Cheapest way up a tree.. lost quadcopter

[eggsarascal]

You'll never play for Yorkshire!

 

Nip off and make the tea love.

[AHPP]

I am the financial controller!

[bluebedouin]

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Im trying todo this as cheaply as possible as my gear will only be used when one of our quadcopters gets stuck in a tree so hopefully only a handful of times......

As a total amateur & non-arborist I have to say,go for it feller.I've tried different techniques that I "learnt" from watching youtube.This involved spending quite a lot of dosh on various pieces of equipment that I now don't use, either because I couldn't get the hang of or were just too tiring.

Browse the climbing category on greedbay for auction rather than buy now & you could pick up loads of bargains.

My present system is a Camp climbing harness - £11,Marlow 11mm black abseil rope £41 for 60 metres.

A Petzl Stop for £23,a DMM hitch climber pulley for £23 and a Petzl Croll Ascender for £18.

The hardest part for me is getting the rope into the tree.I bought a fishing reel from china for £2.40 but found the line too thin & replaced it with a thicker one for £2.50.A catapult which I can't find the receipt for but no more than a fiver.(I'm a tight bastard!)I made my own weights from leather filled with sand & glue.

The reel is attached to a stick that I push into the ground,I then shoot the weight over a suitable branch,attach it to the rope & pull it back.

[eggsarascal]

As a total amateur & non-arborist I have to say,go for it feller.I've tried different techniques that I "learnt" from watching youtube.This involved spending quite a lot of dosh on various pieces of equipment that I now don't use, either because I couldn't get the hang of or were just too tiring.

Browse the climbing category on greedbay for auction rather than buy now & you could pick up loads of bargains.

My present system is a Camp climbing harness - £11,Marlow 11mm black abseil rope £41 for 60 metres.

A Petzl Stop for £23,a DMM hitch climber pulley for £23 and a Petzl Croll Ascender for £18.

The hardest part for me is getting the rope into the tree.I bought a fishing reel from china for £2.40 but found the line too thin & replaced it with a thicker one for £2.50.A catapult which I can't find the receipt for but no more than a fiver.(I'm a tight bastard!)I made my own weights from leather filled with sand & glue.

The reel is attached to a stick that I push into the ground,I then shoot the weight over a suitable branch,attach it to the rope & pull it back.

 

I was thinking just the same earlier......

[stihlmadasever]

As a total amateur & non-arborist I have to say,go for it feller.I've tried different techniques that I "learnt" from watching youtube.This involved spending quite a lot of dosh on various pieces of equipment that I now don't use, either because I couldn't get the hang of or were just too tiring.

Browse the climbing category on greedbay for auction rather than buy now & you could pick up loads of bargains.

My present system is a Camp climbing harness - £11,Marlow 11mm black abseil rope £41 for 60 metres.

A Petzl Stop for £23,a DMM hitch climber pulley for £23 and a Petzl Croll Ascender for £18.

The hardest part for me is getting the rope into the tree.I bought a fishing reel from china for £2.40 but found the line too thin & replaced it with a thicker one for £2.50.A catapult which I can't find the receipt for but no more than a fiver.(I'm a tight bastard!)I made my own weights from leather filled with sand & glue.

The reel is attached to a stick that I push into the ground,I then shoot the weight over a suitable branch,attach it to the rope & pull it back.

 

Being Scottish i cant help but begrudgingly admire your awesome display of tightarsedness...the sand and glues got me thinkin about makin my own throw weights now cheers

[Stubby]

My dog did that with one of my Duran Duran tapes in '84 once.

Shat it out 10 years later and I recovered it and respooled it with an HB pencil.

Alas, when I played it again it had turned into Erasure tunes.

 

 

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Cracker

[felixthelogchopper]

Only if your takin about these kinda tunes

 

 

Im sure I have a copy of it on a TDK somewhere.

 

 

Just think, in the years to come you will never see a cassette tape hanging out of a dogs arse.

 

For those of you that havent got a clue what Im talking about, dogs eat anything and back in the 80's tapes where everywhere so once in awhile a stupid dog would eat one then try to sh!t it out.

 

I've still got that on vinyl.

[Tommyk]

Right ive got all my gear together now todo this. Just one quick qwestion before i go up tomorrow. Im stuggling for room to clips 2 karabiner into my rock climbing harness so ive done this. Is it safe to use a karabiner clipped onto another karabiner?

[treequip]

Right ive got all my gear together now todo this. Just one quick qwestion before i go up tomorrow. Im stuggling for room to clips 2 karabiner into my rock climbing harness so ive done this. Is it safe to use a karabiner clipped onto another karabiner?

 

Done what? Daisy chaining biners is not best practice

[Tommyk]

Yes thats what i want todo.

 

Sorry i tryed to upload a photo but it was playing up. Basicly ive got a rock climbing harness which has got an anchor point for the two leg straps and a anchor point for the waist strap. Linked together with a strap apantly you cant anchor too. Your ment to for rock climbing tie a fig of 8 knot though these two anchor points but for climbing a tree that isnt pratical because ive got to disconect and reconect regularly. There isnt enough room to fit two karabiners though these so what ive done its put one karabiners though both anchor points and then daisy chained a second one onto that one to attach my ropes.

 

It would of been easyer to explane if the picture would have loaded up.

 

Only other thing i can thing todo is one fig of 8 tieded to the harness and then a 2nd fig of 8 to attach my karabiners on wih my ropes.

 

Or is there a better way of going around it?