Sirnick2

Pinto rigs are the bomb, i have 2 one on a meter stable braid dead eye and the other on a 2m, excellent for light rigging or redirects on the heavy stuff

Excellent idea with the big shot rubber holding the mini biner

Buy a positioner and be done with it

Petzl williams work really well

Where are you headed in OZ?

I couldn't imagine that setup in anything other than up and down climbing. I would hate to see the stress that setup would go through even on a tiny dead wood. That is why the bridge is a textile so it can twist and bend with out putting anything under stress. That is how the zigzag failed, the biner turning and levering the eye under weight. IMO you've turned what is an excellent harness into something that is way less versatile than what it is

I've used one and wasn't really impressed especially for an extra couple hundred grams you could be using a 192t

I've got heaps to tubular webbing laying around to, so when my leg loops are rooted i'm just gonna stitch up some new ones. Just any old cord is NOT suitable. I was reading another thread on the topic i think at TreeBuzz and the users of specific different cords were experiencing heavy wear and i recalled either i failure or close to it occurring

Just out of interest, why would you not replace it with the standard Globe 3000? Just to save a couple of bucks? If you get 6 months to a year out of a proper bridge that is money well spent to make sure you aren't going lose any chance of claiming against teufelberger if **** hit the fan and it failed.

I'm spewing, the Uni was my go to tool for SRT but when i was getting less than 10 months out of them financially it wasn't worth while. After trying the Hitch hiker i didn't get along with it to well, i'm happily flying a ZK2. But in my opinion the wear issue should have been addressed within a year of the Uni going to RE.

If in doubt i could also put a half hitch on it to lock it off. I modified it so i could tie it off or pull the tail up to choke it, like ficus's. I can't wait to use it, in theory it is so versatile.

I just don't let it rub against anything, i haven't been in a position where it was necessary to have it up against a branch

Ok, tired Ficus's idea but after realising that i had to be able to isolate every limb to set the redirect i went with my original plan. This is what i've come up with, 5m of 8mm sirus, a tri lock revolver and a 6mm OV thimble loop. I can chuck it up, hoist my climb line up and tie it off very quickly using a locked off horse knot or something else and to retrieve it, its as easy as just getting back to where it is tied and pulling it out. I'm yet to give it a good run to see what kind of forces i'll be putting on the redirect limb but i'm confident this will suit the purpose well.

Thats a heaps better idea ficus, i was looking to set mine by tying it off with in reach but i think i'll modify it to work like yours, thanks

Yeah for me it'd be SRT but if you added a double sheave pulley it could work Ddrt

Cheers TKO, I was worried no one would understand what I was trying to convey. I'll knock something up tomorrow and see how it flys

Hi all, I've been toying with this idea over the last week after dead wooding / pruning a large angophora with a huge spread but not a lot of height, I was finding rather than set a redirect (which would have been a pain in the ass to do) I'd save time and just muscle out to where I needed to go. I thought 'if i could just chuck my long lanyard into a high fork above me and use it to hoist my climbing line up, I could tie it off on the limb and effectively I'd have my redirect', just returning to where it's tied off to retrieve it instead of having to go back up to get it like a sling and 'biner redirect. So what I am thinking is an 8m long bit of 8mm cord with a revolver on one end and a termination on the other along with a mallion with a 5-6mm small prussik. You would climb the tree as normal setting your TIP and when it came time to set a quick redirect chuck one end of the 8mm cord through a high crotch above you, clip your climb line to the revolver (lanyarded in of course) slacken off your climb line, hoist it up to the crotch and tie the other end off or use the mallion with the prussik to lock it off. And hey presto you have your redirect. It might sound like a lot but realistically its not and could save a lot of effort setting up a quick redirect. I'm gonna knock one up tomorrow and take a few pics to give you guys a better visual.

Cheers Kevin, I got sick of trying to make one from rope and heat shrink even when I got it right the tether still had to much flex for me. I'm really stoked with this setup and the ZK2 is 100% perfect in design, so damn smooth!

Thought I'd share my ROBO-Tether I ran it today and it was fantastic, no slop what so ever, easy to take on and off and i reckon just as heavy as any other tether out there.

Or buy a harrison rocket which i believe is full of stainless shot

Buy a rope cleaner and let it soak on luke warm water, followed by a wash in the solution and a wash with plain water. You should be able to tell if there is oil still in rope. I put my ropes in the washing machine all the time, just chain them up and evenly lay them in the tub

Give vortex from samson a go excellent rope 1/2 inch not much bounce

Without spliced eyes an anchor bend works real nice as your termination knot, nice small and compact

How do i find it in ibooks? Also does it have anything about using a unicender with a backup?

Every tree i do is spikeless SRT and i'm way quicker than the rest of the blokes and can keep up when they are on spikes. Do you spike on line clearance work?