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This is his follow up, and what i copied. I still use that kind of knee ascender setup, just with a handleless ascender and clipped to the chest box. My thinking was if Jerry saw the benefit of a roller box then so do i.

Having mentioned ladders, I'm not above using one if it makes sense. I did a shorter ash, backyard, solo, rigging almost everything. Set my lines by throw line, rigged it all up, went up a ladder simply tending my hitch, swung out to do the cut (leaving plenty so i could pull it with a tag...

Yahtzee!!!! :lol: Edit : jinx

That's a 3 to 1, or a z rig. It's rove (rigged) to disadvantage tho, so it's only doing 2. Since you act as the winch, and the weight, a doubled line is 2 to 1.

No, it's 2 to 1. Friction makes it less, but it's still 2 to 1. Body thrusting is about the most inefficient way to climb, especially if you don't have correct form. You have to hold your self up by the rope, not fun. I get you thinking that more ma would be better, but it's not. Honestly if...

You basically are setting up a 3 to 1 pulling a 2 to 1, giving you a 6 to 1. It's actually used in alpine rescue, i think it's in a book i have on mountaineering. For trees tho, no. Tree climbing is hard work, honestly kinda a young man's game (no offense to the older climbers here that are...