Tips and Tricks

Crimsonking · Jun 27, 2015

When installing branch saver, I use an accessory biner with a pointed, non-locking nose (as opposed to hook or key-lock) clipped through the material and one of the holes of the spool to keep it from unraveling. I usually cable without ground help, so this is important as I keep the spool on my saddle.

My coworker made a fid holder by cutting a little over a fid-length of the cable, taping and burning both ends shut, and threading a biner through one end. Then you just slide the fid into the length starting near the biner, and you have a fid holster.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Jun 28, 2015

Use a soldering tip rather than a match or lighter to touch up rope nicks or secure threads, the heat is point on and will not damage unintended fibers.

Boomslang · Jun 29, 2015

yoyoman said:
Use a soldering tip rather than a match or lighter to touch up rope nicks or secure threads, the heat is point on and will not damage unintended fibers.

The stove works too...so long as you don't burn yourself

monkeylove · Jun 29, 2015

My tip is to reread this thread from the start. Just picked up a few tricks I forgot all about trying.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Jul 17, 2015

Fixed the orientation issues on the NT saddle with a Petzl Ring Open.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Jul 17, 2015

Love the Sena communication system built in but what about when your not running a chainsaw?

With this I can still hear the birds sing and limbs crack while talking to someone as if we are face to face.

Velcro makes it easy to remove and put on a different helmet or re-install the ear muffs for chainsaw use.

Crimsonking · Oct 20, 2015

Maybe I've been slow all this time, but today I was setting a natural srt redirect and realized that if I just pull the bight through and then send the tail down my next redirect, that like a ponytail retrieval, I can retrieve to a new redirect while removing my last one, and work my way up the next section after working down the first.

I've used this method countless times to remove a redirect, but never thought to set it up to make another one as it was pulled out. Again, this may be common knowledge to most, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Steve Connally · Oct 20, 2015

Crimsonking said:
Maybe I've been slow all this time, but today I was setting a natural srt redirect and realized that if I just pull the bight through and then send the tail down my next redirect, that like a ponytail retrieval, I can retrieve to a new redirect while removing my last one, and work my way up the next section after working down the first.

I've used this method countless times to remove a redirect, but never thought to set it up to make another one as it was pulled out. Again, this may be common knowledge to most, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Please elaborate. Not sure I'm fully pickin up what you're throwin down

macswan · Oct 20, 2015

I have another, "does anyone else do this?"

I set my psp terminated in a base anchor, leave my self enough tail to get weird in the canopy, when I get to my psp I notice some stuff to do above it up in the skinnies at the top. So I keep that psp, but disconnect my system bend the line up so it traps the psp union, then pass a my line (or a bight) over something higher up that I wouldn't necessarily trust on its own. Then get busy. If I passed a bight I retrieve at some point. If I passed the whole line I retrieve at the end in the usual fashion. And.as long as I haven't wrapped it so it bites itself, the wrap pulls out just fine.

Richard Mumford-yoyoman · Oct 20, 2015

This is what I do now , Of course this varies depending on what I'm climbing but for this example let's say it is a conifer with a base anchor. Once I reached my primary support point I use a natural on bight redirect which is now just basically a lanyard. I don't have to disconnect my system. Now I will either move up with my CE lanyard or the tail of my climbing line with a zig zag. Disconnect the On Bight redirect and move upwards. If the structure starts to get sketchy i turn my primary support point into a cinch anchor with an Alpine butterfly and quick link. Then go higher if I can with both the lanyard and the zig zag.

SingleJack · Oct 20, 2015

yoyoman said:
Dimensional fabric paint, this stuff is great for dipping rope ends etc. Available at local craft stores even Walmart
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I bought some of this today -- per your post. Gonna give it a go tonight.

Crimsonking · Oct 20, 2015

Steve Connally said:
Please elaborate. Not sure I'm fully pickin up what you're throwin down

Instead of pulling all the line through a natural redirect, leave the tail on the TIP side of the union. Then take that tail and send it through another fork that you want to use as a redirect in the next section. After working your way down the current section, get to the tail now hanging in the next section. Break down your 'cender and pull the tail to take the bight back through the first union. You should now have a straight line from your TIP to your second redirect, then down to you. Now you can start working your way upward to the redirect.

I hope that helps. I'll try to sketch it sometime this week.

Crimsonking · Oct 20, 2015

macswan said:
I have another, "does anyone else do this?"

I set my psp terminated in a base anchor, leave my self enough tail to get weird in the canopy, when I get to my psp I notice some stuff to do above it up in the skinnies at the top. So I keep that psp, but disconnect my system bend the line up so it traps the psp union, then pass a my line (or a bight) over something higher up that I wouldn't necessarily trust on its own. Then get busy. If I passed a bight I retrieve at some point. If I passed the whole line I retrieve at the end in the usual fashion. And.as long as I haven't wrapped it so it bites itself, the wrap pulls out just fine.

My turn- I think I'm close to grasping that one, but need a little more help.

Simpleiowaguy · Oct 20, 2015

I put my cell phone in a little red waterproof bag and hang it somewhere outside of the dropzone. I then make my ground guys leave their phones in the truck. This way there is a phone immediately available should an incident occur but they aren't messing with their phones instead of paying attention to task at hand.

Steve Connally · Oct 20, 2015

Ahhhhhhhh. I see

John_KAYS · Oct 20, 2015

Crimsonking said:
Instead of pulling all the line through a natural redirect, leave the tail on the original side of the union. Then take that tail and send it through another fork that you want to use as a redirect in the next section. After working your way down the current section, get to the tail now hanging in the next section. Break down your 'cender and pull the tail to take the bight back through the first union. You should now have a straight line from your TIP to your second redirect, then down to you. Now you can start working your way upward to the redirect.

I hope that helps. I'll try to sketch it sometime this week.

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