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Like Burnharm said, don't put an ascender with a toothed cam as an anchor point. Drt or else under it doesn't matter. The point is the hard bite made by the teeth in the rope's cover. The pointy little teeth penetrate between the fibers to hold the load. But only a fraction of the fibers are...

With the appropriate gear like Hitchhicker and Akimbo, even the zigzag in my case, you can switch at will between the two techniques during the climb. This way you can benefit of the best of the both worlds. I do that in every tree. Very handy.