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B_Strange

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Hi tree folks,

I’m new here and new to the industry. I stumbled into the arborist camp and landed at an awesome company in Blacksburg, VA. Great guys, amazing boss, really good teachers. New to tree climbing but have been a rock climber for years. My boss invested in quite a bit of gear I can use but I need to buy a rope and throw cube set up so I can acess a tree without borrowing those items constantly and so I can practice.

I’ve enjoyed lurking and hope to contribute as I learn and grow in the industry.

Thanks!
 
Hi southsandtree! Both. I have a friction saver. I have been leaning towards the Yale 11.7 ropes on the advice of my crew leader. Budget is obviously a factor. What are your thoughts on the Blue Moon rope?
 
Great.

Have had Blue moon and Poison Hyvee. Super durable. Worth the money. 11.7 makes me want to use a foot ascender as much as possibly, to save my hands. Rope-walking with a floating ascender, in addition to a foot ascender is muy bueno.

Climbing on 11mm HTP for SRT/ SRS mostly, at the moment. Definitely use a foot ascender.

If you don't have the dollars immediately, you can make a wooden rope wrench (how I started on hitch-based SRT after a GriGri, pre Rope Wrench ZKI), non-midline attachable (so what, minor inconvenience compared to climbing DdRT) or out of a strap hinge, per the recent thread, that is midline attachable for under $20.

A crafty person could probably make a wooden WR with one slic pin to make it midline attachable.



Hang out, be yourself, post some pics, questions, jokes, etc.
 
Thanks for the advice on gear and forum decorum. I have an ISC foot ascender and was planning on buying a CMI glide pulley and slic pin to use as a RW when going SRT. I like the idea of saving money though and will fiddle around with the strap hinge idea. I would love a SAKA mini knee ascender. Those knee ascenders really helped me access the canopy faster.

I’m going to work as many hours as possible before the expo and hopefully get a rope there.
 
Welcome to the world of the feeble minded B! You are in one of the most beautiful locations in the eastern half of the country! Second only to central pennsylvania. Great university too. VT has an awesome urban forestry program as well. Avail yourself to the knowledge there. Since you have been lurking here a while, I don't have to tell you to watch out for jeffgu.
 
JD3000 said:
...a misunderstood monster...
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I resemble that remark!

Welcome to the circus, @B_Strange... if you have a fondness for banjo music and canoe rides, you might want to keep it to yourself. We don't want to frighten any small children or @JD3000.

The Yale 11.7mm ropes are great! I think they're the best place to start out, these days... pretty much everyone likes them, and they're very good for an all purpose climb line, even if you move on to a different rope for one technique or the other. I like kernmantles, these days, for SRT, but I don't mind using the Blue Moon or Aztec for that on occasion.
 
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Well. . . I do enjoy fishing from a canoe and my daughter is teaching herself the banjo. No dueling banjos though. We live on a small homestead in Craig County, VA. I don’t *think* we are scary . . .but we have been known to raise our own dinner and the girls help skin and gut the animals we harvest.
 
Throw cubes are nice but any rigid container will work for throw line as long as you dont shake it around and it stays nice and flat. Buckets, boxes, stiff bags. Lids are nice. ;)
 
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