- Location
- Orange, MA
Hip-thrust/ascent on \'tended\' hitch?
Ordered up a new eye to eye prussik cord the other day, so I can give the michochoan/martin hitch a shot, but ended up fabbing one up with a few anchor hitches and some other prussik cord I had laying around the shop.
Now I've only seen this setup used for removals, but know alot of you guys climb on similar setups with the VT/Swabisch/Martin, etc, so was curious how you got around on it.
Most guys at work are stuck on the bowline to a rope snap, and tied off with a taut line in a closed system. I've been on a split tail with a blakes for probably the past year now, and looking to be even a little more progressive. I set up the martin with 3 wraps over, and one under the "tail", and after a bit of messing around with the dressing, got it to grab. Clipped off the micro pulley with a small accessory biner to one of the eyes, and away I went. Used it for a little up n' down taking down a small sugar maple today. Works amazing for tending the tail, even better than I could have imagined. Just a few tugs on the tail, and everythings all tight and ready to go.
Now what I was wondering, is how you guys work a tree with this hitch setup? Say you've got a big tree with multiple leads, and you'll be crossing over and dropping through a few limbs to work one side that you'll end up ascending nearly back up the entire tree due to that fact. Do you just unclip the micropulley and ascend with short movements either through hip-thrusting/modified footlock? Strap on ascenders? Untie the hitch and go with something a bit more "conventional"? Or what I saw as another solution and the guy said he just clipped in a 24" webbing sling between his hitch and his D-rings to give him a longer bridge for ascending?
In all honesty, this is slicker than cow poop as far as I can tell, nearly effortless one handed slack tending, and will definitely be a useful tool. Just wondering how to adapt it to my particular style?
Ordered up a new eye to eye prussik cord the other day, so I can give the michochoan/martin hitch a shot, but ended up fabbing one up with a few anchor hitches and some other prussik cord I had laying around the shop.
Now I've only seen this setup used for removals, but know alot of you guys climb on similar setups with the VT/Swabisch/Martin, etc, so was curious how you got around on it.
Most guys at work are stuck on the bowline to a rope snap, and tied off with a taut line in a closed system. I've been on a split tail with a blakes for probably the past year now, and looking to be even a little more progressive. I set up the martin with 3 wraps over, and one under the "tail", and after a bit of messing around with the dressing, got it to grab. Clipped off the micro pulley with a small accessory biner to one of the eyes, and away I went. Used it for a little up n' down taking down a small sugar maple today. Works amazing for tending the tail, even better than I could have imagined. Just a few tugs on the tail, and everythings all tight and ready to go.
Now what I was wondering, is how you guys work a tree with this hitch setup? Say you've got a big tree with multiple leads, and you'll be crossing over and dropping through a few limbs to work one side that you'll end up ascending nearly back up the entire tree due to that fact. Do you just unclip the micropulley and ascend with short movements either through hip-thrusting/modified footlock? Strap on ascenders? Untie the hitch and go with something a bit more "conventional"? Or what I saw as another solution and the guy said he just clipped in a 24" webbing sling between his hitch and his D-rings to give him a longer bridge for ascending?
In all honesty, this is slicker than cow poop as far as I can tell, nearly effortless one handed slack tending, and will definitely be a useful tool. Just wondering how to adapt it to my particular style?
