In December 2011 we got ourselves finally organized and fixed the roof, which was direly needed as the last winter had left us with a number of ice dams and some damage inside…. It was an amazingly mild December I remember and we got the roofers to come, and we did not forget about a new skylight either. Now with the summer in full swing I was watching the roof not getting a lot of sun on the backside and the trees leaving lots of droppings. So finally on July 28, I decided it had to be done and I bought the basic equipment at REI. I bought a harness for rock climbing (not ideal as I found out later), a nice static rope, two nice ascender devices (Petzl), an ballay device (ATS), a number of slings and carabiners.
\nI also added two reasonably cheap nylon ropes, a thin rope for a rope throwing setup, a simple handsaw and of course a set of excellent quality working gloves (very important!). Ready I was for my first ascend…. Well, I had to watch some tutorials on the web to make sure I could properly ascend and descend with the equipment I bought. Fun, fun… first try was with single rope technique (SRT) and full ascend and descend routine at about 1 meter over the ground \ud83d\ude42 It worked at the second try.
\nOne thing to always remember: be calm, move at a slow but steady pace and think carefully about what you are doing. Usually once one is up there it is very quick to cut the branch, what takes most time is to position and secure oneself and the pieces to be cut off. Once int he tree, always use two safeties, one is not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In December 2011 we got ourselves finally organized and fixed the roof, which was direly needed as the last winter had left us with a number of ice dams and some damage inside…. It was an amazingly mild December I remember and we got the roofers to come, and we did not forget about a … <\/p>\n