Marc
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Just how it should be, being a versatile and adaptive climber, so just another feather in your belt, another notch in your bow an all that
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I thought you was rope wrench boy now, so am I not climbing in the dark ages now with my dinosaur rope technique? Any how it,ll be good to hear your experiences with it when I get back, but expect a fair bit of stick to start with, what with my old school ways an all. Another thing about srt, is using a throw line, I,m not the greatest thrower but I get there eventually, yet being able to use a throw line to set lines will open up so many other possibilities - setting rigging lines/pulleys, releasing stuck cambium savers saving you energy, getting out hangers, setting pull lines etc etc.
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Sounds to me srt is going to benefit you most, spider jack or hitchclimber are pretty much the same thing. I prefer a hitchclimber myself. And by srt I mean access only using a nice efficient system like a rope walker you could also use a rads system for quick up and down jobs. Using a pantin with a spider jack is fine for occasional ascents, but day in day out on big trees will lead to trouble!
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A lanyard is a support/secondary aid which supports a climbers weight, a life line to me is one which will get you to the ground!! I'm not campaigning anything but common sense, and by that I mean we should support the RW in its current form and look to the future. I feel the RW is part of your system and should be logged under loler and all that involves (i.e inspecting and maintaining) regardless of wether it's ce rated or not as it forms part of your lifeline system if that makes sense. The 2ropes was looked into by hse here but seen as impossible to use for much the reasons you found out. The rules and regs over here do not stifle innovation, just those who interpret them!
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It all starts to get silly, a lanyard is a secondary positioning support aid and not in my opinion a life line. A RW is part of a greater system as has to be viewed like that surely, anyone should be able to see that it's a sound piece of kit and fit for purpose and any good loler inspector should mark it as such even without ce mark.
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Thanks for putting that up, what a great location and climb. The rw seemed to make it look hard work I can appreciate the hike and the heat would not of helped your energy levels was you just using a pantin on one foot? At one point did you have to untie the base anchor and haul the end of the rope up, then looked like you used drt for parts of the final ascent. Once you reached the top how did you make a retrievable tie in, send the end back down and make a mid line anchor to choke tip?
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Nice one.
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I think the work you do most determines what techniques will suit you best, the most used tool I have is my silky pruning saw. I.m not naive enough to think ladders are a waste of time they have there place.
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3 dmm revolvers, 3 slings, 2biners, pinto pulley, multi sling thingy. Hardly ever need them but am to lazy to take it off, and hate to ask for stuff.
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Nothing but have you tried access without? Once your used to it you can climb anything anywhere without having to carry cumbersome ladders, it also begins to make your life easier and more productive. If you look at my Oak vid in the video section the first branches were 30+ft up and from then on there would of been much rope over roping, once the line was in which was not long it was only minutes before we were both at the top with little energy used.
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I know what you mean, but I am 33 and great uncle Q he is well old like in his 40,s so proper old never seen him use a ladder and he is quicker than most sub 30 year olds, freak of nature that he is.
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You do not hang of a rope wrench, it's your hitch you hang off, only in srt mode whic the rw allows you to do. Tools like th rw may help make us all old climbers or at least some of us.
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You use srt? In over 3 years I,ve not found anything that I could not get a line into (eventually:blushing:), but trees here are not as big as other places in the world.
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Indeed, the treemagineers/teufelburger partnership had the financial means to get ce approval. The rw needs us on its side to give it mass appeal and success I,d happily use one and I know my loler inspector would have no problem in deeming it fit for its intended use. I,m sure most of us can see logically that if applied correctly it is not ppe and is safe to use.
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The only problem I can see is that a rope wrench allows you to use system that's not designed to work srt in srt. A hitch surely on its own is not rated to work in a srt config as it is unable to take 100% of the load without binding, a rope wrench buffers the load creating a kind of mini drt system without actually being load bearing. Evolution has to start somewhere and the principal of the rw is sound so we should go for it as it can only be a positive thing for us all. What is needed is for the system as a whole to get ce rated, much like the ce climb by the treemagineers/tefalburger as it's the whole system together that is also important is it not?
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It doesn't really look high enough, steel cable attachments can blow out in time on Horse Chesnut and Oak it seems these species do not take well to invasive bracing unlike Beech which fairs well with it. Something to to do with the tannins reacting with the steel and the lack of compartmentalising around it, i think.
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Throw line and srt everything even apple trees, well not quite. Most good throwers will easily beat using ladders into the tree with energy to spare.
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Its what £100 for a samll ISC pulley, thats a very small outlay for something that will last you a very long time and is very well suited to its task.
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You just had to say it didn't you, troublemaker!
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Oi! Spiderjack user stay out of this!
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looks like the top braid is an x then after that the upper leg goes over the bottom leg in the braids. If you look at the top leg as it comes down over the coils of the prussik it should be going anti-clockwise but he has twisted it around bottom leg to reverse direction the top leg now goes around clockwise if that makes sense.
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With this attitude you'll be fine.
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You'd still be expected to move out to the next limb by the time the piece is going to the floor and the hook coming back, then surely to get into the cut position will take less time than it would you to reach the floor. I cant help but feel your trolling us with the sheer size of your trees, but hey whatever we all undertake our work in different ways depending on what is expected of us commercially.
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I just re-read my last post I made it in haste before going out, I hope you didn't think I was being patronising. Yes it's a matter of taking a few wraps to remove slack to get the tension right, larks footing a sling and getting it to the hook seems to me more effort, it's just a matter of preference really.
