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The smoothest arrangement for clean and easy pull through the big ring and solid hang and retrieve in the small ring is a spliced eye with a retrieval ball girth hitched in that eye. Everything else is lessor at getting the job done. Kyle...side note...lose the figure 8, use a simple overhand...

Kyle, I never bought one of the retrieval balls either. I bought tarp bungees...same ball. Then replaced the bungee cord with throw line. Cheap. Just make sure the size is correct. Gave quite a few away to my climbing buddies and students. Good karma right there :)...

In point of fact, it's no secret...I've posted about that method of mine in the past. Some pics here... https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/friction-savers.15383/page-3#post-509641 https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/art-cacoon.15687/#post-523805

I had other inducements in mind, Stig. As in..."I dunno, my old friend. That tree is mighty close to my house; I'm not sure a dumb logger from Denmark could handle it properly..." You see the drift. :D

I still have a few tricks up my sleeve :D.

Uhhh, maybe I'm missing some clever point :)...but it was to the west, slightly northwest.

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I don't know much about the chemical, not to say there isn't a body of study that might have much info that could be pertinent. On the other hand, I do know something about the biological...it's all about evolutionary adaption to growing conditions. Factors include average amount of moisture...

Gary shows his with a single prusik wrap...mine uses a double, a more normal configuration for a prusik. I won't call his wrong...but I wouldn't do it that way myself :).

Well hell, of course not. Right here in my own PNW, smack in the middle of Doug fir geographic range, we select DF (and all other species) seed source for reforestation by both elevation and range. An eastside of the Cascades parent tree seedling would never be planted on the westside, nor in...

Interesting, Frans. Delicate is about the last descriptor I'd use for Douglas fir. Of course, we live in entirely different portions of the current geographic range for the species. Here in the north Cascades, they are generally quite robust.

Those are good. Hard to use with a spliced eye lifeline, often...but simplicity itself in deployment. I have a well used one myself. If you are a spliced eye guy, best to just keep the donkey dong on your climbing line, pulled through to the splice from the tail once upon a time :).

There are many flavors of friction saver. Some are obstinate, some are easy, most are in between. Installation from the ground can be sweet, or frustration personified. Mostly in my work, I would climb via spurs, or SRT, or stacking ladders. I'd then set the FS for descent on doubled line...

Not stupid. Sharp eyes, you have :). That's a fairly common arrangement for an adjustable friction saver that is retrievable. In this case I set it above a whorl of limbs, so the adjustable function was unnecessary...it was just set up in my pack that way and I used it...actually could have...

You are right, Stig...they are. Thanks for the kind offer, but no. I have a full complement of hardheads, and some non, that are all in pretty good shape...these just appealed to my sense of "old and beat up, but still getting the job done" ;). You know, my only disappointment with this...

Fruits of the labor...

I knew there was something I was doing wrong. ;)

I had to remove a small Doug fir from near our house, one we planted as a seedling a bit more than 30 years ago, just a few years before building the house. Dang thing died to no cause I can figure, just showed stress and needle loss over the course of a few years, and last summer it finally...