In most rigging scenarios we rope the piece being either lowered raised or redirected through a floating false crotch(or convenient natural crotch) to an anchor point with a friction break/ lowering device of some type. This creates a mechanical advantage(in this case disadvantage) on the floating false crotch/rigging point. I was wondering what are some of your thoughts on how to eliminate this factor. To have the friction device located up in the tree to be tended by the climber is one possible solution but is limited and not always safe or practical, and usually only practical in light rigging scenarios(such as lowering limbs/small pieces off a munter hitch) One scenario that comes to mind is to set up a lowering line in the same manner as a Ddrt with some sort of friction device affixed to the piece being lowered that can be tended by a groundman off the falling end of line. Sounds ridiculous but Ive never tried it, maybe it would work in some scenarios and not in others. Any thoughts?