Your ideal lowering kit.

[Ian Flatters]

Nice setup Skyhuck! me jelious.

[gibbon]

Portawrap, grcs, 2 x 16mm lines, 3 blue 3000kg blocks, swing cheeck and a few small slings, a few short lengths of 14mm line and a few prussiks for balancing. But I want to add a 150m speedline to that now.

[MattJordan]

I'd love to see all that in action Gibbon lol!

[mistahbenn]

Medium yellow ISC, swingcheek, 50 metre 16mm, slings, crabs, 3001.

[John Shutler]

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.

 

i use an old cambium saver for this and it works a treat, plus you can install it from the ground to

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i use an old cambium saver for this and it works a treat, plus you can install it from the ground to

 

yes I have heard it is possible with a throwline to install a cambium saver and I have never tried even after reading of it in the tree climbers companion, is it easy? or more trouble than its worth?

[John Shutler]

yes I have heard it is possible with a throwline to install a cambium saver and I have never tried even after reading of it in the tree climbers companion, is it easy? or more trouble than its worth?

 

easy peasy, just have to be methodical about it. il take some photos when its not raining if i remember

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

easy peasy, just have to be methodical about it. il take some photos when its not raining if i remember

 

My major gripe/concern with this technique is that the throwline technique often relies on getting the line over the union of a side branch or limb, as apposed to around the stem using the union as a stop. This means if the branch fails the cambium saver, rigging/rope point goes with it, as apposed to just slipping down to the next avaliable union on the stem?

[John Shutler]

My major gripe/concern with this technique is that the throwline technique often relies on getting the line over the union of a side branch or limb, as apposed to around the stem using the union as a stop. This means if the branch fails the cambium saver, rigging/rope point goes with it, as apposed to just slipping down to the next avaliable union on the stem?

 

valid point,though if i was doing heavy rigging or a large rigging job id climb and set a block. this is a handy trick to have though and can save time if your good with a throwline

[Big 'Ammer]

My major gripe/concern with this technique is that the throwline technique often relies on getting the line over the union of a side branch or limb, as apposed to around the stem using the union as a stop. This means if the branch fails the cambium saver, rigging/rope point goes with it, as apposed to just slipping down to the next avaliable union on the stem?

 

If you are careful you can set it around the stem, same as you would a rope, but its hardly going to be heavy rigging through an old (fully lolered! )cambium saver though?