Throwline......1.75MM.....or.....2.2MM???

[NickfromWI]

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Gloves will help to some extent. After some coaching I will take every opportunity to untie the throwbag and recover the line.

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I almost always throw with gloves. Partly because I use the small line, but partly because I DON'T want callouses. When my hands get rough, sometimes it snags new ropes when I'm splicing...I try to keep 'em soft. Regardless, with practice gloves DO help. They allow you to reef hard on the small lines (2.2mm is still very small) without it cutting into your skin.

I have a loop spliced to the end of the throwline. This makes removal and placement much faster so I have little reason to NOT take the bag off when pulling the line out for the next throw. It's a good practice to get in to.

love
nick

 

[Roger_Barnett]

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Nothing worse than a successful throw that won't come back to earth....

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How about hanging the THIRD line and having to throw the rope.

I have to give credit to Nick Martinez (2004 & 5 TxTCC Champ) of Arborilogical who lobs a monkey's fist of climbing line 50 feet in a crotch.

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I remember the time Ian was trying to do a relatively easy line set into a big leaf maple. He managed to get three line badly tangled. At least one of them was stuck as well. I told him to take them home and detangle them on his own time. Can't recall if he actually did so...maybe one of them. He's normally OK with throw lining, but that obviously wasn't his day!

Travis got into the tree anyhow, (and retrieved the stuck line(s)), while Ian grumbled and fussed

with the lines, and we grumbled at him....

 

[Blinky]

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while Ian grumbled and fussed

with the lines, and we grumbled at him....

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You're a hard man Roger.