X-Rings

[josharb87]

Can you post some pics of the rings in the slings please? Looks similar to old skool topping down strops

[theXman]

Can you post some pics of the rings in the slings please? Looks similar to old skool topping down strops

I sure will, likely tomorrow.

Also, if you could explain or show a picture of a "old school topping down strops", that would be great. Curious what they look like.

[theXman]

also, I have lots of rigging footage over these last two years using the X-Rigging Rings and should edit together a fast moving action video of the rings in use and not a boring tutorial.

 

Since this got started here, I should probably get on that now. I'll never have spare time to do it, so, I should just do it.

 

hopefully start on it tomorrow if we get snowed on.

[Merle Nelson]

David, I’ll say it again - thanks for bringing the rings over from the marine industry. I would have never known about them. Every job I use X Rigging Rings on goes faster, easier, and brings back some of the fun of early days in tree work for me.

 

Please, please, please bring back out that first video of testing the rings to destruction. I only watched it once and hadn’t robbed all the good ideas out of that one yet. No one would guess what these are capable of without seeing it on vid. Not all of our videos need to be 10’s for entertainment. I use the XRR to make more money more quickly and can watch a 40 minute video to learn how to do that better.

 

August please make all the videos with Rings you want, this last one I learned at least one more trick I had never thought of. Can’t wait to see what other ideas your creative mind comes up with.

[josharb87]

I sure will, likely tomorrow.

Also, if you could explain or show a picture of a "old school topping down strops", that would be great. Curious what they look like.

 

Awesome thank you

 

Topping down strop-http://www.landmarktrading.co.uk/arborist-equipment/lowering-equipment/lowering-strops/topping-down-strop.asp

[Old Mill Tree Care]

So I can see the advantages of these rings but does it also mean that you must not let ropes run fast to avoid heat build up? This would be a disadvantage in some cases.

 

 

 

 

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[Merle Nelson]

Xman/David will give you the exact answer but in general, no it’s not a problem to ‘let it run’ from the top of a tree to the ground including with some very heavy weights. I’ve run near vertical speed lines with heavy weights also.

 

One 40 minute video I mentioned above covered lack of heat issues and other things. The Hardcoat covering the rings is uncanny for durability.

[scotspine1]

I sure will, likely tomorrow.

Also, if you could explain or show a picture of a "old school topping down strops", that would be great. Curious what they look like.

 

David, they were big (24mm) 3 strand nylon slings with a spliced eye and metal thimble for lowering with (negative blocking etc). They'd be attached to the tree using a timber hitch.

 

Very common in the UK before arborist blocks/pulleys appeared. Wraps were taken round the tree or round a stub in the tree for friction. The rigging line was also 3 strand, normally 24mm.

 

They were basically the forerunner to X Rigging Rings, as the old saying goes, 'there's nothing new under the sun' -

 

[Gray git]

Big, numb and had a habit of snapping rope as tight bend radius for 25mm poly prop roap.

Still use mine but mostly as a ground redirect for static lines like. speed lines.

 

sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.

[RC0]

So I can see the advantages of these rings but does it also mean that you must not let ropes run fast to avoid heat build up? This would be a disadvantage in some cases.

 

 

 

 

Sent with my iPhone from me, to you!

 

They're good Al. Super strong yet light-weight and low friction. Lowering or lifting, whatever is required.

 

I'd like to emphasize the light-weight part....whether setting in a tree of hanging on your saddle, they are much less cumbersome than Blocks. They are obviously not mid-line attachable but with a little forethought you rarely feel inconvenienced.

 

We used them exclusively to remove the fir in the photo. Rigging at well over a hundred feet for the top third of the tree and no issue with excessive heat or wear. Although, the rings can be rotated within the splice if you wanted to take that precaution.

 

Money well spent whether you do a lot or only a little rigging:thumbup1: