Twin line working on “SRT”

[Arboricultured]

 

I have been thinking about this twin line work position thing for a week or so and have had a couple of climbs on this system. I am looking for some feed back and to see people’s thoughts. I have found it to be not that bad at all in relation to having one line a pantin and a has. With two foot ascenders you can easily walk up the line and you don’t need a wrench because your weight is spread across the two lines.

 

A couple of points, it’s 10.5 static line so I understand the issues there and the carabiner I am using to keep the lines together is technically cross loaded as well but looking past that has anyone anything to add?

 

 

[htb]

That looks messy. I will see out my days on one line.

[Dan Maynard]

I think this highlights the importance of knowing what problem twin line is trying to solve, one of the things I think listed was accidental disconnecting of main line but to me this looks more complicated and more likely to lead to mistakes.

Were you dismantling the tree?

[Arboricultured]

I can’t think how to make it simpler to be honest.

Yes, I was dismantling the tree, the last photo was how I configured the system to top out the tree, and descend to fell the pole. All the others were it set up “SRT” I am not really sure it can be simpler. It’s all on one instead of having two completely separate systems and lines etc

I think, in all honesty, the problem I am working on is if the HSE decide to hold fast to their decision then I want a system to be compliant so that even if the worst happens my family will be seen right from my insurance company and they can’t wriggle!

[tree man69]

Just  clim on one rope   u find  it lot better  so is that rock climbing  rope  then ?

Edited November 24, 2019 by tree man69

[Arboricultured]

Lol, I have been climbing 12 years and 6 of those on SRT chap.

It’s 10.5 mil Teufelberger Platinum arborACCESS static rope, although not as static as HTP unfortunately.

[Mark Bolam]

A massive advantage of SRT for me has been the easy setting of high anchors.

This takes that straight out of the game.

 

I appreciate your sentiment, like, but I’ll stick to using two lines for jobs when it helps me.

[Arboricultured]

A massive advantage of SRT for me has been the easy setting of high anchors.
This takes that straight out of the game.
 
I appreciate your sentiment, like, but I’ll stick to using two lines for jobs when it helps me.

Yeah, you can tie it in double after accessing singly with a wrench but it’s a faf. I have found myself reaching back for the old HTP and wrench to be honest.

Do you isolate your tip after accessing with a base? I do almost every time now after having a little accident in a pollard with my base tied line. I cut right through it sneakily hiding in an awkward knuckle... thankfully I was side stropped in.

The one thing I do like about the double line is instead of having one foot ascender and a hass you can have two foot ascenders it’s kinder to my knees as it seems to even out the loading. Maybe that just a me thing though. I think I will use it more on big trees but for day to day I have gone back to the tried and tested.

[Mark Bolam]

Totally job dependent re the top tie mate.

Definitely isolate if there’s much chance of a base tie being compromised.

[Eddie Eco]

Kevin Bingham climbed his work climb on a very similar setup at this years ITCC, seemed to work for him!