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Originally Posted by letigre  angophora costata (syd red gum) |
Common name is Smooth barked apple. Looks similar to spotty gum but reddish tinge to bark and leaves are opposite.
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Originally Posted by letigre so, my idea is; set up a remote suspension point/spanline (flying fox if you will) between the specimen and an adjacent tree. sending the rope through pulley and sling set ups and going back to the ground, tightening with a friction drum on one end and tied off with a prussick set up on the other. my climbing system would run off a micropulley on that rope, hence suspending me directly above the branch (and the house).
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what do you guys think? |
DO NOT USE A PRUSSIK! A tensioned line line that will experience 5x your weight (when just hanging there doing nothing) at the terminal ends. If you are suspended from that line DRT then at times you could be doubling your weight.
100kg load might become 200kg. Which puts 1000kg onto the ends of that tensioned overhead flyfox line. Prussik and even ascenders etc are know to slip and tear sheaths of rope above 600kg of force. The tension has to be held with a friction drum etc and backed up perhaps with two prussik's. One end obviously tied off.
But a 30m span is only 15m each side. Dual high points may give more maneuverability.