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I seldom use a progress capture unless i absolutely need it, just more to get in the way usually. It's pretty easy to tie off a single end, or even just jam the tail in the block to lock it (not when lifting obviously). A tautline with the bight works great too, just tie it around the parts of...

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So you wanted to know about pretensioning, hence why i didn't follow when you said nc, I'm with you now. Did you sweat the line to tension it first? That usually works really well. If you need more than that you can pretension with a fiddle block but it's about the tool of last resort. The...

And you can do that with natural crotch too! Simply use a limb to change the direction, and add your friction at the base. In other words, with the right rope, you don't need to use blocks everytime, you can simply toss the rope over a limb and go to work. You can go thru multiple crotches to...

I disagree with both of these statements, like completely. The point of nc is speed, ease, and simplicity, it is far more useful than lowering small limbs without a friction device. Blocks lower forces the rope sees since it spreads the friction more evenly and prevents abrasion, that's all. A...

Also using a half hitch is a great trick to set a natural crotch "block" on a spar. If it's a featureless spar it will likely slide down, usually not a problem if you are ready for it, very handy in a lift. If it's above a small limb that couldn't possibly handle the load it'll be perfect, since...

That's the thing I'm not understanding, fiddle blocks aren't needed at all using natural crotch rigging, it doesn't make sense. If you want a lightweight rigging system, you won't want to be using double blocks anyways since they rub the cheekplates if you only run one rope thru, and would be a...

You lost me with that sentence, fiddle blocks simply allow you to pull harder than you can by hand. Think going up rather than down, tipping trees over and lifting stuff. If you need more friction doing natural crotch just do more wraps. You'll want a rope that is easy to grab, preferably...