Fiddle block system in rigging?

[carlos]

what we have done for smallish stuff is place the block high in the tree as normal then instead of tying off the branch to lower, chocker a sling around it with a pulley on it then run the rigging line through the puley and tie the end off back at the high block.

this does use a lot of rope and is hard on the hands but is quick and enables the groundy to lift and hold 2 or three times more than normal without a capstan, in essence the whole rigging system is a fiddle block.

we do have a self contained self locking fiddle block set up but its slow and awkward in conjunction with rigging so mailny use that for pulling over treees.

hope this makes sense.

carl