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Wow, that's tough! How strongly would you say that is enforced?

And I am asking about the "lowering" type of rescue specifically. There is such great emphasis on the forums and at comps for this apparently rare event. It would seem to me more attention would be given to CPR or how to deal with a serious saw cut or mildly serious fall (whatever that is), or...

Kevin, like this? I'm still waiting to hear from someone who's been involved in a ground lower rescue. I'll rephrase the question: Does anyone here know anyone who has been involved in one? Stig, what do you mean the American obsession with aerial rescue? Aren't they like that in Europe?

Dave, that's just a darn nice picture. What a great backyard you have!

Sherrill's site says the Stilson hitch is not for personal support or life safety. What would be the problem? I've never tried it.

The Zeppelin is my favorite, but that's not what I'm talking about in this example. I'm picturing attaching your rescue rope to the tensioned side of the climber's rope above the bowline with a bight. In other words, a midline knot to a tensioned rope. Not having ever done a lower rescue, I'm...

Kevin, thanks for the nice explanation. Changeover is a PITA, and that is why I look forward to trying your ropewrench. I like the idea of the butterfly above the running bowline. I think I'll start doing that. Just for the sake of argument, let's say the butterfly was not there, and you...

Kevin, would you elaborate a bit on why you feel they are only called for in SRT systems that require changeover? And yes, bowline with a bight is what I should have said. Thanks for pointing that out. Tophopper, your pic is plenty clear for me. That was helpful.

Good point. I rarely try to advance the static line. Maybe I should try it more. Seems like a pain. If you are recrotching going up, don't you have to recrotch coming down?

Shoot, I forgot about the running bowline on a bight. I like that knot. I climbed on the biner and the delta, and neither budged. Granted, the rope was always loaded. I'll take an extra wrap from now on. What if you're tying off the short end and climbing on the longer end, still wrapping...

I do 13 wraps, if I'm feeling superstitious.

JUST KIDDING!!!!! Willie, I do have a dead-eye sling to rig off of. I'm only posing this question to see what other guys are doing, and of course, to improve/streamline my systems. Plus, to know what would work if I didn't have a sling, or biner, or delta.

I could just cut the long end of the rope to make it the right size.

OK, a few ideas to try. Thanks. Not that it comes up every day. I thought having a biner close to the trunk was frowned upon due to gate issues. In that case, this should be no problem, yes?

Normally, for an SRT base tie, I pull my rope up over the branch and tie that "short" end to the trunk. Then I climb the "long" end, most of which is still left in the bag. For some reason today, after pulling up the rope and seeing the path around a few branches, I decided I'd rather climb...