Woodside Tree Services

Paul Poynter.....As regards how is this all configured on your bridge or bridge ring(s) ...if you were tied in to two anchors and by chance your primary (probably highest?)anchor of unknown weight decides to snap off plummet groundwards give you a nice big shockload and you've got both systems on one bridge ring.....you're piggy in the middle, if the ring holds that is.....and you'd have to be quick at your knife to cut that rope if you didn't want the second anchor and you pulling out of the tree. maybe better to have both systems shackled together and you are t''d off that stronger connector by a 'biner so your bridge ring isn't taking all the tensile shockload.? you'd still have to be quick on the knife ? if you've got your work positioning lanyard on, theres another aid to keep you in the tree,,,

I've looked at rope access guys using a second line with a moving grab/short lanyard as a second attachment line, doesn't that constitute a second line in this game too? why do they both have to be operational 'climbing' lines? you don't ascend on two srt systems at once....you can only rope walk one line but could have the 2nd line running alongside with a safety grab (or your 2nd hitch climbing system or swap over to that up top) maybe tail it into a harness hung bag when you get up there.....The object is to prevent you hitting the ground from a failed primary tie in point ,interpreting the regulations to satisfy both parties is the hard bit ....the second line is going to be a rated climb line but used as a secondary redundancy ,its gonna act as a very long 'lanyard' as well as your current work positioning lanyard, then you've 3 ties in the tree.!!! picking a good close second tie in is gonna be the trick...and if you're working a tree that's in such bad condition that it doesn't offer a second safe tie in, should you even be climbing it, there are always other options, including walking away..