yeah I want to show you a cool trick someone showed me I'm gonna climb with
my Petzel foot ascender here on my right foot and I got this super cool new
Stein knee ascender I do have my cool ArbPro boots this is gonna click in here on
top of my Arb Pro boots then here's the ascender here most people like to use
this to a chest harness but I'm gonna try today mostly because I don't like
that chest harness just kind of binds to me especially in the cold days like
today got so many clothes on so I'm gonna use my flip line to hold up my
knee ascender so I kind of like this height take my flip line I go up over my
shoulder this way and then it's really nice and adjustable it's a nice thing
about that is I could just pull it as tight as I want or as loose as I want so
it's kind of a cool trick to use your flip line will hold up the knee ascender
and adjust the height of that knee ascender so limbing off an oak off a house
today and go to the top of the tree I'll show you that I'll show you how I climb
with this but I like this flip line idea with a really highly adjustable length
for that knee ascender and not having to wear a chest harness alright let's go
get some tree work done. double rope technique up over the crotch at the top of the
tree therefore a double rope technique my foot ascender in here carabiner to
lock it chainsaws hold them a rope down and then here's my knee ascenders
clipped above my foot ascender I step up with my right foot on my foot ascender
and then step up on my left foot the knee ascender that bungee cord should
pull it up and I step up on the left I've heard some people call this rope
walking it's really nice way to climb up a rope really easy all especially when
you're my age all that work being done with your legs and instead of your arms I want
to adjust a knee ascender here a little so I tightened up my flip line going a
little bit slow here mostly pleasers I'm not holding down my rope very well
and my ropes not free dangling from the trees kind of close to the trunk so a
little bit of trouble there but it's a really nice technique good way to get up
to the top of the tree here I'm at the top of the tree just cleaning up some
small limbs and that's a crotch I'm gonna tie into you with the double rope
technique and then lower down from that and start taking the limbs off the house
side of the tree so this is Northern California wildland fire very serious
concern for all homeowners so the goal is really to keep the forest side away
from the home so I'm just kind of taking all the limbs off of the tree on the
house side to separate you know the home and the forest here this is kind of a
long limb dangling over some ornamentals and right by the rail rather than rope
it down I'm just gonna cut it slow and let it peel so it will fold and break
down and then I'll just kind of shorten it up by a few feet only problem with
this is if it breaks off and the buck flies to the house but it actually kept
pretty well there I'll just lean down I don't know five five feet and then
separate it and then the but I was nice at the but
fell back towards the tree I'll just clean up my stub there I'm still clipped
with the flip line and my climbing line and here I actually swapped out my still
200t for my still 361 for cutting out these blocks flipped line around the
tree my climbing line up above big wicked ugly stub at the base that was a
homeowner's not mine I did clean it up that's what got me the job in the first
place was got got in a little over his head all right well I hope you enjoyed
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