Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, I searched and didnt find anything too specific.
I'm a huge fan of redundancy and am always looking for ways to increase my safety barrier while climbing. Especially since I am mostly self teaching SRT in my work.
Now, I was wondering if any of you scholarly tree folk could speak to the safety of arb specific static and dynamic ropes on an anchor point (i.e 1.4% elongation vs something like 4%). I was climbing a burr oak the other day with no obvious main lead, there were about 4 or 5 vertical leads about 10 degrees off-center all of the same height. I trusted the anchor because I know the species enough but this got me thinking about situations like this with more brittle species that I am less familiar with. Normally I would just immediately set redirects to share the load a bit but if that's not possible, I'm just wondering if a more dynamic rope would increase the safety net on my anchor a noticeable amount. There are infinite situations in tree work of course, and if I see something I don't trust I'm not climbing the fuckin thing and I'm okay with walking away from stuff. But there are just so many situations where confidence may be there but some dark side of you thinks about the what if. I'd just like to know I'm doing everything I can. I can suffer thru a climb on some rubber band shit rope if its gonna add a level of safety :b
Excuse the longwinded thing and it might be day one stuff, but I get alot out of hearing from you all that have more experience than I.
I'm a huge fan of redundancy and am always looking for ways to increase my safety barrier while climbing. Especially since I am mostly self teaching SRT in my work.
Now, I was wondering if any of you scholarly tree folk could speak to the safety of arb specific static and dynamic ropes on an anchor point (i.e 1.4% elongation vs something like 4%). I was climbing a burr oak the other day with no obvious main lead, there were about 4 or 5 vertical leads about 10 degrees off-center all of the same height. I trusted the anchor because I know the species enough but this got me thinking about situations like this with more brittle species that I am less familiar with. Normally I would just immediately set redirects to share the load a bit but if that's not possible, I'm just wondering if a more dynamic rope would increase the safety net on my anchor a noticeable amount. There are infinite situations in tree work of course, and if I see something I don't trust I'm not climbing the fuckin thing and I'm okay with walking away from stuff. But there are just so many situations where confidence may be there but some dark side of you thinks about the what if. I'd just like to know I'm doing everything I can. I can suffer thru a climb on some rubber band shit rope if its gonna add a level of safety :b
Excuse the longwinded thing and it might be day one stuff, but I get alot out of hearing from you all that have more experience than I.