alternating between SRT and DdRT

[Friedrich]

I pull the bag up to me and clip it to my belt. It's great for throwing ropes in the canopy and helps with flicking them back down. I take off the throwline loop and use it for joining climbing line to tag line, like if I want to take the last top and it needs a pull, I can just replace my climb line with a tag and send it

i used to carry a throwball around for that but now i just tie a hangman’s knot with no bight… the joining of lines is a good one, also for switching out rigging lines. might be smart to have a dedicated piece of throwline for that, mine get shorter and shorter

 

[Muggs]

i used to carry a throwball around for that but now i just tie a hangman’s knot with no bight… the joining of lines is a good one, also for switching out rigging lines. might be smart to have a dedicated piece of throwline for that, mine get shorter and shorter

Yeah, I used a hangman's for 15 years, now I really prefer a ball, especially on my spliced lines, it's quick on and off.

 

[Matias]

That rope looks like a Muppet tail I've never seen one quite so furry. The guy I know that does a lot of natural crotch rigging and pushes too much weight per cut, has ropes that look slick and glazed.

 

[ghostice]

I'll go with Muggs - throw bag and DMM mini on rope end makes advancing line up through the spruce jungle way easier (a new term for me after the 737 Max facemasks hanging downpost door blow out - Boeings attempt to give passengers more fresh air and a better view - a 737 pilot referred to the maze of facemasks hanging down as the rubber jungle). Easier still would maybe be a mini sling shot for a smaller bag and throwline maybe but so far my experiments have not offered consistent performance. So throw bag it is (I use a 16 oz instead of a 14 oz - the better to smack some sense in my head from time to time).
One thing I had second thought about Muggs is using even a choked small diameter line on the climbing rope eye like that - probably OK but I don't want to maybe put any additional textile abrasion on the inside of the eye like that. But that's just me second guessing everything. Sorry.
Anybody found their Squir cover milking - I took about 1 1/2 feet off my new hank today after soaking/ washing with Teufelberger rope wash? Lots of milky stuff came off the rope too in the 24 hr soaking session - I can see why the fine print says to soak the rope. The Squir jacket seems to move around on the parallel strand core a fair bit. And sorry again for the digression(s).

 

[Matias]

I like the notion of minimizing rope on rope action inside the eye. I have used it that way for line setting too, with that logic of it being girth hitched and therefore not rubbing too much, but it really does seem less than ideal, especially given the fairly good selection of small carabiners available.

 

[Matias]

How much better than a steel carabiner would y'all say that bag is for maneuvering up the brushy stuff?

 

[southsoundtree]

Sometimes, a steel biner plus a weight is the ticket.

 

[Matias]

Sometimes, a steel biner plus a weight is the ticket.

What a painfully simple solution.

 

[ghostice]

Oww (reminds me of Free Fallin's YouTube introductions - see about 11 seconds in)

 

[Friedrich]

i do like a steel carabiner for advancing, too. also great for smacking myself in the face

 

[Matias]

i do like a steel carabiner for advancing, too. also great for smacking myself in the face

I'm so paranoid about hitting myself in the face, I have managed to avoid it thus far.

 

[southsoundtree]

Full face screen are good protection.

I run a visor, just because I haven't changed back.

Somedays its pain with rain.