eye.heart.trees
arborjunky
I'd been trying to make use of the 2-systems SRT setup and at any rate just found the greatest use- I had to remove some smaller limbs that were really high and there wasn't a good-enough anchor-point to get there safely, but by using the 2 separate lines - each being routed-around several branch-systems in the top of the canopy, each combining strength from its component branches and going to one of my side-d's, I'd tried this several times and it always "helped a lil" but this job it made it entirely I never could've gotten in-position safely w/o the height that I achieved w/ the 2 srt setups (oh and, for some light rigging on one of the limbs, I made-use of a similar principle with my awesome rigging sling, it's an "eye&eye" 9.5' long anchor where each end has an XL ring, so again I just wrapped several crotches/forks together to 'brace' the anchoring and allow an anchor at a height where no single union existed)
Was using the "treesqueeze"-type lanyards I've made for this which was excellent and almost made fliplining pointless for much of the climb (was a sprawling Camphor but still), just repeatedly moving-up each Squeezer(what I call my DIY Treesqueezes) made it so simple to traverse so simply (cannot recommend these guys enough, I've got one made of folded-over Mercury and one of Blue Moon and, in this session, used the opposite climbline w/ the squeezer which helped a lot w/ rope-differentiation once everything was all wrapped-up everywhere as I'd base-tied both of those setups as well as the white 1/2 p.dyne bullrope)
I feel silly for taking so long to have found that I can effectively go higher in any given "sprawling canopy broadleaf" by utilizing double-anchors (since only 50% strength needed* with 2 anchors), had made-use of it with my 'snake anchor'** but this job it changed it entirely I'd other wise have been rigging then finding help for the ropes so someone could hold them while I cut w/ polesaw(praying it reached, they were low and mine's 14' but woulda been close..) Do a lot of climbers use double-srt? Is it more a "people do or don't" or "it's just another tool"? Because for sprawling-type canopies it almost seems quicker (w/ Squeezers at least) to traverse and position sooooo much better if you go higher than you could've with a single-anchor ie where the forks are getting weaker.
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*=I'm not being that liberal w/ the #'s, it's more like "If I have two anchor-spots that are each 2/3rd-enough" then that combined 4/3rd strength with the 2 systems changes it but, obviously, enough force to one side and it'd be full-load to that side and you'd be snapping it, certainly depends on climber/tree/condition/etc
**=unsure why nothing comparable is sold, the 3-ringed 6' x-ring sling (which I found very useful, just a lil short) is the closest available, but surprised no medium-->long "eye&eye" rig slings, I put an XL onto each end of ~10, 3/4" Polydyne[26k lbs] line and it is by far the most-used & most-versatile, can wrap each end "spread apart" to have a 2-anchor-effect (in a way) with just 1 sling that didn't need knotting....couldn't recommend enough that anybody make one, mine would cost like $90 for rings&rope if you can do simple large-bullrope-splicing which is very very straightforward hardly more difficult than 12S!!
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Was using the "treesqueeze"-type lanyards I've made for this which was excellent and almost made fliplining pointless for much of the climb (was a sprawling Camphor but still), just repeatedly moving-up each Squeezer(what I call my DIY Treesqueezes) made it so simple to traverse so simply (cannot recommend these guys enough, I've got one made of folded-over Mercury and one of Blue Moon and, in this session, used the opposite climbline w/ the squeezer which helped a lot w/ rope-differentiation once everything was all wrapped-up everywhere as I'd base-tied both of those setups as well as the white 1/2 p.dyne bullrope)
I feel silly for taking so long to have found that I can effectively go higher in any given "sprawling canopy broadleaf" by utilizing double-anchors (since only 50% strength needed* with 2 anchors), had made-use of it with my 'snake anchor'** but this job it changed it entirely I'd other wise have been rigging then finding help for the ropes so someone could hold them while I cut w/ polesaw(praying it reached, they were low and mine's 14' but woulda been close..) Do a lot of climbers use double-srt? Is it more a "people do or don't" or "it's just another tool"? Because for sprawling-type canopies it almost seems quicker (w/ Squeezers at least) to traverse and position sooooo much better if you go higher than you could've with a single-anchor ie where the forks are getting weaker.
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*=I'm not being that liberal w/ the #'s, it's more like "If I have two anchor-spots that are each 2/3rd-enough" then that combined 4/3rd strength with the 2 systems changes it but, obviously, enough force to one side and it'd be full-load to that side and you'd be snapping it, certainly depends on climber/tree/condition/etc
**=unsure why nothing comparable is sold, the 3-ringed 6' x-ring sling (which I found very useful, just a lil short) is the closest available, but surprised no medium-->long "eye&eye" rig slings, I put an XL onto each end of ~10, 3/4" Polydyne[26k lbs] line and it is by far the most-used & most-versatile, can wrap each end "spread apart" to have a 2-anchor-effect (in a way) with just 1 sling that didn't need knotting....couldn't recommend enough that anybody make one, mine would cost like $90 for rings&rope if you can do simple large-bullrope-splicing which is very very straightforward hardly more difficult than 12S!!
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