After seeing someone fall due to a kick out using daisy chains I figured I would share with everyone how I use my daisy chains. Much safer. Much tighter. Please share so we can help people avoid getting hurt.
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After seeing someone fall due to a kick out using daisy chains I figured I would share with everyone how I use my daisy chains. Much safer. Much tighter. Please share so we can help people avoid getting hurt.
Awesome to hear! Thanks for sharing your results. Im glad others are liking it as wellI tried it out over the past couple days but just attached as normal after tightening instead of the half hitch. It worked really well. One of the things about the 45 degree cant that I didnt like is it was sometimes pretty hard to get sticks off the tree when climbing down. If not rapelling down and only with a linesman belt yanking that hard felt unstable. Putting the amsteel through the daisy chain, tightening and then attaching as normal was very tight but stick settled down just enough (about an inch) that when getting the stick off there was just enough slack to push up an inch and detach with no problem. I'll be doing this from now on.
I don't like the half hitch at the end - you can actually see it slipping after he lets go of it in the video. If you lock it in underneath the main line (like w the standard amsteel rope mod) after pulling it tight, it can't slip. Single Half hitches seldom hold tight with regular rope and with amsteel being ultra slick it's even more likely to slip
I've actually started locking it behind the main line since releasing this video. But not due to any slippage. The half hitch was getting so tight I was having trouble getting it off. Doing it the way you mention doesn't allow the half hitch to pull so tight so you are correctI don't like the half hitch at the end - you can actually see it slipping after he lets go of it in the video. If you lock it in underneath the main line (like w the standard amsteel rope mod) after pulling it tight, it can't slip. Single Half hitches seldom hold tight with regular rope and with amsteel being ultra slick it's even more likely to slip
It would but would be a pain looping it back through to create your truckers hitchThis might sound stupid - but could this work with the webbing daisy chain webbing?
I still have no clue what your talking about. I've been doing this since the beginning of the season and when you pull it tight there is zero chance anything comes off that button. Could you half hitch it wrong or too loose? Yea. That's why to avoid any screw ups you can lock it behind the main rope or loop it to the closest loop after the hitch. But I believe your over thinking this oneMan i've watched this like 5 times and keep noticing the same thing. I also just don't really understand what's preventing the truckers hitch portion of the daisy chain from popping loose? There is nothing of significance locking it into place. I feel like tightening it down like that looks great, and then I would follow by looping onto the button again that way it can't really slip? What am i missing?
Man i've watched this like 5 times and keep noticing the same thing. I also just don't really understand what's preventing the truckers hitch portion of the daisy chain from popping loose? There is nothing of significance locking it into place. I feel like tightening it down like that looks great, and then I would follow by looping onto the button again that way it can't really slip? What am i missing?
Man i've watched this like 5 times and keep noticing the same thing. I also just don't really understand what's preventing the truckers hitch portion of the daisy chain from popping loose? There is nothing of significance locking it into place. I feel like tightening it down like that looks great, and then I would follow by looping onto the button again that way it can't really slip? What am i missing?
Take it with a grain of salt, stay safe & report back if you make it out alive....I guess I'm just dumb. thanks for all the validation of that guys. will try on my own and then report back how stupid i am.
I guess I'm just dumb. thanks for all the validation of that guys. will try on my own and then report back how stupid i am.
I understood him to possibly mean the trucker's hitch coming undone if the half hitch comes apart. My experience with this, using 1/8th Amsteel daisy on my Predator, is that once you came the platform down (or set the stick), the Amsteel that is fed through the loop to make the trucker's hitch is pinched so tightly that it will not pull out even if there wasn't a half hitch or lock behind the main loop.
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I understood him to possibly mean the trucker's hitch coming undone if the half hitch comes apart. My experience with this, using 1/8th Amsteel daisy on my Predator, is that once you cam the platform down (or set the stick), the Amsteel that is fed through the loop to make the trucker's hitch is pinched so tightly that it will not pull out even if there wasn't a half hitch or lock behind the main loop.
All I can say is give it a try (at ground level) and you will see how unbelievably tight that trucker's hitch gets as the amsteel loop pinches the amsteel line that is fed back through it.
Yeah man, I totally wasn't picking up what you were putting down. But try it at ground level in the yard. Honestly the half hitch is just security. That thing cinches down on itself so tight it's going no where. If you pinch it behind the main line it's so tight it's hard to get it off the tree when your done.YYYYAAAASSSSS.... THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING!!!!