SRT topanchor

[SuperPowerPatty]

been playing around with SRT for a couple of months and was rec. climbing a beech, did a couple of redirects to the outher crown and came down to pack up and go.

But i had to do the "walk of shame" up the tree and get all the redirects out to get the line out.

But yesterday i came around a video where they locked the small ring of a cambiumsaver with an alpine butterfly.

This way you can have a topanchor for srt but still make a lot of redirects and get your line out

I tried the same thing today and put a ring through the butterfly for added safety.

thought i'd share it with you guys to see what you think

nice neck stretch at the end of the day

[SuperPowerPatty]

the video's in question

skip to 3:06 if not interested in the rest

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[Al Mondz]

That certainly looks like it will help a lot with the friction issues you get sometimes with retrieval. Have you tried the alpine/pinto anchor ? That helps a lot too.

[tree-fancier123]

thanks for sharing, I have so far been able to pull the rope out by footlocking a long tail from the ground and bouncing, yanking, but didn't think about the friction damage to the eye of the butterfly like he talks about in first vid, will try the pinto now. Also liked the idea of using a steel ring cambium saver, they seem a lot less prone to impact damage than aluminium,

[Al Mondz]

I basically ruined a rope from this. Just glazed it up from one long retrieval. I started using a ring, but it's nothing on a pinto.

[Paul Smith]

[Thatoldchestnut]

Definitely try the pinto bud easily the best top anchor for me. Too much friction with wring to ring friction saver and you could still end up doing a walk of shame when it gets stuck in a crotch on retrieval

[Joe Newton]

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Looks nice, Paul, but a pinto is midline attachable.

[Paul Smith]

Looks nice, Paul, but a pinto is midline attachable.

 

 

Joe, I don't use pinto's and I'm never in such a rush where tying mid line will save me precious seconds.

 

Horses for courses, just another tool in the box.

[Al Mondz]

I like the X Ring idea, looks sweet.