Throwline-set, Base-tie protection...Screamers

This gives you an idea the size of the Yates Shorty. Sorry for the crappy photo, using the web cam on this computer as I have one sitting right here. This is the one I fell on recently, so I ordered a new one.
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Can't tell from the photo but my ring finger is going to be permanently bent for the remainder of my life. Healing okay though.
 
For those who don't fully trust a screamer as an in-line device, a set up like this with a couple of butterfly knots and some slack for the screamer to unfold would work. I think this is something like @southsoundtree has in mind.
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You would have to use some linkage like quickies or carabiners to attach the screamer.
I had my rope through a Petzl Rig so I could be lowered down if need be. I just had the screamer between the Rig and the Tenex Tec ultra sling around the tree, but that puts it in-line as a life support. I trust the Yates screamers so it doesn't bother me being a life support item.
 
Brando CalPankian said:
Do you have mobility in the finger? I buggered mine up a few years ago and it never quite healed right. Pt helps a bit. Make sure to move it a lot.
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Seem to have good mobility through about 80% of what it used to be. The 20% toward being straight I'm afraid will be lost. Shouldn't hinder me much as I don't use it to point at things. Keeping it moving...
Thanks.
 
Keeping moving has helped me more with pain in general than anything else. I was a passenger in a car accident, and had my L2 vertebra cracked almost all the way through. I couldn't move almost at all for about three weeks, but thereafter it was the only thing that would actually make the pain grow fainter. Granted, I was 20 years old and made of spandex, but it has continued to hold true. If my shoulders hurt, I go kayaking. If my legs hurt, I take a walk. If it gets worse take a break, and try again later.
 
My lesson in healing when I was younger was 4-6 weeks initial growing back (bone and/or tendon) followed by rapid recovery to a pretty good percentage, followed by slow attainment of better close to normal strength. Talking year or years and that's also for shrinking of grown bone breaks and tendons.

I thought I lost range of motion in my fingers once but the doctor just forced them with no warning. Hurt like hell and I felt the urge to sock the guy! But turned out ok. mostly.

The screamer application seems pretty no brainer, but the first time I saw the "tall head" arborist helmets with basically zero side impact protection I said WTHeck take a drop (like Shadowscape's into the trunk) and your helmet is wanting regarding side impact. Coming from a motorcycle background. Enter the Protos - yay but what about all those other helmets? The other worry was bodily stub puncture.
 
Looks super compact. What is the deployed length, or the recommended amount of slack?
Looking at @Shadowscape ’s drawing has me disliking the loose loop of critical climbing line. It would be the cats ass for a slinky style sleeve to keep it all tucked into.
I think a few companies have 5:1’s that are in a fabric tube.
 
evo said:
Looks super compact. What is the deployed length, or the recommended amount of slack?
Looking at @Shadowscape ’s drawing has me disliking the loose loop of critical climbing line. It would be the cats ass for a slinky style sleeve to keep it all tucked into.
I think a few companies have 5:1’s that are in a fabric tube.
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The Shorty I have is 22" deployed.
If nothing else, one could fold and tape up slack. A few turns of masking tape wouldn't interfere one bit.
 
evo said:
Wonder how a simple daisy chain would work
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Not really a lot to play with. Screamer 6" long new. 22" long used. Leaves only 14" of slack rope, 7" down and 7" back up. Not much to daisy chain when it is anchored at both ends.
I think a couple wraps of any kind of tape would do fine. Or a couple wraps of cellophane. Not like it will be hanging on the ground.
I will just continue using mine in-line. The shorty is rated for 24 KN, which is about the same as the ropes I climb on. Heck, my carabiners are not rated that high and I don't worry about them. A pre-climb inspection and it is out of my mind.
 
Crusty veteran maple...a neighborhood favorite for sitting under. Needed some hazard mitigation. The side shown was all dead. The live half (or less) on the good side has small "goose pen".

I always have a handful of slings and biners handy. The slings serve no purpose here, just using the biners for the Screamer.

I removed about 1/2 of the wood that was up there...mostly completely dead, some smaller potion barely sprouting on broken trunks.


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