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Most of the work I do is on pretty steep ground where hauling brush just sucks, so I tend to use it quite a bit. Last weekend I made a zipline just to haul brush and firewood down a slope. We carried each bundle 10-20 ft to the zipline and then let gravity take it the remaining 200+ ft. It wasn't even a difficult carry because there was a trail going from the log right to the destination, but the zipline still saved us 2-3 hours that day. In the time it would take to carry one bundle 200 ft and then walk back to grab another, I was sending 10-20 bundles down and didn't have to walk back up the hill. I use the vertical zipline even more often to prevent pieces from bouncing and rolling down hill when they hit the ground.
I think it's pretty funny when somebody says speedlines are a waste of time. It's like when somebody says you can't be an efficient climber without wearing spurs. They only think that because they are not good at it, and since all climbers think they are the best and nobody else is half as good as them, they extrapolate that what doesn't work for them must not work for anybody. Most of these people have only used a speedline once or twice, and found it to be slow and inefficient because they were trying to learn how to do it on the job. It's just like any other aspect of this work: the key to being efficient is to practice.
I think it's pretty funny when somebody says speedlines are a waste of time. It's like when somebody says you can't be an efficient climber without wearing spurs. They only think that because they are not good at it, and since all climbers think they are the best and nobody else is half as good as them, they extrapolate that what doesn't work for them must not work for anybody. Most of these people have only used a speedline once or twice, and found it to be slow and inefficient because they were trying to learn how to do it on the job. It's just like any other aspect of this work: the key to being efficient is to practice.
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