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Simple concept for rigging when on a secondary lead. To finish it off you can either: 1) Swing the top back to the main 2) Redirect and rig off the secondary 3) Span rig off the secondary Hope this makes sense and gets you thinking about options. I show it here with an omni-block but this can also be done with an x-ring. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

Didn't bring the skid steer to the job and we ended up wanting to preserve these nice Juniper logs. Here's one way to load logs into a truck without a grapple machine... "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos! Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

The port-a-wrap is the jack of all trades in rigging, but the one thing that it doesn't do very well, in my opinion, is negative rigging. Let's look at adding a top strap to try and fight the floppiness of the device when using it as a lowering device. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

This is a storm-damaged honey locust that we removed using a 60 Ton crane. It was in a tight spot between the house and the fence. Would have taken all day without the crane. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

Span rigging some wood in a silver maple "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

This is a way of using a running bow with a dead eye sling when you don't have enough length to do either a cow or timber hitch. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

Step into my office. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

No back cut, and no add-ons. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

This is a way to tie the alpine butterfly to incorporate something into the loop, like a ring or a piece of hardware. You can also use it to capture the running end of the line to make a "running alpine butterfly". "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

I have shown this method many times over the years, but I normally show it with a carabiner or pulley at the anchor. The method shown here is better when you have a solid anchor point that must be passed around, rather than a carabiner or piece of hardware that can open. Hope this makes sense and you can get some value out of it. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

How to tie a bowline in the opposite direction from how it's normally shown. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

More fun rigging with the GRCS on a big dead walnut limb out over a maple, surrounded by wires... "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

This is a little span rig from earlier this year. Span rigging allows pieces to float down in between two rigging points under control. Hope this makes sense and you can get some value from it. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

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This is an attempt at a real-world scenario with a high tie-in, lots of rope in the system, a load cell, and the full weight of a climber. What happens when your rope is over something small above the union, and then drops into it suddenly? Hope you can get some value out of it. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

Taking a big chunk of Manitoba Maple (Boxelder) over a wooden deck with the GRCS and a spider leg balancer... "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3 Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

This is 1 way of setting a rigging line when the piece is just out of reach. You can tie a throwing knot, throw it through the branch union and feed it all the way to the ground. Then you feed a bight of line on the other side of the union. Someone on the ground can then tie a running knot and run it up to the piece and then take all of the slack out. Hope this makes sense guys. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos! Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

Everything you need to know about setting up and using a Fiddle Block / 5:1 mechanical advantage hauling system for tree work. I put together 6 different systems and tested them all to see how much pull I could generate, and what their efficiency ratings were. In this video: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Is it a 5:1 or a 4:1? 05:17 What do you need for a 5:1 10:51 Setting it up 24:00 Testing the units Here's the final efficiency ratings: Unit 1: CMI 2" Double Pulleys - 4.90 : 1 Unit 2: SMC AdvanceTech HX - 4.39 : 1 Unit 3: WesSpur Set of Fours - 4.24 : 1 Unit 4: Shaefer Marine Fiddle Block - 4.23 : 1 Unit 5: CMI 2" with Pinto - 4.54 : 1 Unit 6: Frankenstein - 4.33 : 1 "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos. Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick

People often ask me: "what's your favorite rigging hardware?" Well, my best answer is, don't be ideological about it, instead be deliberate and thoughtful about your setups. When I was coming up I started with natural crotch rigging, it's what we used for almost everything. I still do a ton of natural crotch rigging. But I'm also obsessed with X-rings. And I use blocks and pulleys when it makes sense to. Every single situation is different. Sometimes you need very low friction. Other times friction can be your best friend. Rigging is like everything else, it's so easy to get into a rut and just do things the same way, over and over. So striving to keep an open mind about my setups and to be situationally dependent is so important. Use what makes sense for the situation. Strive to be an Educated Climber :) - Patrick "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway Make sure you subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified when I upload new videos! Follow Educated Climber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/educatedclimber/ If you are liking Educated Climber and getting value out of this, please tell a friend or 3. Climb High, Work Smart, Read More. - Patrick