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On here or pm?
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Keep it public, Reg. Go for it! I won't whine.
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Ok Taylor. With respect, I know a little about product placement on videos and photos etc but I think you guys could be a little more subtle of late. Just a couple of recent examples:
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=266880&page=4&fpart=1&vc=1
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=272858&an=0&page=0#272858
Pot calling the kettle black, perhaps....ok guilty of that myself many times over....but the mere suggestion that I need one DMM pulley + DMM Karabiner to lower another DMM pulley out of a tree is just too much, even by my low standards.
Hopefully moving on from that.
The profile on the impact block is a thing of beauty....such curves are long overdue for critical hardware of this purpose, not to mention the WLL. You already sold it to me right there.
The hollow in the big block is a nice touch also, I’ve seen that kind of thing only previously in sailing pulleys etc. Of course I can set up the same floating configurations by attaching my pull lines to the sling instead of the block....but yours still looks a little slicker and less cluttered.
The traverse (speed-line) set up. Apart from needing one less pulley/sling, there’s no real advantage of running both lines through the same block, right? I personally try to separate the lines by at least a foot so they’re are less likely to get crossed over on the way down or back up.
You had a couple of logs double tied, a control line running through the hollow of the big block, which was also used to redirect the primary line over its pulley and then up to the PRP and back down again onto the log.
The sequence in the video clearly worked to plan....but I couldn’t help notice the huge distance you allowed between the big block and where the control line was ultimately tied off. So that log has the potential to shift twice that distance towards the tree/climber when it comes off the stump. I know it didn’t come into play in your examples because your primary rigging line must have been tied off either in-line or inside the rigging point up above, which would cause it to swing away as opposed to towards....but if your line was tied off outside the high rigging-point then the log would do the exact opposite, the extent and sometimes violence of which obviously depends on the size of the limb and just how far out you tie-off the primary rigging line along the limb.
Now you, I and probably most of the members on this site are well aware of that scenario, but on youtube in general, who knows what and how much might be taken for granted. Of course you could say that for a whole bunch of video on there, but this one I think carries a little more responsibility seems as it is actively promoting a real product and respective methodology. I mention this only because I want you to cover your back brother.
FWiW, when using the same technique I always taken the time to explain to the guys why I’ve placed the block as absolutely close the tie-off as is safe to do so, and make sure I’m the hell out of the way when it falls off the stump (see attachment).
Look at all this $hit I’ve written already, boy you can tell Juliet it out tonight!
