I am old school climber myself and it took me a while to trust all these mechanical systems, but once you do you appreciate how far being an arborist has come. I still trust my own knots 💯 but all these new bells and whistles make life easier. Work smarter, not harder.

you could use the exact same hardware- minus the little red cord!- and tie different friction hitches (valdotain, michoacan, catalyst, etc.) which most people find to be more rappel-friendly of course a second carabiner makes things much easier...

If you use the blakes hitch you don't even need the pulley. Just tie another blakes hitch onto the climbers side rope using the tail of the rope.

Yes yes old school techniques while wearing a $800 saddle🙄🙄🙄

That’s great to hear bro, be safe 🤙

A much better solution really

What you're describing is a closed DRT system while the one he is showing is an 'open' system. If you've just got one tie point then nbd but advancing your tie in or moving it a lot is easier with the open system so you don't have to retie Blake's

Blake's has always been my go to. Never tried the double though... hmm

I loved the idea of a double Blake’s and tried it in my garage on 24 strand 11mm rope (3 wraps top, 2 wraps bottom). It started out smooth, but the primary hitch gets pulled from both ends and binds up for me.

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Good luck! If you set it right it will definitely work

Did it work for you?

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Jimmy Payton can you explain this set up or give me a video to reference please

i'm sorry man I think Dan here at climbing arborist can do a better job than I can, explaining the slack tender for the blakes hitch. (I don't do vids), he has an awesome website, check it out.

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Arborist Nation I don’t think you could tend a VT with a micro pulley in this same fashion.. .

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+Luc Fournier Will the microcender help you descend?

The tree climbers companion

Tree Climbers Companion.

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Really? That's interesting, thanks. We'll try on the trees at home

Literally just put downward pressure with your fingers on your knot and you’ll start to descend

CT foot ascender

You can pull that off with a friction hitch. Though, like you said, you'd have to advance the second hitch. Better yet, you could hook two foot loops (webbing) to the bottom of an ascender, or to a Blake's hitch on your main line. This allows you to use both legs to ascend, and adjust both hitches at the waist as opposed to the foot/shin area.

I think that's the tree motion harness by tufelburger. Its changed a little now for a newer version with optional 2 bridges and also the ability to use 2 other attachments located at either side of bridge for your positioning lanyard so you can hang of it like a second anchor system. Very useful. Still got a lot of elastic on the harness which I have always found annoying but the positives easily out weighs the negatives. A comfortable supportive harness giving you a lot of options.

Try out the hitch climber system. It’s cheap and can work just as good as the expensive mechanical prusiks if you get it right

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plinse just a double fisherman's knot that goes over the gray prusik cord

@@andrieshenkens4129 No, after researching for about an hour I found it. It is called a sliding double fisherman's knot. They show how to make it here. vimeo.com/124363236

it doesn't...and he doesn't cover that. i guess you have to take loose the accessory carabiner so you can get the moving end free of your main climbing rope. the trouble with that is, you can see where he has the spliced in mounted to the left on his carabiner which is attached to his harness ring, so HOW'S IT EASY TO GET THAT OFF TO THROW IT TO NEW POSITION IN NEW CROTCH IN TREE? he doesn't say. perhaps the best way would be to attach a second carabineer at his spliced end of main climbing rope, and then he could take it loose easily there. but i don't see why he doesn't cover all this in the video. you would think he had never climbed with this system he is demonstrating and discovered the inherent problems in the way he is presenting it. one way or another, to move from one crotch in the tree to another, you are going to have to take 2 different attachments loose in this setup in order to get a free line to throw around into the crotch.

Looks like he's climbing on a Treemotion harness. Very popular in the industry. Should be available at any arborist retailer.

Friction saver. It saver your arms, joints, makes friction predictable and also saves the cambium and your ropes from excessive wear.

@Climbing Arborist I have a question that I haven’t gotten answered and it’s bugging me. I’m a beginner as well. Would you be able to use this exact system with a Blake’s hitch?? I haven’t seen anyone use it but I would think it works the same and would save myself from having to push the hitch up after every thrust! Would appreciate your input thanks!

Wow you answered my question at the very end of the video never mind lmao. Just never seen anyone use this method and I’m getting some new gear this month.

It isn't a double fisherman's knot. It is a sliding double fisherman's knot. They show how to make it here. vimeo.com/124363236

Just take it off.

No, it is a sliding double fisherman's knot. vimeo.com/124363236

Try it. If it works hmu

treestuff.com has Prusik loops you can get which have 5k plus rated strength

jim jim you can buy accessory cord from honey brothers, tree stuff places like that. I know from honey brothers they sell it already joined

+banshee511 Yes that is a hand spliced 24 strand rope. Some kernmantle ropes are hand spliceable, it just depends. I'd guess all of them can be sewn-spliced. Its always cheaper too.

this is not a backup as in rock climbing, where you progress on the rock face with your arms and legs and the rope is there to catch you in case you fall. Arborists use friction hitches all the time because they progress on the rope itself or tend their slack as they climb up branches. Our climbing systems are almost always in tension, there should never be a high fall factor while working in a tree; that's also why our ropes are fairly static compared to rock climbing ropes, work positioning needs to be stable and we don't rely on the elasticity of a rope to absorb the shock of a fall.

Also most Hitch cords are made with a technora (aramide) sheath that is extremely heat resistant. Best ones have a mix of materials.

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Isa Abd Rahman Sosa-Dominguez lil confused in your question, but I think I follow. Yes your 7mm prusik cord should be ok to use as your split tail /climbing setup friction knot on 7/16 - 1/2” climb line

It is ok for the line that makes the friction knot to be of smaller diameter than the climbing rope, but not the other way around. You do knot want a larger diameter knot rope than the climb rope. Hope this makes sense.

As long as the hitch cord is heat resistant.

The rope wrench is a device to allow you to climbing on a single, stationary rope with a friction hitch. The rope wrench adds additional friction, taking some of the weight away from the hitch which prevents it from locking up and potentially melting. Check out the SRT series on our website for more info

Yes

The rope in this particular video is 11.5mm Tachyon and the prussik cord is 10mm beeline blue. Arborist climbing ropes generally range from 11mm to 13mm and hitch cord usually ranges from 8mm - 10mm, it is more about trailing which type of hitch cord works best with the rope you have.

Jordan Osborne Looks like 3-4mm

Gemma Hamer 36” or 3ft worked for me But depending on knots you use, could be longer or shorter

Couldn't say for sure but after looking at what I can see of his knot and trying to replicate it I think it's just a variation on a double fisherman's loop where you tie your double fisherman's knots around two legs of rope/cord as opposed to just one if that makes any sense...it's hard to describe but put one end of your cord through the carabiner like you were going to tie a buntline hitch but don't tie a knot and just leave a foot or so long tail and then take the other end of your cord and tie a double fisherman's knot around the tail you left plus the opposite side of the tail and then after you've tied that first double fisherman's knot around those two legs of rope use the end of the tail that you put through the carabiner to tie a double fisherman's knot around the two legs of rope on the side of the first knot opposite the carabiner...if you figure out what I mean proceed to use at your own risk because I have never actually used this particular variation of a double fisherman's loop in a life and death situation but just playing around with a piece of rope and a carabiner while sitting on a couch it seems to me like it should work like a traditional double fisherman's loop would.

from zooming in, this is my best guess too.

Through a friction saver