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It actually increases the amount of un encumbered work space in front of you, where all those encumbering gadgets used to be.

Reminds me of the old school trick of splitting your DDRT lines, diving between them, and walking out on a horizontal leader, with a fair degree of triangulated stability, nothing in front of you but work space.

Having that T bar's actually pretty cool as a ballast point, like a windsurfer!

Jemco
 
No I just meant if you went as far as making a framework gimbal, pivoting around your D's, you'd have a framework you're hauling around. Still golden in front of you, but in your sides not so much.
 
It does beg the question of whether the T bar assembly would act as a shield between you and anything trailing down your line?

Kinduva doubled hardhat n shield?

I guess I'd rather a falling piece of deadwood hit my T bar rather than land in my lap....

Jemco
 
As any experienced bucketboy will admit, using an articulating buckettruck to prune large decurrent trees, requires multiple repositioning of the bucket.

Whereas a telescoping crane truck made specifically for hoisting personnel equipped with my standup harness, T bar and automated rope spool, can prune the entire tree from a single setup position.

Jemco
 
Hey what about these:

There's a more simple version which doesn't require the fancy attachment if you're not doing flips. I believe these are used with tandem lines all the way to the anchor or whatever, but you could just as easily connect to your t-bar.

I don't see that this particular one has leg straps, but I did see one that does have leg straps. If you stand, you pick your body weight off the harness, and if you sit or lay you hang in the harness.

Two thin ropes could be used in place of the cable since visibility isn't an issue and rope is softer. You can position the ropes in front of or behind your arms depending on what you're doing...
 
Got A little lazy there toward the end. But you get the idea. Lol
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Yes, very similar to a gymnastics swiveling safety harness, but better.

I like the idea of being able to choose any of three suspension points as needed, upper D's,lower D's or foot harness/gator's.

The next logical step of course, is integrating a variety delivery lines into your rope/spool delivery capabilities. Such as compressed air, breathing air, bar oil, insecticides, circulating hot water, or cold water, to either cool, or heat a climber working in temperature extremes.

It becomes more of an automated umbilical climbing system that NASA would envy!

We have the technology!

Motor right on up to that tree and strap in!

Just like a power wheelbarrow, but better.

Jemco
 
It makes sense to have a spring tensioned collapsible T bar, with offset arms that spiral.

So that it'll work it's through a tight overhead crotch, without getting stuck.

Nice illustration mate.

Jemco
 
It's missin the handle with the up n down trigger!

Yu gotta have a progressive shielded trigger, that functions like a rheostat, allowing you to go real slow, or real fast, dependin on how much yu mash it........

Jemco
 
In 2000 I got an idea for a solid bridge. After a couple of coat hanger mockups I bent and threaded some stainless steel rod. A swivel clevis was used for the ends.

The CMI pulley worked just fine, is compact but it might wear too quickly. The sailing one is bigger but wouldn't wear out.

The bridge made a HUGE difference! Even though the Treeflex has little hip constriction the solid bridge eliminated it.

Super comfy!

After a few weeks of climbing the bridge got a kink in it as you can see. I talked with a friend who is a machinist who suggested a different stainless alloy that was more springy. He did some number crunching and told me that the bridge I built would likely have a breaking strength somewhere around 9k#. Plenty since the rest of the Treeflex isn't built that strong...doesn't need to to pass specs.

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It's actually a cool sensation to standup in harness n point yur toes.

The automated spool on a telescoping crane truck, would indeed allow you to float like a butterfly n sting like a bee.

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