what's in your rigging bags?! Show em up !

Treetopflyer said:
Show it up Tim :)
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OK, I know I've got too much going on in this scenario, but this is a screenshot from a video I shot recently. The reason I'm posting this now is to avoid a three day delay for those who want to see the relative size of the mini. A carabiner, a Hitch Climber pulley and a Hitch Hiker are all nearby in this screenshot, and the rope going over the mini is 1/2" Stable Braid, I think it's called. The carabiner is a Petzl William Ball Lock biner. I hope this helps.

Tim

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It's so cute, I want to take it home... and a puppy, too...
No, really.. I for one think you've come with a nice, workable system. I'm stuck working by myself, sometimes, as well. I have the Stein RC-1000 and RC-2000 and the smaller one is still big and heavy. I've used it in the tree once, and decided I need something a lot lighter and more compact. That looks like it will do the trick.
 
TimBr said:
Yes, Mike. I'm a relatively new climber compared to most folks on this forum. I'm not a pro arb, just do stuff for friends and family. As a result, I usually work alone. I tend to carry what most pros I'd imagine would think of as way too much stuff on my harness, just because if I end up needing something there is nobody there to send up something I've forgotten.

If I'm cutting something that requires my half inch rigging rope and a pulley, I leave all that heavy stuff on the ground and connect it to a haul line. I have one of those small progress capture pulleys, the MicroTraxion, that I use to pull the rope and rigging pulley plus Big Dan rigging biner, etc. up to me when I get to my first stopping point, usually 60 or 70 feet up, I'd guess. If I'm already planning to pull all that stuff up anyway, I might just add the mini port-a-wrap to the mix.

Having said that, there have been plenty of times when I've just gone ahead and hung it off my saddle for the climb up. The important thing for me in these instances is to get the mini port-a-wrap laying so that it hangs kind of flat against my side. I've had it configured wrong sometimes, and there are parts of the thing that want to poke at you when this happens.

I'm no speed climber. It means more to me to have stuff I need on me, than to travel light and be faster.

I climbed today, but wasn't cutting anything big enough to require the mini, so it stayed down on the ground.

I hope to climb tomorrow, with my neighbor's indulgence, so pictures of the mini will have to wait until my next "off" day. We've got great weather in the forecast for the next two days, so I want to climb while the conditions are nearly ideal. It's going to get really hot after that, and rainy. When I do post pics, I'll try to go to the trouble of laying the mini next to a more normal size of lowering device.

I have used this device to lower and maintain control over pieces that probably weighed about 90 pounds, and it worked like a champ.

I hope this helps.

Tim
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Very cool TimB : ) I use the mini often as well, just usually not in the tree. I was thinking something like a figure 8 (or the petzl pirhana for the no drop factor) would work well for you and reduce weight and help you with extra friction.

I rig out 50 percent of the trees I take down with the mini and a 1/2" line. It's a great tool. :guitarra:
 
I just found this link on the TreeStuff website that goes to a nice video that demonstrates better than I ever could the relative size of the mini compared to two other sizes, plus a biner.

Tim

 
JeffGu said:
It's so cute, I want to take it home... and a puppy, too...
No, really.. I for one think you've come with a nice, workable system. I'm stuck working by myself, sometimes, as well. I have the Stein RC-1000 and RC-2000 and the smaller one is still big and heavy. I've used it in the tree once, and decided I need something a lot lighter and more compact. That looks like it will do the trick.
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Jeff, you had me laughing for a good part of the day today with your joke about the puppy, every time I thought about it. Thanks for that.

Tim

P.S. I love my Mini Port-a-Wrap. I don't know if I gave some folks here the impression that I dislike how heavy it is, but that is not the case. I'm tickled pink at how light it is. Two 12 oz. throwballs weigh more than the mini, if I'm doing my math right.

Also, I'm the new guy here, but I thought the whole idea of using Port-a-Wraps or other similar devices was to have a slick way of easily controlling the fall of a piece of wood, while at the same time avoiding damage to the rigging ropes caused by friction devices that have diameters that are too small for the rope. The mini is rated for the 1/2" rope that I use most of the time.
 
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TimBr said:
OK, I know I've got too much going on in this scenario, but this is a screenshot from a video I shot recently. The reason I'm posting this now is to avoid a three day delay for those who want to see the relative size of the mini. A carabiner, a Hitch Climber pulley and a Hitch Hiker are all nearby in this screenshot, and the rope going over the mini is 1/2" Stable Braid, I think it's called. The carabiner is a Petzl William Ball Lock biner. I hope this helps.

Tim

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I like that mini porty, some setup your working in that pic . Weve observed the little one the rigging line "bites " the porty a bit more readily I'll say . On a side note that sterling right in trees 9mm is the best hitch cord I've ever used. Love that stuff under RW.
 
Hey, Treetopflyer, I had never heard that "right in trees" line before. Thanks for that. Thanks also for sharing your opinion about it being the best hitch cord you've ever used. That is high praise. I've only been using it a little while, but I like it a lot.

Tim
 
riggin bags? :tanguero:

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riggin bags? :tanguero:

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Looks like you went Sirius . I've been contemplating buying some of that to replace some of my bull ropes. Just love the nylon inards of polydyne and husky by all gear ..generally only need to bust out anything over 1/2 line for gin poling whole shits. For my half inch lines I have a really fallen in love with the 12 strand forestry pro by all gear, really nice line good wll and perfectly priced. If I'm dropping wood from above the rigging point if I am and its getting heavy I'll hit it on the polydyne. Have you ever had the stripes show overload on the Sirius bull rope? That is a cool feature to me . Sort of a too late to fix it now type thing if it happens, but could help learning with the experience type thing as well . Anyway thanks for showing it up.
 
Treetopflyer said:
Looks like you went Sirius . I've been contemplating buying some of that to replace some of my bull ropes. Just love the nylon inards of polydyne and husky by all gear ..generally only need to bust out anything over 1/2 line for gin poling whole shits. For my half inch lines I have a really fallen in love with the 12 strand forestry pro by all gear, really nice line good wll and perfectly priced. If I'm dropping wood from above the rigging point if I am and its getting heavy I'll hit it on the polydyne. Have you ever had the stripes show overload on the Sirius bull rope? That is a cool feature to me . Sort of a too late to fix it now type thing if it happens, but could help learning with the experience type thing as well . Anyway thanks for showing it up.
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Howdy! I've never hit any of my Sirius hard enough to damage it. We've caught some smaller whole trees with it without a problem. I've been using a 20' section of their 9/16" as a choker for awhile now, and it's holding up surprisingly well. It handles abrasion well. I have a 200' hank of it that I haven't broken out yet, but I've been using a smaller length on my 5:1 for a couple years now and it's a great rope to work with.

1/2" polydyne gets the most use by far.

Cheers
 
="Mark13y, post: 434326, member: 6304"]I just want to give a big thank you to X for bringing these to market for us, and for my new sling and rings....I'll be splicing them up this week and abusing them as soon as possible, I'll try to get some pics/footage when I do. Thanks again X
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You are welcome, I only have a few more from this thread to mail out. they are coming
 
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