Can anyone Identify this Climbing Technique?

sdeese said:
Hi RBJtree,

1. Yes.. it does look exhausting.... but safe. I'm merely a recreational climber who has all day and will only climb one tree a day anyway.

2. Could you eloborate on what you mean by "If you can't be a 100% sure the rope is safe, you can always flip a lanyard/flipline up with you as a backup"?

Thanks
Stephen
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It’s one method. Steeple jacks use a similar for flag poles.

Just don’t imitate the bowline as termination knot in the video you posted.

Good luck

Tony
 
Brocky said:
A Japanese method from the past called Burinawa, uses two sticks and about thirty feet of rope to prune pine trees. When used with a choked lanyard or climb line, it’s a safe and easy way to get up a small branchless tree.
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I just had a look at the YouTube video and kicking off that clove hitch at each step. Can see if you had a lifeline would make it easier. Still a technique that demands patience, dedication. Thanks for the reference!
 
Don’t use the methods of Rocky, the clove Hitch kicker, he adds too much to the attachment knots and doesn’t seem as secure as traditional way. The size of the tree determines how many times the rope must cross in the back. Standing in the loop cinches it, so only straight sticks are needed. I use two three foot, inch and a quarter pine closet rods and thirty feet of True Blue, tied to the stick with a double wrapped scaffold, maybe better described as a round turn scaffold.
 
sdeese said:
I came across this interesting climbing technique:

I would like to learn more about it. Does anyone know where I can find more info on it?

The reason i ask is that I want to climb some really tall white pines which have no branches for what looks like 100'. I may be able to shoot a line up there, but would have no idea how secure the anchor would be. One hundred feet on an unknown anchor seems sketchy to me. The technique in the video looks like a very safe way to solve this. Anyone tried it?

Thanks
Stephen
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Just a heads up, for a conifer with a high crown you can set your line over multiple limbs and base anchor it. With binocular inspection to verify the rope placement you can establish a very safe rope setting.
-AJ
 
Brocky said:
Don’t use the methods of Rocky, the clove Hitch kicker, he adds too much to the attachment knots and doesn’t seem as secure as traditional way. The size of the tree determines how many times the rope must cross in the back. Standing in the loop cinches it, so only straight sticks are needed. I use two three foot, inch and a quarter pine closet rods and thirty feet of True Blue, tied to the stick with a double wrapped scaffold, maybe better described as a round turn scaffold.
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Will certainly give this a try just to test it out...
 
moss said:
This example of the Burinawa technique is excellent, the upside-down trunk descent at the end makes it even more worth watching!
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Amazing. Some version of this might be useful. I wonder if the technique could be made quite a bit safer for us nowadays if it were combined with using our ordinary short lanyards around the tree while we pull up the lower rope each time? It would slow things down a bit but take the most dangerous bit out of the equation, that moment when one has to take one hand and lean out and around to twirl off the lower rope. It reminds me of my days on the canal tugs when an experienced deckhand would never bend over to wrap or unwrap a rope on a cleat or bollard but instead twirl it on or off standing from a distance.
 
Burrapeg said:
Amazing. Some version of this might be useful. I wonder if the technique could be made quite a bit safer for us nowadays if it were combined with using our ordinary short lanyards around the tree while we pull up the lower rope each time? It would slow things down a bit but take the most dangerous bit out of the equation, that moment when one has to take one hand and lean out and around to twirl off the lower rope. It reminds me of my days on the canal tugs when an experienced deckhand would never bend over to wrap or unwrap a rope on a cleat or bollard but instead twirl it on or off standing from a distance.
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I saw this technique demonstrated by a Japanese climber the last time the ITCC was at Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI. The tree was bigger diameter than the one in the video, amazing to watch. I got fired up and wanted to learn the technique but didn’t get there.
-AJ
 
Have been wondering if two choked lanyards set far enough out so you can push upward with feet, to set next lanyard would be a method. The video has helped me visualize it.
 
Dave tettleton said:
Have been wondering if two choked lanyards set far enough out so you can push upward with feet, to set next lanyard would be a method. The video has helped me visualize it.
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It will work. If you expand your lanyard so you can push back against the trunk with your legs, you can friction your way up the trunk. We call it the old man method

The downside is if your legs give or the lanyard looses purchase. Without an overhead tie in, gravity kicks in fast!

Repositioning a second lanyard would require good skill at the swing and catch as you cannot lean forward

Tony
 
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