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throw weight?

I see that it is a seperate system, built around dynamic rope. I'm surprised that it is choked with a carabiner, rather than a RB.

You're going to have the piece of broken tree on your rope with you. Bad news no matter what. I wonder more about just winding up through the branches, spiralling around the bole. If I were to know that I were going to have to use the 'lead rock climbing' technique, I'd choke at the bottom...

yes. And with most things, listen to others, but know your style is your style.

Personally, I choke my climb line only a bit below my lanyard. If I gaff out when the top goes, I don't want to drop 4 feet and stop.

I grab as I want. You can keep a tight, albeit downward-angled, lanyard to help with stability, as well as your hands. I'll overlap my tree spurs if I need to in order to keep my inside of feet against the bole...more stability. I saw a pic here somewhere of spurs set apart and feet with no...

Picking cones, evidently, means climbing into the tipppppy top of slow tapering forest trees.

Charles, PS, Burnham has lots of skinny, forest tree climbing for cone-picking skills. A solid source.

Its very tempting to cut a stub here or there on ascent. With only a rope lanyard, and rushing where you might skip a second TIP, you could be playing with fire. If I'm going to work my way up, and its not feasible, or worthwhile to set a HiTIP, I choke my climbing rope below my flipline...

Advice from a vet is nothing compared to the experience of vet. I don't know how long you've climbed Charles, but you don't have B's experience. Everything is risk-acceptance. I'd rather have a high TIP than chaps in most situations, Burnham is the other way around. He's an expert at both...

Being efficient helps a lot. If you are F*cikng around with the throw line, taking forever its one thing. If you can throw or shoot a line, then pull in your rope, and not need to isolate it, you should move pretty quickly. Getting brush on the ground ASAP is not the key to working efficiently...

With a high climb-line TIP, you may skip the lanyard if grabbing the skinny trunk works to climb the tree with hands and spurs, especially a slight leaner. Just use something to advance your hitch. Someone/ something (including gravity alone after a while) to hold your rope tail downward, while...

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A guy line or two will help if you need it. If I have a section of trunk to hike up on spurs, but want fall-arrest. I hold both strands of the flip-line in each hand, with enough extra slack that it doesnt' grab, acting like its just a 180 wrap. As I get smaller in diameter, on a vertical...

Pole spurs are way better on skinny trees.