Foot ascender Ddrt

[Marc]

Pantin on everyday but only use it to ascend SRT hardly ever once I'm in the tree and on my DRT system.

[colemanjessenz]

yup , stays on my foot all day

[John Shutler]

never, would rather footlock the tail of my line

[spiketreemanSweden]

I prefer to footlock to go back up, keeps muscles up and constant practise for comps

 

 

Sent from my beotch

[arbmansam]

Everytime I climb its on, especially seeing as im using the sj great combo

[Mark Bolam]

Slippy, heaving Euc today, pollard so spikes would have been on and off.

Strapped the Pantin on instead.

 

Didn't use it apart from ascending two sections. Wet gloves, wet Euc, wet everything. Without the Pantin I'd still be there.

 

If you don't want to use one, don't.

 

I can't see a single reason why a pro tree climber wouldn't own one.

 

Anyone that keen on 'keeping fit' fancy binning their chainsaw for a crosscut?

[54gka]

Starting to use mine more as knocking on fifty and finding ascending hard. Legs still not to bad but arms and shoulder strength slowly going.

[Rich Rule]

Have a pantin on mists days for bigger trees. Single or double rope. I still like to footlocker to tail of my line though.

[SamTree]

Hi,

 

I use my pantin under my lockjack on drt for long pulls especially when putting my line in from the ground. It works great and saves a lot of effort ( as far as I'm concerned I'm up for making everything as easy and efficient as possible, just makes sense to me, why struggle when u don't have to)

 

The only problem I find, especially when away from the main stem is controlling body position and stopping spinning.

 

Does any one have any ideas on set up without going over to srt? ( I want to be ready to work ASAP and don't want to get all the way up, switch to drt, and come down to cut something I've passed on the way up)

 

Any advice would be much appreciated, cheers

[DrewB]

Ascend with a hitch and rope wrench and you can work at any point. No need to go to the top and changeover.