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To be honest, what Dan has shown there is probably better to start with.. More fingers on the rope to slow you down!

If you want to kick out and drop onto a limb. Just go in brown pants mode and hold it open as long as you can lol. You'll soon hit a limb haha

Im using cougar blue with because I like quite a static rope. Some like Dan and Ian prefer the bounce of some tachyon. Can't stand it myself. I think its pretty tough to be super smooth on the uni, I know i can move a lot smoother without thinking about it on a wrench. But with some practice you can pull off all the same tricks.

Hi Joe, As Dan said having not all of your weight on the uni when starting out full chat on a limbwalk helps. I tend to use Dan's hand position when i have no weight in the rope and just want to walk out on a limb and create slack quickly. If i want a smooth release when fully weighted full chat, I put my palm on the bottom bar squeeze the top with index and second finger. This kind of leaves the other two to sort of add a bit of friction to the rope. It really does take a delicate touch though on 11mm. 11.5/7 is sweet, self tends well and isn't quite as jumpy. Coming back in clip up to chest harness/bungee, if there is enough rope weight you can just hand over hand above the uni. If not one up one down.

Looks smart Tony. Ive found the petzl william gives me the most room overall. HMS is the best shape when having to squeeze a tether in too. Cramming it all into an Oval just for the sake of being able to invert is not good IMO. The loading is spread out over too large an area and not against the spine enough I think. HMS Just makes more sense. DdRT on the other hand, with just a hitch cord to fit in, Ovals all the way

Hi Tony, Just wondering what sort of height you can get with 8oz and a bigshot with a trigger. A couple of friends and I are off to Indonesia climbing trees in the rainforest. We are not allowed a crossbow apparently so its the bigshot and a trigger. We were hoping for 50m shots.

With a bit of practice full chaff is controllable one handed. Takes a bit of sensitivity though. Or use a slightly fatter rope..

Its pretty fast on a ropeguide in full chaff mode! Even faster single line full chaff Its basically freefall!!

I never needed any of my kit loler tested in aus. Inspect it yourself and use common sense.

Works nicely DdRT if you pull into the top of it like a spiderjack with 11mm rope

Croll + bungee. Then push your legs straight beneath you in an alternating fashion. Hold your body upright on the line by grabbing just the hand ascender or the line and hand ascender. Keep your body up right as much as possible. Pointing your toes down when you step down helps keep your legs pushing directly below you and minimises pantin pop outs. If you find the pantin is still popping off practice or if its the old type pantin you can pop an accessory biner of the right size in the hole to stop the cam opening and the pantin coming off the line. One you get all the tethers, elastics and footloops the right lengths you should have a pretty efficient system. Hope this helps

www.wetweathergear.com.au Robline is made be teufeulberger and is the same rope. I would imagine its cheaper to buy it off a sailing website than buy a tree motion "replacement bridge" Ive got about 3 meters of the red 10mm globe 3000 kicking about in the shed just in case

Its not just water. Keep the salts up too! Banana (potassium) Salted peanuts (Sodium). I usually have some peanuts in the pocket of my camelpack

To be honest I don't think the original red ring was designed to rip away. Its the chainsaw strop that is designed to break. Coleman is exactly right, people shouldnt be using a rope for a tool strop.

Hi Nod, I would like to get along for a DB session if I'm not abroad when the date comes round. Thanks mate.

Vortex is pretty static and fat in the hand. Would be interesting to see how it ran a worn Uni!

Nice video Dan! Enjoy that sun mate!

Yea mate!! It was awesome! I think a lot of the guys were keen to go again...

Yea I think Ian enjoyed it more than she did!!!

Just thought I would post a few teasers from the trip to The Gambia:001_cool:

Supersafe!!

The sling in the spiderjack would only see half the load in a shockload situation. Plus there is all the rope in the system to provide stretch. Would be a different story if its only a piece of dyneema sling taking the fall. Like in the video. Plus you have some flex in your anchor too. Im pretty confident you will be fine with the dyneema on the spiderjack:biggrin:

I would like to hear one good reason why SRWP is not allowed in competitions.. I cant think of any decent reason why it is not safe.. To be quite honest I find it ridiculous that the powers that be won't/don't allow things that they don't understand. Ive seen judges at last years Victoria TCC looking at Ewan's wrench setup and taking the piss about it in each others ears.. Oddly Ewan was up to the casualty faster than all the DdRT people. Which in the reality of a real rescue is surely one of the most important things.. GRRRR

Multiple limbs will spread the load. Have a read of working the angles. http://vtio.org.au/Content/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Working-the-Angles-i.pdf Its also thinking about which direction you are pulling the limbs and the force you are putting through them. Say you are redirecting at the same height as you original TIP. That gives you about a 90 degree bend in your line. 90 degrees equals 1.41 times the force you are putting on the line. If that redirect is set up in the same fashion as nick mentioned (essentially a base anchor in the tree as a redirect) then you are adding on the force (dependant on the angle of the redirect sling) onto the force that is already present. I think thats what Dave was getting at, unless I have completely misunderstood what was going on. If you add onto that pulling a branch on its weak axis, you could quite easily snap a redirect that may have taken your weight on a straight pull directly down.