Ya mine is possibly retired now. Used it about 5 or so years and noticed creep on thinner lines then recently it started creeping on my Yale ivy. I Def got my money's worth out of it and will likely get a new one. But I love the old ones man...
When u say over loading the system, do you mean the anchors the ropes attached to?
I understand the negative rigging point but I think of that as more of a shock load and in this application I don't really see the system being shocked. I do see what your mean about the angles as I think Chris...
13mm Sterling htp is crazy static. The least stretch I've ever seen from an all poly rope. I think it would be great for this app but it does get heavy.
I read this article in the magazine and if I remember correctly, he used the arborplex for the highline? Very surprising it worked out well...
Well I rock a tree motion at work bc I don't think I'm allowed to use my valiant there so I use my valiant for rec climbs and side jobs.... I feel little to no pain from my treemotion harness. When I first got my valiant and used Matt's original configuration it hurt more than my treemo so I've...
As always it depends on the tree and structure of it, and the reach of your lift. No matter what I've never seen 1 man in a lift hook and cut quicker than 2 climbers, one sling setter and one cutter.
Spend your money how you want to but if you have sena comms, you can send anybody up there to...
Or just put a thimble prussik on your lanyard connected to the other side of your LANYARD In a way that chokes the opposite way your climb line is choking to get that same effect.
I've found In most situations choking one side or the other is enough but I can see certain situations where you...
Hollar at me. I got a old pair gecko aluminums but never saw a dmm tag on em.
I got a set of brand new unused gecko pole spikes bc I felt the same way about my geckos until I stumbled ona pair of mint old buck steel spikes and tried out caddy pads and I love em