Spurless Climbing

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Rickytree

Just wondering if anyone has experience with ever using a sling or something similar to climb up a long tall limb. Possibly to make a secure foot hold. We have some large Red Oaks around here and depending on the situation if one of these could work could possibly save me from climbing it twice or possibly tree times.
 
You could consider using a false crotch set up on the spar for accend and use a lanyard to keep you in position as you accend and or girth hitch some webbing slings to make a "stair case" to your work area..

My question to you is why not shoot a line to a high TIP and just climb to the work area..

Maybe a picture would explain your goal better..


Be SAFE!!!
 
I have always thought about using the climbing stands for tree work! I use one in the woods hunting and the good ones have a very stable platform. I would just use caution for anything snagging the platform when you are dropping limbs or chunks. I am assuming you still tie in when you are working from it?
 
I've used slings more than a few times when spurless climbing, usually it is to gain just one more step out to the tips rather than climbing up a ways but there's no reason not to.

I watched a fellow climbing palms in the Dominican Republic with nothing more than two slings tied out of old three strand. If I remember right he kept one under his hip and stood in the other.
 
With some of the large Red Oaks or Walnuts which are very broad it is sometimes tuff to get a TIP that will work the entire tree. I am thinking of a adjustable foot sling and with pressure would not slip down. I use a 2 pole 8 foot each pruner and sometimes this isn't enough.
 
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I have always thought about using the climbing stands for tree work! I use one in the woods hunting and the good ones have a very stable platform. I would just use caution for anything snagging the platform when you are dropping limbs or chunks. I am assuming you still tie in when you are working from it?

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we use our lanyards in conjunction with the stands for ascent. once were up top some guys like to use srt with a stem tie as seen in the video but i like to use an adjustable friction saver running Ddrt under the palm crown. i allways set up my repel line before i start cutting.
aloha :)
 
In the situation you are talking about, if I wasn't climbing SRT and maybe even if I was...I would use the tail of my line to make another climbing system with a split tail that I could advance, in conjunction with my lanyard to the top of the lead. When done working that lead I could simply repel back to my starting point.
 
So how is the line installed if the pruner doesn't reach the crotch? Think if the tree is 100 feet and the branch that comes off the main trunk has no branches for 30 feet and is located 25 feet away from the main trunk. A high TIP is not going to help enough and trying to swing enough to grab the branch high enough is risky and not a option.?


I like the ladder thing and am thinking that an adjustable sling or foot sling grab would be sweet. Possibly something with alittle rigid so it would slide up and not down..
 
If it is really 30ft. away and there is no swingable option to reach the lead from a high TIP, then I would suggest setting an alternate TIP from the ground. Otherwise, you are going to have to use a throwline while in the tree or a pole to set the line while in the tree, both of which can be difficult but not impossible. Either option, to me, seems easier than aid climbing, which in effect is what you are talking about when using slings to climb a lead. It is easier to set a line (top rope) than to climb up a lead from the crotch with aid climbing techniques in my experience. However, I have been wrong before and don't mind being proved wrong again--it just means that there is an easier way than I am aware of, which is music to my ears!
 
Kinda what I though. I guess there is no other choice but to climb that side of the tree.

I am working in the Niagara Region of Ontario Canada. There are some pretty tall trees here. Mostly close to the Lake.
 
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I've used slings more than a few times when spurless climbing, usually it is to gain just one more step out to the tips rather than climbing up a ways but there's no reason not to.

I watched a fellow climbing palms in the Dominican Republic with nothing more than two slings tied out of old three strand. If I remember right he kept one under his hip and stood in the other.

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Did that guy have a big machete scar on one side of his face?

My dad has been telling me stories about this palm climber since he got back last week.
 
Throw a Monkey's Fist into the crotch of the limb then lower yourself over onto the now fixed line and ascend up it using Single Rope Techniques.

Mind the knot from your tie in just in case the monkey's fist fails.

Or set another Drt like many have said above!

Ya know, whatever makes you look cooler at the time! :)
 
Stirrups with slings till your close enough to set a tie-in with the poles (or by tossing) and then set up a double tie in to climb the rest of the way? Or set a bunch of lines from the ground and switch off or double tie into them as you go? (Your groundie can be prepping all this while your moving to your work points)
 
wow, ricky. going to multiple sites to prove how big of a stiff you are. lol. at you not with you.

still wrapping rope around your neck? again, lol.
 
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