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Seeing some of the pictures rigging up for SRT, it looks like a real PITA!! Plus all of the additional gear you need, to get up, then change it all to come back down? Lots of extra weight, and I am already carrying around too much of that! Then in the canopy if you move to the other side of the...

Very good read indeed! Thank you, that actually answered a lot of my questions, mainly how you tied off at the top. I wonder, if after reaching the top, you tied off a small line on the eye and dropped it you could decend then pull the eye back down to you? Just thinking al little outside the box.

Because the DRT is what you NEED in the tree 90% (or more) of the time. It's tried, it's true, it's effective, and WORKS! SRT, as I was told when I first started even thinking about it, is gear heavy and expensive. I had everything I NEEDED for around $300 to start with, SRT is quite a bit more.

I am glad to hear I am not the only one curious about this.

I've been reading more about Carl, thank you. Not sure I like the "open" acenders much either:O

Don't you still have some sort of a prussik for a safety on SRT, or is it just the ascenders?

Fair enough Justin, just trying to figure out all the hype. I thought it might be handy for another trick in the toolbox. Seems to me you could just use a splittail on the SRT line and climb single line the same as DRT without all the gadgetry, albeit not as fast? If you can asscend that fast...

Right!! Being spikless has hurt me a bit lately. Bunch of dead pines so it's a bear to set a line. I lanyard up, set my tip, then have to come back down and slash. 30-40ft trees it's not a huge deal. Now on a big Cotonweed, I think this SRT might be the ticket!

Yeah, I fail to see how it would be helpful at all in a rescue scenario!! I can't see how you could get someone down DRT even! I'm with Deva, spike it and get me out NOW!!

I mentioned removals to set the TIP, slice the tree on the way up and work the spar down. Seriously, I know little to nothing of this, trying to learn a bit.

ANCHORED at the base? Why would that be necissary? I thought it was the same as DRT, just one rope and new ascenders/decenders?

I can see some positive aspects, a quicker re-direct etc., but I think clibing one to one would be a lot harder.

So SRT up, then DRT back down?

I see it on rock climbing etc. but I can't really see the usefullness in a tree. You set the knot at the top, climb, but still have to DRT down right? In a removal I can see it being handy, set the tip, drop the lower branches, blow the top then move you're tip as you come down right? Sorry, I...