Streamlining workflow in spready oaks...

Always use lifeline as bomb pruf support.
Rigging line as directional assist tho, sometimes all weight on it and lifeline as backup , or using both can give wide delivery options for positioning between both points
Especially 2rig lines or 1 in upside down U to switch ends for rigging strategy becomes 2 optional pull points to rig bod thru/to.
Lifeline always ready to save day like tightrope net sometimes tho as not loaded.
Sometimes swing wide via 2nd lifeline with slack on primary, but get braking affect just at right time to slow down etc.
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Always add local redirect for work, long lanyard good for reducing swing back etc.
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Also, having guys pull you thru rig or other line as fast payout life line , always starting with plenty of slack. Also speed lining bod down anchored rig or other line by paying out lifeline etc.
 
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Burrapeg said:
I have gotten in the habit of a double daisy chain for hanging my long lanyard off the saddle. I think I first saw it in a post by AJ a year or two ago. Just as quick to do up as a regular daisy chain but half the length and twice as fast to shake out when I need it.
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Nick's method for daisy chaining yet still being able to deploy more when needed:

Nick's Daisy Chained Lanyard
 
I am almost into oak trim season so I have been thinking about ways to speed and simplify production. One idea I have seen recently is to use a base tie, but with the tie being at the mid point of the tree. This way you can do one side of the tree, then switch side of the rope at mid height and do the other side of the tree. It could be combined with a ring and ring at the top so after the switch over a knot block could be run up with either enough tail to retrieve from the ground, or a retrieval line added on. Either way, it would eliminate the need to ascend back to the top at any point, or return to the mid tree base tie before final decent. Also, using a ring and ring eliminates the need to have both ends of the rope coming down the same path at the end of the climb and makes pulling out through redirects much easier. The time spent setting the ring and ring pays for itself several times over in those situations. One possible way to utilize this idea would be to set what ever starting ascent tie you like, half way up set a mid tree base tie with a alpine loop and a delta link, then set the ring and ring when you reach the desired tip with the knot block on the wrong side to start leaving enough rope to do what you need to do on that side of the tree. When ready to go to the other side, go back to your mid tree base tie, lanyard in, switch rope sides. Now your knot block on the ring n ring is on the right side to climb off of. Finish tree, decend, retrieve line and r n r easily. Many variations could be done, such as using a mid line attachable retrievable canopy anchor (marca) or not knot blocking at first and when switching sides, pulling the knot block up to the r n r so as to have more rope available on the climbing end at any point. As I think about it more, the variations possible are endless. I look forward to playing with this in big oaks later this fall! Hopefully I won't waste too much time getting it figured out, but its my time to waist and as long as I'm having fun it's worth it. Self employment is great in that way. Also it gets me out of ground work if I take 30 minutes to figure out how to get my rope out of the tree while my guys clean up, lol.
 
That double bone reminds me of a setup I saw @oceans using a few years back on this enormously spready silver maple prune. Rocking two lines and two bdbs on a single delta screw link.

He was getting into TINY wood, making hand snip cuts at canopy edge, and seemingly effortless transfers from branch to branch.

He had some pretty dope videos of the setup posted here a few years back. Can't recall thread names, maybe someone else can chime in?
 
SomethingWitty said:
It's still too long and tangly. I suppose it could make a 12-15 footer available pretty nicely, but if it goes much below my knee, I'm not dealing with the snagging and tangling.
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I absolutely hate stuff hanging low too, which is why I use this method:20191007_220045.jpg


I believe I first saw @Mark Chisholm do this using the upper D, but it gets to crowded up there with a biner and two strands of 12mm, so I added a gear loop just for the lanyard. You could use multiple loops for a long lanyard.
I just stole the half hitch from Nicks video, that should solve some problems for me.
 
climbstihl said:
I absolutely hate stuff hanging low too, which is why I use this method:View attachment 62704


I believe I first saw @Mark Chisholm do this using the upper D, but it gets to crowded up there with a biner and two strands of 12mm, so I added a gear loop just for the lanyard. You could use multiple loops for a long lanyard.
I just stole the half hitch from Nicks video, that should solve some problems for me.
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I just run one that's about 7-8 feet long. With the tail clipped on that leaves me two loops hanging close to 6" under my knee. This thread is about moving in oaks, right?
Just climb out there. They don't mind your weight. Spready maples could be harder, but I very rarely break anything unintentionally in those.
 
climbstihl said:
I absolutely hate stuff hanging low too, which is why I use this method:View attachment 62704


I believe I first saw @Mark Chisholm do this using the upper D, but it gets to crowded up there with a biner and two strands of 12mm, so I added a gear loop just for the lanyard. You could use multiple loops for a long lanyard.
I just stole the half hitch from Nicks video, that should solve some problems for me.
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Similar to what I do.
 
i had a couple of dog chain snaps 1 floating, 1 backspliced in to end, w/swivels to relieve any twists as much as possible. Friction hitch to D to pull on it in same patterns as orig. manuf design; and be self tended by D. So 2 snaps and hitch keeping outta feets, daisy chain gobbling slack after that. i believe this was 19', wasn't above temp extension with dyneema sling on fly, had 30' before this that was too much. i think the aluminum red snap was brand new item design when i got it(seems awhile ago.. )

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Saw(oil) to left, start right handed, lanyard on right to snap to left D.
 
SeanRuel said:
That double bone reminds me of a setup I saw @oceans using a few years back on this enormously spready silver maple prune. Rocking two lines and two bdbs on a single delta screw link.

He was getting into TINY wood, making hand snip cuts at canopy edge, and seemingly effortless transfers from branch to branch.

He had some pretty dope videos of the setup posted here a few years back. Can't recall thread names, maybe someone else can chime in?
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Sean, was that up in Portsmouth with Sea Coast? Maybe I was climbing with Matty?
 
SeanRuel said:
Heck yeah it was! You still climbing on double systems?
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I’m using a double system here and there. Most work lately has been dead Oak dismantles out of the Easy Lift. Definitely want more time on rope, and it will come, just not right now.
 
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