New Tree Climber seeking rope advice, difference and reasons for climbing, static and rigging lines

[Frax]

You've spent a lot of time studying elongation. For a beginning climber this probably isn't going to be your main deal.
All arborist lines are basically 'static'. I'd get a rope that works well in doubled or single rope configuration. Unless you're humping yourself up 70 feet or more in mid-air as a usual course, things like how the rope knots, how tiring it is to hold while climbing and what kind of devices you want to run on it are going to be more important. A heavy rope is going to tire you out sooner too, because you'll be shucking it out of the way of your rigging or moving it while climbing around and you're going to hate that f'ing half inch rope in about 20 minutes and you won't give a shit that it has "no elongation".
The bounciness that climbers dislike when janking up 70 feet in open air is often a result of the tie in, and not the rope at all.

If I was choosing a solid rope that is perfectly wonderful for both doubled and singled rope, I'd pick one of the Poison Ivy variations. Can't go wrong.


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[Criss]

Do you have a plan for each of these these situations?

Luckily I'm working in fairly tall fir trees, where the branches behave fairly predictably, and none of them are very close to the ground. I also won't be taking any tops unless I'm removing a tree, and then I will be taking it from as high as possible, so it won't be very big.

But those things having been said, the bottom line is the most important thing is I absolute refuse to be in a rush. Mindfulness is the absolute mandate, and with little experience, it is all the more important to be completely methodical and deliberate in everything I do. Nothing can be taken for granted, assumed or rushed. If I'm too uncomfortable to take all the time to triple-think every move, then I'll stop and fix whatever is making me uncomfortable, and if that means I wait until tomorrow to get back to work, then so be it. My life is not worth throwing away due to impatience. And at least I'm good at working like that, it's a method I've learned after decades of hydrographic surveying, where no two jobs are the same, and you have to really think through every move because you can't afford to screw up.

Finally, I have been attentively watching a lot of hours of first-person tree care videos on YouTube, paying close attention, watching the flow and seeing the details. Yes, I'm also studying more proper materials, but there's something particularly helpful seeing the real work flow up close and personal, which is something that was not really even possible before the era of the GoPro and YouTube. I've always found that closely watching masters is one of the best learning experiences, you see things that otherwise can never quite be written or explained.