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Linemans Tag End

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Went to a rope linemans this year that came with my H2 saddle and on anything but big trees the long tag end is a real pain. Step on it, gets caught in steps, tangled, etc. It's almost more dangerous to use the linemans than not. Looking for how others deal with this? I'd like to keep the long linemans for occasional bigger trees instead of shortening.
 

kobudo

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Jan 4, 2017
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I tie an alpine butterfly in the end and clip it into my carabiner. Drew Walter from wild edge does this, I will try to find the video.


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kobudo

Well-Known Member
Jan 4, 2017
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Barron County Wisconsin
Went to a rope linemans this year that came with my H2 saddle and on anything but big trees the long tag end is a real pain. Step on it, gets caught in steps, tangled, etc. It's almost more dangerous to use the linemans than not. Looking for how others deal with this? I'd like to keep the long linemans for occasional bigger trees instead of shortening.

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sojourner

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I have extra long lb and tether. For lb, at the bottom of the tree I ensure it tapers, then put an alpine butterfly in at the shortest distance I can effectively tend slack. I hook the alpine butterfly to the biner (acts as a stopper knot too) and daisy chain the rest. If the daisy chain is still too long, I just hook the second to last daisy chain loop into the biner (effectively halving the daisy chained length).

That is the best way I have found to address this issue.

For this I tend to use larger biners. It just makes it easier.