Tips and Tricks

[John_KAYS]

Got speedy sticher? Must have in my book.View attachment 29158

what store is that? That is cheap!

 

[Hoowasat]

what store is that? That is cheap!

Looks like Harbor Freight has it for the same price. Just google the SKU number.
http://www.harborfreight.com/quick-stitch-sewing-awl-91814.html

 

[oceans]

Got speedy sticher? Must have in my book.View attachment 29158

I made my first boots with an ascender loop using one of those! I love that thing! That is TOTALLY a must have.

 

[dogwood]

Here are a couple of handy dandy little items from the mind of Tom Dunlap, which you may have seen before. A piece of exercise tubing or Big Shot tubing with a bit of sawed off carabiner in one end is mighty handy for launching a throw bag while you're in the tree. The other is a couple of drink bottles with the bottoms cut off and jammed together. Loop both ends to your throw line and haul it up to roll that line over into a better position on the branch. Really effective items made from found materials.

 

[tuttle]

Magnets, get them out of an old PC harddrive, they are strong enough to hold 7kg. For your scabbard and throw line tricks.

 

[Paul Hedderly]

Magnets, get them out of an old PC harddrive, they are strong enough to hold 7kg. For your scabbard and throw line tricks.

Thats where mine come from - The older and bigger the drive... the more awesome the magnets - but watch your fingers!

I also have a load of them screwed to the wall above my workbench - great for just chucking tools against the wall until I need them next.

 

[jmaher]

I also have a load of them screwed to the wall above my workbench - great for just chucking tools against the wall until I need them next.

You sir,
Have just blown my mind.

 

[TreeLogic]

what store is that? That is cheap!

See the Pittsburgh logo on the items below the stitcher? Harbor Freight my man. Everything's cheap there. Just be careful what you buy. They're not just cheap in reference to price, but also in quality...for the most part anyway.

 

[John_KAYS]

See the Pittsburgh logo on the items below the stitcher? Harbor Freight my man. Everything's cheap there. Just be careful what you buy. They're not just cheap in reference to price, but also in quality...for the most part anyway.

yup, I missed that on the items below... I do have a speedy stitcher, but I think I paid twice that and it came with way less string.

 

[TreeLogic]

yup, I missed that on the items below... I do have a speedy stitcher, but I think I paid twice that and it came with way less string.

Me too. I had no idea they had them. I'll get my next one there though.

 

[tuttle]

I too use them magnets everywhere, and true the old drives have much thicker stronger ones, plus the backing plates have holes for screws or cord, just the odd shape lets them down.

 

[BRT]

Cabling without bucket=no fun. 1 problem is lugging around hundreds of feet of cable. So--have the groundie cut the length and send it up.

But how to get the length? a. tie a rope from initial attachment point b. over to the other c. tie knot in rope d. send rope down to the groundie e. he sends you up specified length of cable f. anchor it & go back to the previous location to complete that single install. Or some other equally frustrating & inefficient procedure (tape measure, guestimate, limb shadows in the grass ).

Solution: At Lowe's you can purchase a 50' laser tape measure for $49.95. Shoot the beam from the original anchor point. Relay the measurement down to the groundie. He sends up the length. You attach it, and take the tail over to the terminal anchor point. Done.

*laser not terribly bright--in broad daylight, find a shaded spot near your target anchor point, and adjust measurement for +\- variance

 

[macswan]

In a pinch I'll use poles for a rough estimate of the distance.

 

[John_KAYS]

Okay, so here we go...get excited! Here is something I just put together to help you operate the slic pin with your winter gloves on. All I have to do is put a leash on it and it would be one handy tool.

 

[monkeylove]

Brilliant John. Simple and easy answer to a complex problem. Nice job.

 

[MikePowers321]

Sweet. Might work well for that pesky double locking slick pin on the RR too?

 

[John_KAYS]

Sweet. Might work well for that pesky double locking slick pin on the RR too?

I don't have a RR yet so I couldn't say for sure, but having seen those pesky double doodad pins I was thinking it might need to be a push rod plunger rather than the spring insert.
But the basic idea is to have the pipe just large enough to press the doodad in and some other force to push the pin through. For the Rope Wrench the spring works really well, as it doesn't have to travel as far. But for all I know the spring could work, with a little tweaking, for the Rope Runner as well. I couldn't play around with getting it to work for both without having a Rope Runner...

But Mike, you were the one that got me thinking about this with your Aluminum Tether from that other thread. I think you said something about not wanting to use a slic pin because of the glove hang up. Anyway, this works pretty well, so go ahead and make the tether again, but this time use the slic pin. Of course there has always been an issue with the gloves and slic pin even before you were working on that tether.

 

[MikePowers321]

Honestly, I wanted to make that aluminum tether to fit Gordon's version of the Rope Wrench. It would have been the easiest possible switch from Srt to Ddrt. But Gordon humbly honored Bingham's Patent

 

[John_KAYS]

Sweet. Might work well for that pesky double locking slick pin on the RR too?

Here, this plunger style definitely would work for the Rope Runner! I didn't really pretty it up...
I didn't spend the time on this yet, but I am going to make a stopper so the pusher rod can't fall out.


I like the spring action, but this might be more universal.

 

[MikePowers321]

Here, this plunger style definitely would work for the Rope Runner! I didn't really pretty it up...
I didn't spend the time on this yet, but I am going to make a stopper so the pusher rod can't fall out.
View attachment 30188

I like the spring action, but this might be more universal.

looks cool to me