Hitch cord

[Steve Bullman]

i was swarmed by wasps monday, got stung about 20 times 50ft up......as you can imagine i made an exceptionally fast descent. I was using a piece of armor prus that i had been climbing on for the past 2 weeks. When i inspected it there was no glazing on it, even though i was expecting it to have been totally burnt out.

[DrewB]

ouch steve

[Steve Bullman]

ouch indeed...those pesky european wasps aswell

[DrewB]

i just cant believe you didnt lanyard in, attach a fig 8 and then descend safely to be honest............

[Peter]

Thats gotta hurt Steve!

I used the armor-prus in the work climb at Myerscough, and I came out of the tree very quickly indeed with minimal glazing. I think it was because I opened the vt right up, there was actually no contact between the cord and the rope, and rather than descending on the hitch I was really sort of free falling!

[Steve Bullman]

i just cant believe you didnt lanyard in, attach a fig 8 and then descend safely to be honest............

 

oh yeah...i thought about it

[Rich Rule]

been using the armor pruss for a couple of weeks now and it seems to be doing the trick. before that i was on the ocean poly and the armor pruss would be my choice every time.

 

ouch steve the wasps things is painful. i was once cutting back a tree that was growing out of a cliff at about 60 feet. tied into the tree and was just trampling around on the ivy covered cliff and I kept getting spiked. So took the saw to a few thistels and a hawthorn. Still getting tagged. looked down and I was trampling on a wasps nest and they got me about 18 times. In between my harness and in vest. Things is I had never been stung before so was a bit worried I may have anaphalactic shock or something. All the guy I was working for could say was to keep working and stop the bad language as one of the customers windows was open...

[Dean Lofthouse]

The funniest thing I ever saw was my mate getting stung by a swarm.

 

He came down like a rocket, unhitched and set off running up the road waving his arms around his head.

 

Thing is there was nothing following him

 

I love days like that, tickles you for days after.

[Ropey]

i was swarmed by wasps monday, got stung about 20 times 50ft up......as you can imagine i made an exceptionally fast descent. I was using a piece of armor prus that i had been climbing on for the past 2 weeks. When i inspected it there was no glazing on it, even though i was expecting it to have been totally burnt out.

 

50ft fast descent closely followed by a swarm of wasps...You could join the SAS.

 

R U still using the Armor Prus????

[atree]

last+first time i got stuck by wasp was in a silver birch-funny thing was it was the first hard frost of winter

Btw misunderstood the meaning of glazing