This is a very good video, thank you. I wish you would demonstrate this technique on a limb with no branches for 15-20 feet with the tie in below 50 degrees. That's what I run into all the time and you can't find any demonstration on how to do it without spurs.
It's a good suggestion and we'll try to get something done on this matter. However, the ideal thing would be to find a redirect and minimize the risk of breaking the limb or excessive swinging, but we do understand that not every tree will have this option. Climb safe!
Thank you Chris! It was really helpfull. I wonder if you had a video about Limb walk but in a little bit more vertical limb? Thank you! (a beginner arborist and follower from Transilvania :D)
Did you watch Abdon's video on limb walking? The "jaguar stance" works great on most limbs with an incline up to around 45°. If the limb is particularly long, vertical and bare you can always use loops as footholds. Get out as far as you can, girth hitch a loop around the branch and stand in that. Hitch another one as high as you can reach and climb that one, and on and on. You can tie a tagline to pull them loose and reuse them going up, or just get a bunch and leave them on to climb down on and retrieve.
Great job Chris. I have to say, this clip is hands down one of the most informative and useful climbing videos I've seen to date (from anyone). Not taking anything away from Abs or Cody btw, as their content is just as killer, but limb walking can obviously be tricky, and to see someone demo the finer points insofar as making yourself as light and nimble as possible while traversing out is priceless - not to mention best practices can save a life. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that the cameo appearance from Boom Boom was funny! Great work boys. Your efforts are appreciated by all.
The easy part is walking out what I wanna see is something to make it easier for you on the walk back where your on a flat long limb walk back to the tree I have trouble keeping my balance when theres nothing to hold onto no stubs or limbs and your having to lanyard in to make another cut. And with srt it's even more complicated bcs you have to stand up to tighten your climb line up.
We can work on a video like that. Walking back from a long limb walk can prove to be difficult, however never impossible; slow will be key. Sometimes dropping relatively parallel with the limb and lanyard will be the go-to, getting comfortable will then be the issue; you could also incorporate webbing slings in order to create foot holds. This is easier said than done. Finding a redirect is always preferable and if there is none, creating a mechanical advantage system (for SRS) makes the walk back somewhat easier.
Take a prusik, put it on the rope, attack a carabiner to it AND your slack, and you just made an improvised mechanical system. I didn't come up with it but it definitely worked when I gave it a test. Credit goes to Strider Trees, video Limb Walking Pt 2 Jared Abrojena.
I aint going to lie, even tho im an Arborist. Limb Walking still to this day sketches me the fuck out. I do it still, but if i said i wasnt nervous. It'd be a bold face lie! I also have done most of my limb walking out over powerlines. And in trees that dont have much higher crotches then your work at line height. So you are kind of fighting the rope. Which is a miserable thing to go through. U also have to have your climbline tail end through a crotch and not below you. Because u dont want it in the lines either. See i trim trees in Michigan, which means 50-60ft trees are basically the maximum most the trees get. And thats on the tall side. Most utility lines are at approx 35-40ft high. So not only are you not in a favorable position as far as your tie in point gies. But the limbs that are at that height are fairly small. Small enough to be flmsy but big enough that a pruner pole cant cut it. Nor do u want it to. Because u can't control where it goes...
so i am just learning, why would you fix your lanyard to the piece of the branch that if the branch did fail you would be attached to it stopping you from swing back to the trunk sort of
It's all about choosing your anchor wisely; in other words, where you would lanyard in. Our lanyard is made to assist us in work positioning when out on limbs like this and our climb line should be bearing most of our weight.
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