When did you first hear?

Honestly trying to remember I am pretty sure Owen Goltz did the first single line footlock I had seen with a speedline to follow.
If memorry serves me right Owen came to the Niagara Parks and demoed this.
He slammed some T-bar into the ground set the anchor and flew up a Turkish Hazel or mb it was PersiN walnut and pruned some and let it fly.

Remembering thinking wtf!This guy is on fire!!
SRT ment hodo vodo at the time
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Honestly trying to remember I am pretty sure Owen Goltz did the first single line footlock I had seen with a speedline to follow.
If memorry serves me right Owen came to the Niagara Parks and demoed this.
He slammed some T-bar into the ground set the anchor and flew up a Turkish Hazel or mb it was PersiN walnut and pruned some and let it fly.

Remembering thinking wtf!This guy is on fire!!
SRT ment hodo vodo at the time
On Rope was our first literal and pictoral reality!
By Bruce Smith (President and CEO of On Rope 1, Inc.) and Allen Padgett. Revised, 2000.


Get a signed Copy if you can,
GF Beranek Fundamenatals of Genaral Tree Work
tHE tREE cLIMBERS Companion jEFF jEPSON
A Guide to the Tools and Equipment of Tree Maintenance and Removal Donald F Blair
Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (4th Edition)Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (4th Edition)Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (4th Edition)

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Ropeshield, did you hear the one about Owen foot locking into the top of the old Vermeer shop for a demo during an open house then dangling there while someone went hunting for the figure 8 he forgot so he could get down?
 
Probably around 2005 when I did my apprenticeship but they only talked about it in terms of a single line static footlock. In the course the mantra for anything new was low and slow.

They taught basic tautline, blake's hitch closed systems then went on to open systems. The thinking being master the fundamentals so you can climb or descend with nothing more than a rope. Mastering one system then another instead of jumping around to the point where you are master of none. How quickly someone moves through to the latest, newest ones is a matter of their learning curve.
 
Tom, my first boss Bob Wells (that we had dinner with in Providence, after the ITCC) had us single lining with Gibbs ascenders back in 1982 or so. We used to practice on a water tower in Princeton, NJ. Before he started his tree company, Bob was the college roommate of Bruce Smith; he went on many pioneering caving expeditions with him back in the 70's.
 
I didn't know anything about it until people were talking about the Rope Wrench here on the Buzz.
I didn't try it until I came south in 2011 and worked with Chip.
Never did the SRT ascent changing over to DdRT thing though that was/is popular. If I go up on SRT, I work on it.
 
Back in 2005 from TreeBuzz from The one and only Tom D!!

Later in SO-CAL... Thanks Tom
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Used to work with a guy in 97ish who used it, had been for years apparently.
I thought it odd at the time, I had left college a few years earlier where it was all double rope.
 
Its kind of funny the first time I used it was probably 1999/2000. It was on a huge Norway Spruce and i really didnt know what the heck I was doing. I captued a bunch of limbs,tied a bowline around the base and footlocked w my petzl handled Ascender. I could drive you right to the tree to this day. The thought of isolating a limb through that crazy canopy.....ugh. The strange thing is however i didnt ever FULLY embrace it or switch over. Only now am i begging to play w the Wrench etc!!!
 
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Its kind of funny the first time I used it was probably 1999/2000. It was on a huge Norway Spruce and i really didnt know what the heck I was doing. I captued a bunch of limbs,tied a bowline around the base and footlocked w my petzl handled Ascender. I could drive you right to the tree to this day. The thought of isolating a limb through that crazy canopy.....ugh. The strange thing is however i didnt ever FULLY embrace it or switch over. Only now am i begging to play w the Wrench etc!!!
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I started on spurs in 1964 and SRT in 1970. My first SRT climbs were in old-growth trees on a goldline rope with a ropewalker system that I made out of 2 Jumars, a couple of long footloops and a chest harness, with a short webbing loop between one of the Jumars and the harness so I could stop and rest while hanging from the chest harness. Not particularly safe or comfortable, but it worked. Goldline was terrible stuff for SRT because it was so stretchy and because it would twist while you climbed, spinning you in circles until you were seasick. I still use SRT extensively in my work but I have joined the modern world and have much better stuff now! I am a researcher, not an arborist.
 
Nice post, ARLO. I wasn't even born when you were doing this! I've always imagined that people climbing very large (tall) trees would intuitively use techniques found in mountaineering or caving disciplines. There's proof in the pudding! Curious, how did you install lines? Did you begin the process with launchers and monofilament?
 
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