Rope Grapple?

[Winterbush]

I was asked by a friend (Vermeer Mechanic) who was asked by an aquaintance,(solo climber/rigger) about a remote controlled grapple that attached to lowering lines so he could rope limbs while he climbed. He doesn't want to come down and untie his rope. The only thing that I know of is the rig em and roll. Has anyone else heard of such an animal, or has anyone ever heard of a man bad enough to lift and lower a rig em and roll in the tree.

 

[southsoundtree]

Better to use the double whip tackle with slings/ biners and a lowering device approach which has been discussed, IMO.

 

[Winterbush]

ok. but has anyone heard of such a device?

 

[southsoundtree]

I can't imagine how it would be powered.

 

[chewbacca]

Hamsters on a wheel, trained to run by whistle commands.

 

[theXman]

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I was asked by a friend (Vermeer Mechanic) who was asked by an aquaintance,(solo climber/rigger) about a remote controlled grapple that attached to lowering lines so he could rope limbs while he climbed. He doesn't want to come down and untie his rope. The only thing that I know of is the rig em and roll. Has anyone else heard of such an animal, or has anyone ever heard of a man bad enough to lift and lower a rig em and roll in the tree.

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any grapple would be way too heavy I would think.

Maybe you could use Radio Controled Electronic Chokers though.


they use them in high-line logging sometimes.

I wonder how big the radio control part is though? the choker part doesn't look too big and i bet you could convert to rope.

shouldn't be much bigger than my crane radio control I suppose. And i keep it on my side while climbing.

link to a smaller one:

web page

 

[ipkyss]

I would hire someone to untie the rope. Can't believe the first comment was not about climbing solo

 

[TimberJack]

zip line with lots of slings

 

[treewill]

Why not just send down a loop with the limb on a sling? When it gets to the ground, untie from up top and pull the rope through. I think this is what sean is talking about also, right?

 

[southsoundtree]

Yes. That's what I mean.

 

[Jako]

that works well so long as you have enough rope and enough slings. if you don't have enough biners and slings you can run the rope through a good crotch on the branch being cut that you know will hold the rope when it is cut depending on how you set up the line

 

[Jako]

that's for those solo prune jobs we don't speak of. If it's a takedown and you don't have a guy on the ground to run ropes when you know you have to rig, something is very wrong...but I'd have to give you props for luggin the stuff up there.