What length and how many lanyards?

[The Lawn Shark]

I used to use a steel core 12' but after getting better (ie not nicking my lanyard anymore. I use a much lighter piece of 1/2 rope with a knot on one end and a rope snap on the other. This is attached through a microscender on a twisted clevis to my saddle. If I'm going up a tree with a lot of limbs to pass I'll also put a 3 in 1 lanyard on my saddle to always be tied in. If it's only a limb or two I'll use my climbing line. On easy removals where I can just cut off all the limbs blow out the top and descend I'll take a 1/2 rope with me and when I get the top out, tie off to the top of the spar, Attach my rope to a figure 8 and descend. Then use the rope as a pull line..... Mike

You use your lifeline as a pull line/rigging line???????

 

[prentice110]

You use your lifeline as a pull line/rigging line???????

Some people do this. Ill do it every now and then by hand, NEVER!!!! BY TRUCK! Any way i use a 12' spearamint line through a microcender and a twisted clevis. Tried the "Grillion" and thought that the rope was too small in diamiter to use . Used to use a 9 footer for years, and the 12 did take some time to get used to. Havent used the tail end of my rope in a while but that doesent mean I wont again. Guy that I worked for who trained me to climb always had two climbing lines for extra posistioning, one long for everyday stuff , and a 80' footer for goin out on the ends deadwoodin oaks......

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

My regular lanyard is 16ft working length, and have a 30ft in the truck.

I may use a shorter improvised one for straight conifer removals

 

[Mikecutstrees]

You use your lifeline as a pull line/rigging line???????

Yup, As a hand pull line or maybe on a 3-1. Never by truck. I wouldn't pull with a truck on a 1/2" line anyways. If thats the case I'll also tie off a 9/16" or 5/8" line and use that to pull with. As with everything in arboriculture you have to use your head. I don't think pulling by hand with a rope you descend on is a big deal. I knew that was coming. It your own choice though.... Mike

 

[Mapleman]

To each their own, but I would only work without my climbing line crotched above me if it was not feaseable to do so. I sometimes climb with two climbing lines, especially when pruning big sugar maples. I have a 12' and a 15' foot wire flipline, as well as an assortment of safety lanyards. I usually advance my climbing line with the hook of my polesaw.

Climbing while not crotched in seems like a recipe for disaster. Strip those spurs out, and you'll be picking bark out of your teeth for weeks. I leave enough slack in my climbing line so I can climb fast and free. Of course, I don't spike except if I'm doing removals or if its a black locust, gum, or thick-barked tree with a first branch 50" feet up. So again, it's a matter of preference. I learned to climb in Florida, without gaffs. We had to hide them under the seat of the chipper truck. Personally, I don't like seeing gaff wounds in trees, unless they're gums. But again, to each their own.

 

[Raymond]

Few of my new toys.

Gillon is it? I think 9 ft. If I need more than that I have a short rope tied on and tie in twice or use my tale end of my rope.

 

[ozzy42]

Few of my new toys.

Gillon is it? I think 9 ft. If I need more than that I have a short rope tied on and tie in twice or use my tale end of my rope.

dang Raymond,It has got to be hard being a 1legged tree climber.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Raymond]

dang Raymond,It has got to be hard being a 1legged tree climber.:hmm3grin2orange:

Was about to do a knife swap.
I'm a freak like that.

 

[md_tree_dood]

I have a ten foot with micrograb. I'm most likely going to go to a 10 foot CINCH, it's annoying to have to relieve tension in order to release slack. I'm digging the new snap on the CINCH system too.

As far as using a lanyard, I always use one when making a chainsaw cut or when I've cutting out on a limb. I almost cut myself out of a tree once so I like the extra safety.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Thaaqr is the Petzl Grillon pronounced Gree-own.

 

[Raymond]

Thaaqr is the Petzl Grillon pronounced Gree-own.

Yeah I have over two hundred bucks in that buck. It's worth it though.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Thaaqr is the Petzl Grillon pronounced Gree-own. I think it is French for cricket...

 

[FanOFatherNash]

Yeah, it's how most people were taught. Me too. That's not a good reason to not improve your system and your personal saftey though.

Even if you can do it safely 99.9% of the time, how long does it take to climb 1000 trees?

Untied re-directs are a significant percentage of "cause of fall". And we're all human.

Ask my climber
2 years ago , redirecting around a crotch not tied in , fell 40 ft chain saw helped break his fall, ( landed on chainsaw broke his back )

 

[mr. holden wood]

Some people do this. Ill do it every now and then by hand, NEVER!!!! BY TRUCK! Any way i use a 12' spearamint line through a microcender and a twisted clevis. Tried the "Grillion" and thought that the rope was too small in diamiter to use . Used to use a 9 footer for years, and the 12 did take some time to get used to. Havent used the tail end of my rope in a while but that doesent mean I wont again. Guy that I worked for who trained me to climb always had two climbing lines for extra posistioning, one long for everyday stuff , and a 80' footer for goin out on the ends deadwoodin oaks......

I was scrolling through this thread without paying attention to the dates, thought this was a recent post. When I came across the prentice post made my heart skip a beat. Never meet the guy, but could relate to him in so many ways. The moment I read he was gone I knew it wasn't tree related. From all the crazy **** he wrote I knew the safest place he could ever be, was in a tree. Anyway, sorry for the derail couldn't help but comment about the loss of him and miss reading his posts.
12' steelcore and climbine for me, spend most of my days suspended.

 

[Iustinian]

I have several different fliplines, work positioning lanyards, w/e you call them lol.

I started with a "Buckstrap" made from xtc line (it now hangs in the shop lol).

Upgraded to 8ft Magic with a Gibbs Ascender. One day, while doing a subcontract climb and being in a hurry in the rain because it "had to be done today" lol, I cut a Blaze climbline, so I used my splicing kit to turn it into a 35' flipline.

I have a gri gri, I've used it as a mechanical adjustor.

But my favorite is the ART positioner, 15' 11mm flipline. I still use the gri gri and 35' flipline deadwooding/limbwalking oaks in the winter and the Gibbs and 35' flipline in big cottonwoods here.

I've said this before, but ANSI requires that you have a second climbline installed in every tree that you climb -- in case the need for an aerial rescue arises.

I have many many climblines, so depending on the tree, if it will ultimately be faster or safer, I'll have several lines set in a tree, but I NEVER have more than two set on my bride bc too many lines gets confusing and a real PITA. I usually only need one line, and if I do use a second, I'll remove it from my bridge as soon as I no longer need it for access.

When it warms up this spring, I'm going to try doing nothing but SRT for awhile, too many people raving about it these days. Lately though, I set a Sterling HTP for footlocking, and on it I have the ABR Secret Weapon, which my Lava runs thru for DRT. A system on a system. Works great.

 

[deevo]

[ 12' steelcore and climbine for me, spend most of my days suspended.[/QUOTE]

Yep, me too, when working around conductors use 10' 1/2" line with climbright mechanical adjuster.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I still use an 18 foot 1/2 inch rope with a V/T to adjust. If i am in a pine or spruce i haul out a crappy old rope to substitute and tie a carabiner on with a a fishermans.