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So, it looks like you get down, clear your hitch paraphernalia from the line and then pull that long bight through the biner...right?

Hahaha...the OCD is hard to get away from. :lol: I do do them mentally, you are right. And I frown inwardly when someone steps on my ropes...the early conditioning is hard to get away from.

I have seen some limbs hit butt first with a lot of force...to the point of almost sticking up...how could that NOT hurt a rope if it hit it?

Stig, that's what goes through my mind. I should not say, "It still wigs me out some to think of a 'big' spar falling on a climbing line." What I mean is that I do not like to have ANYTHING fall on my lifeline...limbs, chunks, spar of any size. My first experiences with ropes were from Army...

I never liked the idea of the spar falling onto my rope. MB, I didn't worry about the pull..and, I agree, if a lot of pull needed to happen we'd use a different rope. It still wigs me out some to think of a big spar falling on a climbing line...there could be a crush between the spar and a...

So how do you get your climbing line down? When I first learned I would rappel down the manila climbing line (the other climber always spiked down...he wasn't familiar with biners) and then we would use that line to pull the spar while we cut it. It didn't "feel right" using a climbing line...