What do you guys use to make it easier in these situations please?

[Alinicoll]

If you clip a hand ascender with a krab on it onto your rope before you go out, then feed the end of your rope through the krab you can make a 2:1 system so you can pull yourself in. If that makes sense?

 

[Alinicoll]

 

They say it's 3:1. Not sure how that works but what do I know?!

[Andrew McEwan]

Have a google for RAD setup, add a micro pulley or krab with pulley to the ascender to make it smoother, and clip the tail to you before you head out on the limb. I'd say it makes a mini floating 2:1 system.

[Mark Bolam]

All that jazz requires planning though.

I find line angle is everything.

With a good (think vertical as possible) angle I can dance back in like Michael Jackson on speed (before he died, obviously).

With a bad, flat line angle I’ll come in like a sloth that’s been tranquilized.

Bum-shuffling, straddling the limb, hanging under it from my strop, bent over it with my guts on it like a dead cowboy in a Western etc.

Whatever gets you home, man.

[htb]

Mark you paint a pretty picture

[stihlmadasever]

Go to the gym or start pulling your pudding!

Either way you'll get bigger arms.

Or take the easy option...tarzan swing.

Senseable answer 2:1 with little prussik and a biner,or a rope grab,hand ascender etc...

Pudding pulling is best though...

 

[Husqvarna King]

4 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

Go to the gym or start pulling your pudding!

Either way you'll get bigger arms.

Or take the easy option...tarzan swing.

Senseable answer 2:1 with little prussik and a biner,or a rope grab,hand ascender etc...

Pudding pulling is best though...

 

'Pull your pudding' ?? nearly made me choke on my tea ?

[MattyF]

Clipping in your tether can help drop slack through the system on longer come backs, then just pull in arm over arm.. I think it’s quicker than double roping and don’t notice any difference in fatigue really.

[Valeman]

Cheers guys.  Marks advice seems the most solid ?