Ropewrench ascending through crotches - help!

[mistahbenn]

Oh, Bugz? I got some sitting in the truck..

[Dan Curtis]

A static redirect is when a Alpine Butterfly is tied into the line and the 'bina & sling are attached to this? These are only preferable when there is a chance the redirection point may snap?

 

Daniel.

 

That's one way to do it, there are others. I think there's a thread somewhere in the forum with more static ideas. The downside to using a butterfly is that you need to take your weight off the rope to install the redirect.

 

 

 

 

 

By the way Dan, loving the Safe Eyes, really impressed with them.

 

 

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Good man

[TIMON]

Thanks fellas, good stuff.

Really struggled today.

Was actually worried about the intense pressure the forks were placing on my system.

Weirdly I've never struggled with skinny forks, but these were big 'uns.

18" dia limbs.

The tree was about 360' tall.

Over a motorway.

There were sharks in the ditches.

 

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I didn't realise you did small hedge work as well..................

[Joe Newton]

I don't use SRT (yet) so I may have missed the blindingly obvious here, but instead of dropping through a fork, could you not Carry a few slings/crabs, and set one up outside the fork as a redirect, so you drop down the outside of a fork, rather than through it?

 

If I drop through a fork ddrt, I usually ascend as high as I can to the fork, then use my arms over my head to pull myself out along the branch, until I can get my foot in the fork. Then my system is plenty far enough away from the fork that I can just use my pantin on the other foot to ascend through it.

[Maximalist]

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[Mark Bolam]

I don't use SRT (yet) so I may have missed the blindingly obvious here, but instead of dropping through a fork, could you not Carry a few slings/crabs, and set one up outside the fork as a redirect, so you drop down the outside of a fork, rather than through it?

 

If I drop through a fork ddrt, I usually ascend as high as I can to the fork, then use my arms over my head to pull myself out along the branch, until I can get my foot in the fork. Then my system is plenty far enough away from the fork that I can just use my pantin on the other foot to ascend through it.

 

I was ascending Joe.

The line naturally ran through a few forks, hanging vertically below then kinking away at 45deg above sometimes.

You're right though, given the choice I would route through a biner and a sling.

 

 

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[mistahbenn]

Mark have you seen Drews traverse vid? Most excellent, and he does a retraverse too...

 

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[Dan Curtis]

I was ascending

 

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If that's the case, could try spending a bit of time with the throwline to get a route that doesn't involve nasty bits of climbing?

[Joe Newton]

I was ascending Joe.

The line naturally ran through a few forks, hanging vertically below then kinking away at 45deg above sometimes.

You're right though, given the choice I would route through a biner and a sling.

 

 

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I got that mate, I meant I'd ascent as high as I could to the fork I wanted to get up through, pull myself back a bit further out on one of the limbs of the fork, until I could get my foot in the fork, or better over the branch outside the fork, then pantin furiously with my other leg to get myself through.

 

It's all academic since I haven't a bloody clue about SRT, only that it's twice as dangerous as Ddrt.

[Fredward]

Watch the old video where Kevin Bingham demonstrates the wooden rope wrench. From memory he basically pushes away from the crotch to keep system free to ascend and advances on his pantin, it's awesome when you nail it. You need a neck tether or chest harness to advance it though.