Mr. Squirrel

OP thimble loop used 8mm cord and a larger thimble. I’m fairly sure it needs the red retrieval cone which won’t pass through a small pinto.

Dunno like... Looks like a rebranded Jiang su ropes and belts offering.

As in , screw into the grey webbing? Seems a bit strange to be poking holes in the load bearing webbing? I thought these were just a moveable termination, allowing you to shorten webbing if it was too long.

Depends on configuration, the thimble loop can absolutely be a piece of life support though and it's definitely correct for it to be LOLER'd. You're right though, it's a thinner cord, might even be 6mm ocean dyneema, it also has a 2 year lifespan rather I believe.

He’s on holiday, not working 😂 Heard plenty of bad press about the tree motion pro, I’d rather pay the extra for a well made product. Lifespan on my TM evo is five years, I’m pretty sure these are ten . After ten years it’ll be better value for money. I’ll wait for the non adjustable bridge version though.

Using the same stuff they give you for treemotion gear loops is a little more streamlined 😉 been running one for 5 years now, works very well and is tidy. No copper pipe on mine 😂

While not a particularly large tree, it sounds like this is beyond your experience and abilities. I’d suggest ringing someone who knows what they’re doing rather than making the situation worse or getting yourself hurt.

I caused root plate failure of a 25cm alder and a similar sized lime using them as winching anchors while pulling logs around. Separate occasions. The lime was in waterlogged soil while the alder was in about 10cm of soil on top of hard core. I’ve anchored onto little bushes and the likes plenty though. Soil and roots play a massive part.

When was that? Because arborisk whacked up all their premiums a few years ago regardless. Mine doubled at renewal for no reason and I went to trust too.

There are loads of big old trees in Cologne. In Germany they have a classification of tree that translates as something like ‘nature monument’, like veterans basically. In Cologne the city takes on the management of all these trees, whether they’re on private or public land. I worked in that contract for a company and we were going at it for months. Cemeteries in particular seem too have a load of trees round there. The red oaks, plane trees and poplars I worked on around Cologne were all on a scale I’ve not seen elsewhere. Some real monsters, great fun. So yeah, loads of interesting trees…

Only rock climbers are soft enough to cry about padding. Padding!? Want to try caving harnesses, nothing but a crusty old bit of webbing to em. 1000m+ deep caves in one of those will leave its mark.

Late to the party and haven’t read the full thread, but I have a kk spikecender and the space on the other side. The spikecender is junk imo but it does move the gaffs out a little. If you could pick up a couple spacers that might do the job. Or just make a couple of spacers yourself. I’d say you’ll get used to them but I had my old alloy distels for 10 years and hated them every day of it. Upgraded to a pair if carbon clicks 4 years ago and they’re bloody excellent.

I think treehog biners are the only ones that still have a lifespan on them too. Junk.

UK wages are crap but that's been done to death plenty of times on here. Wildest part is Cain going through a chain a week.

That’s a real pain. Fwiw I bought 3 of them in June and haven’t had any issues, bar when we were working right next to a 5g tower and they got pretty garbled. I have since heard of reliability issues, but not for me. Bit of an idiot check but I assume you’re connecting them properly, ie 1-2 then 2-3?