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Why don't yall 2TC?

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@gcr0003 , is there enough room on your figure eight to use the 'phatkaw method' with double ropes? (I never tried it)
That way you'd have both hands to fudge around with your tethers and stuff.
 
GCTerpfan said:
I played around with a different variation of two tether climbing a couple years ago. The main reason I didn't pursue it any farther was because of an incident I had when climbing a tree only to realize there was a bees nest in it. I am allergic to bees and that incident made me realize the importance, for me at least, of having the ability to get back down the tree quickly in an emergency. Having sticks already placed on the tree make that a possibility.
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Just a suggestion. If you learn to rappel down using your rappel rope as your top tether you can get down very fast. Whether you are on sticks, one stick or 2TC. Hope it helps.
 
I am playing with it now and have had some issues. The suggestions on this forum and good videos have help me to keep on trying. I had problems with one sticking and now it's relatively easy.
 
phatkaw said:
@gcr0003 , is there enough room on your figure eight to use the 'phatkaw method' with double ropes? (I never tried it)
That way you'd have both hands to fudge around with your tethers and stuff.
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I can’t remember how you configured yours but you can wrap it around the figure 8 and it’ll hold but I don’t trust it, I keep my hand on the rope the whole time if I’m not using a hitch. I have no trouble removing a tether or platform one handed since I’ve done it enough. I have two WLR hitches that usually live on my rappel rope and I’ll use one or both of those with the figure 8 typically while hunting.
 
@gcr0003 thanks for your videos, they are what really allowed me to see 2TC as a transferrable method (i.e. not just for small diameter, smooth trees). The real revelation was your technique of after you stand up, to move your hitch down to get slack in your tether, moving the tether up, then moving the hitch back up. This allows 2TC to be practical on large trees with rough bark.

Where I deviate from your style is that I prefer to keep my foot bungeed into the footloop, and do the same procedure with my footloop as my tether: move the hitch to get slack, flip up the foot tether (I use stiff 11mm rope), then move the hitch back up, all the while keeping my foot in the loop. I found that the open footloop style (take foot in and out each time) footloop was faster on most trees in the daylight, but when I had on huge winter boots and it was dark, it became a lot harder. The "keep foot in" style is a bit slower, but I find that it works for all sizes of trees, and is easy in the dark. It is also faster coming down.

And really thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. I had a similar progression this year to @NMSbowhunter. In Dec I climbed a tree with my full length LW sticks to ~20 feet, and a doe spotted me and alerted the buck chasing her, they both went on alert so I couldn't shoot (I don't shoot at alert deer with a bow). I finally decided to try what the cool kids were doing and spent the "offseason" (Iowa gun season) practicing 2TC. First time out in the late archery season, I climbed the same tree with 2TC, but was able to get to 25 feet, and this time the buck that walked by had no idea I was there - until it was too late. To be transparent it was a shed buck and I thought it was a doe when I shot but... shooting a deer first time ever hunting with 2TC was pretty awesome.
 
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