Welcome to Strider Trees.
I'm here at the Academy Ranch with Jared Abrojena
and he's going to work with me here, and we're going to demonstrate some pretty
sweet little techniques for moving around out on a limb.
So hopefully you find this valuable in this video sponsored by Allred.
Check it out, everybody.
Jared Abrojena here with the Academy trained.
I'm here to go over and talk about work positioning while limb walking
as you guys can see, I got the new El Red megawatt in front of me here.
And so we'll have some fun play around and test in the sky.
So before we get going here,
I want to talk a little bit about weight distribution
and moving out on a limb and finding our target
and our scope of work and our route.
So as you can see here, I have a few obstacles.
I'd go to work myself around.
I'm going to try to keep my weight
on my
and point, as you can see here.
So when we get into our position for work, first thing we want to do
is make sure we triangulate here and create a good position
to be able to do our work the same time,
make our lanyard actually useful.
So as you guys can see here,
if I were to take a spill, it's not going to throw me back into the trunk.
And I got a pretty good triangulation.
Now, this is one option here for me to reach out and make my cut.
What happens with this when I go hip to hip,
it locks up my hips very.
I guess I lose some range of motion while doing this.
So another option to this is singling out your lanyard.
And you can see here I use a preset and a symbol
and I can come back right into that single in and out.
Disconnecting My lanyard, which which I have on here is an akimbo. So
I'm going to come back and
single out my lanyard. Now
that creates more range of motion for me to move to be able to get to my work.
So that's one way of doing it that I like to kind of free me up
to get more into my work and less locked up into my harness.
All right, go ahead. Now,
put that away.
Always keeping your gear tidy.
What I do now is I'm.
Go ahead, move back around.
You guys can see this little
area here on this trunk.
And if we get into trouble moving over branches like this,
this really forces us to want to stand up on the limb.
And when we stand up on the limb, we tend to lose balance.
All right?
So we want to stay make sure we stay back and lean back
and treat this kind of like a a third leg or a crutch.
So as you guys are going to see, I'm gonna go ahead and lean on it, take my slack.
I'm very comfortable here.
The alternative is standing up
where I lose balance and have to hold on to my rope
and have that slack with the potential to fall.
All right, So go ahead and lean on it.
Slide over, take my slack, come up, take my slack.
Rope management is big.
All right?
We want to make sure we keep our rope tidy
and always clear of any obstacles.
All right. As I move over here
to talk a little bit about a redirect here
so we want to do
is reduce the swing potential when working on these limbs.
Now, for me to move out here, if I were to take a spill
that's about a 20 foot fall.
So what am I to do is I'm going to stall
a redirect, which I got here is a
aramid sling
that Ed already makes and is pretty awesome.
It's my favorite because it's round and has a lot of different applications.
All right.
So right here, I'm going to go ahead,
create my redirect. Now.
I just took that swing potential
away about 15 feet or so.
Now I can move out another five feet if I were to fall,
I'm not going to come crashing back into the tree.
All right. So
go ahead and
come out here.
All right?
Now, I'm in a position here.
I have to make some cuts
out here on this stem.
What that typically happens in this moment here
is we put our position where we're comfortable.
And if we don't apply it in the right position, it's of no use.
Okay?
So if I go, I'd place it down below here.
That really doesn't help me out.
If I were to take a spill or a fall,
I'm still going to fall down into a pretty bad position to get out of.
So we really want to work on good positioning
so you can see here, I can come over here,
I can double wrap this, create a nice
choked anchor.
Once again, I'm going to single it out.
All right. And once again, like I said before,
we're going to triangulate
now I'm in a really good work position.
I got a lot of good movement, be able to get to my work.
And now when I make my cut,
I can take my saw and go ahead,
pass it beneath my back, and I can come out here
and a really good position to make my cut.
All right.
So I go ahead
and move myself in.
Now, let's talk a little bit about coming back in.
One of the biggest things that we encounter,
climate stress is not having mechanical advantage
to be able to gain or get ourself back in from the limb walk.
We're basically pulling a 1 to 1
our entire body weight, trying to pull ourself up and taking the slack.
So and this scenario, you have a couple of options.
You can take a
hand, a center place that above here for me,
I always have my prusik on my lanyard and this guy is very handy.
Takes only a few minutes
if that you go ahead and slap it on
maybe, maybe a minute.
So put that on.
Grab my extra carabiner that I keep right here.
Grab my tail, pop it back in.
All right, So now I just created my mechanical advantage
to get myself back in, back to my redirect.
And I can take off.
Go ahead.
Once again, keep things nice and tidy.
Always put your gear away.
All right, Now I can work this
nice and easy
with mechanical advantage.
Always keep in my line top so I don't have that potential to fall in
or swinging back to the trunk.
All right.
Takes a
little bit extra time to set this up.
Ultimately, if you have a really tough limb, we'll come back in something
as small as this that you have multiple uses,
put it right back on your lanyard.
It goes a long way.
That's it. Hope you enjoyed it.
See you soon.