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  1. kevin bingham
    All you need is one hitch and then footlock. Most basic SRT setup I know of. Figure eight to descend. Arborist a have been doing it that way for years
  2. kevin bingham
    No ce for now. Still haven't gotten a good explanation of what that even means.
  3. kevin bingham
    You can but you need to incorporate a tether from the runner carabiner to the spliced end ofthe line so the carabiner does not entangle in the runner and disengage it. Works well in this format but it requires a little bit of set up to be safe. It was not designed with ddrt in mind. I had to force myself to climb a tree ddrt to see if it would work. Painfully slow but the runner did fine.
  4. kevin bingham
    I just wear my pantin on my boot and my gaffs fit right over the top. I never thought wearing spikes and a pantin at the same time was a problem that needed to be solved. Maybe there is something more. He didn't even show his prototypes.
  5. kevin bingham
    Man I couldn't imagine climbing without one. Anything else is when a base tie just doesn't work. That bounce is a good thing! I like dropping down to the next limb without even touching my hitch and then to go back up I jump and its like a trampoline. Bouncy bouncy. When I go home at night I still can feel it.
  6. kevin bingham
    What kind of ascender is tht on your knee?
  7. kevin bingham
    On the stff tether, you want to cinch it right up tight to the wrench and if you can put a bumper of some kind so it doesn't flop on you would be best
  8. kevin bingham
    Very nice!
  9. kevin bingham
    They are only rated for work positioning on a double line which means that they require the friction from the anchor point to work. But they also supply some friction on their own but they just don't really work on a single line without the aid of something like a wrench. I haven't taken a good look at the new zz. My experience was with the old zig zag and only kn an indoor tree at a trade show. It seemed to work awesome. I think petzl is very aware that many people will be incorporating a wrench. I believe though that if they wanted to just incorporate another zig or zag that the device would probably work just fine SRT without additional friction.
  10. kevin bingham
    the trial pruoduction run almost is done but the details will put this toward the end if January.
  11. kevin bingham
    When you descend ddrt, the descent device is the limb that your rope is over, lockjacks, zig zag, and hitches are really only ascent devices. A rope wrench is like a descent device to work with your ascent device so you don't need the limb. I have found a zig zag + a wrench To be really really smooth.
  12. kevin bingham
    Yeah I think a Blake's would be fine. carrying around an extra Prussic isn't a big deal though. I have also just marlin spiked the line and clipped into that. It is not adjustable though and therefore can be a bit awkward.
  13. kevin bingham
    Yeah I like that hitch. Looks nice and tidy.
  14. kevin bingham
    [ame] [/ame] Right at the beginning I show I to through a redirect when I don't really want to lanyard into and put my entire weight on the limb I'm redirecting through. This trick has been very usefull.
  15. kevin bingham
    Friction hitches have friction every time you fight friction you are losing energy. Elimination of friction is the name if this game. The zig zag with a rope wrench the one time I tried it was a dream on SRT.
  16. kevin bingham
    No Petzl USA gave this presentation at the TCIA conference and I snapped a screed shot. I think it was very informative and it made me want to put a load meter on my climbing system. I think that it would be really interesting for everyone to know. You could have it go directly to your cell phone and record the loads you put on certain parts of the tree during a climb
  17. kevin bingham
    Honestly I believe that it depends on how sloppy a climber you are. In this non scientific preliminary study, they used one climber going up and down the rope in a standard normal way. The drop tests were done in a tower.
  18. kevin bingham
    Basic up and down movement while climbing.
  19. kevin bingham
    This a bit more clear
  20. kevin bingham
    Interesting
  21. kevin bingham
    Here is a redirect I used in a removal. It's retrievable by just flipping it.
  22. kevin bingham
    Anything over 30m or 100 feet is huge in my book. Not often I get above 50 feet here in day to day work.
  23. kevin bingham
    It stands for haul ass ascent system. The package has a logo of a donkey on it. The guys name is Michael frankenhauser
  24. kevin bingham
    With a canopy tie, the pull ends up often being across the wood grain,especially with a redirect. with a base tie, I find it easier to orient the force in line with the wood grain.
  25. kevin bingham
    You've said that before and I don't understand because the reason I use base ties is precisely because it allows me higher access into the canopy. I am not sure if srt would even be worth it without the base tie. The redirects I use in this tree would not be possible without a base tie. Having a base tie also allowed my ground guy to add additional line into the system. This required another line being tied onto my 200 footer. [ame] [/ame]

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