Simple SRT Canopy/Spar Anchor

the last chop on this pillow Ilona right in there here [Music] [Music] speed I do this hours you know if I ain't singing or whistling in a tree then we may have a problem hey what's going on climber nation Patrick here wanted to show you a just a really really basic canopy anchor slash spar anchor this is for srt again super basic basically this concept is choking the rope off on the stem trying an Alpine butterfly and using a piece of hardware to capture working into the rope so in this setup my favorite piece of hardware for this kind of setup is called a singing tree quickie so it's a specially designed type of clevis shackle with a special pin it's called a slick pin so the slick pin has embedded cotter pins in it okay so there's the there's the select pin so you can see how I tied up an Alpine butterfly and then I put the quickie on there to capture my line right so this is retrievable using the the tail of my line so at this point I just topped the tree out and I'm gonna drop down probably about 12 feet or so about four meters I'm just gonna drop down to the next spot and I'm gonna cut one more chunk and then from there I'm going to do and all the way to the ground okay so I set it up with enough tail to reach you know to the next position down normally on something like this I would take my lanyard off and just descend pretty quickly I don't know why I hate to do this but I just kept my lanyard on and came down nice and slow alright so you can see the tail there where it ends there okay one cut right so on I'm down to my next position now I'm going to pull pull this anchor set up back to me so the way that I do that is from my climbing system I introduce slack by letting off my climbing system at the same time I'm pulling on that tail alright so I'm doing two things at once using both hands I'm I'm slacking off my climbing system and I'm pulling the tail down and that allows the entire thing to come back down to me okay so here's here's the singing tree quickie again you have it has a double cotter pin so you have to release both cotter pins on the one side to open it but it's still not open totally you have to release it again on the inside to be able to get the Rope out so here you see me untying the butterfly if I was only going to drop down another you know twelve foot I'm just gonna I wouldn't have done that I wouldn't have untied the butterfly I would have just pulled it hello my [Applause] anchor sooner that make sense serve it up over here yeah so here I'm gonna set it up the same as I just did the first time but it but this time this time I'm going to set it up with the tail that's long enough to reach the ground so again I need to pull out get me choked off I need to pull out a ton of slack in so that the tail-end can reach the ground help my butterfly you just got to make sure you can see that tail is close enough to the ground there of it rap they're not there the Alpine butterfly quick eat here so when I put the quickie on I want to make sure that the the pin side is away from the tree so I'm gonna put it on like this so the running side of the rope is going to be on the round pin here beside with my climbing system and the flick pin cotter pin portions on the outside away from so that's just a really really basic canopy anchor setup with the piece of hardware I'll playing butterfly and a quickie so using that I can just send all the way to the ground after I make this last cut right so the reason that the quickie is preferred over a carabiner in a situation like this is the quickie isn't subject to the side loading the carabiners are but it's difficult because the angle can't tell it's hard to tell on the video I guess but the tree comes up in that place so I'm the way way out of out of the vertical hair so I'm trying to reach around all the way around here make those cut yeah so I'm just trying to explain that it's really difficult to tell on a helmet cam like relative distance and angles hmm so okay so that's with my lanyard in X so when you're hanging out of one mom you're always trying to set yourself up in such a way you're not fighting you're so hard against gravity so this is one one option here as I put my lanyard in an X sometimes that can really help oh that's brutal when you try to drop start a big saw in a tree and it doesn't go that's why for the ground he's out there if you're gonna send up a big saw to a climber never send it up cold always make sure that it's warm it's just a one pull away from starting trust me on this all right this is an interesting moment coming up here [Music] if you guys have read the fundamentals you know the rule of 1/5 I've talked about it before yeah sometimes damn good cut sometimes if you don't laugh you probably just crash so that yeah that was the opposite of the frugal of 1/5 that we're you know if it was one fifth of the total height of the stem I would've landed flat it landed perfectly vertical stuck in the ground now this was a case where I just didn't care this is a new home being built in this in this lot here and it didn't matter I was just going fast but it's just funny to watch it's a total amateur move right so anyway hopefully you guys can get some value out of this and hopefully you understand and this makes sense like this concept of this this canopy anchor basic SRT canopy maker slash spar anchor set up with with an Alpine butterfly and a piece of hardware like like a singing tree quickie alright so hit me up in the comments let me know what you think and until next time [Music] carefully rocks [Music]

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Id: xyddl4TZ0ZY

Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 17 2020