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

JeffGu said:
Anyone use one of these? I ordered one this weekend for light rigging... 4" sheave should have nice bend radius... bet I'll have to watch the rope, though. Those sideplates don't look too rope friendly. I plan to use it with a 40kN swivel, which might help with that.

http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?category_id=209&item=145#detail
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For light rigging Jeff than why 5/8 line rated and if so why not Xrings or a pinto rig ?. No sharp edges to contend . Bend radius for light duty not too concerned about that. Rigged off biners years ago never broke a rope from hockling. Those pulley s from cmi seem like good redirect for m.a. and that's about it for me . Not a big fan of them. I have the 1/2 double sheaves from them just for pulling stuff , about it. I like the midline attach ability.
 
Agree about why not just use rings, or a rig, with super smooth cheeks. Ive recently whipped up a beast whoopie with prussik ala old fart style. Thing is bomb proof. Cant believe i missed the XRR giveaway! Haha. Classy move, Xman.
Just based on that move alone, this proves to me again this is a company worth supporting. Love em!
 
Treetopflyer said:
For light rigging Jeff than why 5/8 line rated and if so why not Xrings or a pinto rig ?
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My rigging ropes are 9/16" Atlas and a lot of 5/8" 3-Strand nylon that a friend gave me for some work I did for him. He buys a lot of it from rope companies in odd lengths and had several hundred feet in hanks of 100' up to about 250' that he gave me. It's 11,000 lbs. mbs stuff and works fine (a bit bouncy, but great shock load absorbtion). I may get some 1/2" rigging rope down the road, but for now, this stuff and the Atlas are what I have.

I keep my ropes clean and try to do everything I can to make them last, so I have been watching the bend radius at the TIP especially. Perhaps I'm being too anal about it, but I see a difference. I have an ESA aluminum block with a 3" sheave and this CMI pulley I bought mostly for redirects and for when I want two rigging lines.

I haven't had a chance to try the X-rig rings, yet. I have a couple of the DEUS ones, but they aren't large enough to use for rigging. The 3-strand is the only stuff I can splice myself, and the pre-spliced XRR stuff isn't exactly cheap. Perhaps I can try some of it in a couple of months, when the funds are available.
 
JeffGu said:
Anyone use one of these? I ordered one this weekend for light rigging... 4" sheave should have nice bend radius... bet I'll have to watch the rope, though. Those sideplates don't look too rope friendly. I plan to use it with a 40kN swivel, which might help with that.

http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?category_id=209&item=145#detail
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Yea, I've used one of those.....

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But don't let that deter you, it was operator error. They are decent little pulleys and will get the job done. I've even used them to block down some monster pine rounds and never had it be an issue to the ropes.
 
JeffGu said:
My rigging ropes are 9/16" Atlas and a lot of 5/8" 3-Strand nylon that a friend gave me for some work I did for him. He buys a lot of it from rope companies in odd lengths and had several hundred feet in hanks of 100' up to about 250' that he gave me. It's 11,000 lbs. mbs stuff and works fine (a bit bouncy, but great shock load absorbtion).
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That's cool . Bouncy can be good for dynamic rigging situations with some room , sounds like good stuff . I like 3 strand myself on occasion. Dirty wet days natural crotch ripping down trees with a few cuts before the fell come to mind, then it doubles as the pull line . As far as extending the life of the rope it cant hurt with the wide bend radius IMO .
I have four Xring slings . 3/4large rig n ring .1/2 ring n ring from Treestuff and another 1/2 inch with double fisherman's hitch on the rings and another I made with the doublefishitch large ring on 1/2 polydyne on 10 foot of rope. I love the remote install but I set by hand mostly , but depending on the task the remote retrieval is nice feature. You don't need to splice around xrings . Good knots will suffice just not as clean or strong ya know limits. If I get beast whoopie old fart style or similar I may be set to rigg heavy on them . I will say the large rig and ring I have hung some pretty big trees on that setup in basket over strong crotch .Where's I used to hang a block on bullrope over the same crotch for retrieving, really putting lots of force on it , that rig and ring brings it down while still retrieving remotely that's a bonus to me. Just one example. They are sweet as hell really for the job of tree rigging. What are the DEUS ones your talking about.?
 
Treetopflyer said:
Maybe not noticable on the ropes boom ,but stuff like that fatigues the steel as well ,could be some of the rough type cycles like that, that led to failure.
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Agreed, but when your boss doesn't have the proper equipment you work with what you've got. I'm not sure the company I was at has ever even owned an arborist block.
 
Boomslang said:
Yea, I've used one of those.....
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Thanks for the info! I was a little concerned about the rather thin sheet metal sideplates, envisioning something like the pic you posted happening. What happened to yours? Looks like you tried to pick up a dump truck with it!

Well, it should arrive tomorrow, so I'll get a better look at it up close. It was somewhat of an impulse buy, probably should have got on here BEFORE hitting ADD TO CART, not afterwards. But, it's TreeStuff.com so I figured it will probably be decent quality for the price point. I'm not expecting DMM Arborist Block quality.
 
Look what just arrived today!!!! Just showing it here in this thread for now. Will start a proper post on the THT when I have time to show everything and explain everything. Plus time for answering questions.
Three slightly different versions of this same size came today for my review. I requested the hardcoat in matte finish because I think the highly polished type might not have enough friction. Got in the matte finish solid one, the matte finish reduced weight one (drilled out in the thick area to reduce weight) and the solid one with high polish.

shown here is the one we will likely go with. The reduced weight one will not likely stay as cool as the solid one, plus the extra cost of machining more is making it cost too much, plus it won't be as strong.

you are welcome to copy and share these pictures where you want, I might get time to post a proper thread this weekend.

I'll start rigging with them tomorrow. Can't wait.

Excellent workmanship in these.

THT matte finish 1.webp THT matte finish 2.webp
 
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