HOW DO YOU GET YOUR CLIMBING ROPE IN THE TREE?

[Music] tada you guys are studs how do you get your rope in the tree the most famously asked questions since I started doing YouTube and here is Damian he's already up there how did he do that well this is a removal it's all tangled up in these other trees and we're trying to preserve those little trees anyway Damian did what we commonly do on removals and you spur up the tree and you set your rigging exactly how you want it and you get your climb line exactly how you want it so besides climbing up there whispers Joe is gonna tag-team this tree with Damian and he's gonna go up this fir tree and he's gonna set his line because we don't want to spur the fir tree or not cutting it down so he's gonna set his line with what we call the big shot go ahead Joe it's a sling shot and he missed but it's over a little stub but uh the sling shot is another way you get your line in a tree I think a lot of people nowadays modern times they're used to they learn SRT climbing and so they're kind of they don't get real comfortable on Spurs or flip lines and they just kind of they just they got to feel like they're held up in that fancy little swing you know they got to feel like they're there they're held up by something and so they really really want to know how to get their rope in the tree first so that they can be all held nice and and cuddly tight the whole way from the ground up and and that is it is it has advantages but most of the time you climb up the tree by using the the tree as your climbing wall and by staying tied in but not necessarily held up whether you're wearing Spurs or not a lot of times in order to get your rigging lines like when we're speed lining or to get your climbing line where you want perfectly where you want you climb there you don't necessarily get this perfect shot and then go straight up the rope somewhere you can on some trees and and we'll do it today we're going to use the Raptor later Joe is probably going to climb his line using a rope walking method and he'll have to reshoot this in order to get the best shot on this tree but yeah so we'll show a couple different methods of getting the rope in the tree but I just got to say the first most common method and the one that is the most sure for having your rigging lines perfectly set where you want to man your climbing lines perfectly set how you want them is to physically go to the spot and set them up by climbing the tree as if you were a rock climber or a monkey or something staying tight in do I make myself clear I'm not sure is that understood Damian you think yeah Damian says climbing in order to set your rigging and your climb line is the best way to dial it in that's probably bad news for a lot of people who think there's some magic thing that we do that puts our rope perfectly how you want it you shoot your rope up there somewhere way out of sight with an air cannon will show you that later or the big shot where he goes again then a lot of times you can't exactly see what oh this is a big shot with a with a with a trigger release that looks pretty good yeah we can work with that so what I was saying you get your rope up there remotely you don't necessarily have a guarantee of exactly what it's over and so you end up you know hanging on the thing a few times going is it good is it good do I trust it not so much worried about it breaking and falling to the ground but you're worried about dropping two or three feet or a foot if some little thing that it's over breaks off up there because you can't really see it so remote setting ropes is is a talent and a thing that you learn by practice and some people are more tight on what they'll allow you know they might not even go up the rope unless they can see how it's it's what it's over and how secure it is where others you know like us we kind of shoot up in there amongst everything and we make a judgment call based on you know well that's over a lot of stuff that doesn't hold me the next thing we'll and and then we hang on it with two or three guys before we go up thinking you know if it holds two or three guys here then it probably won't drop just little old me as I'm going up you never like the feeling of of like dropping two or three feet or a foot or six inches especially when you're a new climber when you're here a bundle of nerves and then your rope slips and drops you a foot and and you're just your whole life flashes before your eyes and and you're thinking about how you just want to go home now but anyway with experience you get to the point where you drop six inches or foot or something and it just angers you you know so yeah climb the tree learn how climb the tree from the ground up with or without spurs both because you need to do both of those things if you're gonna be a good tree guy learn how to do that don't don't don't rely on remote setting but we're going to show you some remote setting and this is a long speech and we have work to do so I'm going to stop now talk to later by Adam good job putting it where it should be and not where it could have been so now Joe is pulling the throw line which is a small gauge slippery stuff which is tied to his climbing line and he's gonna use that smaller line to pull the climb line up and over those lens and back down to himself and then he'll have his rope remotely set just want to point out that this video is for the beginner the people who are always asking how do you get your rope in the tree this is not us trying to be some kind of no tall expert to to teach the the world the whole world of veteran tree climbers anything this is just standard stuff that is meant for the beginner okay so Joe is setting the base tie for his line because he's gonna go he's gonna go SRT up this right he's gonna be up the fir tree but he's gonna be in perfect placement for this big Oakland that's the whole trees coming out anyway Joe's got something to tell you burn trees where the limbs are pretty small you want to be right against the trunk and to help ensure that all the way around the tree I can't the bite they pull it tight and then if it does slide down the tree or you break a small limb it's always gonna be trying to center around the trunk yeah not gonna be trying to work its way out of them yeah so hit what he's saying is he's not just going up empty airspace and over a limb or something back down yeah so from the front goes like this is a side note but the monkey beaver belt the way it's supposed to be most comfortable how you get away from how a lot of the belts pinch your nuts off is you you wear the leg pads low like this and then you use these here to secure them in place they're just like little they're not life support but we're in the the leg pads low is the ticket for not getting castrated and that's a novel idea a lot of belts just go ahead and castrate you okay just to check your tie in point I just throw my landing around the tree you can use a prusik and a carabiner this is my climb line I'm using a hand ascender and a pulley Boehner here so it has a mechanical advantage putting a two-to-one on my climb line yeah I'm testing it with my weight and we get to people's weight on it two people times two four people's weight on it right because of the mechanical advantage so now I can go up so now we know that Joe's buck-50 will easily be held yeah [Music] echo 25:11 t-there maybe if you have if you're newer at the game and you have less experience you might be better off getting good with a throw line throwing you're throwing in my hand you can kind of see how well you're you're how secure your rope is how good your throw was that makes sense just to be safe if if you if you start shooting way way way up there it's harder to tell what you've got and so you might want to start out with whatever you can throw to so it sounds kind of vague but but people say how do you get in the tree so in this oak tree let's say you were gonna climb this oak tree without spurs you know throw your rope as high as you can like that first what is that twenty-five feet maybe at first crotch everybody should be able to throw a line into there if you're a DRT climber you throw your line over that branch Union back down to yourself then you hip thrust up to that point reposition and then throw into the next one if you're an SRT climber then you would throw over that spot bass tie the other end right here and then right up the rope once you get there then you could throw in again to another place that you could easily tell was secure that said even at the beginning beginner level you should be able to throw by hand up there to 40 feet and then you get a bass tie and you get kind of 40 feet of free travel without having to deal with the contour of the tree so much when it comes to srt DRT you'd throw your rope over that 40-foot branch Union up there and then you would hump your way up 40 feet and yeah so this is a lot of gonna sound really redundant to a lot of people but maybe this is the right kind of info for somebody out there just start now so again how do we get our ropes in the tree here's a another one I was on the phone and I was going to show this but I wasn't able to Joe was too fast but he got the big shot out here and it has the it's a giant slingshot with a quick release and the quick release is adjustable down the shaft of the pole so that how do you call it power power settings so the farther you move that quick release down the pole then the farther you're holding the slingshot back when you let go we used to always just let them go by hand but this quick release it's like you're shooting a gun so so Joe set these up GoPro won't even show very well how good that is but that's like that's a 90 foot shot so the slingshot that's made by knotch so Cheryl tree knotch slingshot there's big shot I think they're the original and then Stein I think makes one and anyway with that thing he easily shot that 90 foot up then he ran a running bowling up and our purpose here is to cut down this little fir tree we could have just ran up the fir tree in and cut it down but hey we're going to have tie-in that's up high next to it yeah plus we're doing Deadwood on the oak afterwards so that's why this is a classic time to to put your tie in before you go up because you can we got the cool tool the ability to use it and so I would have loved to have shown you shoot that in there but I missed it and we're not gonna undo it just for the YouTube so it's a good shot it's not like we're gonna pull it out of there we got to do it for the TV and I have done stuff like that before but not today not today so we're gonna take out this tree a little fir tree it's all beat up by old wounds and son and who knows what that little fir tree comes out and we're doing some Deadwood removal on this big oak but I guess this will be part one how do you get your rope in the tree maybe the comments section could be helpful somebody could ask a question that I haven't thought of basically how you get your rope in the tree is you shoot it in with a slingshot or an air cannon or you throw it in or you take it with you hey Joe that's 150 pounds of pressure went up there looking good but it bounced and went over a dead limb which you know not so good that's exactly 150 and I'll lose a little now we'll put the shot pouch in it and shoot it up there and that'll be the air cannon demonstration this was from tree stuff the app air powered tree access I've got this a long time ago from them and I've used it a lot it's actually something you could probably make yourself but it's not a gimmick a single go way farther than a slingshot not that I need to right here I'm just using it to show another way to get access yeah so that was a righteous shot right there we're gonna take that Joe is doing the pretty legit Traverse straight across past Damien if you look close you can see Damien so this parts all dead wooded that's a quick 90 feet so this is old-school DRT but getting through the tree now you just climb the tree a little out of time clip in then you just throw a little higher each time split tail climbing in a lot of ways was really smooth for this because I did it with a snap not a carabiner I always had a snap on the end of my climb line so I could throw that thing I got really good at it now I use these ropes that have just an ISO you can't use a snap you use carabiner and it's light and you can't throw it as good let the trade-offs are still in my favor with the smoothness of this thing anyway this is a classic tree better done with srt but yeah but both these guys are DRT right now - that's funny yeah you gotta use both anyway YouTube good nice talking to you see you later maybe I'll take you a horseshoe playing later play game horseshoes when you're done that's done one of the advantages of not having this foot tale system right there this tree is dead this tree is totally dead [Music] [Laughter] so that means I'm the guy on the team I'm the partner of whoever wins I'm on Joe's team YouTube where should I put you guys hmm tempting to put them right on the pen Damien got one got a point there for sure [Music] yeah so three tattoos that means I have to go first okay gunning for that pin [Music] [Music] oh you got that one you get it all around they have to touch both tips have to touch they won't touch look at that and look at that boy all right that was that was Joe August 10 Damian Adam - but who's counting

Channel: August Hunicke

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Length: 27min 0sec (1620 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 16 2018