Your ideal lowering kit.

[Rupe]

There are various ways of setting a pulley and rigging line in a different tree without climbing it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

There are various ways of setting a pulley and rigging line in a different tree without climbing it.

 

this is where you tecno gear junkies come into your own! lol

 

care to elaborate rupert?

[gibbon]

Use a second line to secure a pulley through a fork then tie it off at the base of the tree.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Use a second line to secure a pulley through a fork then tie it off at the base of the tree.

 

yep done that one too, but as i said with a typical throwline instalation, good union installs and good throw points dont usualy meet!

[Rupe]

But in that method you get the benefit of the anchor rope going over many branches, which is the scenario you wouldn't get with a cambium saver.

 

That is one method I was thinking of, there is another in the rigging book which I cant quite remember but you can choker the pulley round the anchor from the ground and retrieve it.

[Mozza]

 

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

 

 

 

Id like to upgrade my 10mm blue polyprop to 14mm at some point this year

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Id like to upgrade my 10mm blue polyprop to 14mm at some point this year

 

[Ben Tidey]

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.

 

static removable false crotch. pull a bight from the standing part of the rigging line through a crotch with a throwline. installa block on this line with the rotating sheave on the rigging line. tie off a static line to the fixed sheave, leaving a long tail tied into a large loop around the working and running ends of the rigging line. pull the two ends of the rigging line to draw the loop up to the crotch and chokerhitch the block into place. hope this makes sence:confused1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think i get what ya suggest!

[Ian Flatters]

Id like to upgrade my 10mm blue polyprop to 14mm at some point this year

 

Not 16mm? :lol: