Strange rigging technique?

[Mark Bolam]

I've put plenty of gobs in while top anchored on sound trees. Never multiples though.

Makes sense in some situations.

 

I think it's fair to say those guys knew what they were doing.

 

 

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[skyhuck]

I think some of you guys need to find a nice safe office job

 

You worry way to much

[Johny Walker]

I think some of you guys need to find a nice safe office job

 

You worry way to much

 

its probaly becouse its not in there nptc training, so it has to be wrong !!!!!!

 

youngens ahhhhh,

[Sandworks]

In all fairness, we all do things our own way, and as we all know, we have tricks to make life easier, and I do not think it is fair to second guess what appears to be a fairly competent crew, they know their local timber and limits and tolerances , and made onsite decisions, so it worked, there did not seem to be any excessive movement other than the usual stem movement. As long as some numpty does not try to copy him on an unsuitable species /diseased tree !

I always am curious about alternate methods, but certainly would not consider copying him, I prefer unmolested stems, God knows I have worked on some hairy trees over the years, no point in adding more doubt to the integrity of a tree you are working on.... Now if I was tied into another tree..... I would hack away like a monkey on speed😆

[ecotreecare]

Not really, it makes good sense to me. I guess it's a viable technique to prep for a chog down but the for neg rigging the time saved versus the unquantifiable weakening of the rigging point isn't worth it. Simple risk vs reward.

 

Denouncing somebody's post like that without offering a counter argument is unproductive.

 

 

Have you seen the size of the spar he's rigging down? It's not going anywhere!

[scotspine1]

Have you seen the size of the spar he's rigging down?

 

yes

 

It's not going anywhere!

 

it's the idea that's flawed, the foundation of any rigging operation is to minimise the risk to the climber not increase it.

 

nobody here has an issue with unorthodox techniques, it's just that the unorthodox technique of cutting multiple gobs in a stem you're about to rig from is at best pointless and at worst counter intuitive to the human instinct for survival.

 

In short, it's crap.

[Stephen Blair]

I think it gives the video a little mystery, something a new climber would do to impress a garden full of woman watching from next door!

Not something I do, goes against everything in my head cutting below what I'm tied into.

Big tree down in a tight spot, a good job I say.

[ecotreecare]

yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's the idea that's flawed, the foundation of any rigging operation is to minimise the risk to the climber not increase it.

 

 

 

nobody here has an issue with unorthodox techniques, it's just that the unorthodox technique of cutting multiple gobs in a stem you're about to rig from is at best pointless and at worst counter intuitive to the human instinct for survival.

 

 

 

In short, it's crap.

 

 

Your entitled to your opinion (even if it is wrong!)

[MattyF]

I've actually seen a tree split and crack up the gobs when a climbers done and climbed above it ...after breaking his leg after a rigging mishap with Russian vine then refusing to levitate it and go out stump grinding instead got gangrene lost most of his leg muscle and could not wear spikes this was his answer and one day the tree actually split up the gobs was gnarly watching him trying to get off !! Bad idea IMO !!

[Stephen Blair]

Nice story Matty😀