Close calls

[Bucknut]

Don't worry about me TL, I'm not a young climber anymore. Been on Ddrt since maybe 95. Still working kinks out of SRT though.

 

[treehumper]

Levi, no it's not double but it's greater than 1x depending on those factors you mentioned. Double is in a frictionless, parallel lines.

 

[TreeLogic]

Don't worry about me TL, I'm not a young climber anymore. Been on Ddrt since maybe 95. Still working kinks out of SRT though.

Yeah right I know better than to worry about you Bucknut. You've been hangin' out here too long to go at something half-assed.
How's the SRT treating you? Seeing the benefits?

 

[Bucknut]

How's the SRT treating you? Seeing the benefits?

Definitely benefits for ascending bigger trees. On medium-sized trees I find myself going back to my old hitch climber system for the simplicity and familiarity. (Old dog, new tricks)

 

[TreeLogic]

So you're using it for ascending only? If so you're missing out on the other half. Working with it is as beneficial as ascending IMO.

 

[eric gill]

65' SRT, anyone else have those moments that shook your ego?

Wow that is some scary stuff. If it would have failed would another crotch have caught u?

 

[RajElectric]

Y'ouch! At least it looks 1/2 inch at the collar! Thank goodness it was healthy!

 

[John_KAYS]

Always a good reminder! It looks like it is over the large limb though, right? Or were you isolated on that sprout? It would have been terrifying either way, but only for a short bit.
Glad you're safe.

 

[TreeLogic]

Always a good reminder! It looks like it is over the large limb though, right? Or were you isolated on that sprout? It would have been terrifying either way, but only for a short bit.
Glad you're safe.

No, he was isolated on that sucker.

Thanks for that pic. I'll make sure I get my line over multiple limbs from now on.

 

[TreeCo]

65' SRT, anyone else have those moments that shook your ego?

I've never had it happen like in your photo but I've been over a nice safe TIP only to discover I was really over a small twig just above it. And by small I mean quite a bit smaller than the one in your photo. Had if failed I'd have taken maybe a two foot drop. SRT would have been a 4ft. drop. Had I been chain sawing when it failed it could have been real bad.

 

[treevet]

I bet you could get injured having a sprout like that fail within a stronger crotch given a 5 to 10 foot unexpected drop as well. If you do a hundred shots, I bet maybe 5 percent of those you/I have accepted hung up on a sprout or skinny stub after being fed up with not hitting the target. Just go ahead and take it and hope for the best. Risk/reward playing your mind.

 

[treevet]

What TreeCo said. Didn't see his post on last post.

 

[treehumper]

I bet you could get injured having a sprout like that fail within a stronger crotch given a 5 to 10 foot unexpected drop as well. If you do a hundred shots, I bet maybe 5 percent of those you/I have accepted hung up on a sprout or skinny stub after being fed up with not hitting the target. Just go ahead and take it and hope for the best. Risk/reward playing your mind.

That's a part of what happened to me. Frustrated by missing the target I accepted a secondary union. What I didn't see is the defect in the limb. It came back to bite me hard. Another 15 mins to set it right and I would've saved myself a whole lot of pain and losses. A rather expensive gamble.

 

[Paul Hedderly]

It was either Tom D. or Mark C. who made a statement sometime back that caught my attention--> Always have backup, ie. over more than one limb. Pretty sure it was in Treehumper's awakening's thread after a branch broke out on him.

This has to be one of the great SRT w/basel safety advantages - to be able to hook over multiple branches.

 

[Jerad Oren]

It was a busy canopy and I thought I was in that crotch, that was the only thing holding me. I'm 170lbs ( that's 77kg for the tea and biscuit folk) and use HAAS system.