SwampHunter70068
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- Aug 3, 2018
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Ok well it's all but finished (photos to come soon). After 3 weeks of work (on my off days from work) and having to refresh my memory on how to use a sewing machine, it's finished. Used some Realtree canvas I purchased a few years ago and never got around to actually using, scavenged straps from various places (old fall harness, tubular webbing from my old fire department days, etc.), and after trial and error......it's done....it have not tested YET.....waiting on some 7mm static kermantel rope for my prusic knots (don't like mechanical prusic's.....)......I didn't add Molle to the saddle, but I did add two carabiner straps.....everything was stitched together using upholstery thread (used 2 1/2 bobbins of thread) and re-enforced all stitches and then re-enforced those....
I an assembling all my ropes as we speak......tether, bridge, lines mans rope......
I am thinking on incorporating a hasty tubular webbing harness and a safety backup.....I have a fall rope I'd like to use with this....I'm not trying to make my wife a widow.....
I'm having to do all this on a mega budget, so next step is figuring out what to do for a platform and how to get up the tree......tree screw steps seem to be the best price wise but public land kinda frowns on that.....sticks are not really in my budget right now.....was thinking of building my own ring platform (I have a welder and such).......any ideas???
I an assembling all my ropes as we speak......tether, bridge, lines mans rope......
I am thinking on incorporating a hasty tubular webbing harness and a safety backup.....I have a fall rope I'd like to use with this....I'm not trying to make my wife a widow.....
I'm having to do all this on a mega budget, so next step is figuring out what to do for a platform and how to get up the tree......tree screw steps seem to be the best price wise but public land kinda frowns on that.....sticks are not really in my budget right now.....was thinking of building my own ring platform (I have a welder and such).......any ideas???