How to use the F8 revolver

Great video Kevin!!! I was sold by the end it.

Today I broke down and ordered the revolver after realizing it would have been a big help yesterday. I had tie in that was almost impossible to isolate until I was right there next to it. I could have saved myself a lot of struggling using this system!
 
I removed a very dead ash tree the other day. I did not want to put my weight on ash tree. there was an oak limb growing out over the ash, and behind that a spruce. I threw my throwline over the very tips of the oak limb and into the top of spruce and let the weight fall to the ground.

I pulled my rope through the spruce and over the tips of the oak limb and down, the tip of the oak redirected me perfectly over the ash. My line was in the very top of the spruce but backed up by all the other limbs.
 
Its funny in my video I say it wrong. I say "you never lose any friction!" I should have said you never gain any friction. Its one of those things I always get wrong, good luck with it RD.
 
Well, what about redirecting all around the tree? I noticed the zig-zag pattern on the decent to the ground, in the video. I imagine that requires you to calibrate the amount of tail you have, when you are doing a work plan. After all, if you plan to redirect all around, you'd have to give yourself all that tail to get back to the ground.
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Then, how difficult would that be to pull out? That would be a lot of friction.
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getting your tail length right usually isnt to much of an issue, especially if you can have your ground guy let more rope into the system if you get into another tree or something. Pulling the rope out was what got me in the masters challenge in NC, it whipped around a branch and cinched itself tight, so you have to be careful. Ussually there the rope comes on out of there, I havent wrapped it up so much I couldnt pull it. For going tree to tree though, there is nothing like SRT.
 
I can see how traversing from tree to tree SRT would be easy with the assistance of a groundsmen, but how would it be better than DbRT without the assistance of a groundie?

Just curious because of ignorance on the matter.
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with a 150 foot line, you have 150 feet through the trees that you can go. Very rarely do I need the ground guy to add more rope into the system which he does in the same way he would lower me if I had an accident. I use another rope for this giving me 300 feet of rope.

It is superior to dDrt because you can recrotch constantly through out the canopies without losing ability to move. In Ddrt you can only ever go 75 feet before having to recrotch which involves pulling your rope out and moving it.

I always have a groundie with me and they ussually are down to give or take rope for me.
 
Does anyone have a good detailed photo of how the F8 revolver/Figure 8 system is set up?

I would like to try this but don't know where to start!
 
If I understand this correctly, the extension with the figure 8 and revolver takes some of the weight so that when you descend all of the weight isn't on your hitch. Can an aluminum bridge saddle ring be used in place of the figure 8? Is the figure 8 even necessary?
 
you can use the large diameter cambium saver ring as well, but it is a little smaller than the eight so the eight works a little better. A saddle ring would be way too small, at least mine are.
 
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