Looking for the ideal rope.

oldoakman said:
I'm going to start calling you the Ropenator!
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Oak, there are four things I love in climbing most gear wise. Ropes, hitchcords, wrenches, tending pulleys. Let's put this in perspective. I own 6 eccentrics, 3 phlotiches, 6 OG hitchclimbers. It is just me and one other climber in my company plus my kid who uses them. Do we talk foot ascenders and Sakas. Geez I do have a problem. Damn I have 3 roperunners, 2 OGs and a Pro, plus I sold one a few years back.
 
Dan Cobb said:
How do you justify so many redundant equipment purchases? We need to know your secret!!
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Just go for it. It is the little things in life. Climbing trees for work and recreation is my thing, so those items bring me great joy. They can last a long time too, hardware I mean. Other than going to the beach I have no other interests, except watching my son skateboard. That is another topic, kid has as much skateboards as a pro, but he skates at a high level for his age.
 
Do many people use the end of their climbing rope to cinch up on a crown to give it more strength, so you can hang from it to cut down or prune adjacent trees that are too dead to put full weight in or too small weak tree to get to the top of without breaking the small, thin tree?
The end of the climbing rope was used, because I didn't have three lanyards with me, (needed the two I always carry), and didn't want to get another rope from the car.
 

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Willber said:
Do many people use the end of their climbing rope to cinch up on a crown to give it more strength, so you can hang from it to cut down or prune adjacent trees that are too dead to put full weight in or too small weak tree to get to the top of without breaking the small, thin tree?
The end of the climbing rope was used, because I didn't have three lanyards with me, (needed the two I always carry), and didn't want to get another rope from the car.
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Be careful with that, technically a triangle of death (or so it looks to me) and you’re side loading that right stem at a prime lever point. On a dead ash.

Google triangle of death in rock climbing in regards to anchor building
 
Willber said:
Do many people use the end of their climbing rope to cinch up on a crown to give it more strength, so you can hang from it to cut down or prune adjacent trees that are too dead to put full weight in or too small weak tree to get to the top of without breaking the small, thin tree?
The end of the climbing rope was used, because I didn't have three lanyards with me, (needed the two I always carry), and didn't want to get another rope from the car.
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I looked at this before bed. I asked myself where to start. Two of my concerns have been answered above. The other is how come so much mess on the ground, working alone. I like things kept tidy, no tripping hazards and easy to deal with cleanup if everything is processed as it falls. I abhor a messy dropzone. Thanks for posting as I now can see your skillset. That method you are using is a first for me seeing it. A huge NO NO. Serves no purpose. You were above your TIP obviously doing AIRMAIL, so why did you not work everything down to the fat union and the chunk it down. Am I missing something. work clean going up. those stubs are terrible. Help me understand your reasoning, so far it looks odd.
 
Lupin_IV said:
Be careful with that, technically a triangle of death (or so it looks to me) and you’re side loading that right stem at a prime lever point. On a dead ash.

Google triangle of death in rock climbing in regards to anchor building
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Oh that lever is huge. Just dropping down on that and returning to finish is odd. The fatty union below that would put things in compression to drop to the ground and return, my obvious choice.
 
Trying to see the whole picture here. Guess the debris is being stacked by the propane tank. the other stuff might be woods debris. But I hardly work in woods. So will retract my earlier observation. Help me understand your reasoning though @Willber. It sure is unique.
 
This tree looks to be just a tad over 30' tall. Is there something of value right out of frame in this image? Why aren't you just felling it? Also, it may be time to post this in a different thread because this is no longer about rope selection.
 
I think @Willber is hanging from the crown, but not the rope constraining the crown. Climbing the doubled rope that's through the sleeve looks okay. Climbing the single rope that's constraining the crown looks dangerous; the forces will be magnified, pulling laterally on a taut section of rope. However, it doesn't appear that the rope is rigged for that.

To rig the rope constraining the crown, it seems as though you are probably already trusting a TIP that you're trying to reinforce so I'm not sure of the benefit.
 
I like the tie back on your tip but not the loop of rope. do that quite often with a short rope and capturing the tip in case of tip failure or most often trust the tip with another life line lower in the crown as my primary/backup
I third or fourth the stubs as bad habit
 
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