Ropes and Limb Wallking

[lync]

limb walking

forget about trying to balance like a tight rope walker. Bend your knees and really sit hard in the saddle, let the rope take the weight. A long lanyard (15 foot with a snap on the end) you can use as a second tie in point. Time and practice.

corey

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Or get on the side of the limb and crawl out while leaning into the rope.

I can get out on some pretty small diameter stuff this way, and I'm around 260# coming out of the shower. (for those of you with unwanted imagery... )

 

[Ax-man]

Lets not forget the pommel horse method.

Sitting on the limb and using your hands to lift your torso and go forward. Works great on limbs that are pretty much sucker free.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Re: limb walking

Originally posted by lync [ Bend your knees and really sit hard in the saddle, let the rope take the weight. A


corey [/B]

How do you limb walk if yur sitting in yur saddle?

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by John Paul Sanborn
I'm around 260# coming out of the shower. ... )

Thanks alot....

 

[murphy4trees]

One important point that most here probably take for granted is the ability to take slack out of your line one handed... That usually requires a micro-pulley slack tender just below your friction hitch.... And a friction hitch that won't lock up... You could try a blake hitch, but you'd probably be much better off moving to any of the advanced (closed) hitches like the Distel or French Prussic.. Does Sherrill's catalogue still show that stuff?

 

[lync]

sitting

master, sitting hard refers to letting the saddle support your body while leaving your feet on the limb to side step your way out to the tip. Not sitting in your saddle like it was a swing at the park with your feet dangling. I should have been more descriptive.

 

[Tree Machine]

sitting.

Absolutely on the sitting back (or at least bending your knees a bit, letting the rope take the weight). I try to walk way out there with about a third of my weight on the limb. It's somewhere between limb walking and limb floating. One-handed adjustment really IS essential.

I did negative weight the other day, sort of showing off for the building contractors in the second story of a new house adjacent. T.I.P was ideal for this move. This was going to the underside of the limb and making like a koala bear, or sloth, hands and heel hooks. Silky sawed the cut, rappelled down to the next limb. DON"T do it this way. I was just being a knucklehead and having a laugh and some casual, upside down conversation with the guys. -TM-

 

[TREETX]

I have to say amen to the comments about limbfloating and putting weight in your saddle. The rope is there as a tool to help you, not just to keep you from falling.

Limb walking is easy on the way out. Returning is what gets tricky at times. One handed becomes essential here.

.02

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

One of my favorite moments is when I can come off a limbwalk with a jump-swing and run the hitch down to a branch out and over form wher I am.

That is the funstuff that makes the drudgery all worth while.

 

[murphy4trees]

Sounds like "Tarzan feel good"

 

[timberfell]

On the last prune job we did I took a good swing from a limb back to the stem, bounced around a little but I was expecting it. The customer was one of those guys who had to be out there all the time . He flipped when he seen me do it. "Jesus are you okay, did you fall?"

I had to explain to him that it's just part of the game. Saves time and is fun.

Kurt

 

[murphy4trees]

Sounds like "Tarzan feel bad"

 

[Dan F]

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
JPS- The thought of 260 lbs fresh out of the shower, swinging from limb to limb just entered my head. Someone shoot me, PLEASE!

See for those of us who haven't met JPS or even seen a picture of him, we are imagining a 260 pound bunny (his avatar) coming out of the shower, which isn't gross, just flat out scary!


Dan

 

[Tree Machine]

Bunny?

A wringing wet 260 pound Sasquatch swingin in the treetops.

JP.... please don't do this to us again. -TM-

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

JP bolting a tree

Sometime bigger is better.

Yes, they are both my hands.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The best thing I ever did to improve my limb walking was to stop drinking whiskey the night before.
It's amazing how much that can skew your balance, even the next day.
Nowadays, 2 or 3 cool buddies before supper, and thats it. Oh, and something else, also.


But we won't get into that...

 

[BigJohn]

I believe its 90 percent confidence in yourself and 10 percent confidence in the equipment. Let's face it you walk out 20 ft on a limb that is not much higher than that your going to get beat up not matter how safe your equipment is. Never tell yourself you cant do it. Never sit or stand there thinking about going out there. All is possible if you only try.

 

[ORclimber]

Originally posted by BigJohn
I believe its 90 percent confidence in yourself and 10 percent confidence in the equipment. . Never tell yourself you cant do it. Never sit or stand there thinking about going out there. All is possible if you only try.

Oh yea. Point the mind and the body will follow.