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I ended up buying 45m of poison ivy, it is quite bouncy and the rope runner flattens it out sometimes. It is good though, I have been climbing SRT mainly for the last few weeks on big beech trees and switching between MRS and SRT on the poison ivy.

Cheers guys, currently the only one who climbs SRT in the company, so I’m learning as I go, that’s why I keep posting stupid questions in Arbtalk lol. I’ve been mainly using canopy anchors as we are working in a woodland atm and it’s hard to get the throw line right over the big trees so I’ve been doing canopy anchors and moving them up until I get to the top and pulling the rope through till it hits the ground so it’s retrievalebl

Thank you, Il use that from now on, I have been climbing with a timber hitch as a base anchor (I’m new to SRT) could have ended badly

ART positioner can be used for wire core but you have to change the cam, they are cheap and honeybros sell them

Another vote for Dmm vault, I broke several caritools, Dmm vault (locking gate) still going after 3 years

I have a set of airstreams and have lasted over a year, I only wear them on days that I know il be climbing all day with zero groundwork, they blow the Scafell lites out of the water as they are so much lighter. But your feet are freezing in the winter. I also have a set of Haix and they are big and bulky and not the best for climbing in but they are warm and extremely waterproof

Is there anything wrong with using the tail of the rope in a timber hitch around the base of the tree for SRT. I have climbed on it and it works obviously. But is there some safety reason or anything why company’s such as ART make base anchors? If there some sort of reason such as the timber hitch would work itself free over tue course of the climb?

Cheers, I had her in a pair of hi flex’s today and there weren’t that bad but far too long. She is going to do arb full time so I’ll think I’m going to get her to buy a set of the woman’s ones, I’m a die hard breatheflex pro man so I am pushing for her to buy the arbortecs and wanted confirmation that they were worth the money over the Oregon ones from Screwfix she was thinking of buying haha

Yes mate that would be great, she’s doing her small fells in a few weeks and I doubt there would be any kit to use for a small woman at the training centre. Taught her to climb on Saturday past there, she’s a natural, went from not knowing how to open a carabiner to up an XL oak in a few hours

Does anyone have any experience in talking to anyone who has tried the Ladies breatheflex? Are they a lot different from the mens ones? it is for a small woman buying her first set of trousers. Also any ladies on here have any boot recommendations

Yes mate, it can be adjusted anywhere really, the buckles move to where you want them and the new bungee webbing is a lot better.

Yeah I can see 60m being less hassle but if it was used for DRT and SRT then pulling 60m through would be slow, I climb mainly DRT and don’t do enough SRT yet to warrant a 60m, still learning SRT btw

I will get a quad lock then, since both my ropes are spliced I was thinking it would be easy splice to splice with a carabiner. I have never seen it be done before I was wondering if there was a reason not to do it.

I have a 45m rope for SRT and i was looking advice as I haven’t seen this done before. could you connect two ropes together spliced eye to spliced eye to give you a longer rope for’ base tie, could you use one rope say 25 for your Base tie and running up tie back side of tree connected to another 45m rope, splice to splice with a carabiner, as long as you keep the connection to the base anchored side of the tree? canopy anchor, same thing but have the carabiner and 25m rope connected to the retrieval side when using a canopy anchor or even just a throw line? Just to retrieve the anchor from the ground as it wouldn’t be life support. I am just asking in case I encounter a tree that I would need a 60m or more rope, could I connect a 45 and a 25 in the configurations above? im new to SRT and Went for a 45 rather than a 60m as it will be used for DRT climbing too and I didn’t want to pull 60m through. cheers guys any advice or if anyone has done anything like this let me know!

Anyone any experience using any of the stein rigging kit? considering buying a second hand kit and just want everyone’s thoughts on it, I will check it over before buying and get it LOLER”d mainly the omega line stein port a wrap Pulley block Slings good stuff or *****