Segmenting the last of a tree. Not sure how to set up a safety line for fall risk.

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Garka

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Hello everyone! I'm approaching the last steps of my first tree contract and I'm quite unsure how to safely finish the removal of the last stem of a 5 stem tree job I had.
As the job looks now everything but one vertical stem has been removed and I do not have a natural crotch to tie into.
How would I go about setting a safety line to address the fall risk?
What I currently have set up is a running bowline going into a anchor hitch on a carabiner attached to the rope bridge on my saddle. I'm also using a flipline.
Any advice would be appreciated!
*The last segment cannot be felled as it is sitting in the center of 3 structures.
 
You need to be able to bail out and hit the ground quickly. Cheapest way is a munter on a carabiner. Choke your climbline off to the stem like you are doing.
What system are you climbing on?
 
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Get yourself an adjustable friction saver. It goes around the tree and your climbing line goes through the rings just like a regular fritction saver, except you don't let the rings touch. When you put weight on it, the friction saver chokes the tree but you climbing line can run smoothly through it.

Or you can be like the old school guys, use your climbing line like a second lanyard, kept around knee level (out of the way). Or be like the old old school guys and just use your lanyard.

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climb line choked knee high ish at leadt under the flip line,

tie it with a long tail using yer favorite cinching not to a biner that way while you descend it can stay above you or you can repel a short distance, set the flip line pull the choker end down with the long tail, reset and keep going.

someone on here sugested a alpenstahl in the middle of the climb/safety line, still using a biner to choke the stem, that way if you need to decsend all the way down you can still retreive yer climb line
 
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