DrewB
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Ive just been asked to be involved with this, http://www.amandasbigworldadventure.com/ 30 days in Chile seeing and climbing the old growth trees with adventurer Amanda Brown. Should be an amzing time!! and get big old trees into the media and appreciated
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Petzl will have the industry strength to get it specced- a company purchaser needs to get gear for a new climber but there are so many options OR gets a sequioa, zig zag, zillion, ok carabiners, petzl approved rope, vertex helmet. makes the gear buying a very easy choice. Im not saying i like it but all the gear is designed to work with each other, all rated etc i firmly believe its what will happen, same as CE climb from teufelber etc... pretty sure the manufacturers will be lobbying HSE to only allow gear that is designed to work with appropriate components. goodbye innovation. though i may just be being negative today
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use a crab with a captive eye
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dont judge til youve tried it....its a bloody great tool but just not for me. it will be become standard equipment very soon (if it doesnt break)
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exactly bro- no piece of gear is the best. if you like it, then its awesome. if you dont, you just dont. snd thats what is great about tree climbing
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Had a play on the new zig zag and zillion- yeah there good but still prefer hitch and hc, and cinch.
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current setup... lets see yours! RW
DrewB replied to Sam Smith's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
still in US sam but fly back to nz today-27hr flight. -
That's all demo gear, try before you buy. Lot cheaper to have stitched goods to trial and play with than hand splices. I splice commercially at Treetools and the stitching is done by shift2 stitching. V handy having it all there to play with, make up new ideas etc
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i dont have one bro but there is one at the shop where i splice. I hands down think splices are waay nicer but on cost you cant beat stitches-there just damn ugly.
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yeah its stitched as its dynamic. tbh though, stitching is cheaper also.
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heres the footlock prussic ive had made. went down a modular route so parts are replaceable. can be used as secondary cambium saver, the AP can be used as second friction hitch, mid line anchor, the dynamic rope is suuuuper stretchy to absorb a shock load and the ap is the heat resistance. clipping in to the ring makes descending heaps easier too..
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SRT base anchors and rescue anchors
DrewB replied to Adam Bourne's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
i think base ties generally cause more issues than solutions. i can see the point for initial ascent purely as it makes throwlining simpler but for working i really cant stand them. too much bounce, hate the disconcerting feeling when slack has got into the back side of the rope, too easy to cut whilst pruning and easy to stand above your TIP making you not tied in to anything. Of course, this is a generalisation and times will be when they are awesome. like when just rremoving a hanger or so.. -
current setup... lets see yours! RW
DrewB replied to Sam Smith's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
This is the setup i use. just got some of the newer 10mm beeline and it works real well too.
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Hey David, sorry in the slow response! i use a panasonic GX1 3/4 sensor and Dak uses a -i cant remember tbh! CNN just ran a feature on us by the way- heres the link Ain't no tree high enough: Climbing Africa's leafy summits - CNN.com
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Been away from the 'talk from a while but things have just been super crazy busy and facebook is just a time eater.... Heres a few pics from our travels and climbs in South Africa so far this year with more adventures planned for 2014.. hope you enjoy... Flickr: ExploreTrees' Photostream
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Congrats bro! Something about the x over/ bury looks a tad funky though- perhaps the taper is a tad blunt? I've never splice that rope though so can't say for sure. But still, good effort man:)
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Just buy SIP progress. No issues whatsoever with them. Well for me anyway.
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C'mon Matt, keep up- the washing basket lid ya fool!!!!!!
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Curved mount and get the optional low profile mounting bracket, makes it sit a lot lower on the helmet. You can always use the elastic head strap too, it fits under the vertex head lamp clips
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there already available at treetools bro
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cant splice dynamic rope bro
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this is mine
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I've got a 4m edeldrid flashlight dynamic lanyard running through a cinch. Normally have about 1.5m-2m daisy chained up out of the way. A small yachting Clevis hold is out of the way, 1 pull and it all opens up. And also a 6mm globe prussic to single line the lanyard when needed.
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late 2013 for NZ apparently....
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would be interesting to see the results of drop tests of dynamic v's non dynamic on a cinch-when used as a lanyard (not as a belay point). just googled it and found this: Our experience showed that if the same test is performed using low stretch rope in the Cinch, the device is likely to fail, not that the rope will be severed. Trango have communicated clearly in their user instructions i.e. that dynamic lines should be used. There is an increased risk to the user if low stretch lines are adopted, both in terms of higher arrest forces and device failure. 2 metres is a very large fall (which in trees is unlikely to be obstacle free), and 7.4kN is an arrest force that may not be survivable. Just because our gear may be able to endure these tests unscathed, it doesn't mean that humans can. Better to identify and manage 'potential fall distance' i.e. minimise slack. TreeMagineers
