Chainsaw hook

[TREETX]

saw hook, rope guide, other gear

For you guys that like a hook instead of a lanyard for your saw.

http://www.freeworker.de/store/pd-1021591424.htm?categoryId=0

I know many people use a version of this

It also has the rope guide for sale and pics http://www.freeworker.de/store/pd912473946.htm?categoryId=6

This is an interesting store but the site has been down for the last 6 months

 

[treeclimber165]

That application of the Rope Guide never made much sense to me. Why in the world would someone use that expensive tool for a false crotch adjustment? Just to say that they could? If I was going to spend over $200 for a mechanical hitch I would be USING it instead of having it to simply adjust my false crotch length.

I'd love to get one some day though. I tried one at Vermeer in NC last December and it's slick when used in place of your friction hitch. Now you guys know what to get me for my birthday!!

 

[hillbilly]

Thanks for the link TREETX, germany is pretty close to Sweden
and I've got friends going there regularly.

Brian wrote: "Why in the world would someone use that expensive tool for a false crotch adjustment?"
I agree, a prusik for adjustment would be much cheaper.
However, the lock jack piece on the rope guide does slip at 6kn
acting as a shock absorber, if I understand it correctly.
A prusik might slip too, but activation load would probably
be more unpredictable and the friction, rope-on-rope could
burn it.

Being a bit weak for smart inventions like these, I might end up
buying both one day anyway

Any idea why they would be on sale?
How are the lock jack and rope guide selling, anyone?

 

[TREETX]

I have a little money and am gearing up with much needed toys. Bigshot, helmet, handsaw, etc.....

Does anyone use this cube?? It looks cool and all but what makes it $60 worth of useful. Is it faster than a bucket or pouch?? Is it just a trendy toy to have?? I feel the same way about the rope guide when looking at it. A lot of these advantages are too hard to describe in a forum or what takes 10 posts and hours to communicate can easily be explained in 5 seconds if you see it used. I hope going to the convention in Augsburg (March 18-20)will clear a few of these things up.


Here is the cube again. It is english. And on this site, FC is Foliding Cube.http://falteimer.coyserve.de/falteimer2_en.php?sid=64121d6ee1b265795005e757373e08a9

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Working at the booth during the WAA convention I put a AFC together and asked them to price it out, around $95 if you are buying the spliced cordage.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The Faltheimer Cube is definetly the BMW of all the versions. I've got one and bought the cotton, Chevorlet version, from QVC. You decide which is a better value. Being able to store my throwlines in a smaller space is a bonus to me.

I've got a RG and LOVE it! Sherrill will have them in the new catalog. The RG is a spendy replacement for a free crotch in the same way that a GRCS is a $2.2K replacement for free wraps on the trunk of a tree. Everyone has to decide what value they place on the performance of their gear.

With all of the chatter about modifying mufflers it would seem natural to hot rod any part of a climbing system.

Hubert sent me a package this week. I got the alternate cam for the Lock Jack so I can use the LJ with the Fly rope. This should be so smooth. I climbed on XTC with the RG for a couple weeks before I got the Fly rope. That was smooth. Being able to climb on lighter rope will be even better.

In the same package were two of Hubert's latest incarnation of the LJ cam. I think he calls them Rope Adjusters. They're meant to be used as a flipline adjuster. Since I used a Double Ended Double Adjusting, DEDA, I'll put them both to use. This weekend I'm going to add them to my saddle. I'll make a report later.

These tools are another way to make climbing easier on our bodies. Repetitive stress in its many manifestations is what will make your life uncomfortable in years to come. Spending the money in your early career will pay off later in life. Take a look at other people who've spent their careers doing manual labor. Mechanization is the way to go whenever practical. Does anyone want to go back to axes and whipsaws? Manila rope saddles? I like aluminum, nylon and magnesium

Tom

 

[treeclimber165]

Tom-
I'm all for new tools and tricks, but I still cannot see how that expensive hunk of metal helps the RG. What does it do that is worth $200 more than a friction hitch? This is not an area where constant adjustment is necessary. This is something that is set once when installing on a limb and then left alone until the next tie-in.
Other than the total waste of a neat tool, I like the overall design of the false crotch. I'd use something like that but with a prussik hitch instead of that hunk of magnesium.

 

[tophopper]

my ropeguide

after seeing the rope guide i was inspired to make my own. agreeing that it is an expensive tool I decided i would make my own before i bought one.
Ive attached a pic of the one i made, it functions the same as a RG, but cost probably a third of it to make. Having used mine almost daily for close to 6 months, i can see the advantage of the"puck" used for adjustment versus a hitch (like mine).

Having not used an actual RG i can only speculate, my guess is that the advantage of the sliding puck comes into play during retrieval. when the line falls from the pulley and cathes in the shackle, the pull on the shackle rotates the puck in a manner that it can slide down to the end of the loop thus opening up the loop as large as possible making removal easier?
when retrieving my setup the retrieval link is pulling from the end of the loop, this can cause the whole loop to spin around the branch and snug tight making for a potential jam.

I have not gotten it stuck yet, but as Tom had mentioned in another post that sometimes you can lose your rope right out of it thus leaving your RG abandoned in the tree.

The hardware in my setup meets and exceeds minimum ratings for false crotches, and was even approved for competition by M. Chisholm himself

I guess this would be my 2nd draft of the drawing board, and i plan to make more soon. Finding and testing various sizes of components for the seystem is the hard part, ideally i would like to find the same pulley as in the original RG.
Who knows, next time I see Tom Im sure he'll offer me to try his RG then i'll be hooked and just have to break down and buy one.
Tom is good for that!!

 

[treemd]

Very Nice!! I can't wait to give it a go!
Codie