Mrs going srt kit advise please.

[MattyF]

Today I used my kit for the first time. First jab at srt. Bit of a nightmare really, I have a lot to learn and adapt. I did enjoy the ascents, and the redirects. I liked how I could work the tree in cake slices without having to worry about friction or getting back up for the next bit. I am generally quite efficient in my work, so today was a blow to my ego ! My anchor got wedged up there in removal, I had to get out my drt kit and get back up there, balls ! Funny how easy it was moving in the tree in drt after struggling for the day ! I'm really keen to look to some training, to answer some of my questions. Or even a recreational climb with a practiced srt climber. 

You will find the opposite if you stick at it, I occasionally set my second rope up on a double system and it always reminds me why I climb srt .. too much friction !

[Blah]

Also, you don't have to climb solely SRT. I switch between the two quite often, even in the same tree. I use a ZZ and chicane, so piss easy to switch. Whatever works. For example, set up TIP with base anchor. Do some work on the way up. Get to TIP. DRT to other TIP, set up canopy anchor and SRT again. Do everything apart from TIP. Swap to DRT again for dismantling that.

 

Not necessarily helpful for getting to grips with SRT as quickly as possible.

 

Also +1 for Schultz effect. It needed multiple watches for me to let it all sink in and decide what I wanted to adopt.

 

[Mark Bolam]

+1 for switching whenever it suits here.

 

I loved SRT ascents immediately, but the first time I tried ‘working’ a tree with it I reckon I took most of the branches off by swearing at them!

 

Keep at it Rob, it’s sometimes weird to get round the muscle memory of double rope.

[Rob Thompson]

50 minutes ago, Blah said:

Also, you don't have to climb solely SRT. I switch between the two quite often, even in the same tree. I use a ZZ and chicane, so piss easy to switch. Whatever works. For example, set up TIP with base anchor. Do some work on the way up. Get to TIP. DRT to other TIP, set up canopy anchor and SRT again. Do everything apart from TIP. Swap to DRT again for dismantling that.

 

Not necessarily helpful for getting to grips with SRT as quickly as possible.

 

Also +1 for Schultz effect. It needed multiple watches for me to let it all sink in and decide what I wanted to adopt.

 

All good advice. It was a large mature oak with multiple sections. With drt, I would've re anchored a few times. But yesterday I used redirects. At one point, I'd finished with my last redirect, and wanted to lose that one to drop back in to the main garden. I had to pull up my tail and use a blakes on a bight to decend from that area of the tree. This displays what I really felt that I was missing yesterday, two ends. How do you descend from an area with no redirect. All I can think is some sort of retrievable redirect ?

[Blah]

2 minutes ago, Rob Thompson said:

All good advice. It was a large mature oak with multiple sections. With drt, I would've re anchored a few times. But yesterday I used redirects. At one point, I'd finished with my last redirect, and wanted to lose that one to drop back in to the main garden. I had to pull up my tail and use a blakes on a bight to decend from that area of the tree. This displays what I really felt that I was missing yesterday, two ends. How do you descend from an area with no redirect. All I can think is some sort of retrievable redirect ?

I can't picture what you mean, but Schultz demonstrates a number of retrievable redirects

[Rob Thompson]

27 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

+1 for switching whenever it suits here.

 

I loved SRT ascents immediately, but the first time I tried ‘working’ a tree with it I reckon I took most of the branches off by swearing at them!

 

Keep at it Rob, it’s sometimes weird to get round the muscle memory of double rope.

I will certainly keep at it, I'm no quitter ! I look forward to learning the coping mechanisms to get by comfortably on one srt system. And then look to merge the two where needed. Yesterdays tree should have been a 4hr climb, but I was up there for 6 or so. I stayed calm, but I've not been that wiped out after a climb for years ! 

[MattyF]

I absolutely hated it the first few times I used it and the gear went to the bottom of my back for years ... I got to grips with using it just dead wooding large trees and it just clicked one day and never looked back !

[breffni]

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Edited March 19, 2021 by breffni
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