General Tree pics

[Jake Andrews]

Your not mistaken, all 60 meters of it ;-)

[Jake Andrews]

Just adding a few photos as I haven't in a while. Iv recently got some X-rings (as you can tell) and I would highly recommend. My rigging technique is changing and improving with these and I'm surprised how versatile they are.

[Jake Andrews]

This was my favourite job recently, a large Tulip to re-reduce by 1 - 2 metres. It was a great challenge and all done with a silky and secateurs. Great day for it too.

[Jake Andrews]

Hmmmm pic didn't upload.

[Steve Bullman]

whats going on here then?

 

[Jake Andrews]

It was on a skinny magnolia prune so I used this to spread my weight on 2 anchors. When I'm done I pull down on the alpine butterfly side, add a retrieval ball and it's like a normal cambium saver (Doesn't look it but one of the rings are smaller). only really can be used on wide forks as it can get snagged quite easy but it was a small tree so I was willing to take the risk.

[Jake Andrews]

https://honeybros.com/Items/Teufelberger_multiANCHOR

[Steve Bullman]

link doesnt work

[Steve Bullman]

I can see what its doing though. Don't you think the side loading on those small limbs is more of an issue than just anchoring on one though?

[Jake Andrews]

Yes and no Steve. The branches are pulled in together which helps but I certainly pick and choose which trees I use it on. This was on a small magnolia reduction and my weight wasn't in the anchor all of the time, more of a fall arrest and a back up system. When I had my weight in it, I know I couldn't of reached as far out on the branches without it. Same can also be achieved with 2 tape slings on separate branches leading to 1 krab and your rope through it. Just allows my TIP to be higher than usual.