Beginners guide to rigging.......

[Albedo]

Not well.... very dry, snaps out quickly

 

So you were kinda lucky to get it clear then.

 

I reckon I'd maybe prefer to snatch it with a very alert hefty groundy doing the snatchin. Does depend on the size of the branch and other factors.

 

Possibly with your rigging in place but snatched as well...if that makes sense.

 

Maybe even get the phone line down, as it can be expensive if you break it. But this is more of a rigging conundrum than an obvious safe alternative conundrum.

 

 

For anyone who doesn't know what snatching is (or calls it something different) its when you have a line on it, so the groundy yanks it clear at the moment it starts to go the way you want.

[WorcsWuss]

Based on that terminology, it was done as a 'progressive snatch' then.. Tt wasn't just tensioned but continually lifted as it was cut, so it could only go one way. The face cut was positioned so that the hinge was under the least amount of tension and the groundie kept walking away and lifting the limb as I put the back cut in. The hinge didn't give way until it was lifted over-centre, at which point the butt came free of the stem and it went down in an arc away from the stem, groundie let lt run, just slowing it up.

Worked well!

[Albedo]

I should leave this to Adam really. I still take wraps round a tree and use forks etc for the small amount of rigging I do these days.

 

Sounds like you had it well under control and I'm liking your 'progressive snatching'

 

In a pure snatch, I forgot to say, that not only does the groundy need good timing but the climber does too as he has to go through the rest of the hinge at precisely the same moment so that the branch just goes flying free in the direction you want.

 

I haven't used it for a while but my first boss used to do it a lot about 20 years ago

[Adam Bourne]

Na mate go right ahead buddy it's a discussion thread about rigging I want everyone to have there in put

 

 

On root home now so will look over the last few post

[Albedo]

I have a rigging question.

 

You know when you are rigging a big lump and you use a half hitch with a timber hitch a couple of feet down.

 

What's it called?...I can't remember...but would know it if I heard it:001_smile:

[WorcsWuss]

 

Sounds like you had it well under control and I'm liking your 'progressive snatching'

 

 

I don't think there's anything better than progressive snatch....

[Albedo]

I don't think there's anything better than progressive snatch....

 

I'm not going there mate, can't remember the way anyway:001_smile:

[dexta]

I have a rigging question.

 

You know when you are rigging a big lump and you use a half hitch with a timber hitch a couple of feet down.

 

What's it called?...I can't remember...but would know it if I heard it:001_smile:

 

Sounds like a cow hitch

[Paul Smith]

If you tie the half hitch the opposite way it should result in a overhand knot if it was not around the spar, marlin hitch. Don't know what other names your looking for?

[Paul Smith]

Sounds like a cow hitch

 

Not a cow hitch, the half hitch or marlin spreads the load on the timber or running bowline and should be tied so it takes load first. Take care as the hitch and timber may invert when falling.