SeattleMark
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Hey guys: I've an amateur arborist managing some very large cottonwoods in our lot. Many of the trunks are 3 feet in diameter. I need to remove quite a few smallish lower limbs (with my Silky saw) to allow more light to reach the ground of my property. I really enjoy using SRT to get off the ground (instead of climbing lots of tall ladders). However, it would be nice to set just a single rope (just once) on one side of each tree and somehow position to all sides of the trunk. I've removed trees in the past utilizing gaffs and a lanyard--and could move freely around the trunks. With SRT in my current pruning mode, my weight on the rope (with no gaffs on my slipping boots) tends to limit my ability to access the other side of these trunks. What might be known techniques to hit the other side of the trunks? Maybe set a girth hitch with foot loops to step into to simulate using gaffs with a lanyard? (Thanks for helping out an [old] newbie. )