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Try this one, should be OK now.

Thanks guys, it was rainy for sure but brought out the aromas! I'll post up the new edit as soon as.

Sekine san will re-edit next week and upload to youtube. Thanks for your patience!

It's Sirius 500. Did you watch in Germany? Tha Americans can not see it either. Dang, as they say over there..... D A N G !

Oh no, sorry guys, Sekine san choose great music, perhaps I could drop some copies at TreeKit next month.

Last week we went down to a UNESCO world heritage site in Shizuoka, on Mt Fuji's foot hills, to remove a dead top from a big Sugi. It is a fantastically old Shrine, some of the incantation pre-dates Shintoism. This Shrine sits at the base of a pilgrim trail that climbs Mt Fuji and has been used for at least 1200 years. I felt priviledged to work there, we trod carefully.

Do you mean that it performs over and above a similar rope like Samson's Nystron? Is Polydyne 100% poly cover and 100% nylon core or has it been blended? I do lots of dynamic rigging and went back to poly/poly double braid because the cycles to failure are so hard to understand and manage. We work the rope hard, like 5:1 safety factors and cut it up after 4 months or so.

Hi all, I am stopping by at Treekit to help out Ben and Terry for an SRT workshop, in April. Surely those two have got most bases covered and I will look a little at rigging for control of the Working End. Also I'll go through a few different systems and offer up ideas for single and double (DSRT) crown anchors. Best regards, hope to see some of you there! Paul Super SRT Workshop - Featured Products

The force multiplier has mitigaters in the form of friction and rope angles. Good sentence, I'll pinch that one. I wish sometimes that we had a standard model of tree when talking, the image in your head doesn't correspond to mine. Capturing 1 anchor is not inherently less safe than capturing more...and vise versa.

Ha, I love saki (sake), but no, not when I wrote that, you guys have to understand that I am 8 hours ahead so when you are settling in to your evening beverages I am going to work ! "Using a long rope creates unnecessary redundancy and so 2 short ropes, slightly longer than anchoring height (20-30M), will be used to create access, work positioning, traverse and retrieve lines. Ropes will be joined, separated, attached and de-attached dependent upon the task at hand." I checked the stock lengths of Teufelbergers CE climb, 35, 45 and 60 metres, these lengths have been pretty much standard in the UK for as long as I can remember and it pertains directly to DdRT technique. What I was hinting at was the possible need to break away from DdRT rope work technique, rope length being one of them. The CE climb 35 metre system, one designed for small trees with anchors at and around 15 metres would be a long rope for me, anchoring at 25-30 metres. Hope this makes a little sense ?!

English Lime's with obscene (and beautiful) epicormic branching - man, this takes me back, we had a row of 15 in Chelmsford, must be 2008/9, there were 2 options, a very slow and dirty internal attack or like you said just go over everything, which I did. It was the first time that I experienced an anchor breaking out, I dropped around 2 metres but the gazzilion other anchors that caught me made it feel like an eiderdown! In theory anything works but in practice, due to complex branch morphology, ideas show their pitfalls.

Ha, it doesn't matter where you put those low friction rings, they always look good ! SRT loses the function of its Working End. So it's helpful if you remember this. Don't ever assume that it will have a retrieving function like DdRT. Building in retrieves to sit redundant while you climb is not needed because SRT lines are in-lined rigged, this gives immense system potential. The SRT line is not a SYSTEM, the climber creates systems when and where needed. It may be better to leave short retrieving sections. You can return to them (SRT is fast ascension) and re-rig a retrieve section...or clip a traversing rope....or clip the standing end. So retrieving is all rigged and performed just when needed. Nothing redundant. I have begun to teach climbers to cut DdRT ropes in half. SRT climbers need new concepts.

I'm sure that you could find good use for it.

Thanks, it was an interesting day, somehow the process is simple and complex all at the same time. It was at Kiso, just next to Nagano's central alps.

Well, yes and no. Out here I learnt a lot about pre-rigging, perhaps it is the smaller tree, I'm not sure, but in many situations we can drop a few branches here and there into the structure and fell it or pick it out whole, nobody is sitting around waiting for another, just a different way, location specific, of getting it done.

I truly am happy to elaborate, I give a lot of time, too much time, to think about this. I have emotional investment underlaying my professional responsibilities because I have been climbing SRT for a long time, perhaps close to 8 years by now, I got verbal abuse when I took my Unicender to tree shows in the UK, seems such a long time ago and where has it got to? Thankfully recognition by many people that stationary rope is incredibly helpful for professional tree workers, the problem is that we thought the solution lay in a device that could move in 2 directions, the multiscender, that this would change an Access system into a Work Positioning one. This was misguided, my opinion, I stand by this. Who can clearly define it? It does need clarity, desperately. It needs tool design to be taken seriously to move forward with ideas but who will invest in this? In a way DdRT never had so much peer pressure as it was growing up and I think that in time SRT may usurp DdRT as it can be something very different, I mean what it offers in terms of safe work positioning, DdRT can't even come close. It is still early days...I totally agree with you and atree, anchoring is best kept simple for beginners but this stinks of non sequitur, I mean, of course keep it simple. As I design system protocol I truly am interested in how you have gone about implementing SRT at your company?

Dynamic rigging - the customers had some rope time, that's why poor 'ole Hiro got shaken about !

Do you mean a couple of anchor systems or belay? SRT as work positioning system hasn't been defined yet, perhaps that is why it feels like a quagmire when looking for clear answers. The German tree care association have put a pro-active ban on non-certified ppe. No clarity for the belay tools too it seems. SRT...what a crock of **** it is !

What a statement, instead of blowing off wind why not take the time to elaborate...or does this complicate things?! The Pinto anchor is great but can load the karabiner strangely and not being able to manage it, I would say, causes some concern. I don't recommend loading a bowline that way, why not use the butterfly loop to descend on DdRT? If you have a ring and ring with big ring not larger than 34mm you can happily knot-block it and keep the retrieving section on the working end. The link you put up is fairly dated now, though there are some good anchors on it.

I meant speedlines bore me...damn auto correct

Everybody and their dog out here wants me to show them how to speed line, it gets under my skin because I have no idea what they are asking. Why does the speed line have such mystique, certainly topping out at that height and diameter takes careful planning and a brave heart but for me has little technical interest. I can't call it because our skinny trees don't get much past 30M, still a sketchy scenario but I choose to train the guys to dynamic rig over free falling, for me the physics lay in our control that way. As speed lines become interesting technically, heavy sections, multiple stages, objects to traverse past/under/around they get equally boring. Speediness bore me and on that note I shall make some slings up, give it a go and perhaps end up with my foot in mouth.

Is it vogue to make videos of speed lines like this? I don't watch those hyper produced pop videos, been always interested in technique over glorification. If it is so then what a regress...sheesh.

Reg, you were ever so kind to me all those years ago, the advice was tempered and challenging, I still think on your words, I'd like to think that those with enough nouse to search for your advice take safety to heart. Your speed lines are far from tensioned and though the vector is adverse I can't see much danger there, but saying that I really never use them in that way, my worry is the chap on the honda winch trying to snap out rigging points! You work in a truly stunning part of the world, do let me know when you are ready for a trip to Japan, there are lots of rigging works and enthusiastic climbers here.

The neck taper looks non-existent, some marine splicers will cut the core at the end of the eye, just be aware of slippage, as soon as the eye looks empty it is time to get it spliced again and preferably by an arb splicer.

Out of the 6 picks can you guess which one peaked highest? Mistahbenn, pre-rigging does a bunch of different things for differing situations, here we can manipulate the branch physics to affect moment, leverage at the hinge and it became a more compact bundle for the transfer line. Science fiction..??!!