climbing with a grcs tending ur slack

[irish93stang]

would this work to get a climber in a tree fast if he just tends his hitch or would it create too much stress on the TIP?

 

[lumberjack333]

If you had just come down for lunch off a long removal and were tied into a friction saver device, steel ring or pulley of some sort... I'm sure it would work well, but with natural crotch TIP, depends really, smooth bark tree and a nice wide crotch could be ok... a rough tree with a tight crotch, might not turn out so well....

 

[irish93stang]

thats what i was thinking also... anyone ever tried this? im sure it would work without a friction hitch but u would really have to trust your groundie

 

[Grace Tree]

We do it quite a bit but not much with the climbing line. If the line is in a block we clip into the rigging line and the climber tends his own slack or if pays close attention to his lanyards if there's no top line. We put the tail of the climbing line in the GRCS sometimes but it usually through a natural crotch we use that more as an assist and not just to pull our fat arses up. We use a 28v Milwaukee angle drill and keep a spare battery on charge on the jobsite. I go about 220 lbs with my gear and my partner probably goes 280 or more. It will pull me up but my partner has to give it some help or it grunts to a halt.
Phil

 

[Tree Pig]

Sup Stang

hey man you referring to something like this

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=107985

 

[irish93stang]

yup yup somethin just like that except no mechanical rope grab maybe a prusik with a pulley tending... a chipper winch would be the fastest way to get up without using a friction hitch

 

[gr8scott72]

yup yup somethin just like that except no mechanical rope grab maybe a prusik with a pulley tending... a chipper winch would be the fastest way to get up without using a friction hitch

Or tied to a skid steer.

 

[Hddnis]

We do it quite a bit but not much with the climbing line. If the line is in a block we clip into the rigging line and the climber tends his own slack or if pays close attention to his lanyards if there's no top line. We put the tail of the climbing line in the GRCS sometimes but it usually through a natural crotch we use that more as an assist and not just to pull our fat arses up. We use a 28v Milwaukee angle drill and keep a spare battery on charge on the jobsite. I go about 220 lbs with my gear and my partner probably goes 280 or more. It will pull me up but my partner has to give it some help or it grunts to a halt.
Phil

Are you using the 44:1 or the 22:1 setting when giving a lift to you or your buddy?



Mr. HE

 

[treeman82]

I've done it before, but it's S-L-O-W and the groundies don't like it either. Now I have a gas powered drill, but don't have the adapter chuck to try this.

 

[Grace Tree]

Are you using the 44:1 or the 22:1 setting when giving a lift to you or your buddy?
Mr. HE

Definitely low gear for us. I really had intended to make a video to show that it can be done with a battery powered drill but like so many other things I never got around to doing it. Maybe next year.
Phil

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I rarely let them crank me up, but use it as a belay devise to take some of my weight off wen i climb. Undo the hitch, or tie into the rigging line and climb up to the next top, or to the block to clean gear and chunk the spar down.