BenR
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Old mill, Take a long bight of rope.. Imagine its just the plain end of rope and tie a clove hitch around the branch. Lock it off with a couple of half hitches. Thats my understand of what dave is saying. Worcs, He has a ring loop, girth hitch it. Pop a bight of your climbing line through the ring and clip a biner into the bight. With that setup you could tie and alpine with the bight through the ring so as to just load the redirect only. Good thinking Ewan!
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Certainly will.. Will back up with a couple of half hitches with the bight of rope.
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My thoughts exactly!
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http://vtio.org.au/Content/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Working-the-Angles-i.pdf some more good reading on angles and vector forces for those who have not seen it before.
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We lowered some 1ton logs off a big sugar gum over in Oz last year. They were top roped, pre-tensioned and peeled off slowly using a tagline and inch thick lowering line on a huge rigging block. Having said that I wouldnt have been comfortable being in the tree for it as the rigging system wasnt matched properly. Its very easy to say that you can do something no problem and I was pretty confident that it would be fine. But the overloading of the strop for the rigging block is bound to be reducing the cycles to failure significantly. Great article posted by Richard there. Good reading for the go big and go home boys
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they are out now but you are only allowed them from the secret stockist if you have the husky kit bag and have never touched a stihl in your life! Sorry Mark..
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Keeps things simple. Will give that a try thanks Dave:thumbup1:
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For what its worth, I usually have a spliced e2e with a biner on my back. Works as a redirect, or a vt above the device for 3:1 or to use a second system by pulling up the tail(never needed to though). I also have a redirect lyon sling that doubles as a chest harness same as dan was saying.
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Yea i suppose its nice to hand over hand if the wrench sits lower.. I think there is about a half a hands width between the fully depressed wrench and my loaded hitch. I stick by the rule (rarely)
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Any idea if you will be able to get hitch hikers in anytime soon?
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certainly is a norfolk island pine, araucaria heterophylla. I should know I cut enough of the bloody things down in oz.. At least they are not spiky like Bidwillii and Araucana!
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Ive hit rope before and not cut all the way through, but saying that with a big saw you could go through a steel core pretty damn quick. Its no safer and gives you a false sense of security. Better off just being vigilant..
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unicenders and hitch hikers when you can Nice website.
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The wrench shouldn't touch your hitch when its in the neutral positon and your hitch takes all of your weight.. Just in case something lands on the wrench it doesn't send you flying out of the tree..
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Fair point WorcsWuss, after all we do have the by the book brigade to deal with!
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This is ridiculous.. the only way DdRT could be conceivably safer is in the scenario where you have someone experienced on DdRT trying SRT for the first time up a massive tree under time pressure to get the job done. Not knowing angle forces etc is the only real issue. Looks like someone high up in a position of influence needs to do some reading and thinking.. how embaressing for our industry as a whole. Getting back to the user manual issue though.. Its not life support so surely Dan is right, it doesnt need to be loler tested. Would be good to have mention of the appropriate type of tether to use for best function though.
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I often will use a short line with just a running bowline choked. Work my way back to it at the end and descend DdRT. Either that or use a longer line with a pulldown.
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If you want to use it srt and ddrt, there is your answer! Get the cougar blue
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Cougar blue is very good but I would wait for Ewan Murray to reply as he has both ropes..
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cinch hands down..
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Your opinions on the best ropes for SRT?
BenR replied to danholls's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Ive not tried globe, but htp is close enough to cable for me. Ive used it base anchored on 80m eucs in oz and there wasnt too much bounce compared to some of the cheaper 'static' ropes. Would love to try globe if its more static than htp. Strictly for access with ascenders. Work positioning I would want a bit more bounce. Cougar blue is amazing for that. My favourite all round rope. -
Your opinions on the best ropes for SRT?
BenR replied to danholls's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
American poison ivy or cougar blue would probably be best for SRTWP. Really static and a bit easier to grab. If its just SRT access sterling htp is super super static.. Im thinking about getting a length myself Ive run 10mm statics with the wrench and uni and they both work sweet. -
Set it looser than Kevins ahole and it should retrieve nicely.. That was always a personal nightmare of mine, getting a cambium saver stuck on kevs watch haha:lol:
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I'll buy that.. the only time I'll work off a base anchor is if there are only a couple of targets and I can set the "down leg" well away from where im cutting. Still very useful for quick jobs like clearing a hanger etc:001_smile:
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You will find the squeeze to descend really jumpy at first compared to the wrap method. But its really worth keeping at it. With (a lot of) practice i managed to get pretty smooth on it with either hand. At first it was like an on/off switch!
