A straight rope has a breaking strength.
Rope from one tree to another.
Tie one side of another 5 foot piece of rope to your foothold rope right next to the first knot.
I want to do this but it s kinda hard to search for when i don t know the proper name for it.
What it called when you slide on a rope from one tree to another.
Continue to attach the 5 foot segments of rope in this fashion until you are 3 feet from the edge of your long ropes.
Around the tree.
Then i can tie it off.
It can be loose even.
I had to then slack the cross rope to adjust the vine location and try it again.
At one end i tie the rope any old how.
This video shows a time tested and safer way to hold the rope and have sufficient tension applied to the rope while pulling the tree in the desired direction.
Then i go to the other tree and pull as hard as i can on the rope until it s really tight.
Tried to record me swinging from a tree i topped out to another tree about 20 ft away.
The double fisherman s it a much better choice for joining two ropes.
I asked myself what are the reasons that we as arborists only climb on a single line and i went back to the truck and got another rope and rope wrench and went to work on that tree staying tied in twice.
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The inner fibers of the yucca leaves are flexible and will yield a rope with a high tensile strength if processed properly.
One of the things that struck me in the sprat class was being told that in the industrial rope access world there have been very few fatalities.
Stretch the end of this 5 foot length of rope to the other handhold rope.
I was tied into a bean pole of a hickory about 3 inches wide where i was tied in.
Then i moved the utv to another pine across the trail and climbed back up ran the cross rope around the tree and checked on the vine.
One of the easiest plants to make a rope with is the yucca plant.
Then holding tight i walk around the tree several times until the turns of the rope round the trunk are doing most of the work of holding it tight.
It took a couple tries to get it just right at which time i tied off the cross rope.