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  1. SouthSoundTree

    haul back line on speedline- tips and tricks

    My concern is about personally getting tangled in the fast moving cordage. Recently, I got a moving throwline half-hitched around my ring finger on my left hand when I was throwing with my right. Fluke, but happened. Sprained my finger joint from the sudden jolt of a 12 oz hand thrown weight...
  2. SouthSoundTree

    haul back line on speedline- tips and tricks

    I could just use a speedline with a control line that mostly is for hauling back slings and then use a trolley pulley, making the speedline run faster/ more efficiently. I'd have the weight of the control line to reduce the work hauling back the haul line/ pulley (minor). I wouldn't have to...
  3. SouthSoundTree

    haul back line on speedline- tips and tricks

    I think that fly reel that will pay out as its pulled would work well. This would help to avoid tangles. Perhaps, I should adjust my end of the line by running it over a crotch up high and tensioning with a foot ascender (full body weight), and if need be, use a 2:1, and incorporate a...
  4. SouthSoundTree

    haul back line on speedline- tips and tricks

    Wondering what others do to get an overhead speedline back to the climber. I was speedlining a 100'+ cedar full of limbs about 50' laterally to prep for a crane on the trunk. I had the groundmen flicking a wave into the rope to get it back to me at times, as I had to strip out the front, then...
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