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They're all gone. I think aldi will get them back early summer. They're pretty good. Just steam them to heat them up.

I could get a 100' of that, and see how it works. I've been wanting to try it anyway. I like having cord for prusiks that isn't heat resistant. It's cheap, and seems to be more flexible. I currently have a bit of sterling cord I like, but wesspur doesn't sell that anymore.

Main reasons I used the 3strand was I already had it, and it isn't a rope I use much. If I'm thinking 3strand, I'm usually thinking treemaster. It's also easy for me to splice. Makes me feel like I'm good at splicing :^D It's a starting point. Something to give me a feel for use on the cheap...

Ok, I took all the stuff out today and gave it a try pulling on a mulberry stem. I don't have a good sense of the force I was generating. I really need a loadcell, or something like that. Biggest problem I see so far is my progress capture prusik is way too long, but that's easy enough to fix...

I haven't set my rig up yet to try. I had a perfect tree in my yard to do a pull test, but I cut it down about a week before making this thread(of course) :^D It was small enough to move, but big enough to give real resistance and give a good judge of how much extra pull I was getting.

Were they even used? They look brand new.

Well, we'll find out. Everything's on it's way aside from biners I want to dedicate to the setup. I stupidly didn't check CMI before I hit the [Submit] button. I might try to make a ghetto test for my ghetto rig. Find a smallish tree pull it by hand, then try it with the pulleys, and see if I...

Not pretensioning per se. Actually lifting the limb. I pretensioned what I did yesterday, but that won't be enough in every scenario. I'm talking about folding a limb vertically(or nearly so) so the limb tip is pointing to sky. Depending on tree, that'll be a reversed facecut, a simple undercut...

I totally get it. I'm thinking about more weight than that though, or at least potentially more weight. I wouldn't want to be 25% into a process before I realize I'm in over my head and I can't pull what I think I can. Having pulleys in the system with a progress capture is fairly harmless...

This is getting in the weeds a little. I'll tell you what inspired this. I've been thinking about fiddle blocks for a long time. All the way back to when I started this. I opted for the maasdam as my MA solution due to price and practicality for purposes, but I kept looking at pulleys, and...

:shrugs: That's fine, but I'm probably not gonna do it. If I have weight, I want it on the main stem. I can foresee some big oaks or something I'd put weight into a crotch, but otherwise I want it on decent hardware.

The point is NC=light duty. I'm just trying to forestall people saying micropulleys are insufficient. I'm probably making assumptions that other people think the same as me. The ONLY point is light duty. If something requires more than light duty, I'll be using hardware aside from a possible...

Read "light duty". I wouldn't use anything other than 3, 16 or 12strand doing natural crotch. If it requires more than that, I'd be using hardware. IOW, the strength of the system only has to be ≥ 3, 16 or 12strand rope.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of using promaster. Using a splice, it would have the same strength as knotted 16strand, it has a bit less stretch, twist doesn't matter in this scenario, AND I already have 150' I don't really use much. I can cut that in half, and have two...

I'm putting together a ghetto fiddle block set with double sheave micropulleys, MBS7k#. I was thinking of using 16strand in the system, and then the thought of using promaster came to me. It's a weaker line, but I can splice that eliminating knots, and it's not like this would be used for...