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Why don't yall 2TC?

I tend to choose shoulder width or larger trees to climb if feasible, so I know what you are talking about with too much rope when I do happen to choose a tree that is smaller diameter. I climbed a small pine the other day out at a friend's club land and fought the foot tether a little more. It had me off my game, lol.

I really do love the simplicity of a Blake's hitch on the foot tether.
 

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How are you liking Predator for the top tether? I haven't tried it for the top since I assumed a stiffer rope would work better. Maybe I'm missing out.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
How are you liking Predator for the top tether? I haven't tried it for the top since I assumed a stiffer rope would work better. Maybe I'm missing out.
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It’s a joy to use. I really ended up liking 11mm HTP last year once it softened up but I just keep coming back to predator.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
I tend to choose shoulder width or larger trees to climb if feasible, so I know what you are talking about with too much rope when I do happen to choose a tree that is smaller diameter. I climbed a small pine the other day out at a friend's club land and fought the foot tether a little more. It had me off my game, lol.

I really do love the simplicity of a Blake's hitch on the foot tether.
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Well these are like 11ft so, about 3ft more than my finished ropes last year lol. I have 2 ft leftover on the biggest trees that I’m able to climb lol. I’ll probably end I’m cutting them down to 9 I think as a happy medium.
 
Yes, I've had my top tether get pretty short on some of those big trees. For a while I was carrying a longer top tether in the backpack just to use on those big trees but have not really needed it yet, so I took it out a while back when I wanted to make room for that Torges ground seat.
 
BTaylor said:
I pull 'em down if they will pull down. Sometimes have to cut them at the bottom. Have cut bigger ones loose at the bottom and pulled them out and hang them up on a branch so they are out of the way. No worries about the type of vine, I dont react to any of them.
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You are immune from it until you’re not, it can start affecting you later in life without warning.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
Just climb on a rappel length rope ... Don't have to worry about tree size then unless you're trying to climb a giant redwood or Sequoia. Plus you got a quick egress to the ground in an emergency
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I plan to revisit this idea this summer. I want to take the delta link off the rope and just use a regular loop like on a tether and see how that goes. If I like that I may move forward. In the past it was that delta link that gave me fits and also having to have a pull-down line. It's just hard for me to move away from the ultra simple and easy system I have now but I do plan to try out a few things.

I know people tout the quick descent as the big selling point for rappelling in case you got into wasps or something but the few times I have been hit by yellow jackets I did not have the presence of mind to spell rappel, much less do it. I just threw stuff in every direction and ran mindlessly flailing until I got away from them, lol.
 
Ok, so I just went out back and tried the rappel rope again and almost ended up stranded up the tree. I hooked up with a figure 8 and a prussic loop above it on the climb up. I used an Amsteel foot loop for the climb. I only went about 10 feet up. I got up there, took the foot loop off the tree and ALMOST tossed it to the ground and at the last moment decided I better hang on to it. I'm glad I did because that sewn prussic loop was on that rope so tight it might as well have been sewn on to it. I never could get it to budge and had to reattach the foot loop and 2TC back down again. I had to wrestle it off the rope after I got back to the ground. So much for that little experiment.

I need to get another prussic loop that will release. I also need to get rid of that quick link. It was just as fiddly as I remembered.
 

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So maybe step up and take weight off the top tether, pull a little slack in the tether between the prussic and the 8 and then wrap off the 8 so it will hold when reweighted? Then break the prussic and unwrap the 8?
 
The prussic, though a very fail proof hitch, is the last on the list for me! I would be using a different hitch above my figure 8! Like the longhorn agile, the one I am using and really liking is the stitch hitch variant that Brocky informed me about, using the rope for a ring during the tying of the hitch!
 
NMSbowhunter said:
So maybe step up and take weight off the top tether, pull a little slack in the tether between the prussic and the 8 and then wrap off the 8 so it will hold when reweighted? Then break the prussic and unwrap the 8?
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You figured it out, I omitted the part of the hitch having to be unloaded as the fig 8 is loaded.
 
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