How to move your rope to a different tree

[Carter Simmons]

I really meed to know this

 

[Hoowasat]

How far away is the other tree? Me? I would set a second climbing line in the other tree, then pull up that rope when I'm ready to transfer from the first tree.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I use one of those 'lil helocopters to set my throwline.

Meally

 

[Overwatch]

On another forum there's a guy who devised a foot-mounted slingshot for setting up a traverse.

 

[Hoowasat]

I use one of those 'lil helocopters to set my throwline.

I wish you hadn't said that because it got me to start looking at all sorts of quadcopter possibilities.

 

[Fireaxman]

I use one of those 'lil helocopters to set my throwline.

Meally

Nope. Aint buyin' that one. Where's the vid? No Picture, Didn't Happen. Seriously, watched a guy fooling with one of these at the GrandCanyon last month. Control is simply not precise enough to maneuver between branches and foliage , and the little plastic props are easily broken. The thing he wasfooling with could handle 2 go-pros, but I don't think it would pick up my 8 oz weight bag and 100 feet of zing-it. Nicetoy for $300 though. He did get a nice video of the canyon with it.


Moss has the vid on the foot sling shot. Works good.
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/foot-slingshot-used-to-set-traverse.108558/

Yoyoman does a cute trick with magnets. Maybe he will see this and provide a link.

I do a pretty similar thing with a grapple. But you can't believe me. No video.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yep.