DrewB

Surely ascenders have to be checked?

Hey rob, cody used a pulley as single revolvers werent allowed. i came 3rd in the prelims but then in the masters my access line tangled with throwlines and all got caught up in the tree, wouldnt go up or down. ended up monkey balling my rope and hittin the tree old school style!

totally see ya point mate, this style of rescue has been mentioned a few times and its always been my concern that it wouldnt work if your lanyarded in (which is probably the time youll cut ya self). I think this is probably a competition technique mainly, setting this up and installing an access line really probably isnt goin to happen at workl. But im sure ill use it at some point at work, just cus i can! say hi to rich next time ya see him for me mate.

and available in NZ very soon.............

Hey minty, if your an open system (prussic, blakes, helical) then go with the 10mm but if your on a hitchclimber/closed system (VT, distel, etc) then go with the 8mm. hope that helps.......

Surely the rescue situatio would be that it can all be lowered down from the ground? or am i missing something? But i agree that ascending up the SRT line that is being worked from (ie not hanging straight from anchor) would be probably frowned upon.

the armour prus will outlive your beeline 10-1, but i do prefer the 8mm to the 10mm, what rope are you sing it on?

Rich came 3rd in the masters. The advantage to setting it up this way is that you dont have to strop into anything when you change over and its all tied on the ground-much easier to set it up when standing on theground and the judges could see exactly what you were doing-as you guys know its all about scoring points with the judges... and jarnii i dont want to talk about my masters climb, my throwlines decided to represent spaghetti:mad1:

Chrissy won the masters and jess knot second so both go to the worlds. Jed and codes represent oz and asia pacific at the worlds...........

yeah bro left AND right 24 carat

its made here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not sure down where you are, just phone donaghys and ask them or pm Ropey ( hes the tree guy from donaghys) its about $12 per metre.

i just heard theres a brand new, never used one for sale in wellington...............with pure gold prop shaft ( display model)

no question! armour prus wins hands down! dont know why but i never got on with beeline, aklways seemed to grab too much if you stopped too quickly and it hated the rain............... hey minty-wheres otaki?

its codys idea mate not mine! i just thought id pass it on as he used it to become the oz champ in the masters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A tree at the top of my road is dying (over the past year) and i want tell the owner and do the job but like you i dont want to seem like im harassing for work-just go and tell them and if you get the work, sweet as if not ah well. its what im going to do this weekend.

i know what ya mean mate but you leave it all on the rope so its just unclipping a few krabs really. The benefit is that you can switch without committing to one system- i cant really think of a situatio where you would do it more than once TBH. I like how its all ready to go straight from the ground.

Congratulations to Kiwi, Nicky Ward Allen for just breaking the female world record at the OZ championships!! 15.12 seconds i think, she got 14.78 too but that was unofficial.

But only if id taken a rope with a long spliced eye to australia! i kind of prefer not using a splice in this setup as it makes the extension/shortening a bit more jerky, but i know what ya saying (stop making excuses:001_tongue:)!!

It sounds complicated but works really sweet, heres how(or the way i know of doing it anyway) throwline into required TIP point Attach the rope and hoist until it runs over the crotch, tie an alpine butterfly at the base and clip a revolver or crab/pulley into it. Install your DRT line through the pulley and keep hold of the short end(or just fully set ya DRT system up) Hoist the SRT line up until the alpine butterfly is under the crotch Tie the SRT line off at the base of the tree As you ascend the SRT line you take the DRT with you (a free running hitch or lockjack works better for this) At any point of the ascent you can transfer to the DRT and work normally and if need be go back to the SRT and carry on ascending. When youve finished you can lower everything nice and gently back to the ground (you leave all the ascenders on the SRT line) or be rescued by being lowered. THis works like a mid line anchor in thats it stops you having to climb to the top if you dont need to whilst sill giving you a real high TIP. Sorry for all the acronyms as well:001_cool:

i know mate! but i didnt want to argue with the head technician too much- it made unclipping after my work climb a right kafuffle-every second counts and all that... and gates had to be on opposing sides:thumbdown:

where was that ross?

so is that free hols at the mt for me then bro?

They are:001_tongue:

generally we tend not to climboff the access line (in some situations we do though). in SRT we tie an alpine butterfly above the bowline and in an emergency just clip into this and lower the victim down on another climbing system.

This is what i use virtually all the time now, gets rid of all the slack from your system whilst climbing. get rid of the ropeman and just use a bit of webbing and use a termiantion knot on your line and not a splice, this gets the system closer to you. I normally clip in to just one revolver but at the oz champs on the wekend i was made to clip into 2 due to bend radius.