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Tree Tether

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JPRESTON

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What are you guys doing with your excess tree tether? Do you just leave it hang or use something to tie it up out of the way?
 
JPRESTON said:
What are you guys doing with your excess tree tether? Do you just leave it hang or use something to tie it up out of the way?
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I tie mine in an alpine butterfly (or marlin spike hitch if I’m on a big tree and don’t have a lot,of excess) and clip it in to to my bridge carabiner as a backup to my prussic. This is done at ground level so I’m not opening the carabiner at height.


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Following, I’m waiting on my saddle to ship from CRUZR, hope fully have by the end of next week but I just tied a new tether this afternoon. I have mine around 9ft, and excess I tie an alpine butterfly and clip it to my harness or lineman’s loops(on the off chance my bridge is the failure), I do the same thing when stand hunting.
 
Daisy chain mine and clip it to beaner I leave enough slack to loosen or tighten if needed
 
I do what Aerohunter recommends when you buy their saddle kit. Tie a figure 8 on a bite on the end of the tether and clip it back in to you bridge carabiner. In the event your prusik or mechanical ascender fails, you will be caught by your tree tether.
 
mtsrunner said:
I tie mine in an alpine butterfly (or marlin spike hitch if I’m on a big tree and don’t have a lot,of excess) and clip it in to to my bridge carabiner as a backup to my prussic.
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Same, and I think this should be standard practice. It takes only a second, keeps the tether tail out of your way and backs up the connection to the tether.
 
Alpine butterfly as backup to biner - usually leaves me with about 12” of tail that I’ll just wrap around the biner into a loose overhand.
 
Another vote for alpine butterfly then I attach it to my linemans loop as a back up if something were to happen with my bridge or prussic.
 
Shakeandbake said:
I do what Aerohunter recommends when you buy their saddle kit. Tie a figure 8 on a bite on the end of the tether and clip it back in to you bridge carabiner. In the event your prusik or mechanical ascender fails, you will be caught by your tree tether.
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Same here. On a smaller tree with a decent amount of extra tether that could still mess me up. However, should be a lot less than hitting the ground.

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sweats said:
Same here. On a smaller tree with a decent amount of extra tether that could still mess me up. However, should be a lot less than hitting the ground.

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Yea you might have a very sore neck and back from the short fall but better than a broken back
 
Shakeandbake said:
Yea you might have a very sore neck and back from the short fall but better than a broken back
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Don’t have to have a sore neck. Just learn to tie an alpine butterfly knot and you can easily place it on the tag line at just the right spot so, in the event of a prussik/ropeman/other failure, you’d only drop about an inch before being caught.
 
drew_skool said:
Don’t have to have a sore neck. Just learn to tie an alpine butterfly knot and you can easily place it on the tag line at just the right spot so, in the event of a prussik/ropeman/other failure, you’d only drop about an inch before being caught.
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Agreed. I'll post the link below for anyone wanting to know. My preferred method of tying it starts at the 20 sec mark.
 
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