Spur / Foot Ascender

tuttle · Jun 18, 2014

Thanks, design is an explosion in reverse....be great if we could all just workout a clip on/clip off method.

marlinspiker · Jun 18, 2014

the best option i have found is to put your foot ascender on and then the spikes. this keeps it relatively secure.

TreeLogic · Jun 18, 2014

marlinspiker said:
the best option i have found is to put your foot ascender on and then the spikes. this keeps it relatively secure.

and the best part about that is you can still use each independently. think that'll work with pantin and geckos?

marlinspiker · Jun 18, 2014

i do it with the CT and the geckos

TreeLogic · Jun 18, 2014

i'll try it. or maybe i need the CT...

802climber · Jun 18, 2014

I have put in a redirect, come down for lunch, and just put a CMI foot ascender on right over my spurs and it worked just fine

TreeLogic · Jun 18, 2014

i tried pantin with geckos the other day...i think spikes on 1st and then pantin....didn't work. i'll try pantin 1st next and see.

MikePowers321 · Jun 19, 2014

tuttle said:
Now i'm not saying its going to work, or its a work safety thing...but I just wanted to try a method that could be throw away if needed, and something that takes two seconds to do...its a wide cabletie wrapped in a figure 8 on a croll, the position is good and it only moves a bit with my full weight on it.
Should be giving it a try in a few days.

I like it! Looks like it may have a bit of play in it, a bit of potential twisting. I'd like to know if this works out for you Tuttle.

Logic: I was always using my foot ascender under the spikes. It wasn't so bad. I just thought there was a better way and I knew I had a second CT ascender for pruning, so why not bolt that bad boy on. Works great.

One less thing to take on and off is always nice as well. I feel like a mechanical exoskeleton everytime I jump up in a tree, and I am even pretty good about minimizing gear/clutter.

To each their own is the name of the game we call life.

islandarb · Jun 19, 2014

Now Swing like to get things right, these were a gift from my buddy David Coker of Alabama....steel buckingham pole gaffs with a ct right ascender...they have been tested by him and are good to go... was away in Canada and have not yet tried them...look very promising...if so my titanium bucks will get the go ( gotta figure out the mounting of the titanium )....

MikePowers321 · Jun 19, 2014

Looks slick Swing. Are both the steel and aluminum tapped/threaded (if you can tell)? Wondering how he did it with the bolts coming through the backside like that. Looks nice and slick, and the CT ascender is much more smooth than the cmi I used.

islandarb · Jun 19, 2014

Mike both the steel and aluminium are tapped makes it very strong, and a weld above the ct for added strength....they are pro fabricated...he is working on a bracket as we speak that will be a add on....

tuttle · Jun 19, 2014

I wonder how long it will be when they are fully integrated, I am looking the spikes and just the sprung tooth mechanism....how's this gunna work??

Bolt straight through the toothed clamp and the spikes, invent a different spring, and thinkup up a new rope guide plate.....hope Buckingham are clocking this thread

That old chestnut · Jul 3, 2014

That's awesome nice work guys

BigWood · Jul 3, 2014

Just in case you don't want to drill holes, hose clamps and a short chunk of rebar wire works mint.

jf1962 · Jul 3, 2014

I have a friend who installed a pantin on his hooks and as he was going up his rope came out of the pantin and gaffed his leg , he's done w/that ... just SRT ,or gaff it up .. Later in SO-CAL

TreeLogic · Jul 3, 2014

jf1962 said:
I have a friend who installed a pantin on his hooks and as he was going up his rope came out of the pantin and gaffed his leg , he's done w/that ... just SRT ,or gaff it up .. Later in SO-CAL

Yeah, slipping out of the Pantin sounds like it could have painful repercussions with spikes on. Maybe instead of giving up on it, your friend should try clipping it, to block it from coming open...at least with spikes on

islandarb · Jul 3, 2014

Javier it's all in technique, when I step up on my ascender with my right foot I invariably have my left foot in a bent position slightly above my right.. others do it differently...that being said I have not used the above set yet and I a not sure it is my thing...it's experimental... I still prefer SRT'ing up then putting on my spikes at the top if I can work the tree from the top...most times I just spike up and work one side from the ground making a hole as I go....different scenarios depending on tree but I like my standard buckingham Titaniums too much I guess....I am just used to doing things this way and it works good...will try those sometime if the right tree comes along...hope I don't gaff myself...lol

TreeLogic · Jul 3, 2014

Swing, I'm thinking that the potential of spiking yourself might make you less confident in your foot ascender technique, so why not put a clip in it? Hell I've never tried it either...just trying to use my noggin.

tuttle · Jul 3, 2014

The good thing about a croll, is it does not have the same principals as a pantin, the rope stays fast.

TreeProdigy · Jul 9, 2014

I took the strap off my cmi foot acender and drilled two piolot holes where the straps slots were used an old bashlin climber without spur matched them together drilled piolots using cmi as guide screwed in two self tappers using jb ground off screw tip only and have used them for 3 years comfortably