Make and throw a monkey fist for placing your lanyard in the tree.

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

One way to make and throw a monkey fist for placing your lanyard in the tree.
It is compact, wraps quickly and pays out well for both vertical and horizontal tosses. The throw weight can be added for extra distance.

Mumford's Monkey Fist Quick Draw ;-)

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[tuttle]

tidy darts

 

[dogwood]

Nice trick, Richard, well done! This will prove to be useful, for sure.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Walter, next rendezvous I challenge you to a duel, start with your lanyard flaked out on the ground, 10 paces (ok, maybe 5), turn and fire! Wear your helmet!!!!!

 

[joezilla11]

Haha! Thanks for that I'll have to try it!

 

[Pelorus]

Good one, Richard!
is that a choir of crickets or frogs in the background sound track?

 

[dogwood]

Walter, next rendezvous I challenge you to a duel, start with your lanyard flaked out on the ground, 10 paces (ok, maybe 5), turn and fire! Wear your helmet!!!!!

Hah! You're on!

 

[gmcttr]

Perfect timing. I took one last look at the buzz before heading out the door to try my first tree to tree transfer and saw this post. I used this to easily get the rope across into the second tree. MUCH better than just a weight. Thanks!

Now I just need magnets instead of the NT Grapnel getting hung up on everything. Hmmm...is the MagThrowBag strong enough to pull a climbing rope back across or just throw lines?

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Depends on how it is done. Generally I pull the throw line first, that is how the technique is done. I recommend about a 10oz bag with the small magnet and a 12-14 oz with the large magnet. Pull strength will run between 9-13 pounds. I'm in the process of designing a bag to match the magnets but Tree Stuff also now sells bags that are magnet friendly.
If you throw your line over the limb with a magnet and just swing the other magnet over you can pull up to about 40 pounds. Probably enough to pull your rope over.
If it is a lanyard such as this with the throw bag.....and you can swing the magnet out to reach it....it will more than likely come back, depending on the bark of course.
But for the big traverses of say 30 to 40 feet, the technique shown in the video is needed.

P.S. I'm just answering the question and I did not start this thread or make the video to promote the use of magnets, they are pretty cool though.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

Good one, Richard!
is that a choir of crickets or frogs in the background sound track?

Dave, it is crickets, frogs, katydids and probably a million other bugs. You get spoiled up there in the north just listening to the quite of nature.
There are times here that you can't hear the camera beeps over all the bug noise.

 

[gmcttr]

Depends on how it is done...

The 'monkey fist' worked amazingly well for me to put the rope through a narrow crotch about 15' away, but trying to retrieve it with the NT grapnel proved problematic and in this particular case risked getting it hung up on small branches behind the rope. I first tried prusiking the grapnel to the rope with a 3' zing it loop and running it over, but a lower limb in front of the trunk kept me from getting enough swing on it to snag the rope on the backside. I finally snagged it after several tries by throwing the grapnel, attached to a dynaglide throw line, across (risking getting it hung up).

As I typed my earlier "thanks" post, it occurred to me that the magnets might have worked better, thus my question.

Is there a better retrieval method I'm overlooking for a rope ~15' out?

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

.......... (risking getting it hung up).
................
Is there a better retrieval method I'm overlooking for a rope ~15' out?

First of all I can get ANYTHING hung up.
Sounds like you tried the grapnel.......toss your bag over the destination limb......let out another 15' of line, (you must be 30' above ground or obstacle)......tie a loop or alpine butterfly with a long loop in the line that is now in your hand.....girth the grapnel to the long loop.........let out another 15' of line and swing the grapnel to catch the 30' of line that is hanging on the back side of your destination limb.......you have let out 45' of of line plus the loop at this point.........once you snag the line on the back side pull it all back and set your 15' traverse.

 

[Richard Mumford-yoyoman]

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As I typed my earlier "thanks" post, it occurred to me that the magnets might have worked better, thus my question.

Is there a better retrieval method I'm overlooking for a rope ~15' out?

or............

 

[gmcttr]

First of all I can get ANYTHING hung up.
Sounds like you tried the grapnel.......toss your bag over the destination limb......let out another 15' of line, (you must be 30' above ground or obstacle)......tie a loop or alpine butterfly with a long loop in the line that is now in your hand.....girth the grapnel to the long loop.........let out another 15' of line and swing the grapnel to catch the 30' of line that is hanging on the back side of your destination limb.......you have let out 45' of of line plus the loop at this point.........once you snag the line on the back side pull it all back and set your 15' traverse.

Yep...that was the first method I tried, could not get to work this time and did a poor job describing.