2 climbers?

[Frank]

judging by the camera angle, there must have been at least another in the tree next door, too many people with harnesses on IMO.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I wouldn't use that as a training video with all that shakin going on, nearly dislodged the climbers and all that Yahoo'ing. what would the customer think if I started yahoo'ing up a tree

 

Bit more professionalism man

[18 stoner]

If i may pick out a point, it looked like when the top was taken out it dropped on the speed line.

 

If this was a training vid, i would say not good practice as i always understood the top should have been dropped on a strop or rope, then lowered to the speed line. Thus, less risk of snapping out the top of the tree at the rigging anchor point, and not giving the climber such a "ride".

 

Please shoot me down if i'm wrong, but perhaps advanced rigging techniques vary slightly from one side of the pond to the other.

[Red.Squirrel]

I think I get, whilst one is cutting the other is setting up the rigging then visa versa but personally I think the risks out way the time saved ... too many cooks spoil the broth.

[RobDog]

I agree with all you guys have said but remember we have been doing this for many years and mastered it easily.These climbers know what they are doing.That last top cut had to be secured before letting slide down.I taught these guys this technique and it works for us.After the top cut one climber came down the speedline and one finished the wood.never are the two climbers directly underneath each other.

[tommer9]

Yeah but if you turned up and tried that in front of ant nptc instructor they would probably shoot you/ themselves/ run like hell. Good for impressing the ladies, but i honestly have to agree with the majority of the replies above. Sorry.

[josharb87]

hmmmm.

 

personally i hate working with another climber. prob something to do with the legendary climbers ego, but also differing standards-i.e mine have been higher.

 

would rather have an extra groundie so i dont have to do anything when i get down, rather than shell out for another climber

 

as for having a fully loaded speedline with 10 slings on, i would imagine youre groundies were working overtime clearing, cutting chipping all that whilst you two sat up there with no spare slings to be getting on with attatching??? would rather have a constant rythem, send two or three bits down, as soon as the lines being lowered, use the other slings to attatch the next branches whilst the lines being untied/sent back up to you by one groundie, with the other dealing with the branches-that way everyones got a constant, methodical job to do-1 lowering, one dealing with brash and the climber cutting

 

work in harmony with eachother!

[bob]

so would you advocate using speedlined for decending from the tree

or did i miss read your post robdog

[bob]

no one gets into my tree!!

 

lets hope you need rescuing then sir

[treewizard]

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