Well, this does not seems to have turned he quotes upside down...
I have some small nylon loop runners I do some light rigging off of but that's about it.
The web slings can cut themselves even under light loads. I've had it happen. The edge cuts the flat as it sinches up, and I snugged everything.
I preffer hollowbraid loops. 2-3 is great, so you can have the next piece set before the rope comes back. And if you drop one, there is another onn your body. I'll either fist them up and carabiner them to my saddle loop or bandoleer fashion around neck and shoulder.
I'd make that two or three good rigging lines.
This is bare bones, remember. At the most here I would do 200 ft 1/2 in hollow braid and 120 ft 9/16 in double braid. I do that now with stable braid, a 200 of 1/2 inch high streach and 120 of 9/16 low streach. It depends on the size of tree you work with. Just remember you need 3 legs to the rope when usig a friction break.
I'd have at least of pair of pulleys and few prussiks so that you can set up a knotless Z-rig. Bundle it up in a large duffel and label it with truck ID, good to go.
Great idea for a later date, but it breaks his budget. Build this up with small pullies and carabiners. you can use a marlin spike hitch befor you invest in several prussik cords. Not as quickly adjustable, but ~$40 cheaper.
2 steel carabiners $40
2 rescue pullies $100
i suggest a whoopie and a inexpensive crane sling for your porty you can also go with a hank of bull rope 16'
The 16 ft whoopie is $80, so the hank of rope works the budget better, or a 25ft eye sling for $55. This is how I started my bag, one very long Tenex sling for everything. 20ft girth, 5 ft timber hitch gives a max basal diameter of 76 in.
Hey All.....I'm looking to outfit one of My trucks with;
Port-a-wrap,
Eye sling,
Block
Beaners
Rigging Line.
I'd like to keep this under $500.00
135 Port-a-wrap (1)
55 Eye sling (1)
127 Aluminum SpringLoc Block 1/2in Lines (1)
80 carabiners (4)
127 Trueblue 1/2 x 150'/12-Strand
524
18 bartac web loops (3)
55 Pulley 5/8" Rope Capacity (1)
74 LOOPIE SLING 5/8" Adj. 2' to 6'/ 3,000swl (2)
671
I like the spring blocks because the have no loose parts like the cheaper ones. I would go with 2 of them, but i put in the CMI heavy pulley to same money, just remember that you need one of the three $20 carabiners for these to attatch to the sling.
I put in a 2 loopies for the block pulley combo, you need something to attatch, and they are easier to carry and adjust then an eye sling.
I like a long hank of rope and captive eye carabiner for a trunk redirect to keep load out of the vertical leg of the rigging system, but that's not priced in.
If you want to natural crotch the the eorking end, vs a redirect block, you will take $92 out of the equasion for the pulley and loopie, another $20 to have 3 carabiners and $118 in reduction of cost and you are down to $553.
I will natural crotch often Especially if i would have to do a big climb at the end of the day to clean gear
), but find having more then one block and redirect carabiner a great benefit in bigger trees.
a bit out of my budget though
