Advancing rope too high to reach (another option for captain hook, magbag, or the like)

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Butch La Roue

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Adapt this device for tree work. Round the whole thing out to hug branches better and make it rope friendly. Have attachment point good for climbing rope or carabiner. Have the device attach to the standard fiberglass poles.

With all then new climbing innovation, I feel as if something like this is becoming less relevant over the years but it would definitely still have its place and applications.

What do y'all think?
 

New Line setter tool

This line setter was made by Burrapeg. It is a rendition he designed of a simple swing-gate tool for putting a line over a limb in one easy and smooth motion. It can be used in the tree for advancing or changing a TIP or from the ground for small trees. This is way faster than any other line...
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Line installation device

A while back there was a thread in regards to an invention that could install a line through a ring or over a branch. It worked by some sort of magic passing the line from one side of the device to the other. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Butch La Roue said:

Adapt this device for tree work. Round the whole thing out to hug branches better and make it rope friendly. Have attachment point good for climbing rope or carabiner. Have the device attach to the standard fiberglass poles.

With all then new climbing innovation, I feel as if something like this is becoming less relevant over the years but it would definitely still have its place and applications.

What do y'all think?
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I like it. Depending on the price though seems like it would be expensive. Definitely has its place and applications in tree work.
 
Here are a couple of photos of my 'Conifer Climber' that I made for a few of us several years ago. I might gear up to make a few more of these soon, if there is interest. I would need a couple hundred for one (shipped free in the Lower 48) and customer would supply there own pole(s). My own extends out to 16 feet, uses the same pole as one of my hand saws, and I love the thing. It is great for moving TIP up through one of these big conifers with lots of smaller limbs in the way. Note: I did not invent this gadget. There was a similar device years ago for boaters called a 'Happy Hooker' for putting a mooring line around a piling or something. All I did was make a foundry pattern to cast a smaller version in aluminium that can handle a limb about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Anyway, let me know if there is any interest. I am going to have some free time in the next month or so, to make some again.
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Merle Nelson said:
I was fortunate enough to get one of these from Burrapeg and it has been invaluable under certain circumstances. I just inked a deal to buy a spider lift and am thinking of how it may be just the ticket in some out of reach situations to quickly set a rigging line.

Thanks again Burr
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Thanks for the kind words, Merle! It was a fun project. I still use mine all the time due to these trees here with a lot of clutter. Total nightmare for a throwline. Best wishes for the holidays!
 
:), You as well.

With regard to clutter, I often work in a golf coarse community right next to the ocean. The wind whipping the trees around so much of the year has cypress trees grow so thick and cluttered that I frequently find golf balls lodged up in the trees.

The last set of nine trees I shaped the top down on (height and view ordinances) had multiple beds up on top. I was thinking racoon hammock or something. A few days later a friend was working the trees on a property down the street and sent me a picture of a bobcat sleeping on top of those trees.
 
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