Lol non climber.
Your redirects, do you tend to do natural redirects or more with via a biner and webbing loop. And then after you are done with your work off of the redi, you gotta climb back up to it and disconnect the biner etc, right?
The handled ascender and revolver sounds quite simple, that is nice. And the throwing hook, is that for grabbing a far out there redirect? Thanks
Alt? Not familiar with the acronym.... alternating lanyards? If I'm doing that, I'm using ddrt for that portion of the climb. For some reason i think that when people start climbing srt they see it as changing their climbing system rather than expanding it to do more stuff. If doing something ddrt is better, then by all means do that, but the more srt you climb the less you will use ddrt. It's simply another trick in the bag, that just so happens to become the default option, kinda like Google was years ago.
I personally don't redirect all the time, and if i do it's usually natural crotch depending on the goal. Some of the redirects get flat out crazy, and honestly many of them don't keep tension on the original tie in as much as you would think. Your question if you have to go back is the important one, because that's not always gonna happen. I usually approach it in 2 different ways, either long term redirects or fairly short term ones. The long term would be something like a redirect to a different leader to serve as a main tie in for a good portion of the tree, basically something that if i was doing ddrt i would move my main tie in to. These i will either set from the ground to start with (and when I'm done just traverse to the next one), nat crotch, sling with loop, or friction saver (very very handy for easily retrieved ones).
The other type would be quick set up, less time/ effort invested, usually for work positioning, ie limb walking. My personal favorite is the remotely settable, remotely retrievable, transferlizer? by Lawrence Schultz, which can be used in multiple ways but this is what i usually do. Since i use a really long double lanyard, here's the thought process: doing limb walk, getting leggy, so i look up and ahead. If I have a limb up and ahead that can hold my body weight, i double crotch, either normally or with a hook.
But what if it can't hold my weight? Time for a redirect then. Throw the line over and back to you like you are about to double crotch, but clip the end on the srt line (leave the throw weight on for easy retrieval). You can clip the hitch part to your bridge, or you can clip it to a choker around the limb you are standing on. Then, possibly with no lanyard and with weight on your climb line, haul the tie in closer to the redirect while letting line out on your main system, and when it's where you want tada now you have a tip all the way out there for you that possibly could never hold your weight, and you didn't have to climb there to set it or get it. If it's tied off to the tree you can just go about everything normally, if it's tied to you then you have to maintain two systems, but can adjust your tip to any point between the redirect or the tip.
I have a stiff tether like the one in #118 on the left with a single eye on each end. So I need a good way to attach the tether to the ZZ. Nothing has worked right yet, the only 2 viable seeming ideas I have are use a biner with a rubber stopper to keep the tether eye from slipping down, or maybe a "Quickie" steel connector (the thing KB invented) to attach tether to ZZ, seems like it would be compact and potentially the ideal compact size.
Thought plenty about SRT, during!
