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  1. Wooden Hand
    Hi Dan, your incredible brain strikes again huh?! I like it, got me thinking though that re-directs really need to be put into categories, close ones, quickly used ones, out-of-sight, big pendulum, static/load sharing etc etc. Where does this one fit?
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    Hello Andrew, yes that's me.
  3. Wooden Hand
    Liros reef is great rope! A true 11.5mm with an astoundingly firm cross-section. Pretty static too so good for ddrt and srt. Well recommended!
  4. Wooden Hand
    A little far for most I'm sure but I thought I would mention about the workshop that is running this November at 2 sites in Japan. 4 teachers are presenting 1 and 2 day workshops at a beautiful shrine next to the pacific ocean and at the famous Chamaecyparis obtusa forestry site, Hayami Ringyou. For those with interest in the physicality of climbing arboriculture or with an interest in old spiritual Japan, this may be a rare chance to grab something special. Kind regards. Paul The Wooden Hand
  5. Wooden Hand
    That is demonstration only.
  6. Wooden Hand
    Fantastic. Who is instructing?
  7. Wooden Hand
    I have a hunch that many SRT workshops will be springing up over the next few years. Treekit have begun some and there are conversations taking place with other people. Perhaps those that need advice can pro-actively push the AA, ISA, NPTC and retailers. SRT work positioning has been written into the new ICOP. We can make it happen!
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    It is distracting isn't it. I'll speak to the editor about separating the english and japanese, I guess that the Japanese guys are distracted too.
  9. Wooden Hand
    Some simple ideas and guidelines for those at the beginning of using single rope for work positioning. SRT???? (SRT ????)??SRT Anchor (Hooray for SRT)
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    Nice video! Perfect example of the hook. It sounds a little dramatic but I couldnt be without it now, I like the size and weight of the epple hook and implement it into work positioning ideas, it is far more portable than the yellow hook so stays happily with me. Recently i've gotten into double and sometimes triple rope work positioning and the hook saves time in setting up these systems.
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    ODSK made these 2 videos about the traverse hook. They get them from Freeworker in Germany. Recently I changed to the Epple hook, it's pretty amazing and a constant item on my harness now. http://shop.freeworker.com/rope-installation/epple-baumfaenger.html
  12. Wooden Hand
    On paper the SW's Harken winch uses 23:1 and 46:1 power ratio.
  13. Wooden Hand
    Sorry, no idea what to call this, seems slightly appropriate as I got the idea from skidding branches on the floor with the portable winch. For collapsing a spreading branch or for pulling several together from different locations. Amount of weight depends on the pulling power of your Smart Winch. The x rings work nicely, no cross loading connectors and pretty low friction too. The branches extended over the high voltage wires and I was concerned that they may break the hinge too early if we lifted them one-by-one, the length of swing to the rigging anchor may have let them swing on to or at the very least strike the wires. In this example we input enough force to swing the branches up and sideways, winched them up to the ring on the stem and then cut a fair chunk of the stem with it.
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    If you're not sure about hitch cord performance then I'd save the expensive e2e for a bit and buy 5 or so lengths of different hitch cord, use scaffold knots, and see which one and what length you like best.
  16. Wooden Hand
    ODSK filmed these 2 retrievable re-directs a few weeks ago. 1 knot and 1 anchor. We pull tested the 1st example, with block and tackle and load cell, on 10mm rope it took 3 times my weight in force to begin to move the slipped bight. Thanks.
  17. Wooden Hand
    How'd you like the bounce?! Any particular reason you didn't work the tree from top down?
  18. Wooden Hand
    Thanks man!
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    Italian company - Antal.
  20. Wooden Hand
    What whole point? If natural crotching is 100% friction, a pulley 0% and carabiner around 50% then the hard anodizing on the x rings will be somewhere between 20-30%.
  21. Wooden Hand
    I hear you Tim, like I said, plans can be modified. Catching big tops is an unusual situation. If you want to catch big tops then you best spread force through as much rope as possible. You cant say that 1 side of the ring would see more force than the other because it depends on length of rope and what ever you have going in in the system, additional MA one side and additional friction the other for example. Have you used the rings? They are intuitive. The rings are far closer to a pulley than natural crotching, if I need compare.
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    I wonder what the friction percentage is and how much working rope you would lose? Anyway, for critical situations you always modify the usual plan.
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    Zelkova serrata.
  24. Wooden Hand
    Pete, the largest ring can comfortably negative block 300kg pieces. This is to your discretion of course and when used to pulleys it seems anti-theoretical but i've dropped many tonnes on the lagest ring and am happy to drop many more.
  25. Wooden Hand
    Hi Reg, that sweater explanation was so dead pan! I'm with you all the way on the rings. We stopped using 2 together though as the coating began to take a clout. Ring size comensurate with wood size as there is a heap to choose from. Sitting in my car about to go home after a days use with the biggy. Hope your well mate. Paul

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