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Rope Management

DaWiz9578

DaWiz9578

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I have a stock kestrel and wondering how everyone stores their ropes. Right now I daisy chain my bridge and catch the end with a biner and back onto the same bridge loop, tether I daisy chain, catch the end with a biner and force it into a molle loop on the back of the saddle and my lineman I daisy chain catch the end with a a biner and hook it across the back side to my other linemans loop.

Doing it this way, nothing is coming undone, but when I walk (which I plan to wear my saddle going in) it feels like I have a belt of dreadlocks swinging around. Wondering if anyone has any more compact storage for these ropes. I can imagine what it will be like when actually walking through the woods vs my backyard to the test tree.

was just watching


and saw his rope at the end (6:14) nice and tight and it got me wondering.

Thanks in advance.
 
When I had an adjustable bridge I would lengthen it and throw it and LB over my shoulders and hooked to the other side. Out of the way. No flopping. Helped keep saddle up like suspenders.
 
I keep my bridge on my Kite folded up and tucked into my waist belt (see @bowhunter15 aka DIYSportsman's saddle video), which i also run waistbelt through my bridge loops while walking to keep them from flapping around (see video by @Nutterbuster ) then i keep my LB over my shoulders (in the same video by DIYSportsman) and snugged up a little to act like suspenders. tether stays in a pouch. When i get to my tree, just unclip waist belt and run it out of the bridge loops back to normal. Use LB on the way up, then when i get to height, i take tether out of pouch, tie in, and unclip LB and store it in the pouch where tether was. Just reverse of that for the climb down and walk out. keeps everything snug to me and not flopping and dangling around. Give something like this a try, I'm sure you'll like it better than wads of rope hanging.
 
Had the same problem with the stock Kite ropes, once I swapped them out for OpLux I don't even feel the daisy chained LB. If you're staying with the larger diameter ropes might want to check out a dump bag like the one DanO sells.
 
I have a adjustable bridge with a carabiner on one side. It works really well to run it through the bridge loop and back to the other side. The length I have mine (around 22 inches) it holds the loops nice and tight. I go all the way from the truck to up the tree like that, then just unhook and move to other side before clipping tether in.
Tether goes in dump pouch on right side.
LB gets daisy chained and goes behind my back to the other linesman loop. No ropes loose or hanging.
 
I may need to shorten my linemans belt. I always have about 4 ft hanging off the end. Maybe then I could have a tighter daisy chain in the back. Course if I did I'd run into a tree I'd want to hunt that's 3' diameter. Guess I'm limited to whatever my WE steps can get around and I usually only have about 12-18" left on those ropes.

Think next time I'll try the bridge and lineman over the shoulders. I also have a couple dump pouches but expected to use those for all day sit essentials.

Thanks for the ideas guys

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DaWiz9578 said:
I may need to shorten my linemans belt. I always have about 4 ft hanging off the end. Maybe then I could have a tighter daisy chain in the back. Course if I did I'd run into a tree I'd want to hunt that's 3' diameter. Guess I'm limited to whatever my WE steps can get around and I usually only have about 12-18" left on those ropes.

Think next time I'll try the bridge and lineman over the shoulders. I also have a couple dump pouches but expected to use those for all day sit essentials.

Thanks for the ideas guys

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Yeah good point. My lines are 8.5’ and I can’t see needing anything longer. If you can cut off 2-3’ of a larger diameter rope that will significantly cut down on the bulk.


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Im not a fan of daisy chaining ropes because of all the poison ivy, multi flora rose, and beggars lice that I encounter. Dangling ropes just get contaminated or stuck on crap.
My bridge is short so its never an issue.
My LB goes over 1 shoulder as a suspender and adjusted with my Ropeman. The stopper knot gets tucked into the opposite loop to control the tag end of the LB.
Tether gets stuffed into my muff or fanny pack.
 
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