Another srt help thread.

[Marc]

You need at least a croll. You could use a hitch its just not as effcient as a toothed access system.

 

You climbing on a treemotion?

[Paul Smith]

With the system you describe you can ascend, if you tried to descend your hitch would bind. A RW or HH would prevent this. As you omitted to say you had a hitch in your original post I thought I would help and tell you. To be honest you will figure it out or get a Unicender and never look back!

[colemanjessenz]

mate get a croll and a bit of elastic. have a lifeline connection between the top ascender and you (can be long as it is just a back up ). tight elastic loop over your neck and attached to the top of the croll .... don't fluff around with hitches .

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7p4V8yDvg]Frog walker, with croll - YouTube[/ame]

I have my life line connection a lot longer then his as its less restricting.

[nz paul]

With the system you describe you can ascend, if you tried to descend your hitch would bind. A RW or HH would prevent this. As you omitted to say you had a hitch in your original post I thought I would help and tell you. To be honest you will figure it out or get a Unicender and never look back!

Ok cheers man,im starting out just for access then going into drt for work,i just want a system that helps me get up easier on larger trees,unicender looks good,but no way the wife/boss would let me purchase that with little work coming in.thanks for the help.

[nz paul]

mate get a croll and a bit of elastic. have a lifeline connection between the top ascender and you (can be long as it is just a back up ). tight elastic loop over your neck and attached to the top of the croll .... don't fluff around with hitches .

I have my life line connection a lot longer then his as its less restricting.

Yeah i sort of knew i was going to have to get one as anything else doesn't seem practical,cheers for the link and advice.

[Paulfreebury]

If you isolate your line on the branch your srt line is over with an alpine butterfly, ascend to the desired hight, then tie another alpine butterfly in the other side of your srt line the side that you would pull to retrieve your srt rope, clip a beaner on the loop of the alpine butterfly and onto the spare hole on your hitchclimber pulley, then unclip your ascender you have now created a dirt system to work from.

[nz paul]

If you isolate your line on the branch your srt line is over with an alpine butterfly, ascend to the desired hight, then tie another alpine butterfly in the other side of your srt line the side that you would pull to retrieve your srt rope, clip a beaner on the loop of the alpine butterfly and onto the spare hole on your hitchclimber pulley, then unclip your ascender you have now created a dirt system to work from.

 

Thats a good idea,just got to get the ascending bit sussed first!

[BenR]

Croll + bungee. Then push your legs straight beneath you in an alternating fashion.

 

Hold your body upright on the line by grabbing just the hand ascender or the line and hand ascender.

 

Keep your body up right as much as possible. Pointing your toes down when you step down helps keep your legs pushing directly below you and minimises pantin pop outs.

 

If you find the pantin is still popping off practice or if its the old type pantin you can pop an accessory biner of the right size in the hole to stop the cam opening and the pantin coming off the line.

 

One you get all the tethers, elastics and footloops the right lengths you should have a pretty efficient system.

 

Hope this helps

[nz paul]

Croll + bungee. Then push your legs straight beneath you in an alternating fashion.

 

Hold your body upright on the line by grabbing just the hand ascender or the line and hand ascender.

 

Keep your body up right as much as possible. Pointing your toes down when you step down helps keep your legs pushing directly below you and minimises pantin pop outs.

 

If you find the pantin is still popping off practice or if its the old type pantin you can pop an accessory biner of the right size in the hole to stop the cam opening and the pantin coming off the line.

 

One you get all the tethers, elastics and footloops the right lengths you should have a pretty efficient system.

 

Hope this helps

 

Awesome dude cheers for the advice,am just sorting out a croll and trying to find a strop bungee from somewhere.

[Danavan]

An older set up I had using a hand ascender neck loop & pantin on the right foot.

 

Bit of a bodge up system tbo, but did the job ok.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Danavan