Haha nice 1 Tim.
Yea i dont know why everyone moans about the price of climbing equiptment all the time! Bo hu com on you guys, you probably have trucks and chippers worth 10s of thousands of dollars which will be waiting on you to get the job done but you dont wont fork a few bucks for decent prussic set up!
I thrashed the hitch climber today just because i wanted to get a few things to say about it. As Tim says it is best to have the whole set up, not just the pulley. I was using 2x petzl triact oval binas with rubber keepers, the new Ocean polyester prussic 10mm with spliced ends and the hitch climber pulley. The prussic is excellent, extreemly well wearing with extreem heat resistance so it lasts a long time. VT hitch.
Its not the pulleys standard function of trailing the rope/pushing the prussic up, its the versitility of it thats so great. Setting traverses without sideloading binas and having to use extra binas/attachment points for it. Setting advantage systems soo easily. Even pulling slack through the pulley to get the groundie to pull chansaws up for you. You can get big groundies to pull you up the tree if you want!!
If you check out the link to Tree Pro, Tims website it shows you everything in the diagrams.
Il try and get video but NO PROMICES, i still owe a video of the rope guide retreval device haha
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