speed line demo

[western_DAWGGG]

This long over due pic of OX speedlining a cottonwood at a so. cal demo. The people thought it was awesome .Mostly because they had never seen it before.
After this workshop we started getting calls for speedline instruction in the local mountains .It was just as the ponderosa bark beetle infestation started.
Ox is settup on a floating false crotch attachment with an anchor line which has a double pulley attachment for the french prusik. A star was born.good job Ox

ROBDOG

 

[Mark Chisholm]

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Ox is settup on a floating false crotch attachment with an anchor line which has a double pulley attachment for the french prusik

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I missed that Rob, could you elab?

 

[acushman]

are there any books on speedlining?

 

[western_DAWGGG]

OK Mark, well when we put this conference together .Your buddy Tom saw my rigging for the speedline and redid it and I was impressed .His attachments were much better than mine.
Anyway the cottonwood that we settup on was about 40 ft tall but was leaning on about a 60 degree angle and some smart guy who got there before us decided to start a flat back cut in the tree.Thankfully his saw was probably dull and he didnt make it even a quater of the way through.
well this was at least a year prior and before we started this workshop luck had it that we had another tree to rigg off of next to the one we were speedlinin.
I set up an anchor line in the tree for one of us in the demo to work off of with a double pulley attached on the tie in point at about 50 ft.From that double pulley was set the french prusix and from the ground after the Ox clipped into the climbing line the tail of his line was sent through the double pulley .So what he had was a four way pull of about 50ft with a 200ft rope.
When he first starting pulling on the rope at ascent he was heard saying(this is too simple it aint even like climbing) While Tom preparing to demo his SRT Phillips was doing his application and demo of his retrievable falsecrotch and the footlock competition was underway.
a fun day maybe nextime you can join us...........ROBDOG

 

[jf1962]

Try the National Arborist Association (NAA) www.NATLARB.COM

Rigging for Removal by Donald F.Blair

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I gotcha ( I think?). He was tied into a dbl pulley with his tail back through?