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Originally Posted by sawsong  ... if you 'gaff out' ... then the flipline will stop you falling away from the tree, and if you wrap it a full turn about the trunk, it will choke the trunk and stop you from falling... once you try climbing with two suitably stiff fliplines, and use 'alternating lanyard technique ... you would be hard pressed to regard the axes as easier ... but is it 'safe'... |
If you don't, or aren't able, to wrap the flipline around the trunk are you not likely to do a face slide down the trunk at least until the lifeline stops you?
The two flipline method sounds like a good way to solve the obstruction problem I was having with just one. I do have a quality (Miller) flipline coming and that will give me two. I will definitely try using both of them.
In my limited testing so far the axes worked great at holding my weight, the biggest problem so far is getting them out of the tree. I think that striking a balance between a hard setting swing and a softer climbing swing will be the technique that can make them work.
We will see ...
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