friction hitch

[NickfromWI]

Nice poll. Should a shwabish go with distel since they are so similar?

 

[Dadatwins]

I still use old fashioned tautline and locking rope snap since I guess I learned it first and got comfortable with it. Tried ****** snap for a while did not like the feel of it and not heavy enough to throw up and advance(my opinion only). I have seen distal & schwabisch?? and played with on ground I even bought double eye spliced ultra tech loop and tri - biner but have not tried in a tree yet. Old habits hard to break.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by Dadatwins
I still use old fashioned tautline and locking rope snap since I guess I learned it first and got comfortable with it. Tried ****** snap for a while did not like the feel of it and not heavy enough to throw up and advance(my opinion only).

EXCELLENT POST!!!

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by Dadatwins
Old habits hard to break.

Hard but not impossible. I'm looking to climb some giants this spring, and realize that oldschool will be too tedious for them.

That, and the prospect of being guided by a master next month in MN, have me ready to go "progressive".

 

[rbtree]

Originally posted by Dadatwins
Tried ****** snap for a while did not like the feel of it and not heavy enough to throw up and advance(my opinion only). I have seen distal & schwabisch?? and played with on ground I even bought double eye spliced ultra tech loop and tri - biner but have not tried in a tree yet. Old habits hard to break.

Try a double locking steel carabiner....or carry a shot pouch with you for when you need extra weight. I'm usually ok without the weight, as I tie a quick monkey's fist throwing knot.

Even before you quit using the TLH, add a pulley behind it to tend the knot. You'll quickly see the advantages. Then go to the hitches you mentioned, or even the French prussic, and you'll be hooked.

 

[rbtree]

Good on ya, Guy!!!

Welcome to progressionville

 

[kurtztree]

I like the blakes hitch more than the taughtline now. The only down fall with the blakes is it takes me alittle longer to tie then the taughtline. I like the vt for my lanyard. Just starting to go away from old school I guess.

 

[ORclimber]

VT. With a rope snap instead of a splice.

When I worked at General Tree Service in Portland 5 years ago, many of their climbers were using the VT. There are quality oriented progressive companies outside of AS .

 

[NeTree]

Here we go again

 

[Stumper]

Brian, I wish you had alllowed for multiple choices. I voted Distel but I am actually using the V.T. and Distel about equally.

 

[Jumper]

Blake's, primarily since it was the one that was taught to me.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Instead of a monkeys fist or throw bag for throwing weights, i think a steel rescue pulley and carabiner work nicely. Just a steel carabiner for short throws. One place that the weight of steel is to your advantage i think.

 

[Base]

i was unsure which box to tick......... a i use a blakes hitch, then sometimes i use my lock jack sport it all depends on the tree if its a crown reduction, or i will be swinging around for a while i use my lock jack, if its a conifer type pole affair i use a blakes with a split tale, or just go for my steel strope with a mirco grab, the lock jack is a nice bit of kit but i feel it has some flaws when in confined situations.....................

 

[Lumberjack]

I use the Petzel i'D for SRT, but when it is deemed easyier to DbRT, I use the knut, so a VT, but normally I just stick with my SRT and RADS.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Good poll Rocky.
I wonder if anybody has learned to tie a VT, got it tuned up to work for them, used it for a week or two, then gone back to the Blakes or Tautline.
I wonder the same thing about a split tail/prussic cord. Has anyone learned to use one, then gone back to working tying the hitch with the tail of his climbing rope?
I wonder the same about a fair lead.
The old school climbers are just climbers that have not taken the time to learn and try new school, for whatever reason.

 

[TREETX]

Originally posted by Mike Maas
The old school climbers are just climbers that have not taken the time to learn and try new school, for whatever reason.

Welcome to the truth.....

Amen to that.

 

[Ax-man]

As of my post there have been 37 votes cast. About the same number of people that post and reply here on a regular basis.

Based on the results so far, it is right on based on who has stated what hitch they are using when the subject is discussed in the forums.

Surely there are more than 37 climbers on this site that could add some more numbers to the poll. This is about where these polls peter out is in the high 30's. I'd like to think that there are more than 37 climbers on the site. It just seems to be such a low number compared to how many people are on this site.

I voted VT, for all the right reasons, of course.

Hint, Hint Butch, Guy is starting to come around, just a matter of time before we get you too. Maybe not today, but some day

Larry

 

[jamie]

prusic

well i voted for a blakes when in reality i use a prussic, having said that on my cars roof rack i have a thin rope, cheap stuff from teh diy shop tied with blakes hitches to hold stuff down

wnt to get into more advanced hiches, still practising tieing them and every other knot, make sure i can do them with my eyes closed first.....


jamie

 

[TreeJunkie]

Prusik?

Prusik? This isn't your primary hitch is it? I can see you using this for ascending but not to work off ddrt...Am i misunderstanding you?
Myself i primarily use a vt, except in certain situations like in aerial rescue where i may be bearing the load of another climber or in comp. in the work climb when you have to come burning out to land the target. For both of these applications i'll use a schwaibish or distel. I've had the vt lock up on me 1/2 way down through a fast long descent, the other two hitches don't do this so much.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by Ax-man
Hint, Hint Butch, Guy is starting to come around, just a matter of time before we get you too.

Well let's not claim victory over oldschool too early there Lare.
My motivation for newschool is to get up really big bare-boled trees efficiently so I can measure them. :angel:

The runofthemill <90' oakmaplepine etc. with branches in reach of my 32' ladder and a hand toss that I'm used to working on will still be climbed monkeyfist and tlh. The "whatever reason" is time efficiency, not a bad reason at all, eh?

Still I confess to some excitement about trying the new before I'm too old and decrepit to climb anymore.