Chris5128

I hit two today both buried about 3 inches under the cambium. One at waist height the other just above ground level. I assume there was a wire fence there at some point. But that's the first time in months so just one of those days.

I see, cheers for clearing that up. When you said court I thought you were going to say that srt is actually against some sort of regulation. I didn't think about the the insurance side of it to be honest.

Why would people go to court over it? I'm employed and use srt on most trees. I never actually asked my boss just brought a wrench and played about on it until I felt comfortable. It's no more dangerous in my eyes then drt. I do think it would be good to have a separate industry standard qualification as it is different to doubled rope.

Yeah you can. if you download the lot it's going to take up some serious space, so I've spent the day steaming it then I'll probably download a couple of parts take it out, and do a little rec climb with it

Just watching this now was a bit sceptical at first because I hate spending money and didn't think I'd get much out of it but the blokes great both with his own ideas and explaining other people's. Well worth a watch weather you've been doing srt for 5 minutes or 5 years

About the same size and climb on a tree motion everything on it can be adjusted. Took me a while to adjust everything correctly but once I did its a amazing harness

Yeah im confident with it. I'll go srt worse case scenario I can always swap to hitch climber

Happy days sounds easy did you get the job in the end?

Yeah I'm sure it'll be fine I know I can climb. I'm just used to working for the same people everyday so your sort of get into a rhythm. What did you have to do for your nz one? I'm not really sure what to expect.

I've got an exam coming up in a couple weeks for an opportunity to work abroad. I'm more nervous about it then I probably should be because I'm from a small island and I'm thinking big fish in a little pond type affair. Has anyone ever done a test like this before if so what was involved in it for you?

Why would you be cautious with srt. The only reason I ask is because I've got a climbing competence test to do in two weeks time and I was going to use my rope wrench as that's what I climb on everyday now. The test is for a big opportunity and I don't want to throw off the examiner/interviewer by climbing srt.

Big shot. to be honest more often then not im base tying it then isolating my top anchor point when I get up there. Once I've got a good top anchor I get one of the boys on the ground to untie the basal anchor I also coil the dead end of the rope if it's a all day job just keeps it from getting dragged all over the worksite with the brush and it's easier for the groundies if they're not having to untangle it.

This is the way I've been doing it before I got the pinto pulley. Just make sure the gate of the carabiner is away from the trunk to eliminate that slight chance of it opening itself if in doubt chuck another one in there. Or even a steel mallion with a small spanner attached to it.

Wow I've just brought a pinto pulley purely to have on my srt anchor that's unnerved me a bit now the whole concept of that style of anchor was eliminate rope on rope wear. (Also I wouldn't climb on that rope anymore weather it would pass loler or not. It would always be on my mind . It's a ball ache to pay for a new one but for the sake of a 100 quid it's not worth hitting the deck over)

Getting it up and running was ok it was trusting and double checking it that took the time.