Your ideal lowering kit.

[Ian Flatters]

Ok so if you could have an ideal lowering kit what would it be?

 

Mine is what i've now finished compiling with a lot of idea borrowing off here:001_tt2:

 

Stein RC3001 lowering bollard

50m of 16mm liros lowering line

2 medium cast blocks

2 medium isc blocks

Petzl medium rigging plate (idea i got from rupe)

6 steel krabs

4 2ton slings

 

So share what your is? Or you can just list your dream kit.

 

Just interested to know what others use/would like to use.

[Johny Walker]

you cant beat good old natural crotch rigging 1,rope & crab

[Dionysus]

simple but effective woodpicker i like the simple kits the best, whoopie sling, large crab with a munter hitch. or a flying capstan, 1 long lowering rope, 1 short, a large pulley, i like the ones with a spliced tail for snatching. 3 steel 3way biners, and 2 slings.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

you cant beat good old natural crotch rigging 1,rope & crab

 

Whilst i like to keep things simple i do always use a pulley and a flying (buckigham) capston, rigging through forks is highly damaging to cambium, hence I always use a cambium saver on my climbing line also.

 

I am actualy working on a design for a rigging cambium saver that could be used instead of a sling or split tail, and hence remaovable from ground as with a cambium saver on the climbing line.

 

This will be great for those occasion where we use the tallest tree in a group to rig off for the surrounding trees and dont want to have to re climb it just to retrieve the riging pulley.

[Ben90]

A heap of car tires at the bottom of the tree

 

Seconded on the keeping it simple, a few slings (inc whoopie), a capstan, a pulley block and a few meaty crabs.

Edited March 19, 2010 by Ben90

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

A heap of car tires at the bottom of the tree

 

We tried this .... ONCE

 

all was going well, then a log bounced and we wrote it off from then on!

[grant]

a good length of blue polyprop bejeesus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

a good length of blue polyprop bejeesus

 

That looks like a good fish in your avatar, about mid twenties?

[Danavan]

Whilst i like to keep things simple i do always use a pulley and a flying (buckigham) capston, rigging through forks is highly damaging to cambium, hence I always use a cambium saver on my climbing line also.

 

I am actualy working on a design for a rigging cambium saver that could be used instead of a sling or split tail, and hence remaovable from ground as with a cambium saver on the climbing line.

 

This will be great for those occasion where we use the tallest tree in a group to rig off for the surrounding trees and dont want to have to re climb it just to retrieve the riging pulley.

 

Look fwd to seeing it.

 

I have done the bodge job treebee with petzel pully on the mallyon end:blushing:

 

Defo a market for a prop reg set up like that imo:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Look fwd to seeing it.

 

I have done the bodge job treebee with petzel pully on the mallyon end:blushing:

 

Defo a market for a prop reg set up like that imo:thumbup1:

 

And you can bet your life now thats been said it will come out on market before long!

 

Last time i suggested a product it was released a year later, on at least two ocasions, this used to p me off a bit at first but at the end of the day, as long as these things get produced and make our lives easier, less tiring the better:thumbup:

 

glad to know i aint the only one thinking this would be usefull, come on manafacturers get this one on the market!