sawsong

hi guys. hopefully you can help me with this.

ive spent all morning practising with my throwbag and getting what i feel is quite pleasingly accurate with it. I can set my throwline over a nice highcrotch suitable for a TIP that will allow me to move about a large proportion of the tree using the odd redirect etc.

however, try as i might, there's always stuff in between the two sides of my throwline (where it goes up and where it comes down. on a low limb its not such a problem, i can trim the small stuff away with my pole saw. but we're talking maybe 40 odd feet up for this TIP and when i try to deploy my cambium saver, i end up with a loop running between the desired TIP and whatever it is that's got in the way. I do apologise if this is difficult to follow. It strikes me that the methods in the TCC apply well to a tree without a single twig growing off the trunk.

if i had my throwline either side of a sizeable lower limb below the crotch i want, i throw it over that limb to get both the same side, but it's the smaller brashy stuff further up that's causing me problems.

is there a method to this or am i resigned to the method of moving up one limb at a time and continually advancing my TIP?

am I being daft here? am i trying to do something that just cant be done in these scenarios?

is achieving a single TIP straight away, the ever-elusive holy grail?

sorry for the super-rookie question, but i am a rookie

Jim