New Tribe Grapnel Trickery resources?

[southsoundtree]

@swingdude, been meaning to check that PM you referenced in the other thread.

Happy waaaay-belated birthday!
Did I mention how I hate the post office? My GF went on that mission.

Took me a long time to lay my hands on two NT Grapnel throwline tools deep in some bin somewhere in my shop, stored before I bought/ moved.



Paul is in wide-spreading trees often.
So often, I don't climb wide trees or traverse tree to tree, or trunk to trunk,without a high TIP. Mine is therefore still brand new.

There are lots of tricks for Grapnels...
Let's see them!

Was it @treewill who did the 1/4 mile IIRC, oak grove traverse?

 

[islandarb]

JB is the man......^^^

 

[evo]

@swingdude, been meaning to check that PM you referenced in the other thread.

Happy waaaay-belated birthday!
Did I mention how I hate the post office? My GF went on that mission.

Took me a long time to lay my hands on two NT Grapnel throwline tools deep in some bin somewhere in my shop, stored before I bought/ moved.



Paul is in wide-spreading trees often.
So often, I don't climb wide trees or traverse tree to tree, or trunk to trunk,without a high TIP. Mine is therefore still brand new.

There are lots of tricks for Grapnels...
Let's see them!

Was it @treewill who did the 1/4 mile IIRC, oak grove traverse?

That's a good one... Then there is the throw line method.. Need to be about 2-3 times the height of the distance being thrown. Toss a throw bag over your target, pull the bag just under the target limb and tie a small midline knot in the throw line. Let the bad down until the knot is at your limb. This measures x2 the distance, next tie a loop in the throwline about 12" and attach the grapple to that. Let the bag run down until the grapple and loop are near the limb, then start pumping the throw line to get the grapple to swing and snag the line that hanging under the limb.
carefully pull the grapple and snagged bight back to you..

It's a bit of a PITA. but I will use this to set TIPs on bluff trees from the top edge and just swing down the bluff vs rappelling and then trying to set a throw line.

 

[southsoundtree]

There is a video of that method somewhere.

 

[Jonny]

From Lawrence Schultz.

 

[islandarb]

From Lawrence Schultz.

Wow.....lawrence in NY years ago.

 

[moss]

Drawings I made 2009 showing NT Grapnel traverse setting technique. Pretty funny, I noted what throwline weight and bag to use ;-) It's all about how textured the bark is, for smooth bark trees like say beech use a lighter weight, for coarse bark or grabby bark like white oak, heavier bag.

NT Grapnel technique

I like using a mini snap/biner to attach the Grapnel by girthing it to the throwline

The throw weight is over a limb in the next tree and takes out the slack as I feed the Grapnel out to grab the line below the branch and pull the bag back.

And the infamous first attempt setting a high-line traverse with an NT Grapnel and "Footshot" when I was just a rec cimbing kid ;-) Oh shiite checkout the SRT system, Microcender on a short tether and a hitch below it. It worked, climbed a few old-growth Sequoia that way, with a bungee advancer and a footloop on a tether on the Microcender so it was a decent rope walker.

-AJ