Climbing a Leaning Tree

[John RB]

Good video. I have been missing the part where you are climbing on both ropes together. Which means it's not sliding over the limb.
Do you ever have an issue with your hitches snagging on the limb?
Seems like it need to be a strait out limb. You can't use a crotch In a tree. The hitches will hang up?

Regarding the shape of the tree crotch, yes, we want something which isn't too tight, but i have never gotten a friction hitch stuck. As per the clip just posted, the hitch can't actually slide out because its clipped in. We would not wanna try a black locust with very sharp V shaped crotches, but then again, I stay away from them with any climbing rope.

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[John RB]

@BowhunterXC and @Weldabeast ,
If there are no trees in the right location with a suitable crotch for a throwball, i would use my other method: JRB Hitch Climbing. But, i can climb any tree with just a rope system. I am working now to unify the two systems. I already demonstrated in other videos that I can hitch climb using the standard jrb system. But now I'm trying to make it as efficient as this, and do it all with the same system.

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[MattMan81]

@John RB is the double bridge required to make it work? Or just your life easier?

 

[Bowmanmike]

@John RB is the double bridge required to make it work? Or just your life easier?

Pretty much required. I just built his adjustable bridge and it is amazing,I am thinking about cutting my factory amsteel and prussik tethrd one off because adjusting that stinks.

 

[John RB]

@John RB is the double bridge required to make it work? Or just your life easier?

If you don't want the redundancy in your system or wanna try it out carefully before putting in a 2nd bridge, you can and the climbing upwards is completely the same. But on rappel, ya just need to put your Munter carabiner on your main bridge

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[John RB]

To clarify, ya only need one bridge for the JRB Climbing Method, a stationary doubled rope climb, but ya need two bridges for the JRB Hitch Climbing

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