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You're not concerned about damaging the tree if you're pruning?

All the time, pruning, removals whatever.

Anyone know What it is?

Interesting. What about pruning? Or you do only removals?

Light glaze, groundie must have let it run too much. I was not in my usual truck and was short on gear. I hadn’t expected to rig, and that arborplex is somewhat disposable. I had planned on it being a Natural crotch rigging rope, but forgot how nasty the surface of oak is. I have a difficult...

Never used them, never owned any, I always wear spikes though.

I am surprised to hear that, Mick. You do not ever access the tree with ascenders climbing the rope? I'm sure that has a lot to do with it! Personally, throw line is one of my favorite parts of tree work so I use it often as possible. Nothing more satisfying than having a piece tied off and...

i love throwlining but i also like taking a break from it sometimes. therefore i will spike up most removals and usually generate enough work for groundies.

Different strokes and all that. Don’t get me wrong, in many/most circumstances, getting a high tying in point quickly with a throw line is undoubtedly a more effective way of getting up there. In the great scheme of things though, on a one or two tree day, with one or two groundworkers, the...

I only stand around in spurs when I don't have an overhead TIP. If I'm going from the ground up a tree, I throw my steel termination biner 5-10 feet up the tree, choke, sit, use spurs for positioning, sometimes stand up to cut, such as pushing a limb, then sit back down.

True. I was running the speedline to the spot directly behind the chipper, turning the butts onto the tray and pushing through. Dragging, especially uphill, sucks, especially when technique easily does the job. So many of our trees are either in a forest or in a heavily landscaped area...

That's an easily-mitigated fear. Build a crash pad.

Well yeah, but you can start working from halfway up the tree, give the groundy something to chip then continue the ascent.

I had a contract climber who was "just going to climb up there and set a high TIP, then come back down and start at the bottom". I suggested I throw in a line, which took one try for a solid, high TIP. Base-tie. 5 minutes to things going through the chipper. Setting a high rigging point or...

Yes, looking closer. @davidwyby what was the circumstance? Leather cambium/ rope savers are so quick and easy, plus cheap. Blocks/ rings cost more but also save ropes.

So he did, I missed that.

Il looked down on a throw line just last week. It was hopelessly wrapped/stuck in a very dead pine stub. I want up just past it, tied in, freed it and dropped it out, then made my notch, nipped the back, and hastened down so we could snatch the top out with the truck.

Some Colorado climbers, as mentioned in the first post. Throw lines save climbing, too be remotely-set/ retrieved rigging points.

Who is looking down on throw lines?

Are the people who look down on throw lines really solid in their throw lining skills or climbing big trees?