Climbing the tree vs climbing a rope in the tree

[levi r]

What's your dominant mode in the day to day climbing work?

Where I live, rock climbing is popular. Most tree climbers are at least a little bit into rock climbing. They tend to climb the tree more than the rope, some even look down on throwline lol.

What's your style?

I am 99% of the time setting a base tie with throwball to access and work the tree, even in relatively small trees. Even for removals, though I undo the base tie fairly quick most of the time. The only time I really climb from the ground up is a spruce removal or tiny trees I scramble into sometimes, with no rope or saddle.

 

[cory]

The bucket truck got 75% of our significant trees. Climbing for pruning was either use a ladder or throw to a low limb and alternate lanyard up the tree, or shoot a high line into big trees and Wraptor up. For removals it was usually spur from the ground unless the tree was huge in which case probably use the wraptor