Natural crotch rigging

[jmack]

By naturals you guys mean non-synthetic? I climbed for many years on manilla or hemp. It was a damn nice, workable line. Think they found it got heart rot when worked in orchards and around rotting apples or something and you could not notice the slightest defect. I like that black widow skinny stuff for small rigging but I would not use it on rough bark like hackberry crotches. It has 7k tensile but I d be afraid to shock load it too much. It goes w a minny porty. You prob want to have some leather gloves if you re the groundy.

holy hemp!

 

[jmack]

Does anyone have a favorite natural crotch rigging line they like to use on smaller jobs?

3 strand for natural crotching i like all gears husky rope

 

[adam]

hemp gear

and nice hardhat.

 

[treevet]

Adam, if dude s installing a swing , the backswing should work but the return may be a bit painful. Neat picture. Elaborate?

 

[Boa07]

Adam, I'm with Treevet tell us more about the photo, looks kinda like he's cutting a new buckstrap from the bark of the tree?

 

[adam]

leziwo

This is not a bad word, just polish name for a very old climbing gear, known from middle ages and used by beekeepers, who installed beehives in natural cavities in tree trunks or carved them with special tools. They were very important (no sugar and lightbulbs back then, just honey and wax candles!), as the whole trade was generating more profit than timber production in the crown forests. Picture shows one of those important guys at work.

 

[treevet]

In other words, and you can see the chips flying, he is putting a cavity in the tree.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

This is not a bad word, just polish name for a very old climbing gear, known from middle ages and used by beekeepers, who installed beehives in natural cavities in tree trunks or carved them with special tools. They were very important (no sugar and lightbulbs back then, just honey and wax candles!), as the whole trade was generating more profit than timber production in the crown forests. Picture shows one of those important guys at work.

Are you an apiarist?

 

[adam]

I am not an apiarist! I don't use hemp! I use natural crotches only!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I am not an apiarist! I don't use hemp! I use natural crotches only!

Ummm, was there a smiley in there? An apiarist is a bee keeper who know what he is doing.

Like an arborist is a tree worker...

 

[adam]

Agrilist would be an EAB guy and Vesparist maybe somebody posting stingy comments? If they know, what they are doing of course.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Agrilist would be an EAB guy and Vesparist maybe somebody posting stingy comments? If they know, what they are doing of course.

Doesn't the Vesparist repair scooters?

 

[adam]

Only in Italy. It's drifting further and further from original naturafurcaristic (pardon my french) topic. I think, they are also called Vesparians in Jamaica, but only if they know what they are doing.