Anyone on a mechanical should be familiar with the munter in my opinion, it’s a no nonsense fool proof way to get down in case the device fails or slips either from failure or weather conditions (I had a zigzag start slipping from ice building on the line).
ClimbingArborist Dan did a video with the Petzl 1LD as a friction saver for a minute looked just as smooth as the eject but without the fancy engineering.
Notch, they seemed to have tightened the stitching up a bit with the zero bags where the d ring attaches which is nice, also seem a little tighter. It’s going out to Southsound tomorrow
The pinto on prussic takes away the problem of gate orientation in relation to the tree and potential for side load at working angles. As long as you’re mindful of the gate on the revolver and your end rope angles I would run it.
All I use for the tail is a prussic and two carabiners could get away with just one in a pinch but it’s more streamlined with two if I’ll be working off the system. I’ve used my tail for controlled dragging tail or traversing awkward sections as well with a midline device. Retrieval is easy just...
We used a skid steer which we usually used an augur to dig the initial hole and then swapped to forks with load straps to lift and place into the hole and also allow for root inspection/pruning.