Just had my first climb with my new gear.

ForTheAction said:

It's actually used gear that I bought for cheap. It's all petzl pieces.

The $1,000 worth of stuff I got for $200 worked out really nice too. I clipped my saddle onto my top hand ascender. I clipped a foot hold into the bottom hand ascender. The foot hold is actually a horizontal stick on a rope that can easily alow both of my feet. You know how it works from here. This is sooo much easier than using the inch worm technique with the blakes hitch.

I climbed up 3 stories into a tree in the park and tried to use my figure 8 to get down. All of my tests failed while I stayed clipped into my ascenders. Supposedly one of the devices I bought is a descender, but it's not obvious how I should apply it, so I didn't risk using that.

After trying the 8 for a while, I gave up, and worked my way down by using the ascenders. That works just as well I suppose, but I need to do a search on the petzl descender for the directions for use to make a pro descent from now on.

It was a short, little climb, but the future never looked brighter from up there.

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TreeCo said:

I've got one too and have searched it several times and can't find the 'down' button so I leave it in the shop. I think the guy I bought it from ripped me off because he said it worked fine.

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ForTheAction said:

It's actually used gear that I bought for cheap. It's all petzl pieces.

The $1,000 worth of stuff I got for $200 worked out really nice too. I clipped my saddle onto my top hand ascender. I clipped a foot hold into the bottom hand ascender. The foot hold is actually a horizontal stick on a rope that can easily alow both of my feet. You know how it works from here. This is sooo much easier than using the inch worm technique with the blakes hitch.

I climbed up 3 stories into a tree in the park and tried to use my figure 8 to get down. All of my tests failed while I stayed clipped into my ascenders. Supposedly one of the devices I bought is a descender, but it's not obvious how I should apply it, so I didn't risk using that.

After trying the 8 for a while, I gave up, and worked my way down by using the ascenders. That works just as well I suppose, but I need to do a search on the petzl descender for the directions for use to make a pro descent from now on.

It was a short, little climb, but the future never looked brighter from up there.

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TreeCo said:

I've got one too and have searched it several times and can't find the 'down' button so I leave it in the shop. I think the guy I bought it from ripped me off because he said it worked fine.

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outofmytree said:

I am not a fan of used climbing gear but that aside, if you can't figure out how to use a figure 8 descender then you are in dire need of the climbing tuition I suggested you undertake a month ago. Over here 3 stories up would be well over 24 feet. Smarter people than me worked out that you only need to fall 4 feet onto a hard surface to injure your spine and double that to die. Get some hands-on help BEFORE you climb. It is much much better than hands on physiotherapy to learn how to walk again afterwards....

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newsawtooth said:

Don't be discouraged by the figure of eight, they have ruined greater men. Your potency will be perpetually tested by pernicious tools of this trade. The Blakes Hitch and the Bowline are two of the most nefarious implements of the craft. Some will take a lifetime to master them.

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ForTheAction said:

I was just telling a guy that the reaffirmation of all climbers is not a bad thing. Even though we may be as safe as bees in the air, it can't hurt at all to hear or read from our peers to focus on caution and preparedness as much as possible. Most of the things people do can incur mistakes, but no major set backs take place. A tiny little mistake in this craft can mean the end. There is no place for mistakes in this one.

By the way, I'm getting through my Climber's Companion. Juicey book. I'll probably read it twice and keep it in the truck for jobs.

The C. Companion is my teacher, but as a born athletic animal I'm not just saying that this book is all I need to make major headway in this craft. I'm not because I don't want to tip off any of the house cats out there that really need to go to a few workshops to learn this craft safely. To expect them to be as virtuous as myself and to be as successful as myself at picking up dangerous and high focus crafts with mere athletic virtues and the little Climber's Companion is to overestimate the average person by a mile.

Nobody should be as improvisational as I am being at taking on tree climbing especially with saws in their hands as I myself am. This is down right dangerous business. To suggest that the house cats could advance as fast as I am doing is just plain murder. No one under any circumstances should take my example of risque and eagerness on the ropes.

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ForTheAction said:

I was just telling a guy that the reaffirmation of all climbers is not a bad thing. Even though we may be as safe as bees in the air, it can't hurt at all to hear or read from our peers to focus on caution and preparedness as much as possible. Most of the things people do can incur mistakes, but no major set backs take place. A tiny little mistake in this craft can mean the end. There is no place for mistakes in this one.

By the way, I'm getting through my Climber's Companion. Juicey book. I'll probably read it twice and keep it in the truck for jobs.

The C. Companion is my teacher, but as a born athletic animal I'm not just saying that this book is all I need to make major headway in this craft. I'm not because I don't want to tip off any of the house cats out there that really need to go to a few workshops to learn this craft safely. To expect them to be as virtuous as myself and to be as successful as myself at picking up dangerous and high focus crafts with mere athletic virtues and the little Climber's Companion is to overestimate the average person by a mile.

Nobody should be as improvisational as I am being at taking on tree climbing especially with saws in their hands as I myself am. This is down right dangerous business. To suggest that the house cats could advance as fast as I am doing is just plain murder. No one under any circumstances should take my example of risque and eagerness on the ropes.

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Gts4tw said:

Wow, lol.

:spam:

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ForTheAction said:

I was just telling a guy that the reaffirmation of all climbers is not a bad thing. Even though we may be as safe as bees in the air, it can't hurt at all to hear or read from our peers to focus on caution and preparedness as much as possible. Most of the things people do can incur mistakes, but no major set backs take place. A tiny little mistake in this craft can mean the end. There is no place for mistakes in this one.

By the way, I'm getting through my Climber's Companion. Juicey book. I'll probably read it twice and keep it in the truck for jobs.

The C. Companion is my teacher, but as a born athletic animal I'm not just saying that this book is all I need to make major headway in this craft. I'm not because I don't want to tip off any of the house cats out there that really need to go to a few workshops to learn this craft safely. To expect them to be as virtuous as myself and to be as successful as myself at picking up dangerous and high focus crafts with mere athletic virtues and the little Climber's Companion is to overestimate the average person by a mile.

Nobody should be as improvisational as I am being at taking on tree climbing especially with saws in their hands as I myself am. This is down right dangerous business. To suggest that the house cats could advance as fast as I am doing is just plain murder. No one under any circumstances should take my example of risque and eagerness on the ropes.

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NCTREE said:

So what if someone comes along while you are climbing in the park and ties the tail of your rope off to the trunk, how are you going to get down?

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LarryTheCableGuy said:

Maybe he'll just cut his way down with his new 3120 "climbing saw", LOL.


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ForTheAction said:

It's actually used gear that I bought for cheap. It's all petzl pieces.

The $1,000 worth of stuff I got for $200 worked out really nice too. I clipped my saddle onto my top hand ascender. I clipped a foot hold into the bottom hand ascender. The foot hold is actually a horizontal stick on a rope that can easily alow both of my feet. You know how it works from here. This is sooo much easier than using the inch worm technique with the blakes hitch.

I climbed up 3 stories into a tree in the park and tried to use my figure 8 to get down. All of my tests failed while I stayed clipped into my ascenders. Supposedly one of the devices I bought is a descender, but it's not obvious how I should apply it, so I didn't risk using that.

After trying the 8 for a while, I gave up, and worked my way down by using the ascenders. That works just as well I suppose, but I need to do a search on the petzl descender for the directions for use to make a pro descent from now on.

It was a short, little climb, but the future never looked brighter from up there.

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