Treebing
Thanks for giving it a throw. Like to give you some help with this because it is a completely new throw weight and the first time through can be interesting.
It comes with a short loop of dyneema so you can use it exactly like a throw bag you just need to install the loop through the tip with the wire fid and then you have a place to connect the biner or split ring it came with or you can use what ever you already own clevis, maillon rapide, what ever you want and then it is ready to throw like Just like the classic bag.
If your afraid breaking something with a throw weight and your performing tree operations you still have to move anything that can be broken. Check out the Safe image attached with the previous reply.
This throw weight is meant to be a smooth and frictionless aerodynamic form. But You can intall a small ring of any size or description with a girth hitch to the throwline at the tip of the throw weight or at any distance along the throw line.Do your traditional through the leg pendulum toss, its that easy. With regards to the ease of the slip knot and tieing and untieng thats cool but With a little practice with this throw weigh/system of coupling and spinning a bolt it is as easy or easier than hunting down the throw bag and untieing and retieng or haveing slip knot slip unexpectedly. Either way with this throw weight you are not limited. Enterior or exterior connection and knotted or knotles connections. Thats what makes it so cool, in the real world, its more than a throw weight its a customizable and adaptable system.
With regards to metal bouncing I think your choice of words is correct 50% of the time, IMO the other 50 it is a ricochet or deflection and this is the advantage of RopeArmours hard body over the soft and malleable throw weight.
Most throw weights will slow down or fall short of the target where the RopeKnight will pierce the crown, glide, slide and slip past most obstacles all the way to the ground quickly and effeciently.
You clearly see the benefit of the RopeShield and those same features and benefits are applied to the throw weight. Smooth,frictionless, rigid body for ease of movement.Doesn't that make sense? I am getting this right?
Its is easy to see you have a choice now of a throw weight that is fabric and malleable or metal and hard.
I prefer to fly down the pond on hard edged metal skates and not in my sock feet. We get to the same place but its a personal choice.
Trees are similar to an iced over pond, They can be full of hazards and obstacles and the other tuth is I am good shot to 40' and hitting my target at 1 in 5. This tool helps me with missed shots, retrieval, isolating the TIP, positioning the rope, pull handle and endline security knot. I am better at rope acccess because my tool is improved.
I agree with you and many more who are exceptional at throwing might only need something like this a few times a year. But the real truth is there are alot of arborists trying to make a buck, save time, aggravation and energy and just want to get home to their loved ones befor dark. And they are the ones who will benefit from this throw weight more than you will.
i prefer heavier bags for brushy twigy trees like silky oaks and willows and like the lighter bags for pines and large monkey pod tree's.
