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hey mate welcome to the forum my best advise is to do what jonesie said and have a swing about on some harnesses they stock but also sorbus international advertise on the site somewhere (i think its the adverts on the right habd side of the page) and they do starter kits for climbing i would check them out and shop about thats what i done i seen the kit and went to jonesie and he gave me a good deal.

 

http://order.sorbus-intl.co.uk/display_productlist.asp?Product_Group_DBname=Climbing&Product_SubGroup=1&Product_SubGroupname=Complete%20Kits%20-%20Climbing

 

thats the link to the complete kit mate but like i said i got a better deal at jonesies.

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I'm new to climbing aswell, but I would reccomend a pulley for your strop. It just makes it a lot easier when using one hand to tighten.

Oh, and a throw line and cambium saver. Saves a lot of hassle when trying to get your rope up to a tricky branch.

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hi i bin climbin 4 about 4 years everyday rain or shine and i use a 45m rope thicker the easyer 2 hold. a 2m wire core strop with a ics rope grab, 2 prussiks, 6 karabiners, 2 saw strops (only 1 at a time) rope bag, dragonfly harness and spikes which sit in the landy 90% of the time (the spikes that is). 2 hands on the saw son and rope in as high as poss.

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cambuim savers ,i've seen them, do they work, how do they work and are they worth it?

 

i use cambium savers (sometimes called friction savers) when in large trees, the amount of friction your rope will encounter on large or gnarly anchor points will soon knacker you out! so much easier to climb quickly with less effort when using one

the simple ones are basically a short strop, with two metal eyes-one big one small, put the strop round the anchor point (same position youre rope would normally go) put the end of youre rope through the small eye first then through the large eye, you can then climb much more freely. when finished decend to the ground with it still in the tree, tie a knot in the end of the rope, and pull through, the knot will travel through the large eye, but not the small eye, bringing the cambium to the ground (hopefully)

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