First of all please excuse me for some of my ignorance involving "terms" and just in general. I have a tree job that I'm getting ready to do, I'll say its the most technical I've done as far as rigging goes. So I'll try to describe it somewhat. Its a fading doug fir, leaning over a structure. There is no way to lower without landing on the structure. I've come up with and half speed line, half lowering setup to get it down. There is a large larch on the other side of the structure that I plan on rigging a false crotch in and anchoring the port-a-wrap to. I want to run the rigging from the block in the larch, down to the fir (taking the fir in pieces), tying in to the top (of the fir) and cutting the top out, allowing it to swing over the structure and into the larch then lowering the top clear of the structure. Now it won't be an uncontrolled swing I'll rig an 8 to the spar and control the swing across and over the structure. My question is this:
I plan on pulling tension on the rigging so there won't be much fall from the spar (fir). I'm wondering if you can effectively "lock-off" the rope at the port-a-wrap, to hold tension while I belay the pieces (fir) as they swing over the structure. then when they are clear allow them to lower.
Does that make sense? haha hoping you guys can point me in the right direction, maybe I'm not thinking outside the box I'm kind of locked into this idea.
thanks
Jake
I plan on pulling tension on the rigging so there won't be much fall from the spar (fir). I'm wondering if you can effectively "lock-off" the rope at the port-a-wrap, to hold tension while I belay the pieces (fir) as they swing over the structure. then when they are clear allow them to lower.
Does that make sense? haha hoping you guys can point me in the right direction, maybe I'm not thinking outside the box I'm kind of locked into this idea.
thanks
Jake