SRT base anchors and rescue anchors

[Paul Smith]

I have no idea what HAAS stands for but its a knee ascender with a bungee. same as my rope rocket type setup

 

Didn't like the floating croll idea, not for me!👎

[Ewan Murray]

A possible misunderstanding.

I use a base tie to gain access to the tree but the tie in to the top of the tree to start work.

I only work off a base tie if I'm doing a crown lift or a dead wood job or if its a thin tree and I need to spread my weight over multiple branches, as you describe Kevin.

 

Don't forget though, most of the trees I climb here are around 20-30m tall and quite bendy.

 

I'm sure I would base tie to work if I was in really big trees.

 

 

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20-30m thats over 100-120ft you doung stuff that big regularly?

[Adam Bourne]

20-30m thats over 100-120ft you doung stuff that big regularly?

 

Sorry mate but I think you'll find 20m is 65ft and 30m is 98ft

 

 

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[kevin bingham]

Anything over 30m or 100 feet is huge in my book. Not often I get above 50 feet here in day to day work.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Sorry mate but I think you'll find 20m is 65ft and 30m is 98ft

 

 

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That's right and I'm talking about the total height of the tree, not the height that I climb up to.

 

 

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[Ewan Murray]

Sorry mate but I think you'll find 20m is 65ft and 30m is 98ft

 

 

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I stand corrected

[Ross Smith]

Its pretty rare i actually use a base anchor but when i do this is what i use, to show people who may not have understood, if the second climbing line will be too short doubled it can be used single and a simple ring added in order to take some friction away the same is acheived with a figure 8 or running the rope through a lower d on a harness for example.

 

Gumpy just ran me through this set up at the weekend it's incredibly simple and very efficent

 

 

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Edited October 16, 2013 by Ross Smith

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I worked off a base tie today in a multi-stemmed Goat Willow.

I passed the rope over three forks to spread my weight out and this enabled me to get my rope much higher than if I had a regular TIP.

 

 

 

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[DrewB]

i think base ties generally cause more issues than solutions. i can see the point for initial ascent purely as it makes throwlining simpler but for working i really cant stand them. too much bounce, hate the disconcerting feeling when slack has got into the back side of the rope, too easy to cut whilst pruning and easy to stand above your TIP making you not tied in to anything. Of course, this is a generalisation and times will be when they are awesome. like when just rremoving a hanger or so..

[heusterbergus]

I completely agree with you drew. And its not lowerable when you are tied in twice in working position. For access i use a base tie but i prefer to add a butterfly and pinto when i'm at the anchorpoint to have only one leg of the line under tension while working