Tips and Tricks

Hoowasat said:
Why metal? A thick plastic flat bar would work. Drill two holes, one at each end of the bar, make three hacksaw cuts to "open up" the hole at the working end, and use the other hole to attach a lanyard made from pull-starter rope. Shape & deburr to suit your tastes. If you insist on metal, make it from a 3/8" thick piece of aluminum flat bar.
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I really meant to say I wanted to see it realised. I even suggested polymorph might be ideal. Sure it DIY sugru would work too.
 
Other day I was setting lines in a very tall tree, 170' white oak, up and down with a throw line just to bring up another throw line.

This reel will hold 200' of 1.0 mm, 300 lb test braided line. 3X speed in winding. A 10oz weight will pay out about a 30' foot throw.

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yoyoman said:
Other day I was setting lines in a very tall tree, 170' white oak, up and down with a throw line just to bring up another throw line.

This reel will hold 200' of 1.0 mm, 300 lb test braided line. 3X speed in winding. A 10oz weight will pay out about a 30' foot throw..
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I love the 3x winding speed. That looks like a great little reel.

I'm not sure I follow the other parts of your post. Were you setting lines with a big shot? from the ground? If so, why use a reel? Were you having to use fishing line, then pull up throw line, to then pull up climb line? Sorry if it's just me--maybe not enough sleep
 
BRT said:
I love the 3x winding speed. That looks like a great little reel.

I'm not sure I follow the other parts of your post. Were you setting lines with a big shot? from the ground? If so, why use a reel? Were you having to use fishing line, then pull up throw line, to then pull up climb line? Sorry if it's just me--maybe not enough sleep
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This is how it was going.
Set the first line with the Bigshot, about 160' into the tree. First climber goes up to set lines at various places in the tree.
My preferred method to get as many lines set in the least amount of time is as follows:
I drop a small weight with this reel, when it reaches the ground a long throw line or two tied together are attached, these trees take about 350' of line. The end of that throw line and weight is reeled up and then tossed over a suitable isolated anchor. The ground person lets that end to the ground and deals with it just like it was thrown there.
Much faster than setting each line from in the tree, although that seems to happen a lot, just takes a lot of effort for the person in the tree, hauling up 160-200 feet of line, tying it off and then dropping a throw line for recovery.
Also it means I don't have to physically get to each anchor to set it. Sometimes moving around these huge trees is a real challenge as the limbs are very far apart and the diameter of a VW bus.
 
I'm tired of my lanyard prusik jamming in my pulley. Does a small isc ring between the hitch and pulley help? Any other tricks? And I can't be persuaded to mechanical, unless someone wants to sponsor me :D
 
I did see a trick for that or a product on one of the arb sites I think. I was basically a flat rubber or plastic disk/washer. If I find it I will post the link and pic.

It may have been shown between the prusik and the HC in a Ddrt system.
 
Hoowasat, I've wondered about that. Have you tried it out? If it solves the issue I'd be interested. My hesitance is that the piece isn't really versatile, and versatility is one of my buying rules.
 
monkeylove said:
Don't know but here it is.

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Well now, the music score must mean that I should try it.

Thanks again for looking that up, Monkeylove. Honestly, I don't think I could stand how it looks every day. Mature, right?

Treetopflyer's idea sounds cool, but requires more green slips from work.
 
here's an old Dunlap pic. if you're on the cheap, this is the way to go. you can connect either end of the snap to your D. one way is like Tom D has here. or you can run the other eye of the snap through the biner that holds your prusik...my snap is between the legs of the prusik...I think it is anyway, I can't remember. point is though, some snaps are bigger than others and you may want to use the smaller hole of the snap to tend the prusik.
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