Essentially a 12 volt winch on a dolly/hand truck, that straps to the base of a tree, controlled with a wireless remote, hanging from the terminal end, a spreader T bar, splitting the tail into webbing on each side, routed through your saddles upper D rings, creating a balance point just above the waist.
Sounds a bit goofy I know, but it gets worse, in that once through the fulcrum points of the upper D's, the webbing on each side threads through each lower D on each leg and continues downward, till splitting just above the knee, to customized gator's with webbing going under each foot, allowing the climber to stand in harness, all his weight on his feet.
It's a strange sensation, and takes quite a bit of getting used to. I'm trying to make the T bar semi collapsible, as well get its distance above my head just right, but still within easy reach.
Incorporating a little generator n trickle charger on top of the winch n batteries is the plan.
Ideally the whole unit'll weigh twice what I do, so strapping it loosely to the base'll provide a little give in the system.
More a pruning tool than a removal tool, but I intend testing it on both.
I'm thinkin 1/4 in dyneema as the main winch line, and dynamic shock absorbing screamers at the T bar attachment point.
Should be an interesting R n D thread if nothing else, I'm too old for power moves upward anymore. I need buttons to push n triggers to pull n toggles to tap.
Jomo
Sounds a bit goofy I know, but it gets worse, in that once through the fulcrum points of the upper D's, the webbing on each side threads through each lower D on each leg and continues downward, till splitting just above the knee, to customized gator's with webbing going under each foot, allowing the climber to stand in harness, all his weight on his feet.
It's a strange sensation, and takes quite a bit of getting used to. I'm trying to make the T bar semi collapsible, as well get its distance above my head just right, but still within easy reach.
Incorporating a little generator n trickle charger on top of the winch n batteries is the plan.
Ideally the whole unit'll weigh twice what I do, so strapping it loosely to the base'll provide a little give in the system.
More a pruning tool than a removal tool, but I intend testing it on both.
I'm thinkin 1/4 in dyneema as the main winch line, and dynamic shock absorbing screamers at the T bar attachment point.
Should be an interesting R n D thread if nothing else, I'm too old for power moves upward anymore. I need buttons to push n triggers to pull n toggles to tap.
Jomo