I'm just getting started, I've been up and down a few trees and I'm in the process of buying things and figuring out what works for me.
I'm climbing mostly pines trees with spikes/gaffs. I have a second linesman to pass branches. Both my linesman have prusiks to adjust their length.
I need to transition my weight from the lower lineman below the branch to the upper one above the branch in order to get the slack to unclip the lower one from my saddle in ordet to pass the branch.
I'm struggling with this. I can momentarily thrust my hips forward to unload both lines, but this isn't long enough to shorten the length of the upper linesman with a prusik. I can hug the tree with one arm, but then I need to adjust the prusik with one hand.
Instead of shortening the upper line to transfer the tension I can lengthen the lower line under load to achieve the same effect. However if I repeat this, my linesmen get 4" longer every branch I have to pass with no reasonable way of shortening them.
A ropeman or rollnlock would allow me to tighten the linemans under load. Are there other solutions I am not considering? I haven't found this discussed anywhere, which suggests to me that I am missing something in my technique.
Perhaps the JRB adjustable bridge could be tied as a linesman, although having two lines doesn't seem ideal in this application.
I'm climbing mostly pines trees with spikes/gaffs. I have a second linesman to pass branches. Both my linesman have prusiks to adjust their length.
I need to transition my weight from the lower lineman below the branch to the upper one above the branch in order to get the slack to unclip the lower one from my saddle in ordet to pass the branch.
I'm struggling with this. I can momentarily thrust my hips forward to unload both lines, but this isn't long enough to shorten the length of the upper linesman with a prusik. I can hug the tree with one arm, but then I need to adjust the prusik with one hand.
Instead of shortening the upper line to transfer the tension I can lengthen the lower line under load to achieve the same effect. However if I repeat this, my linesmen get 4" longer every branch I have to pass with no reasonable way of shortening them.
A ropeman or rollnlock would allow me to tighten the linemans under load. Are there other solutions I am not considering? I haven't found this discussed anywhere, which suggests to me that I am missing something in my technique.
Perhaps the JRB adjustable bridge could be tied as a linesman, although having two lines doesn't seem ideal in this application.