How far can you climb above your anchor?

[ArborClimber]

All very good being at same level as your anchor point, but when you're 5metres out branch walking to one side of your anchor point, and then slip and on the horrible wet ash when trying to clip your lanyard in.....

....and pendulum swing into the stem, thus requiring your petzl vertex visor to be surgically removed from your once pretty face.

 

Do they cover THAT in your course work?

[Mark Bolam]

Depends who you want to keep happy...the tree officer who specced a 0.5m reduction or the HSE bod...neither of whom have any practical experience

 

Word.

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

All very good being at same level as your anchor point, but when you're 5metres out branch walking to one side of your anchor point, and then slip and on the horrible wet ash when trying to clip your lanyard in.....

 

....and pendulum swing into the stem, thus requiring your petzl vertex visor to be surgically removed from your once pretty face.

 

 

 

Do they cover THAT in your course work?

 

 

No good suggesting a discussion based on sound logic might ever be incorporated into a college course, too much hard work for assessors - might as well just make it multiple guess!!

[ArborClimber]

No good suggesting a discussion based on sound logic might ever be incorporated into a college course, too much hard work for assessors - might as well just make it multiple guess!!

 

Ah.... That might explain why I struggled a bit with my course.... Silly assessors

[DanClimbsTrees]

No good suggesting a discussion based on sound logic might ever be incorporated into a college course, too much hard work for assessors - might as well just make it multiple guess!!

 

Completely agree.

[Jonny69]

How bogus can you get?

 

At that rate most daily activities would kill you, jumping off a chair would be fatal and adventurous types like bungee jumpers would be pure suicide.

 

I cant tell if you are serious??

 

A fall onto a static line is very bad, even short distances. Obviously jumping off a chair your knees absorb the load and a bungee the very stretchy line absorbs the load.

 

I feel Jack Kenyon may have been trying to send a message to the students. However the consequences are normally broken pelvis, back whiplash etc.

 

I could work out the shock loadings per metre fallen. But I would guess a true 1-2m drop would cause a serious injury. In a tree you are much more likely to swing down and across, hitting the stem but also lowering the impact from however much slack you have created.

 

Saying that I climb above my anchor whenever its required and just try not to fall!

[Arborist]

That isn't my view I was just saying what I was told!

[Shane]

The only time I fell within a tree was because I was trying to work out (in ma heed) the implications of a fall and thus lost concentration.

 

9 mtrs/sec squared x Mass / distance(d) with some allowance for any deceleration factors such as stretching groin tendons and frayed harness stitching.

 

I can't multi task!

[atree]

As high as you want..(untill the branch breaks)..if your climbing srt

[Tom D]

I have fallen way further than 50cm onto my ropes on more than one occasion, still here...

 

Josh has it spot on.