Keeping hold of the lowering rope

[gibbon]

  Steve Bullman said:

I often use the tail of my climbing line, but you have to be VERY careful to make sure everythings free running. Bit of action at about 1 minute

 

That's a good idea Steve, I will.remember that one.

Have you ever got all tangled.up doing that?

[Steve Bullman]

  gibbon said:

That's a good idea Steve, I will.remember that one.

Have you ever got all tangled.up doing that?

 

couple of times to be honest, yes, but mostly due to poor planning.

[CTS]

Stein telescopic retriever works perfect. Use it every rigging job.

[WeeDee]

  CTS said:

Stein telescopic retriever works perfect. Use it every rigging job.

 

The big one or the wee one?

 

I'm thinking about getting the the wee one.

[mikecotterill]

Yeah sorry forgot the pic doesn't show the actual set up tho

 

Never thought of sending it up on the climbing line, doh!

 

I would of liked one of them stein things but they seem a but dear to me.

 

Cheers guys

[mikecotterill]

Steve that's Similar to what I'd thought of doin, nice one

[arbogrunt]

thats a lovely little trick there steve!, I'll have to try that one .

With regard to retrieving the working end of the lowering rope when you throw it thru a fork...I either cut off a small branch and hook it in, or put a bight in the rope and swing it round it and pull it in.

If I'm low enough to the ground, I just lower the working end down to the groundie and he clips in on the line to choke it I pull up the slack.

Another handy trick someone showed me, when the line is pulled back into the pulley and your below it, the groundie puts a marlin spike hitch on the line and runs it up to the working side of the block so the working end doesn't slip up out of reach (I HATE it when that happens!).

You can do this before you throw the line out to the end of a long limb when your cradling too.

Hope some of that ramble makes sense!

[Stephen Blair]

  DrewB said:

Groundie then just pulls the other end of the lowering line and it runs up to the climber

 

i usually pull it up myself while said groundy wrestles big bit out of the way, if its a wee bit next, i will lower another bit myself using a little nug for resistance:biggrin:

[Le Sanglier]

I usually cut a stick and store it alongside me till it's no longer needed, failing that, the end of the climbing line.

[Stephen Blair]

good idea Steve but not for me, i dont fancy getting pulled out the tree and hung up on my strop and line because a wee branch has tangled in my line:laugh1: