What I sometimes do to guy a dangerous tree that I have to climb and work in is to use my throwline first, then pull my rigging line up into the limbs or target crotch that I'm using to guy. Then I tie a running bowline and pull it up into the tree and anchor it to other trees or ground anchor...
It looked like a pendulum swing drop on some of the pieces that were rigged off.
Similar to what Don Blair, Ken Johnson, Robert Phillips and Mike Majors did on that big leaning redwood back in 2001.
It helps to reduce the shock loading on the line by swinging into the drop rather than just...
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