What is the longest flipline ?

[Olindian]

Hello to all - a newcomer here.

I'm interested in climbing SE Australian Eucalyptus regnans using flipline and spurs. Some of these are giants with very wide girths at the base.
I'm wondering, what's the longest flipline a person can practically use, and what's the longest one made ?

thanks in advance,

Jon

 

[arborlicious]

You can always join a couple together if they're not long enough or even add in some rope. I'm assuming you'll be removing the tree - hence the spurs?

I'd be getting out the big shot and getting a rope over the first branch - assuming that's no more than 120 feet or so up (unless you've got a double big shot). Then out with the rope wrench and HAAS to ascend. Sure beats spiking up with a flipline.

Steve

 

[VA-Sawyer]

Here we go again!

 

[tidy]

Hello to all - a newcomer here.


I'm wondering, what's the longest flipline a person can practically use

thanks in advance,

Jon

Ide say it depends a bit on who the person is, as to the longest flipline they can practically use. I haven't spurred up any bona fide monster barrels yet-doesn't look like much fun either to be honest, stubs and sheets of bark are gonna be pretty damn awkward to flip over at that width

 

[imagineero]

You can make one pretty easily up to about 600'. Any longer than that you'll need to special order.

 

[Peter.s]

If you need a super big flip line just get a micro ascender to tend slack and use a regular rope.

just my two cents

 

[yoyoman]

I truly hope you are not going to spur a beautiful tree like this besides you will be so much more inefficient and at much higher risk. The tree will not like you either.

Modify a BigShot and set your line high, take binoculars so you can see the tie in point, use a base anchor to get you there and then convert it to canopy anchor for a double ascent/descent line.