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Best tips to avoid glazing ropes with a POW/ LD? What specifically leads to glazing? Does running a load (friction and heat) than stopping the rope, without some slow rope movement (new sections of rope against hot bollard) to take heat off the bollard, while it is also conducting the heat...

I expect that the groundman will understand the rigging plan, so nobody and nothing gets splattered. Compared to all the other demands of tree work, Call and Respond is easy, especially when getting paid by the hour. I expect the groundman to run the rigging plan through their head, and back to...

I've seen smoke from NC, once or twice.

Stack the rope at the roping location starting with the trail of the Standing End on the Bottom of the stack, with the Working End coming off the Top of the stack. Basic, but worth mentioning.

As Daniel points out, but to be more clear to the newer folks, Never wrap around your body, or position when you can get caught in the rope, or caught by something, like a limb, caught in the moving rope. I stack at my feet in front of me, frequently in a bag or bin.

One of my basic rules about all things. Don't position yourself where you can be crushed! Sounds so basic, yet people want to stand where tree shrapnel will spray when the rigged piece swings into the trunk.

This roping technique thread is more oriented toward rigging. Feel free to start a thread in the climbing sub forum.

Limb walking with a 3:1 preset. Can be installed even before pulling the climbing system into the tree after seeing a throw line. A lanyard toward the to of the limb, and/ or out to the side for balance and fall arrest.

Tethering the top of the POW, like the Stein, makes it less floppy, easier to manage, less likely for a portion of the rope to jump over another portion wrapped farther from the cleat. I keep a "Simple 3:1" (brought to my attention, as named as such, by Reg Coates) set up (pulley, hitch cord...

This occurs most when using a much longer rope than the section of the rope being actually used in the POW. The kinks can add up in the Standing End. I don't know if a block or rings will allow more rotation of the rope, and a longer affected length of rope (working end through the block/...

Let's talk rope glazing...

Just a general discussion starter. Walker asked for groundman pertinent info on running a Port-a-wrap. Do's and Don'ts, when, why, where, what, how. Never wrap your rigging rope around something that you can't easily replace, like your hand. I am religious about stacking your rope...