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Bridge is still in good shape, just discolored from climbing in the winter/rain. The system is so you don't have to tend slack, yes there is simpler ways to climb, but the dogtag means you dont have to hold your weight with one arm, and pull slack with another. Beginner ways to climb, but the average here in North America. The only way to simplify without pulling slack, would be using a micro pulley with 3 eyes, throw line and a dogtag is far easier/cheaper to acquire. Also the red tail is just an eye to eye I made, no splicing, just some double fishermans, didn't need to fork out the extra 30$ for an eye I only use with this method. One end is sewn together to keep it from fraying. When is the last time you saw a fisherman fail from the tail? Never.

There is a couple different setups you can use to make the hitch self-tend, this is the variation I use, I normally rock the distel or swabish, but anything will do. It's tough to see what tends the slack, it's a piece of throwline prusic'd about 2 feet above your termination knot, with a dog tag clip, which then attaches to a micropulley below your friction hitch, instead of through the same biener that attaches to the eye to eye. The red rope is just so you go further per pull, more leverage. Sorry for the quality of the shots, I got the girlfriend to climb in my gear, she took the pics. Loved every second of it, lol.

Yeah it did drag at times, newer to video editing, still haven't got the concept of isolating parts of smaller clips, and first job back of the year, crew isn't as fluent as we left off. As for checking my underwear, damn near, that was some very awkward positioning with the lanyard, pretty much forced me to cut right next to it, based on where the split was, and how it was making a ram's horn. Backhandle 200t is my favorite climbing saw, I use a 192t tophandle usually though. Appreciate the feedback.

Thanks, it was awkward since I was one of the heavier guys in my class, had to do everything a little differently.

I finally got the vids from the client, of a job from a few weeks back. Some cool rigs in the video. Slow start, one of the first jobs of the year, groundmen had "the sun in their eyes" lol. Just sharing.

My system is identical to toprotter's, only I use a dogtag instead of a biener, and it's not attached to my other bieners. Makes it run cleaner, and less clutter. Looking forward to your pics Drew.

It's a not very known way of climbing in these parts, I have only met 2 other guys in my area who use this technique, sounds Europe is much more advanced in the art. It blew me away, is the O rig any different?

I threw together some pictures from our last fun job, from a couple weeks back. This maple had a cavity and split in one of it's main leaders, only it was leaning above someone's house. While we rigged it all out, the homeowner took some pictures, and e-mailed them to me. They missed the first half of the canopy, but it's still a cool set of shots. I had a pic from this up in the picture thread the other day, of me waiting for a saw. There was a cool solar flare in it.

I was hoping around youtube, looking for new methods of climbing, an found an awesome variation of mine, I thought it was worth sharing. YouTube - Anchor Bridge Climbing System I use a piece of throwline above my fishermans, with a dog snap on it to hold my micro pulley in place, below my distel. With an extra eye to eye on my biener, with another biener on that. To add more length per pull, I might have to draw up some pictures, it is tough to explain. Same mechanic as the video though, don't need to pull slack at all.

So last week, I was taking down this huge split limb, above a family's house, when we were about halfway through the job, the homeowner comes home, and starts taking some pictures. I was surprised how well a couple of them turned out, one specifically, It was way bigger than it looks, isn't that always the case though? haha Anyways, just sharing. More to the point though, what's the best shot you guys have while at work?

Thanks for the welcome! Yeah, most of us weren't in good shape for that, 11th week of school, middle of winter, so any climbing any of us did do was just recreational, aside from Lil' Jon, who is just a god damn machine, literally 10 minutes faster than my time. Pays to be 5'5 and 160 pounds. lol After everyone watched their videos, they all swore they could do better, like in mine where I spend 5 damn minutes overall fiddling with my lanyard. I was pretty pissed off at that, lol. Best way to learn is watching yourself climb though. When the clock is running, you climb different than you normally would.

Hey guys, Arborist hailing from Ontario Canada here, looking to share and learn with you all. I just finished off my in school advanced year, and for our practical climbing test, we were lucky enough to have a couple of tech savy guys around, to record, edit and put some of our climbs on youtube. I thought since I can't find many competition climbing videos online, others may have the same problem. I did the editing myself, hope you guys like them. (although there is only 5 videos of about 15 guys, the 15 minute cutoff point of youtube is pretty limiting, and not everyone wanted their vid online) Lil' Jaaan's climb [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTSHIB9Snk&feature=relmfu]YouTube - Lil Jaaan Climbing Exam[/ame] Nate's Climb [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNTc25yKmE&feature=relmfu]YouTube - Nate Climbing Exam[/ame] My climb. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4rp_j4nFk&feature=channel_video_title]YouTube - Chris Climbing Exam[/ame] Brock's Climb [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuhaLaJ1Fg&feature=relmfu]YouTube - Brock Climbing Exam[/ame] Dave's Climb [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrpG-b0tJc&feature=related]YouTube - Dave Climbing Exam[/ame] The climb itself was about 50 feet, under the tie in point, so no true angle of deflection. Once at the top we were marked on using our lanyard, saftey procedures (like calling have an eye, or all clear), and other aspects of fluency. 3 bell checkpoints, and a pretty easy limbwalk. No uncontrolled swings. Fun to have little exams or competitions like this, even if it's just a sunday off with your crew, makes a good drinking game, or practice. Enjoy