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Your thoughts on my ascending ?

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emerald ghost

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Late 60's, in good shape and will be using a 3 step aider on bottom step followed by 3-4 climbing sticks.
I wish there was a way to have my tether already at hunting height, but no way that I'm aware of so I'll lineman up and tether in with 30' of rope at top.
Is there anything you could suggest to improve on that ?

Thanks All.
 
emerald ghost said:
Late 60's, in good shape and will be using a 3 step aider on bottom step followed by 3-4 climbing sticks.
I wish there was a way to have my tether already at hunting height, but no way that I'm aware of so I'll lineman up and tether in with 30' of rope at top.
Is there anything you could suggest to improve on that ?

Thanks All.
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Curious, do you scout the areas you hunt before you go in to hunt them? If so, you could leave pre set paracord loops and climb using SRT. It takes a little paractice but with the help of a belay device, a hand ascender, a small pulley and a foot loop it’s lighter than sticks and not really any more labor intensive. Plus the added benefit of the “tether” (your climbing rope) already being tied off at height. Some guys really like it, some guys don’t.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Curious, do you scout the areas you hunt before you go in to hunt them? If so, you could leave pre set paracord loops and climb using SRT. It takes a little paractice but with the help of a belay device, a hand ascender, a small pulley and a foot loop it’s lighter than sticks and not really any more labor intensive. Plus the added benefit of the “tether” (your climbing rope) already being tied off at height. Some guys really like it, some guys don’t.
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Not always. I'm pretty firm on using sticks. What do you mean by pre set paracord loops ?
 
emerald ghost said:
Not always. I'm pretty firm on using sticks. What do you mean by pre set paracord loops ?
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Presets, are when you toss some cord over a strong limb at height and tie paracord and leave it over the branch so that you can pull up a long piece of rope (think of it like a very long tether that would always stay tensioned, similar to the old tree stand lifelines). It allows you to always be tethered in while you climb
 
Curious if you are planning on rappelling or why the 30 ft of rope? If you are most comfortable with sticks, you could still have paracord presets like canopy stalker mentioned, to set your tether up at height (lots of videos on this with SRT and DDRT using a throwball and setting paracord loops over a limb crotch to later connect your tether line to, and pull it up and down through girth hitch). you would then be tethered in for the whole climb with your ascender, prussik/other hitch, etc. up to hunting height using your sticks. But if you do all that, you might as well save the weight and SRT. If firm on sticks, a LM belt is quick enough and gives enough piece of mind for ascending. Since you only have an aider on the first stick, maybe keep it simple and just climb up and down. with multiple sticks and aiders on each, I always felt more secure rappelling and stopping at each stick to detach
 
Preset paracord loop: Using an arborist throw bag, get a throw line across a limb. Tie paracord to the throw bag. Pull throw line back across branch, thus bringing the paracord over the branch and back down to you. Detach the throw bag and line from paracord. Cut the other end of the paracord so that you have a length going from the ground up and over the limb and back down to the ground. Tie the ends together. Now you have a paracord loop in the tree.
You can use the loop to pull a climbing rope up into the tree, secure the rope, climb the rope.
 
So, the way I am reading your question you essentially want the 30 feet of tether as a safety backup on the way down the sticks after the hunt sort of like one of those lines with a prussik people put on preset ladder stands?
 
NMSbowhunter said:
So, the way I am reading your question you essentially want the 30 feet of tether as a safety backup on the way down the sticks after the hunt sort of like one of those lines with a prussik people put on preset ladder stands?
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NMSbowhunter said:
So, the way I am reading your question you essentially want the 30 feet of tether as a safety backup on the way down the sticks after the hunt sort of like one of those lines with a prussik people put on preset ladder stands?
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My purpose is to be connected to my tether from ground all the way up. If I had a stick kick out, I could simply rapell back down.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Presets, are when you toss some cord over a strong limb at height and tie paracord and leave it over the branch so that you can pull up a long piece of rope (think of it like a very long tether that would always stay tensioned, similar to the old tree stand lifelines). It allows you to always be tethered in while you climb
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Good idea. It would accomplish my goal. Thanks
 
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