Disagree. IF I took a random hunter into the woods that showed them in 10 minutes how to climb safely with sticks and a linemans, and then showed them in 10 minutes how to climb SRT or DRT, which method do you think the new climber would be more likely to get hurt using?
Where did that come from? Out of the blue ? Sucker punch.So who's going to tell @bj139 his slings are bunk?
Srt is actually really easy. If you load your grigri backwards you aren't getting off the ground in the first place. If you tie your distel incorrectly you aren't getting off the ground. All the safety equipment is also an integral part of the climb.
TIL: All things are equally safe. I'm going to start climbing with a plywood climber platform where you bear hug the tree and don't use a harness or tether at all!
It depends on the accident. With sticks, probably an injury, maybe severe. With SRT and a SLING (or 2
) attached to the ascender he may have to been talked into how to get down but no injury.
Who said that? I didn’t. Go back and read what I wrote. I’m asking very clear specific questions.
So you think if you gave a person an un-threaded grigri, a coil of rope, a prussik cord, a few biners and a throw rope they would be safer getting up the tree(and down) than here's a linemans belt and a set of sticks? I think your experience is creating underlying bias. Naturally, if a person has ever climbed a ladder, they will have a preconceived method of how to get up the sticks, therefore they're concentrating more on proper linemans use than the climbing method itself. Less variables.
I think it's "full potential" involves telephone poles.
HE is implying it from my statemnt here:
HAHAHA!All the SRT hate simply because no one can throw a throwball over a crotch. LOL.
If you give a random person just a set of sticks and a linesman belt with no demo, most of them will probably just climb the sticks with no backup because linesman belts aren't actually that intuitive...
I searched SRT on SH and got posts back to 2016 when all the cool kids were going to do it. After they found out they could not get the line up, they sold all their SRT equipment. I still don't understand that one. It is no more difficult than throwing a football. If you can't do it, then sticks are fine.
My original statement gave an arbitray period of "training", so that comment really has nothing to do with the scenario. You didn't answer my question though--and I dont think you can honestly say someone can naturally climb SRT "Safer" than sticks, which is why you didnt. With hours and hours of practice and training from a qualified individual maybe in a perfect environment.
It may be a totally valid method(and many people do it with efficiency and ease after a ton of practice) But it isn't a reasonable method for me where I hunt.
