Working in the upper most crown.

[Jason James Gairn]

I had to google that arcane term Ed and the answers involved having dinner parties and buying conservatories.

[Pete Mctree]

I post me in atree for the first time just to show, hey once I did this shyte, and you rip my innards out with planting trowels. I couldn't find abetter pic to illustrate the point with, so i posted that one. That branch was strong enough to not require that technique.

Yes and it was a 300ft limbwalk, a km above shark infested sulphuric acid, i was off my face on premium grade owsley acid.

 

 

Planting trowels? I was reaching for the cotton wool buds!

 

 

It's cool by me, just being the anti to the christ

[Jason James Gairn]

Messiah? ah...Jason..Jah son. son of the creator. son of god. jesus. Michael jackson?

[arnoldbuchsassinger]

Anchor as high as suitably possible depending on size of climber, i use an arsenal of gadgets, redirects, secondary anchors, nylon slings choked on branches to put feet into , all about distributing your weight. I use hitch climbers which means i also run occasionally a V rig, which takes a bit of getting use to.

[The Tree Hunter]

Have you never done touch tapes in a tree???

 

We used to have a couple of trees set up with touch tapes and they always have them set out on the edges, like people have said, highest anchor point possible, i think sometimes when we asked our tutor if our anchor point was alright, he'd tell us to go higher just to see if we could get there, some did some didnt but it was all good practice and got you getting out to the edges you thought were impossible!!!!

[DrewB]

came up with this the other day and it works quite well when right out on the tips. turns ya lanyard into a mechanical adv kinda set up.

[Jamie]

i'm with ed, just climb out, a high T.I.P, if you have to go higher climb up and tie in when you're higher. I've been into sycamore crowns on wood down to about 2", just keep a good main anchor point. not rocket science.

 

Jamie

[Arborlord]

Find the highest branch that is stable.

 

If the branches are thin and look weak i put my rope guide around several branches or rope round one branches but have a connection to a few more branches.

 

So if it snapped you have a few back up branches to give you time to react.

 

You can make a device using some rope with half to 1 metre length wrap round branches and connect your line to it using pulley.

 

 

Or pay someone else

[Log-ologist]

me too. one of the best climbers i know is around the 15 stone mark

 

 

counts me out then (12st 7lb)

[slack ma girdle]

Practice on a small tree, so that height is not an issue. Ditch your main anchor, and use two short rope of about 25'. the main anchor becomes a hinderance when you are working above it. With practice and more importantly confedence you should be able to use anchors of about 1 1/2" in diameter. The key is to keeping equal weight spread across the anchors. This mostly works for me as a fifteen stone climber!!

However once i get above 70' the anchor points drop to around 3", and the rods and saw head come out