90m tall rainforest canopy . . .what gear would you use?

[gibbon]

Cool photos. Where are the 90m trees? That's massive!!!!

 

I'd have a powered winch to drag me up, just so long as I wasn't the one who has to carry it in

[DrewB]

Go for the ACTSAFE, those units are super good and totally walk all over the wraptor. nice pics mate

[Paul Smith]

Unicender surely for that sort of work? Up down up down and no need to switch over to drt when you get into the canopy. 100m of rope and a Uni, pantin, hand ascender and footloop?

 

Good man! Got one yet Ben?

[Stephen Blair]

I reckon a 8 foot bar on an 088 personally

[sjarthur]

Unicender surely for that sort of work? Up down up down and no need to switch over to drt when you get into the canopy. 100m of rope and a Uni, pantin, hand ascender and footloop?

 

a uni would seem like the perfect device for a lot of this work, but i does have a major problem when working at heights as great as this. once you reach 40m or so of the ground and change over to descent you have virtually no control!! the weight of the rope below is great enough to hold the top lever down and throw you into a free fall!! really interesting when that happens i assure you!

 

for ascent and drt its a great idea!

 

i'm currently using a a tree frog style system with a shunt as a back up, but im experimenting with the rope rocket system to see how that works out.

 

any other srt systems you like?

[sjarthur]

what are you using to get a rop[e into the tree?

 

crossbow or big shot?

 

we tend to use a bigshot on a big stick chopped out of the undergrowth . . . about 12 foot long. using a trigger made from a pelican clip allows for fairly accurate shots to be made.

 

a crossbow would be great but travelling by plane with such a weapon is reet tricky! customs aren't to keen on letting them through, in singapore our bigshot head was even confiscated . . .

 

using a 4 ounce fishing weight and a couple of hundred meters of braided fishing line on gurt big real allows for the really high shots

[sjarthur]

Cool photos. Where are the 90m trees? That's massive!!!!

 

I'd have a powered winch to drag me up, just so long as I wasn't the one who has to carry it in

 

the trees in the pics are in the danum valley area of Borneo, but we have worked in the cloud forests on mainland Malaysia, some of the trees you really have to see to believe!

[sjarthur]

here's a few more

[David Goss]

sounds like a great experience, if you ever have a space for one more to tag along i would kill for the chance

[treequip]

I reckon a 8 foot bar on an 088 personally

 

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