Have you ever bottled it?

[Pat Ferrett]

Go back have another look! It wont be as bad as the picture you ve got in your head. If you still dont like the look of it bend the rules. reduce it to a height that you feel safe at. Dead simple :thumbup:

[morten]

Asking the experienced climbers, have you ever bottled it?

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Ever happen to you? or too tough to admit it?

 

Happened to me twice. Really uncomfortable. At first I tried to convince myself that I was being silly, but progress became so painful, that I had to bottle out. Fortunately, my mate was at hand to finish the job in half an hour or so.

 

If it ever happens to me again, I'll listen to my mind and get down on the ground at once. I don't think I would have the mental capacity to deal with any unforeseen incidents in that situation.

[Al Duffill]

Last year we reduced a huge 40m Pop, I had 2 boughs left, the very highest, was gonna dismantle in stages and let the stuff free fall, after climbing the one i looked down at the crotch where the 2 boughs left each other, i didn't like the look of it especially as the wind had picked up, I dropped down past the crotch and dropped them, one rigged the other a free fall. It just didn't feel right up there, you have to listen to your heart and re-think, better safe than sorry, makes my heart race just thinking about it!

 

I'd get a MEWP in for your tree Gibbon, It may cost i know, but could you use it for any other jobs ?

[Matt Butler]

which MEWP were you in at the time?

 

 

oil and steel, octupussy 14-65

[skyhuck]

I would anchor in as shown in black, then us my strop to get up, it anything happened it would be a bit of a swing, but not the end of the world.

 

Just what I would do, please feel free to tell me I'm a fool

Edited January 6, 2011 by skyhuck

[RC0]

Go back have another look! It wont be as bad as the picture you ve got in your head.

 

He's already been up there once, an experienced climber. How will it be different a second time?

[butler]

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Edited January 6, 2011 by John Shutler
hardly constructive, have a look at forum guidelines

[Stephen Blair]

if i was going to go for a swing then i would just climb above my anchor point on the big fork below gibbon, a big swing on that lateral branch with your weight Huck would most probably break, keep it close to the stem.

 

i wish i had a pen thingy lol

[Pat Ferrett]

He's already been up there once, an experienced climber. How will it be different a second time?

 

Mate! we all have good and bad days, with abit of the advice that he s got from the forum, and a second look he will be able to make a more informed decision on the next plan of attack.

[Bob Rolfe]

Yep bottled it once or twice ..... That's why I'm still here

 

 

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