What do you think of this?

[wct4life]

I've been trying to come up with a way to lower branches with out the need of a groundman. Several times today I was left waiting in a tree because my gm was preoccupied with another climber.

First off let me state that this would only be used in certain situations. Branches around 6" or smaller, no serious obsticles underneath.

My Idea was to tie a running bowline, take my lowering line through a fork in the branch, back to a Fig. 8 w/ softlock.

Cut the branch so that It would be tip end heavy and lower it to the ground.

Then undo the RB and pull the rope back up to me, repeat.

This is just a theory on how I can stay productive in times without ground support.

Please forgive my attempt at graphics, not as well trained as spyder

 

[wct4life]

Sorry about the bmp. Can't figure out how to jpeg it.

 

[SilverBlue]

 

[Stumper]

Wct4, What you propose works. What Brian describes works well in many cases. Another variation of your proposed method is to take slings or loop runners ( or short pieces of rope) and biners. Tie off the branch with loop runner or short rope, attach 'biner, run your line through biner. Now you have it tied off rather than just tangled in the branch but can retrieve the line easily.:angel:

 

[Ax-man]

Good idea, for a one or two time thing, pulling rope just gets old real quick. Fig. 8's also twist line.

Have you ever used a choke rope for doing a solo act?? Running bowline as an anchor knot and using another knot like a clove or timber hitch to adjust the slack, then cut between the two knots, untie the cut piece and pitch it to the ground. works good for stuff one man can handle by himself.

Maybe your looking for a system to lower bigger pieces. I've cut, snubbed and lowered pieces solo and just wait for the groundie to untie them. Just find some thing else to do while waiting, if it is close to where I'm working in the tree.

Larry

 

[glens]

Originally posted by wct4life
Sorry about the bmp. Can't figure out how to jpeg it.

JPEG is okay in a pinch, but it's really meant for "real life" images where the loss of fine detail is okay.  For line drawings or images such as yours, GIF is far superior, but the best compromise is PNG.

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Glen

 

[Derek]

stuffups

G'day Glens' awsome to see someone fixing every ones stuff ups,
if its any consolation I spend a lot of my day doing the same thing???????? Cant wait till I can nav this site like most of you seem to... Need link to picture resizing????


and for Gods be carefull out (up) there Derek

 

[glens]

I like to use the software from http://www.imagemagick.org/ and I usually use the command-line version of the "convert" component it includes.&nbsp; They make a Windows package, but ironically, the Windows graphical version of the "display" component only contains a small subset of the "convert" component.&nbsp; In my unix version, everything is accessible to modify images through the graphical interface, but like I said, it's just plain faster to type the commands with the appropriate change parameters.&nbsp; The software is excellent, but in order to use it, you'll <i>have</i> to use the command line interface while using Windows.

It's really easy.&nbsp; If you fetch it and need help, holler.

Glen

 

[Derek]

resizing

hi glens
saw site for resizing pics NOWAY am I going down there by myself, as mentiond somewere before, thank God im good with my saws... Wife (Toni) will be home this arvo and she will sort it out for me. NO problems at 60m swinging from tree to tree but scared s***less of stuffing her cpu

 

[rbtree]

Derek,

Have Toni help you install the free photo editor at www.irfanview.com. I think it's more user friendly than Glen's site. With it you can easily rotate, crop, resize pics, plus much more.

wct,

Nice idea! I've done it a bit, as well as used Rocky's method more often. Your's can work, but uses a lot of line, so hanging the branch using one or two slings works well, if you can then toss it down, or piece it to manageable sizes. If there are usable branches or stubs nearby, they're usually better than an 8 for lowering from and matching the friction needed.