Cutters & Climbers 2011 comp

[Ian Flatters]

The video of the simulated work climb. Was filmed before the 2nd day of competiton hence why someone was half awake and driving a plafrom right under the landing zone:confused1:.

 

Anyway nothing as good as some climbing vids, here it is!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRP4NTEslQ]YouTube - Simulated Work Climb[/ame]

[Ian Flatters]

I might as well drop the photo album link on here too Cutters & Climbers 2011 | Facebook

[dadio]

Looks like they disabled your audio.. probably was owned by WMG (warner music group).. there is a way around that.. you have to dispute the claim with youtube..

write this in the reason:

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they should put it up immediately... Nice little trick...

[Andy Collins]

Nice series of pics there Ian.

[Ian Flatters]

Nice series of pics there Ian.

 

Quite nice being able to get very close to the action although i did fear for my life when the dancing bear was on the loose. Thankfully he mauled the Twig instead:lol:

[Rupe]

Looks good.

 

In the video, what the prussik that you un clip and then re attach for? Didn't get that!

 

And in the pics, is that a simulated limb walk? Is that a comp or a demo? Cant work out why they are faffing on it instead of just walking to the end, is it wobbly or something?

[Andy Collins]

Imagine a branch suspended on rigging, the competitors have to inch along as far as they can without triggering the sensor on the far end, it is very sensitive. Shame there was no traverse this year, that was entertaining for the crowds!

[Peter]

Looks good.

 

In the video, what the prussik that you un clip and then re attach for? Didn't get that!

 

And in the pics, is that a simulated limb walk? Is that a comp or a demo? Cant work out why they are faffing on it instead of just walking to the end, is it wobbly or something?

 

The clippy in thing is a re-direct, pre-set for all the climbers. Presume thats what you mean?

 

The limbs walk is a length of polished western red cedar, slippery bugger, and you get the oscillations through it as well, you can trigger the buzzer by blinking while your on it.

[Amelanchier]

Nice pics Ian. Platform ending is beautiful

 

Looks good.

 

In the video, what the prussik that you un clip and then re attach for? Didn't get that!

 

And in the pics, is that a simulated limb walk? Is that a comp or a demo? Cant work out why they are faffing on it instead of just walking to the end, is it wobbly or something?

 

Ian was just doing a glamour run and so didn't quite tick all the boxes - the second line was for a redirect station but the desired approach got lost a little in translation.

 

Our limbwalk is fixed at the tree and then rigged through two 100m sets of bungee / shock cord - it moves a lot... This year it was about twice as long and developed some weird oscillations from heavy movements. The sensor (a butchered smoke alarm) is adjusted to their weight and the climbers have a depressingly duff anchor point to make things painful.

[Amelanchier]

Shame there was no traverse this year, that was entertaining for the crowds!

 

But soul destroying for me - I had to talk 40 climbers through the process of changeover! If you have to explain something to Alex Laver it's too complicated...