Al Duffill

Dam all your guys lanyards are nice clean in shiny!Does anyone climb in the rain?My thing is minging at the moment,have time to give it a quick brush off before the next tree and that's about it!

Hey Paul, it doesn't rain in the UK,ever,lol.

I use 5m of XTC 13mm(from one of me old climbing ropes), 10mm blakes hitch with a Petzl Oscillante pulley but have just ordered 5m Blaze, DMM Pinto pulley and O krab with VT of Ocean Poly. Sweet.

Had a great day at APF, took all day to walk around, may come back Saturday to hone in take more notice of things that took my eye ( I live local) Pity you had no small t-shirts tho. Any beer left in the raffle basket,haha?! All the best

Nice one, will see you on Thursday

Ok cool, good suggestions, will run them by my colleagues, I had read diluted bleach is ok. As we can't leave the timber where it is, d'ya reckon we could chip it and remove from site or would that be a no no?

Jeyes fluid does have a weird smell doesn't, dunno if I could walk around with me boots all Jeyed up, good suggestion tho, readily available to.

Hi all,

What do you use to disinfect your saws with, we have an Oak with Acute Oak Decline to dismantle and disinfecting tools is recommended by the FC using Virkon, ethanol or Lysol, I would be interested in other products you use to clean your tools and boots with, especially more natural products.

Cheers

Is it leaning roadside,bit confused here, if you think it maybe a danger, car jacking or a vehicle hitting it then get in touch with ur local council. Gd luck.

What do you define as "work". My definition of work would be keeping you from hitting the deck. A hitch does a fine job of that without a wrench.

Jumping in here,not read all the posts. That is exactly my thoughts, the RW is a friction device to keep you from burning out hitch cord, if for some reason the RW became unusable you could still descend safely, no probs. Not ppe imo.

I use this as my main attatchment with tachyon, when not using the eye, and for my XTC lanyard. I also use it to attatch a blakes hitch to krabs, I love it, it has never let me down. Oh yeah, i also use it to tie my throw line to the bag and then line to rope to haul up n over, I use it a lot I guess. I do know how to tie other hitches and knots,honest!

Good tip from Trees_

Haha, nah bro, keep that for private viewing, $20 a video if you're interested. Seriously though, Drew had a pic up on facebook of one of his mates using a bike inner tube for a chest sling to connect to the wrench to help pull it up. I'm having problems getting used to the lanyard over the shoulder thing and almost half strangled myself with it the other day along with getting it caught in my ear defenders and not being able to adjust it properly. Plus I don't like the idea of having to keep taking it off and then putting it back on everytime you want to ascend. The inner tube can stay on throughout the climb leaving the lanyard for its orginal purpose and it sits snug against your chest. Drew might be good enough to post the photo sometime, eh Drew?

Same with me, I find it uncomfortable, so was thinking of the lnner tube instead. Guess you just throw a tube over y' shoulder ( TOYS, another acronym to remember,ha) . It would have to be snug so being a light weight a MTB tube would be to loose and thick ( just tried one on, had a spare in the cupboard,like y'do) . Could chop it or get a kids tube. Never thought I'd be writing about wearing an inner tube, lol

That's it I'm converted, had my first go on a RW today on a oak reduction, did one quarter on my SJ then after a quick coffee break setup the RW and took it for a spin, and I'm not going back it was awesome, messed about abit with the length of the lanyard and got it working well,

also played with a few redirects and installed a RADS system with a kong duck and micro pulley but soon gave that up as I found it easier to just come back in normally, just need to tinker about with ascending and TIP methods and there'll be no stopping me haha

Awesome.

I did my first full SRT/RW today, what can i say that hasn't already been said!? Freedom!!!! I was moving around the crown of an Oak like I never have, it feels so natural. As with Marcus, returning from branch walking was no probs. Re-directed a couple of times,sweet. I too need to work on more efficient ascending and TIPs and base anchors and ........... This is a whole new ball game:thumbup: Now I have re-read the whole post as it will make so much more sense,haha.

Many thanks for all the positve posts and to Kevin

Any old tat will do Paul.

I bought some cord from a DIY store (B+Q, other DIY stores are available:biggrin:) that does the job nicely, quality tat:001_smile:

Tis the termination I used for ages then switched to the Anchor hitch and still use it. As for uncliping the Anchor,I don't, I un-tie it, advance the line, tie back on,easy. What benefits are you thinking of?

Ditto the above, happy days

Cool, look forward to see how you get on. Shall have a little play time this week to

There's plenty of stuff on YouTube to see y' thru and on the search option on this forum, once you get used to the VT/pulley system you will be amazed, but take it easy whilst getting used to it, as with all new systems, low and slow. Go for it

Girth hitch on the RW and DMM oval clipped into the top hole of a Hitchclimber worked with HB cord here.

 

I'll have a measure tomorrow and let you know, if I get a chance.

Cool, Iv'e made up a new tether tonight, you must have had the deluxe tether, only one krab to make it work

What is the shortest tether in use? (how short is a piece of string? lol)

yeah, try a longer cord. it specifically says not to do that in the instructions, i think it can be pretty dangerous!

 

did yours not come with a cord?

I had a little play with my RW today and found out that the cord supplied from HB is way too short, had to add 2 krabs for it to work, gonna make new cord up at least twice the length. The original cord is about 21 cm from the attatchment point on RW, new one will have to be about 40 cm. Does that sound about right ?

For anyone that hasn't used the RW yet (or is) there's a good article in ARB Climber about it, a new magazine that I bought when i ordered my RW, great read all around (new thread maybe?).

Ive got a few days off work, so will start to make my transition to SRT/RW on some Limes I reccied today:thumbup1:

The SRT seed has germinated and got RW today, here goes!

What a learning curve this thread is, sometimes a little hard to get me head around but enlightening Ive gone from wanting to make a rope walker set up for Drt about a week ago( which I posted about) to ordering a RW,that I got today, and can't wait to try out SRT. Slow n Low to start, there's alot to take in. I would prefer to see the whole set up live, ie, a demo or rec climb, but am positive I'll sort it out. I climb on Tachyon with a HC/VT set up, the RW/SRT seems the natural progression to take

Nice footage, page 43, and a cool sound track Tis the way forward me thinks

Go back a page or two to look at Ian Flatters video of two guys up a tree. Very useful.

Just realised how wrong that sounds!

LOL, just when I thought I had finished with this thread you go and make me start it again!

Great thread peeps, got to page 16 then jumped here:biggrin: I will be getting a RW for sure and play around with it on a few rec climbs before using it at work. Exciting times, thanks for sharing your knowledge

Ok, lots to bear in mind, thanks guys. SRT is something I never think about, but now a seed has been planted