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http://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Rock-Climbing-Equipment/Slings-Extenders/Extenders/3F-Dog-Bone-Single-Item-GRI-DB5 yes somehow a stiff tether is better. It doesn't flop around so much. Rope damage aside I do not advise clipping into the wrench with an ascender or a chest harness. My feeling is that the wrench does not hold much of a climbers weight. If the ascender slips through leaf matter or if a pantin pops off, both highly possible, the climbers weight would bring the wrench down onto the hitch. Keep off the wrench for ascent. I take mine off these days.

Hello. I have taken a fair few kids and adults rec. climbing over the past couple of years. I trained with TCI and became qualified to run sessions using the three knot system plus footloop plus safety knots. Safety knots are an inverted marlin spike that the climber adds in under their footloop as they ascend, every metre or so. Very small kids have difficulty with the hitch and a rads system with pulley set at tip is very easy for them. There is no descent fail safe here. If you are taking just a couple climbing then you will be able to manage that risk. I agree with Pedroski, it is nicer for the kids to climb the tree. I have been using a hauling system these days. Setting a petzl traxion or mini traxion at the tip and letting climbers haul ass. Its so simple simple and gives them the sense to swing and grab and climb the tree. A climber has to be up top of course to release the cam and belay them back down.

Hi Reg, I take it you are a contract climber and cutter still, nice of you to take the time and show those guys and great to see your enthusiasm still. What do they serve at break? Do you miss tea and biscuits? Thanks Reg, nice one!

what a great photo!

....milled from a single block of aluminium....?

Creosote.....sounds awful. Wash the rope. Many climbers use 8mm cord, just make sure it is rated and constructed for the job...ie Arborist Hitch Cord.

Oh hell yeah. Paul, I remember for a short while, with my Uni, trying out a snap on my chin strap. I miss how easily the Uni glides up the rope. Wrench is still better though !

Rope Hook This looks like a sleek solution when yr tail keeps getting in the way of spinning rigged wood. I'm getting one!

I clip into the top karabiner on my HC to hoik the wrench up hands free. It's just a loopie with a snap gate....very comfortable and light.

Hello, I thought I would share this, apologies if it has been covered. The Rope Rocket with Rope Wrench. http://db.tt/CxnygFeo http://db.tt/qZrDWPBT It is amazing.....you should all try it. For those that have not seen it......footloop from an ascender, mini traxion and tibloc shown here, bungee from ascender, through bridge ring (can run it through a pulley) and clipped onto pantin. It feels totally different from a frog walking style set-up and it is brilliant.

Well....it's not as interesting as all that but it made me chuckle for a few days and it was an interesting job. Home owner left three trees cut for two months.....very skinny and fairly tall, coastal wind.....just cant believe they were still standing! I picked them whole with a grcs and laid them down as gentle as a baby. http://db.tt/aPedwWsp

Trunk Anchor and Trunk Belay are two different concepts. Those newer to srt can be overjoyed at the seemingly obvious rescue aspect. I now of only one srt rescue...a climber was lowered while ascending as he got caught in a swarm of wasps. I have personally climbed, it may be hundreds by now, of trees that have been made safer and easier because of my Trunk Anchor and single line that compressed and shared my climbing forces. We need a massive bag of tricks to truely work safely. It can be a ******* pain sometimes.

Marcus-Arb, my gut instinct tells me that a groundsman should be up a pre installed line sharpish to check on the climber. It is very well imagining a plumb belay but you are right, a trees morphology is complex. There is not one solution, or two or three etc.

Who climbs DOWN a tree?! And I'm sure that we all combine rope and tree climbing for up and out directions. The 3 d aspect is what makes our systems so frustratingly complex! Long live the (non ce'd) wrench!!

Maybe someone can put together a sticky of do's and dont's for new wrench users. Like if your loler inspector starts throwing ridiculous european article's at ya then DO get a new loler inspector. I can recommend some good un's!

When I take people, non-professionals, tree climbing, I use the three knot system. Their anchor point is low and strong and they tie additional slip knots, every metre as they climb. It is a great and safe system for beginners *and if you came into arb climbing with vt's and footlocking You may be surprised at just how different it is. I would never recommend it for professionals though. For production work it just sucks big time. In the seven years that I have been climbing there have been so many changes...most of them advancements in my mind, the rope wrench being one of those. I don't see why the wrench has to be offered as a configured bona fide system. Who the hell wants to be obliged to climb on one type of hitch cord, with one type of tether with one style of ascent etc etc. You see, there are so many options with the wrench. How many pages are there on the wrench now? It proves that users are being responsible about it. There are some highlightable safety concerns but they have been highlighted throughout the discussions. God damn it though there are safety concerns, maybe more safety concerns with other climbing systems. A loosely tied hitch within the ce ddrt system still has the ability to not grab. Having a ce configured test does not make it 'safe'. I applaud you rope wrench users! Long live the wrench!!

If you dont mind bashing the ground and bottom of the trunk but need to keep the pieces from bouncing away, for example on a slope or with shrubs or buildings around, the vertical speedline is a fast solution. The rope can be attached with a running bowline to the spar so doesn't need to be untied after each piece. Attach sling or slings to said chunk, clip to vertical speed line, attach to friction device and you are away.

Oh no, was the climber pushed to do this, what a shame. It looks like in-experience bit them on the ass. If tied just below balance point and cut with thick tapering hinge piece would have post stretched the rigging line and then tips would fall away from climber. Piece would have moved slower. Still a high risk move though. A move like this on a portawrap is complex, much easier with grcs or other such lifting tools. Is the climber OK, that was a hell of a clonk?

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Best I came up with was 30" armor prus eye2eye tied into michocan...5 wraps if memory serves. Quite different from yours. I climb on poison hivy. God damn it. Annoying yet interesting!

Ill try it tomorrow ) Still skeptical though... I need to reassure myself that the hitch will grab if a slip is taken when ascending.

Ill take that back...too short to splice me thinks.