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I used to climb when I was young for a year or so. Then I hired guys better and faster than me to climb and I stayed on the ground directing or running the Bobcat for 12 years.
Now I have moved to Norway and hiring climbers isn't an option, I am the climber again now. Relearning at 40.
I don't have too much trouble but I've found I am quite a bit better and even faster running a double line/blakes than I am climbing with spikes so thats what I'm doing the majority of the time. Basically, I am spikeless climbing even when its not needed.
I seem to be doing the opposite of what I learned in the past. Originally when I started I didn't even run a safety line but only lanyard/spikes with no climbing rope...
As long as there is a spot to set a rope then I am moving up and down with the rope and only using my spikes and lanyard for positioning or rotating and or extra attachment point when I need to move my rope or when I'm ready to make a cut.
My lanyard seems to be in the way when I'm going up or down anymore so most of the time it is not connected.
The way I learned along time ago was spikes/lanyard and then the rope as safety unless the tree needed to be spikeless for pruning or whatever. All the guys who ever worked for me climb that way as well.
Do you guys think I am getting into a bad or dangerous habit by relying primarily on my rope rather than on my spikes/lanyard?
I question the safety of it it myself but I do like working with the rope alot better than the constant impact of the spikes and keeping the lanyard connected is an extra pain in the ass for me to keep moving it.
Thanks,
A
Now I have moved to Norway and hiring climbers isn't an option, I am the climber again now. Relearning at 40.
I don't have too much trouble but I've found I am quite a bit better and even faster running a double line/blakes than I am climbing with spikes so thats what I'm doing the majority of the time. Basically, I am spikeless climbing even when its not needed.
I seem to be doing the opposite of what I learned in the past. Originally when I started I didn't even run a safety line but only lanyard/spikes with no climbing rope...
As long as there is a spot to set a rope then I am moving up and down with the rope and only using my spikes and lanyard for positioning or rotating and or extra attachment point when I need to move my rope or when I'm ready to make a cut.
My lanyard seems to be in the way when I'm going up or down anymore so most of the time it is not connected.
The way I learned along time ago was spikes/lanyard and then the rope as safety unless the tree needed to be spikeless for pruning or whatever. All the guys who ever worked for me climb that way as well.
Do you guys think I am getting into a bad or dangerous habit by relying primarily on my rope rather than on my spikes/lanyard?
I question the safety of it it myself but I do like working with the rope alot better than the constant impact of the spikes and keeping the lanyard connected is an extra pain in the ass for me to keep moving it.
Thanks,
A
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