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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?

7 hours ago, Vedhoggar said:

Womens Arbortec Breathelex have been designed for specifically for women, they come in 6 waist sizes but unlike the mens trousers come in just one leg length as far as I can see (30"/74cm). I know of a couple of women that wear them, one of which said they are the only trousers that fit her. Well made and designed with the professional user in mind, expensive but worth the money.

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 

8 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Cant help regarding the breatheflex but my better half recently got herself a battery chainsaw for the garden and got oregon boots (size5) and oregon saw pants along with it. The pants are OK, don't think they'd hold up to daily use but the boots were better quality than I expected and she says they're comfortable.

Can ask her for a link to them and post it here if it's of any use to you.

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 *****

Don’t get the scaffel lites, they are waterproof for about 6 months.

meindl airstreams you can’t tell if your feet are cold or wet! Usually just cold right enough.

So I would put another vote for Haix protector pros, the only downside is the size of them which aren’t ideal for climbing but won’t matter at all for hedgelaying.

I had to go a size down in Haix, anyone else get this problem?

9 in arbortec

9 in meindls

8 in Haix 

Exactly same thing happened to me, ****************ing waiting ages for the harness when it was advertised they would have it in stock 2 or 3 days after I ordered it. Old harness was out of LOLER. Like if they don’t have it stock then just put “out of stock” 

I went with them because they were £20 or £30 cheaper for the harness but I would have rather paid that and got it off someone else if I had of known there would be such a ridiculous wait time.

fella from my work ordered his tm pro and got it the same week off treekit.

I just ordered 45m of poison ivy off treekit  today and they are dispatching it in the morning 

Cheers guys, had a disaster with fr jones, ordered a Treemotion pro on Black Friday and it didn’t arrive until 2 weeks ago. Got a basket sitting in honeybros and il get it ordered. 

What is honey brothers delivery times like at the moment? Long wait or dead on?

1 hour ago, Dan Maynard said:

Fair play for perseverance, I'd give up being a tree surgeon if my knackers took a battering every day.

Hahah might have been party me being lazy and keeping the leg loops loose on the super light cause it was such a hassle to adjust them every time 

Treemotion pro

just a quick gear review

bought a new Treemotion pro from FR Jones, although it took 6 weeks to arrive it was the best purchase I’ve made.

The new back pad is so comfy and the bungee webs that keep it in place when you do up the buckles are top notch!

Ive climbed in the super light and the evo and i find it much better than both for comfort and work poisoning.

And most importantly I haven’t got the balls pinched once in the 2 weeks of having it, which was a daily occurrence in my super light.

so 10/10 would highly recommend 

Thinking of going 45m for a rope that is good for SRT and has a splice for now, and then after a few months of getting better at SRT buying an x static that will be used only for SRT

Thinking of going 45m for a rope that is good for SRT and has a splice for now, and then after a few months of getting better at SRT buying an x static that will be used only for SRT

X static seems to be the best by everyone’s reviews but it can’t be spliced. And I need a splice on it for connecting via carabiner to a notch rook on the Bridge for DRT. Currently running a hitchclimber on a 25m cousin black widow (would highly recommend for drt) it’s amazing when your pulling it through but it is very short so I can’t get my saw refilled when I’m up a big tree. So I was going to get a 45 or 60m for big stuff and also to use for SRT. What would be the closest thing to x static that can be spliced? How does Teufelberger fly do on SRT?

Cheers guys il look into those ropes and that knee ascender.

I think I am going to need a rope with a splice because I’ve read when using the rope runner in drt that you need to keep the two lines apart and I think having to tie a bowline would clutter up the bride, so I was going to get either a notch rook or hydra pulley or even the old style hitch climber and clip the rope runner into the far right hole and the spliced eye into the far left hole