Work climb

[Paulfreebury]

This might be a silly question but here goes! Is there a criteria that is followed when setting out the work climb for competition?

[Gray git]

:001_tt2:You must have a tree:001_rolleyes:

[Paulfreebury]

So they randomly put bells around a tree?

[Peter]

Not randomly, in the ISA comps it follows some basic rules, although there is room for creativity.

 

Start Bell:

Usually first bell, at top of tree nearish anchor point.

 

Handsaw Station:

Usually first bell, nearish top.

 

Pole Pruner Station:

Usually 2nd or 3rd, can be anywhere.

 

Limb Toss:

Usually 3rd, usually in lower third of canopy to allow clearish throw to target area.

 

Limb Walk:

Usually 4th, nearly always fairly low down, bell set out in the tips with a challenging route to lanyard point.

 

Last bell is at about 4 metres off ground, this has to be rung before making final descent to ensure no long fast burn out type descents to landing zone.

 

Mostly the whole climb will be in one side of a tree for good rope routing and to allow climbers to ascend while someone is doing the work climb.

 

The whole climb should take around 5-6 minutes from start bell to landing zone for an average climber at that event, so the top 10% will be able to do it really quickly, and only the few slowest will time out.

[Paulfreebury]

Thankyou Peter that's exactly what I wanted to know.

[Arran Turner]

Thanks for that, it awnsers questions i needed to know too

 

Arran

[will.morris]

Have you got a comp in mind that your thinking about?

[Paulfreebury]

Have you got a comp in mind that your thinking about?

 

Sadly no! I'm not able to compete as I'm not a certified climber! Over the last 12 months my climbing has improved massively and I wanted to test myself to see if I could do it, that's why I'm thinking of setting myself a work climb, so any suggestions or advice would be gratefully received.

[Marc]

Sadly no! I'm not able to compete as I'm not a certified climber! Over the last 12 months my climbing has improved massively and I wanted to test myself to see if I could do it, that's why I'm thinking of setting myself a work climb, so any suggestions or advice would be gratefully received.

 

? Your not certified how do you mean?

[Paulfreebury]

I've not done my cs38, yet! as I'm not in arb related work. but love to climb.