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Climber020

Climber020

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Have been doing lightning protection inspection at a park with 100'-150 trees. Was up one today at about 135' and was at the last bit and what do I do? Drop the hammer. Well I was in the woods and could only think my ground guy better find that hammer or go buy one cause I am not climbing all the way back up this to finish.

So my question to you guys/gals is what tool do you hate to drop when up a tree? That is besides a chainsaw cause when I see that i see money being flushed down the toilet. My personal favorite is the lager turner cause usually both climbers are in the tree and no one is on the ground to send it back up to you. So you either have to climb down and back up or improvise with a carabiner or something.
 
Handsaw, although normally its not due to butterfingers.


I also have a standing fear of dropping a peice of rigging onto someone or something below, killing or maiming somone, even though there is the noone under me whilest setting rigging rule, the thought bugs me!
 
I dislike dropping a glove in the wintertime, by the time you get it back it's wet and cold.

I dropped my rope ONCE, luckily my groundie was handy with a throwline.
 
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So my question to you guys/gals is what tool do you hate to drop when up a tree?

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I've not dropped it yet but I worry about dropping my climbing rope when doing a change over from srt to drt.I now pull up a few feet of rope and tie a mid line knot and clip it into my side D as insurance.
 
dropped my rap gloves once on a longdrop rappel over water. Tied off, cut off a pant leg and wrapped that around my brake hand. Got the gloves back when they drifted in betrween two rocks.
 
Brion Toss showed some creative tool lanyards in "The Riggers Apprentice" He uses telephone handset cords since they coil up short and are pretty strong. I've taken them and made an eye then secured the eye with several nylon wire ties. Using the tightening tool on the wire ties snugs them down REAL tight.

When I put together the pieces for cabling/bracing I always put in extra small pieces. Not that I'm superstitious :)

Fumblies are bad!
 
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I've not dropped it yet but I worry about dropping my climbing rope when doing a change over from srt to drt.I now pull up a few feet of rope and tie a mid line knot and clip it into my side D as insurance.

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Yeah same here. What I do is tie my prussik knot before unclipping my rope so it can't get away. But I don't always do it. I think that would be the one I think about the most.
 
I've never lost my climbing rope but I've seen my rigging line end up below more times than I'd like. I live in fear of dropping anything and having one of my guys try to catch it so I get a bit harsh if they're inatentive to what's happening above. Sometimes when I look down I swear it's like watching snails move.
Phil
 
How about when your ground guy doesnt listen when you are getting the drop line pulled back up and pull it all through all of your rigging espescially when using the fishing pole technique. OOOHHHH MAN! Lets see how many pulleys was that!!!
 
Another bastid, along the lines of Arboriami, when you are rigging down a rather large tree with multiple rigging points spread across the canopy to spread the load/gin pole and the rope pulls through. Of course you are in the worst possible area of the tree.
 
... Once my groundie untied a branch which was just lowered, then let go of the rope and of course it dropped right out of the block and I had to climb a good fourty feet back up to it... anyhow, then my boss yells at 'me' for loosing the line? I nearly quit right then.
 
I hate when I cut a large dead branch with the hand saw and hold it to make sure that it doesn't drop on the roof, garden, pool...only to have the tip of it break off when I move it and it hits the roof, garden, pool..., /forum/images/graemlins/headpop.gif
 
I pretie my seperate DdRT system prior to ascending SRT-when I get to my TIP I merely "lanyard in" with the DdRT sytem and unload the SRT system. If I'm using a false crotch/cambium saver then I tie a midline knot above the hitch so that the rope can't dump and thread the end of my rope aas required-Losing my line isn't something I really worry too much about because I'm guarding against it. Dropping my handsaw is a problem because those sneaky little twigs and the lanyard tail are conspiring against me!
When it comes to hardware.....I follow the "one to use and one to lose" plan and carry extras. I suppose that my biggest fear is the INCREDUBLE FLYING POLESAW.
 
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