If you use a DACA poles, you can use it to fish the throwball around the limbs if you're doing presetsSince everyone is impressed by my computer mouse drawing skills.
When there are multiple limbs close together, a canopy anchor can be difficult as you have to fish your line through the limbs so that it only wraps around the single limb:
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A base anchor resolves this since it doesn't matter how many limbs are in the way. However, this comes at a cost of needing more rope:
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The hybrid way I showed in the pictures borrows from both. By anchoring at a low, easy to reach limb, you effectively move you "base anchor" higher up in the tree. Then, you throw your line up and over your target height limb without having to worry about fishing it through the limbs:
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In hindsight, I'd probably do what I did in reverse. I'd throw over the lower limb and set my anchor first then throw over my target height limb. That way, my throw line should stay on the same side of the tree I'm on with less walking around.
How are you liking that rope?Almost, the half hitch is attached to the section going down in your picture, the eye.
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How do you set a false crotch?
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Several ways to do it. You leave a tether girth hitched around the tree with a prussic and hang a large carabiner through the prussic. Next, run a paracord loop through the carabiner to the ground. Now, you have a paracord preset. Instead of pulling your climbing line through a crotch or over a limb, you are pulling it up through a carabiner.
I’m not crazy about that way because I’m worried about rodents chewing on the tether. I think a better way is to hang a carabiner or rigging ring from the backside of the tree and run your paracord loop through it and then walk it around the front of the tree so that when you pull up your climbing rope it actually girth hitches the whole trunk of the tree.
TESLA??? You should know I'm 100% a truck guy!I've got a scouting trip planning over Labor Day weekend and unless @DanO needs help paying next months Tesla bill, I may be done spending big $$$ for this season as I already have my presets established.
That being said after playing with it this weekend, I do see an advantage to the base anchor, with or without presets. As I said earlier, I know I skipped doing presets in trees because I couldn't isolate a limb which is what makes the base anchor so effective. However, there is also an advantage to having less rope to pull up once at height and store somewhere.
So, the question is...Since I already have 50' of C-IV, does it make more sense to get a longer, single rope or get 40" of Resc-Tech and use that as the "base anchor" line and connect it to my climbing rope? Then again, I already have 50' of Resc-Tech so why not just use that?
That's what I'm going to go with for this year, especially since the Resc-Tech packs down in such a small area. My C-IV is my climbing rope with the Resc-Tech being the base anchor if needed and that's even assuming I hunt someplace where I don't have a preset.Might simplify things if you used a separate rope for each of the high and low branches, since you already have two, and connect them in the middle?