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[White Noise]

I am paraplegic with reasonably strong arms could anyone advise me on techniques for climbing around 8-10 feet into a high seat for shooting deer

 

Welcome to the forum . I,m sure if ya put ya mind to it and surf this forum you,ll get some top tips . All the best . Although I hope you intend to eat the meat .

[geoff]

You might find a good local arborist climber prepared to clean a path up the tree,I would think a pulley setup for the ascent,set high enough above the seat to allow easy horizontal movement into the seat,with a secondary prussiced system to enable the horizontal move into the seat,not too complicated to do.

I would think about the implications of leaving this rig in the tree regards the ropes becoming weathered,and third party interference when you are not there.

What area are you in?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Once an anchor point is put in and with your upper body strength, I reckon you'll be able just to pull yourself up on a normal system.

 

I tried it the other day in a big beech, only using my arms and keeping my legs still and found it quite easy pulling up. You will have good upper body strength and you will only be pulling up half your weight on a standard double line system

[headgroundsman]

it is in a deer park can build a permanent seat by a tree and rigging could be left in place and tied to tree when not in use it is near lichfield in the midlands

[tommer9]

I think that you should choose your ropes carefully as I think many would rot out fairly fast if left out all the time.

[Rupe]

There is a system that we call Rads. Its a 3:1 advantage sytem with fail safe. We usually use a 2:1 system for climbing. The rads system would need a rope, one pulley, a gri gri (or other failsafe descendign device) and a couple of karabiners. So not too expensive, and much cheaper than block and tackles, and safer, and easier to set up.

 

Rope is tied round the tree a few feet above your highest point required.

 

Down to ground and through gri gri, then back upto pulley at roughly the same place as the top anchor, through the pulley and back down to the ground.

 

You clip the gri gri to your harness and pull the tail of the rope and you go up. Let go and you stay put. Pull the handle on the gri gri and you go down.

 

The gri gri is not fully failsafe actually. If you panic and keep pulling the handle you will continue to go down, there are other devices that eliminate this.

 

The rope will need to be three times longer than the the distance from ground to top anchor position.

 

Hope that helps.

[Alex Reid]

I would have thought a pulley system would be best, attached to the branch above where your seat will be positioned as for attaching yourself to the pulley chain I wouldn't know what to say other than a harness maybe slightly expensive for what you intend to use it for . But see if you can find a local tree surgeon who will put the pulley up there to begin with and check it ocasionally to make sure its all still safe from time to time!

[Catweazle]

Perhaps a block and tackle would be best, you can stop at any height if your arms get tired and the mechanical advantage is enough to lift you, your rifle, thermos, sandwiches etc etc

 

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[john dawson]

treeclimbers companion page 50.

 

a tad too complicated to explain here, but thats the starters.

 

use a hitchclimber system to set up a 3.1 advantage to make it easier.

Edited August 5, 2010 by john dawson

[Dean Lofthouse]

Dont make things complicated, just a double rope system

 

You will have more upper body strength than most on this forum and the distance you are pulling yourself up is very short.

 

Have a cambium saver permanently installed and leave a thrownline through the rings tied to the tree. You come along, pull up your drt system and get into the tree.

 

When you have finished come down, unhook and tie the throwline to the eye of your line before you pull it down and leave the throwline for next time.