Spokerider
ArboristSite Operative
Hello,
Just wanna start by saying "what a great site"! I'm a new climber [ been up a few firs with spurs to limb ] and have been learning TONS from reading other's posts.
I have just ordered a bunch of SRT equipment [ grigri, ascender, prusik rope, micro pulley, foot sling, 11mm rope, etc ] and hope to put it to use for recreational climbing, limbing trees on my property and for others such as family and friends.
I have a question about the *best* method of securing the end of the climbing line at ground level......either to the tree I'll be climbing or a near by tree.
Do you use a second line to make 3 wraps of the base with a double fig 8 knot. Then, to that loop just made, add 'biner with a munter hitch, slip knot backed up by an overhand knot from the climbing line?
Saw one of the youtube vids of it being done this way....
Thoughts?
Oh yeah, the book, Tree Climbers Companion is in the mail!
Just wanna start by saying "what a great site"! I'm a new climber [ been up a few firs with spurs to limb ] and have been learning TONS from reading other's posts.
I have just ordered a bunch of SRT equipment [ grigri, ascender, prusik rope, micro pulley, foot sling, 11mm rope, etc ] and hope to put it to use for recreational climbing, limbing trees on my property and for others such as family and friends.
I have a question about the *best* method of securing the end of the climbing line at ground level......either to the tree I'll be climbing or a near by tree.
Do you use a second line to make 3 wraps of the base with a double fig 8 knot. Then, to that loop just made, add 'biner with a munter hitch, slip knot backed up by an overhand knot from the climbing line?
Saw one of the youtube vids of it being done this way....
Thoughts?
Oh yeah, the book, Tree Climbers Companion is in the mail!
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