Canopy Anchors

[dtreez]

I haven't gotten around to the American clacker yet, but I'm only a few steps away. After talking to @SoftBankHawks I've started piggybacking a canobase to a soft 8, or just a cinched bowline or butterfly. He's inspired me to try climbing on 2 ropes, and I'm basically committed to it 99% of the time now.

 

[southsoundtree]

Two full climbing systems with or without a lanyard, can be great.

 

[southsoundtree]

I haven't gotten around to the American clacker yet, but I'm only a few steps away. After talking to @SoftBankHawks I've started piggybacking a canobase to a soft 8, or just a cinched bowline or butterfly. He's inspired me to try climbing on 2 ropes, and I'm basically committed to it 99% of the time now.

Any pics or video, please?

 

[southsoundtree]

In the works. I've come to accept I'm just not the guy to do it, as I can't focus on that and the work I'm doing, and I don't have time outside of work to do much.

Same boat

 

[Crimsonking]

Here's an option that's not a cinched canopy anchor, but another use of the RollnAnchor.

 

[Crimsonking]

Just ran a cinched canopy anchor with it Thursday, forgot to take pics. Beautiful live oak crawl, set a retrieval ring on my tail when I was done and retrieved through natural redirects.

 

[treebing]

Here's an option that's not a cinched canopy anchor, but another use of the RollnAnchor.

thats great

 

[dtreez]

Any pics or video, please?

I'm not climbing much right now, but when I get back to it, I'll try to remember to take some pics and post here.

 

[dtreez]

Any pics or video, please?

Apologies for the clutter, but this setup worked perfectly for me the other day.

I set the yellow StatX (200') from the ground and used a homemade soft 8 for an anchor. I had about 100' for retrieval and 100' to climb on.

I then climbed up to my tie in with the purple Kalimba (~90') and set that as another soft 8 (fimblsaver). On this system, I only gave myself about 5' of rope for the retrieval end, which attached to the knot block on the StatX.

I ended up taking 1 redirect with StatX and 2 with Kalimba. Both ropes were retrieved by pulling on just the one retrieval end of StatX, and everything came out beautifully.

Again, @SoftBankHawks did all the heavy lifting for me on this one. Can't thank him enough. This is how I climb most of the time now.

 

[Diggity]

Apologies for the clutter, but this setup worked perfectly for me the other day.

I set the yellow StatX (200') from the ground and used a homemade soft 8 for an anchor. I had about 100' for retrieval and 100' to climb on.

I then climbed up to my tie in with the purple Kalimba (~90') and set that as another soft 8 (fimblsaver). On this system, I only gave myself about 5' of rope for the retrieval end, which attached to the knot block on the StatX.

I ended up taking 1 redirect with StatX and 2 with Kalimba. Both ropes were retrieved by pulling on just the one retrieval end of StatX, and everything came out beautifully.

Again, @SoftBankHawks did all the heavy lifting for me on this one. Can't thank him enough. This is how I climb most of the time now.

What’s the point of climbing with two lines like that?

 

[dtreez]

What’s the point of climbing with two lines like that?

For me personally, it's about work positioning. Two ropes allows/encourages me to work in a way that's easier on my body.

I can take two redirects and work two adjacent columns of a tree with one ascent.

Taking awkward redirects is a lot less awkward with two ropes.

 

[Njdelaney]

I almost never do two systems but whenever I do, I always think "I should do this more often".

 

[SoftBankHawks]

Apologies for the clutter, but this setup worked perfectly for me the other day.

I set the yellow StatX (200') from the ground and used a homemade soft 8 for an anchor. I had about 100' for retrieval and 100' to climb on.

I then climbed up to my tie in with the purple Kalimba (~90') and set that as another soft 8 (fimblsaver). On this system, I only gave myself about 5' of rope for the retrieval end, which attached to the knot block on the StatX.

I ended up taking 1 redirect with StatX and 2 with Kalimba. Both ropes were retrieved by pulling on just the one retrieval end of StatX, and everything came out beautifully.

Again, @SoftBankHawks did all the heavy lifting for me on this one. Can't thank him enough. This is how I climb most of the time now.

Piggybacking ropes to one another has endless configurations..it's quite fun!
I'd definitely recommend trying the American Clacker. It streamlines everything and gets rid of things falling and getting stuck.

Good work my friend!