uncleT
New Member
Hey guys, I tried searching for this and really couldn't find anything, which leads me to think I may be missing something completely obvious.
Looking into SRT for starters. Where I hunt for now I would be able to do presets. I'm buying gear here and there as I work up to figuring out which way(s) I will eventually get up the tree for saddle hunting. So I bought a throw ball and some Sterling HTP rope to start. Question is....how do I possibly isolate the branch I am looking to get the rope into? My test tree was a white pine with lots of branches (my backyard). I got the throw ball over an ideal branch, but then realized that if I pull the climbing rope up through a girth hitch, it will emcompass every branch below it which would not be climbable past the girth hitch. In this spot, it seems pretty impossible to get the throw ball to come back and NOT go around any other branches as there are some directly below it.
It seems that would limit me to trees with no limbs below the one I need to climb up to (at least on that side of the tree). If that's the case, then I see this as only giving me a slight advantage over my climber in terms of which trees I can use this on.
What am I missing? All videos I found show people throwing into the first branch above them.
Attached is a picture to try to depict what I am explaining.
Looking into SRT for starters. Where I hunt for now I would be able to do presets. I'm buying gear here and there as I work up to figuring out which way(s) I will eventually get up the tree for saddle hunting. So I bought a throw ball and some Sterling HTP rope to start. Question is....how do I possibly isolate the branch I am looking to get the rope into? My test tree was a white pine with lots of branches (my backyard). I got the throw ball over an ideal branch, but then realized that if I pull the climbing rope up through a girth hitch, it will emcompass every branch below it which would not be climbable past the girth hitch. In this spot, it seems pretty impossible to get the throw ball to come back and NOT go around any other branches as there are some directly below it.
It seems that would limit me to trees with no limbs below the one I need to climb up to (at least on that side of the tree). If that's the case, then I see this as only giving me a slight advantage over my climber in terms of which trees I can use this on.
What am I missing? All videos I found show people throwing into the first branch above them.
Attached is a picture to try to depict what I am explaining.