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That looks easier than the way I do it Sean. My system looks something like this... HEAVE! HEAVE! HEAVE! HEAVE! :panting: Think I'll stop here for a minute and enjoy the from :looks down: 7' up :^D

A prusik tender would help. That's what I was looking for when this thread came to mind. I need to put my saddle on, and figure out how I'd put it together. I'm using a split tail, with a standard prusik, and my saddle's basic, with split twin Ds. Sitting here at the computer, I'm having trouble...

Not a fan of ladders. I'm sure they have their place in a professional's arsenal, but I'm not really doing this stuff to get on ladders, and it's easy for shit to get out of control. I have a ladder I need to fix from years ago that I broke dropping a limb on it :^S I could have gotten enough...

Yea, I'm already pleased with my performance/technique compared to Homeowner Joe, but I want to get better than that.

I'll checkout those videos tonight Ben! Thanks Marc. Your choice of words got everything to align right in my head. I get it now, and it makes sense to me :^) I started this thread after contemplating some kind of hitch tender, and browsing supply stores for pulleys and such. Looking at...

Hmm.... I'm not getting it. Pulley systems are kinda voodoo to me anyway. I'm gonna have to think on this awhile. edit: I have a tension handle somewhere. Not sure what weight it goes to, but if it were sufficient, I could setup a test system to prove it to myself. Run the line through a top...

It's just a direction change, no? Taken to it's logical conclusion, if I looped the rope over enough branches, a hummingbird could fly me up. edit: This looks like the simplest mechanical advantage pulley system with two moving parts... I think I'm missing a moving part with DRT.

So you're saying the 2:1 comes solely from the body thrust? I suppose I could buy that. It's more than I thought, but it's in the realm of believability.

I hear this a bunch, but is it true? Seems to me a vanilla DRT setup is 1:1. Lose a bit to friction, gain a bit from body thrusting, but you're pulling the full weight as I see it.

Yea, there's that too. If I did it every day, I'd probably see some progress, but holy hell is it kicking my ass now. Took me forever to get ~15' up the tree Saturday. When the weather cools down, maybe I'll try to get more climbing in for the hell of it.

Playing with the paracord Gary sent me(Thanks!), and was pondering a 2:1 haul system. I might be visualizing it wrong, and it might be overcomplicating things, but do you all think this is worth pursuing? The Mora is a branch, the Swiss army a saddle. The butterfly is a pulley on a prusik, and...