Prusik on cable

[theXman]

last one I'll post.

Drilling, picture more up close.

 

[theXman]

oh, and yes, for some reason it looks like I'm drilling down at an angle and it looks like the first rod is at an angle too.

does it look like this from the camera point of view of the ground or what?

cause I know they were very close to level. When I was tightening them with wrenches, I know they were right across from each other.

looks very angled in that picture though...

 

[Fred_Berkelhammer]

I think it's the perspective, due to the drill being out to your side, and closer to the camera.

Nice job! Did you tie in doubled to descend, or get lowered?

 

[theXman]

I decended on doubled. My 175 ft. rope.

you know, if I just saw the picture of the bad crack, I'd push toward the removal.

but the customer liked the tree and the crown was not weighted on the house side....

I felt good with the bolting and the additional cable in the crown. So... I gave them that option.

 

[theXman]

I tossed a throw bag to the second limb or so...

then ascended on CMI ascenders with some threaded rod I had made up for handles.

I would have hip thrusted the whole thing in the past.

Kinda similar to Greg Lui's ascenders I had used in CA ( I think that's how you spell his last name) I learned this from when I met those guys in California for Redwood climbing years ago. Thanks Greg, Jerry, Jessie and maybe Mike?(I think it's Mike?).

I should get out more and meet more climbers.

Hard to learn more stuff when your the top climber in your company and no one else to get up to date ideas from.

But: I'm competing this year for the first time, hope to learn something new.

 

[riverman]

is it nteresting for you?
http://www.gudelius.de/fb2.htm

All experiments eseguited with it.sport,montagne:
http://www.eneafiorentini.it/icorsroc/nodroc3.html

 

[Kevin]

You can always run the cable through a block, put a preform on it past the block and pull on that from the ground.