browncow

High 20s!! Fark you lot must be cooking. Its winter here in Western Australia and we are having mid 20 degree days:001_tt2:

Where do you get the bungee cord from mate?

Hey mate, I am in Australia so not much help to you but I get it from 'Clark Rubber'. They are a wholesale rubber supplier and you can buy the bungee cord off a roll by the meter.

The stuff I use is about 10-12mm thick and is a bitch to insert into the rope.

Heres a couple of pics of a soft-eye pulley saver I just knocked up. I used to make them with hose over the outside of the eye but lately have been using rubber bungee cord like whats used for the big-shot and it works a treat - retrieves every time and no chance of unseen wear inside the rope like when wire rope is used as a stiffener.

Mint video mate, how tall were they?

Cheers bro, the tallest on this site were around 60m. The scary bit is the top 20 of that is all dead

I am shite at filming and worse at editing but heres a bit of a vid of some work we did last week. The job was removing the large dead heads from Karri and Tingle trees above a road.

36m and died over about 1month. We will crane the stems out next week- major road closure in downtown for that! I climb on tachyon and guy is climbing on donaghys cougar..

Why not snatch it down and avoid the road closure?

Hi Guys, thanks heaps for the ID. @ David, yeah really interesting trees for 'body language', this tree is in Southwest Australia where they are native to. @ Andy, yep bought the app, cheers it looks good.

Howdy, can anyone ID these fruiting bodies, please:biggrin:

10mm climbing line must be a bitch. My hands are at the stage where I am wishing for a 25-30mm climbing line

Man reading all this jazz about loler/H&S and what not makes me glad I live in Western Australia. Whilst I'm sure we will go that way eventually I am ******* glad we aren't there yet!!

What happens if you splice your own ropes? Does that fail loler if you are not a factory certified splicer?

I have been climbing on blue tongue for two years its a great rope once it's worn in. I've just bought a length of the new Yale rope arrow frog which is the same rope with slightly less stretch. It seems like a nice rope and well worth a look too.

Hey mate, the load can certainly be spread over one or more redirects to lessen the load on any one rigging point. Whether this is practical is up to you/the tree/your team....

Even if two redirects are level with each other as you mentioned, the force exerted on either rigging point is less than it would be with only one rigging point due to opening up of the angles and lessening the mechanical advantage.

Just like when you set up a SRT line with a base tie to access the tree, if you run the rope parallel to itself and tie off you will exert a force of twice your weight on the anchor. However if you run the tail end of the rope off at an angle and tie it off to an adjacent tree then by opening the angle you have lessened the mechanical advantage and are now placing less than twice your body weight on the anchor point.

'No not at all. It is designed and advertised as a belaying device for rock climbers only. People do use them in rope access because they are handy but if mr IRATA came along he would'nt be very impressed!'

Thats interesting, my local arb supplier here in Australia stocks petzl gear - but is only allowed to stock gear which is designed for commercial use - He doesn't sell the grigri as that is recreational gear but does stock the rig and ID.

Good point about the fact that the chest ascender is designed to be uded in conjunction with a hand ascender hence the four movements to disconnect the line

Agree that in say the competition world it doesn't stand up to the triple-action standard but in the real world, and bear in mind i use mine for descent only - not work positioning - it is fine.true true bro but its in the catalouge for work positioning

 

Yeah but isn't it designed and advertised for industrial rope access work? I was under the impression that they always worked with two separate rope systems anyhoo?

 

While we are on the topic, what about toothed ascenders like the croll and hand ascenders. They only require two movements to open the cam, same as the rig?

I agree bro but just wondered how it stands with everything having to be triple action thats all..

Agree that in say the competition world it doesn't stand up to the triple-action standard but in the real world, and bear in mind i use mine for descent only - not work positioning - it is fine.

Also as said above, it does have a hole for installing a locking pin.

sweet, job done, tree's on the deck:lol:

Just went and bought me a Rig. Awesome bit of kit. Having been using an ID this seems just as smooth and way smaller. Also being able to load the line without taking the rig off the harness is sweet.

does it work ok on the 11.7mm double braids that are common in tree work?

How does the grigri 2 go on long descents on single line? I have been using an ID for descending big trees but looking into a grigri2 to make it a bit (lot) more lightweight and compact. Is the grigri 2 jerky like the original grigri on long descents?

nice work bro

If you have the gear and the guy/gal is not a completely usless fat bugger then rigging up a srt system that can be lowered from the ground works well. Then get the photographer to ascend using the sit/stand srt method and lower him down when he is done.

Horses for courses bro. I like the 10mm beeline and found it goes sweet on imori. Hitch-cord is cheap enough, buy a few metres of different types and play around.

Yeah I am sure anything is possible but I run a pretty long lanyard around 6m so it is not that common to use the whole length and I am pretty aware when I am getting close to the end.

Having said that I will do a little test and see if I can get the splice to run through the cinch and let ya know.

From what I understand its a carby mod thats needed to fix this saws problems, particularly the bogging at low revs.

then i think the fault lies in not taking the right amount of ropes for the tree in question. BUT in the cast that happened, ill just do that again. But seriously, if your doing big trees than take big ropes

I am climbing some big trees (80m +) in a couple weeks. Its only my second time working in these monsters so any input would be appreciated.

We generally only have one rope on site long enough to hit our first anchor point (60 plus m) and come back to the ground. Any lowering of a climber on this setup has to be done by adding ropes into the system.

I know its not ideal, and I would rather we had longer and more ropes but the system we use just involves trunk wraps on a small understorey tree prior to tying off the tail of the rope to be ascended on. Then more ropes can be added as and when needed. We also have a prussik as a back up below the trunk wraps.

Any probs with this set-up?