I practiced this method before I started saddle hunting but with my rock climbing harness. It’s similar to having a one step aider but requires no more gear than what you already have. Hopefully my depiction will make sense.
If you fall while in your harness/saddle and attached by your tether, you take your linesman, make a loop in the tag end of it (figure 8) so that you have loops on each end, and tether it to the tree below your current tether like you were using it as a tether and not a linesman. It’ll be girth hitched around the tree and a nice little loop will be dangling at the bottom of it.
You put it at a height where by stepping into that hanging loop that you just tied, it takes the pressure off of your higher tether that saved you. Now you can ‘one-stick’ climb with your saddle tether and your new foot loop tether - either down the tree, to your steps, etc.
Now, if you fall with your linesman on, that’s a little trickier but possible. (You should have been climbing and have a stick or such nearby...but let’s assume you don’t.) You setup your normal tether above your linesman. Hook it into your saddle as tight as you can with no slack, then you have to do whatever you can to climb a hair up the tree to alleviate the pressure on your lineman’s - bear hugging, tree hugging, etc. Once you have your linesman free and are hanging by your regular tether, you do the method mentioned above with that tether to climb up or down to your sticks, stand, the ground, etc.
Sorry for the long post!
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