Hitch Climber Expertise Needed...

dogwood said:
The main reason I used the O-rig was to keep the climbing hitch away from the termination knot.
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And the reason the "O" rig kept the termination knot away from the hitch is that the termination knot connects to the bottom of the same biner that the hitch cord is attached to, after first running down through a ring or biner on the rope bridge, and then back up to the bottom of the hitch cord biner. This forces the termination knot and the hitch cord to stay 180 degrees away from each other, if I'm thinking right.

That point took a little while to sink in, for me. I just thought I'd try to re-state it in a more obvious way for others out there trying to grasp the idea.

Thanks again, dogwood.

Tim
 
Bhard47 said:
That was the best explaination of the "O" rig yet. It helped me understand way more. I'm gonna climb on it more often now. Thank you!
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First, you are welcome. Second, I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I have not played with this setup yet, since I made the post that you are referring to, so I'm not even sure whether or not I'm correct in what I said.

So, as always, practice with it "low and slow" first until you are comfortable that it is working for you in a reliable, predictable manner. If it works at all, since as I said, I'm uncertain I'm correct about the setup.

I would love to hear back from you on how well it works out for you, in this thread, of course.

Thanks for the kind words, Bhard47.

Tim
 
Hey, Bhard47. Be sure you take a close look at that photograph of the "O" rig system that dogwood posted. If I were you I'd save the image for future reference, too. I think that little prussik hitch that has the dog snap on the end of it going to the triple attachment pulley may be absolutely critical to the proper functioning of the "O" rig system.

I think it is the thing that holds the triple attachment pulley just where you want it, and allows the system to be easily adjusted closer to you or further away, whichever is your preference.

I climb SRT now, just about exclusively, which I guess is part of the reason I have not tried this yet. I wish I'd known about it back when I was still in my DdRT phase.

It looks like it might solve two problems that I had at the time; that of the termination knot bumping the hitch, as well as having an easy way to adjust the distance of the system from your body.

I always found the motion of having to pull up on the rope to tend slack at the pulley unnatural. Being able to pull lots of rope from just under the hitch, and thereby having it basically self-tend, would have made things a lot easier.

As Peter said though, make sure you can still reach your hitch.

Tim
 
I mostly use SRT for initial access and possibly work directly along that path, and then switch to Ddrt, but I'll tell you what, ascending more than about 15' or 20' with a doubled rope sure feels like some buuuullsheeeeet these days. Having said that, it is my humble opinion that full time SRT production pruning of large trees for climbers over 235ish lbs is not practical. Feel free to tar and feather my wide derriere now, you skinny-mini Bingham-heads and boners.
 
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fall_risk said:
I mostly use SRT for initial access and possibly work directly along that path, and then switch to Ddrt, but I'll tell you what, ascending more than about 15' or 20' with a doubled rope sure feels like some buuuullsheeeeet these days. Having said that, it is my humble opinion that full time SRT production pruning of large trees for climbers over 235ish lbs is not practical. Feel free to tar and feather my wide derriere now, you skinny-mini Bingham-heads and boners.
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Well I can only say this cause I am a large dude too 6'3" and 250lbs. A wire gate revolver set close to your TIP make pruning with SRT a dream just my two cents.
 
Magnum783 said:
Well I can only say this cause I am a large dude too 6'3" and 250lbs. A wire gate revolver set close to your TIP make pruning with SRT a dream just my two cents.
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And just to state it for the record, the idea here is to use the wire gate revolver to establish a 3 to 1 mechanical advantage system by looping the rope that comes out under your climbing system through the revolver to make it easy to pull yourself back in using arm strength alone, if necessary.

Thanks for posting your experience as a bigger guy using SRT for pruning, Magnum783. It definitely adds to the available knowledge base on SRT.

Tim
 
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