Very nicely done! Thank you for sharing

Wow you opened up a whole new world to me. I'm loving it !

John, as you know I really like hitch climbing SRT, with Maverick. So I tested installing the rope with a small carabiner inserted in the running loops and nose of the Maverick hitch , as you demonstrated with a preset cord or throw ball cord. Inserted the hook of my pole in that same carabiner in my new 11mm Predator rope, which is pretty slick rope, WORKED GREAT, and the tree had pretty rough bark. Had nice control of the rope as I pushed it up, and it cinched nicely at the top. I think I will prefer 13:42 using the carabiner rather that placing the pole hook in the locking loop and rope. Did have my retrieval cord on the rope , having the locking loop in place and locked with the end loop through it, this all worked silently as I installed the hitch.

Really interesting to see this, thanks for showing it to us. Mike.

I watched a couple of times and want to give this a try. I have been MRS climbing or with my platforms and aiders in the dark, but I love the no slack set up. When climbing with my platform it is near impossible to keep slack out of the system. There have been plenty of times too where my throw line got stuck in tight crotches or the bark of some trees. Thanks for posting this.

Can u show how to set throw ball and anchoring for one stick or palm tree?

Very nice system, although somewhat noisy, but it appears to be workable with some other components. Thank you in advance on some close instruction on your JRB hitch.

John, This is amazing, thank you. I was just about to send you a question asking how to transition from a Tree Hunter's Hitch to the JRB Hitch. I was envisioning having to use a lineman's rope to temporarily come off of the main rope, but this is completely not necessary. In fact, I don't think I would need a lineman's rope at all. I can just put a second Tree Hunter's Hitch in if I need to go around a limb. Again, Thank you.

Could you just use 2 hitches and slide them up? Load one side from the top hitch and tie the lower hitch using the non load side of the rope from the first hitch with enough slack to move the hitches. Then alternate the loads from one side of the rope on the top hitch to the other side of the rope on the bottom hitch. You would slide the top hitch up the tree when loading the bottom hitch and slide the bottom hitch up when loading the top hitch.

Many times I climb MRS after throwing a ball over a good union that is lower. Then I take my lanyard & put it around the 🌳. My lanyard is 14mm Samson Predator. The same thing I use for climbingline. I throw my lanyard up which is 10 feet long as high as I can get it. Then with the poor man ascender using a 10mm Michoacon hitch with a double loop cordage on my right side I shorten my lanyard a little. I also have another 10mm English prusik hitch tied on the other side of the lanyard. This side I put a carabiner on the loop & pull it snug to the tree & attach that carabiner to the other side of the lanyard tight to the 🌳 like I have it on my left side. I call this a choker & it girth hitches my lanyard to the tree. I have a 8mm Oplux tether which was made by WEI Inc. It has that nice & small carabiner on it with a poor man's ascender 6mm prusik on it. This I tether to the 🌳 above my lanyard. When I pull tension up on this I can put a foot on the union I originally had my climbing rope over. I repeat the process with the throwball over another union higher in the 🌳. I'm tied in with my lanyard & tether & the Oplux is tied into my main bridge. I can then attach my open system which I have 2 of that I use. Only need to put a paracord loop with a pile hitch above my factory sewn eye end of my climbing rope. Pull it over the union & down to my left side & put it back on the carabiner. Most of the time I'm using a Beeline split-tail with a tending prusik. Other times I keep a DMM HitchClimber Eccentric on another longer length of Samson Predator. Depending on the situation I have 2 climbing lines on opposite sides of a 🌳 when the 🌳 is too busy to use redirects. Take care.

That's nice! Too hot to try in Alabama right now 🥵

How far do you need to offset the first hitch from the center of the rope?

Is there any other 8mm or 9mm rope that has the same strength and knot characteristics as oplux that’s 1.) easier to find in stock and 2.) less expensive?

How much oplux do you usually use for this? Do you think 40 ft would be enough?

I would be terrified to go down knowing if I made once false move that I could undo my hitch. Does your body weight being loaded prevent that or something?

Ingenious and cool...however...how many credit hours to accomplish proficiency?

Very well done but not easy to do for a beginner.

looks like a complicated two tether system, might as well just use two tethers from the start