Rope Wrench feedback

[Danavan]

Hope this question has not been asked before, if so sorry I will look harder.

 

What is involved in the lots set up & dose it have to have chest harness attachment to work or can it be effective with a normal bridge.

 

Is it setting into the srt a grab of some sort to gain a mechanical advantage as with the drt. New to this srt stuff but I like the sound of the rw so far.

 

Cheers for any info

[Paul Smith]

This should answer your questions.

 

Check out this video on YouTube:

 

[Ian Flatters]

this one is quite good and how i personally prefer to ascend the tree. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XD6rGpAY8Y]Frog walking with a wrench - YouTube[/ame]

[carlos]

had a go with the rw and lock jack in small tree at work today seemed good i actually found the lockjack smoother on the desecnt than with drt.

looking forward to trying that frogwalking thing looks easy and fast.

not sure about the use off non rated karribiners on the rope wrench, surely its just as essential as the hitch or LJ in srt mode therefore needs to be securley fixed??

totaly new to the RW thing so please correct me if iam wrong.

cheers carl

[Ian Flatters]

The other thing i love about the frog walker setup is the ascender and foot loop can sit on the line with no connection to your system so if you choose you can leave it at the top of the tree and recover it at the end when you take the lines out.

 

Also an ascender with a crab and pulley clipped in when you start your climb out on a limb converts it into a RAD system which makes coming in very easy. Well it was using the HC WR setup and I'm sure it will be the same with the LJ WR setup.

[DrewB]

Nice Ian. It's great aye

[Ian Flatters]

Yeah, I'm really embracing the SRT climbing system (RW). It felt really weird having just one rope that didn't move as such (line payout). But i feel i move throughout the crown with more ease if you know what i mean and with a different mindset/approach. I've been looking into canopy access courses to broaden my knowledge of SRT too.

[Al Baker]

Hello,

 

I know theres been a couple of threads on this but that was a while back. Im curious to how many people:

A) Own one

B) How often do you use it

C) Your opinion on it.

 

Kind of looking into my SRT a fair bit at the moment.

 

I use SRT a lot. Have done extensively over the last 20 years.

I've often been faced with roped ascents of 150m plus including work positioning problems born of virgin rigging territory.

I don't wanna diss what you're doing but when I look at some of the gear used by Arborists it seems light years behind.

Rope wrench....I wouldn't entertain it for a moment.

[Ian Flatters]

Awesome picture. Arb is classed as a dinosaur climbing system by a lot of rope access industries, hence why I'm broadening my Rope access horizons. But for us RW is a good bit of simple kit, I'm sure you can see that? Although I'm only a newbie at SRT and would be very keen to know other systems used with pros or cons and what works?

 

Ian

[mistahbenn]

But Al, do you climb trees?