{"id":167,"date":"2011-02-17T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/?p=167"},"modified":"2011-08-12T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:09:37","slug":"single-rope-technique-workshop-for-jims-trees-and-atraes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2011\/02\/single-rope-technique-workshop-for-jims-trees-and-atraes\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Rope Technique workshop for Jim&#8217;s Trees and ATRAES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 10 Feb <em>into trees <\/em>was invited to run a workshop on Single Rope Technique for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimstrees.net\" target=\"_blank\">Jim&#8217;s Trees <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atraes.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">ATRAES<\/a> group.\u00a0 The event was run at the Jim&#8217;s Trees head office in Mooroolbark, where we took advantage of a clear day and the great location to do a lot of climbing and talking about SRT.\u00a0 John Canning from ATRAES brought out the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atraes.com.au\/Heavy-Duty-Double-Bollard-Lowering-Device.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stein Dual friction drums<\/a>, which we used to lift out a large hanger from one of the trees onsite &#8211; it worked a treat, with the only slight problem occuring when John was asked to tie a Klemheist onto the lowering rope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-169\" title=\"Jims1\" src=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"Jims2\" src=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-171\" title=\"Jims3\" src=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jims3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also tried out the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atraes.com.au\/ATRAES-Tree-Frog-SRT-System.html\" target=\"_blank\">ATRAES MicroFrog SRT system<\/a>, and looked at different rope setups to use SRT for tall tree access, as well as ways of setting an in-line anchor in order to use a traditional doubled rope system from a single-line setup.\u00a0 More details on the techniques discussed are available for free from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtio.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">Victorian Tree Industry Organisation <\/a>&#8211; download the <a href=\"http:\/\/vtio.org.au\/Content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Single-Rope-Technique-i.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF of Single Rope Technique<\/a>\u00a0from their website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please contact Joe from <em>into trees <\/em>if you are interested in organising a similar climbing workshop on this or other advanced climbing techniques.\u00a0 Thanks to Rob Muller from Jim&#8217;s Trees and John Canning from ATRAES for organising the day, and to John (Doc) Holliday from Jim&#8217;s Trees in Perth for flying all the way over, and taking the photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 10 Feb into trees was invited to run a workshop on Single Rope Technique for Jim&#8217;s Trees and the ATRAES group.\u00a0 The event was run at the Jim&#8217;s Trees head office in Mooroolbark, where we took advantage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2011\/02\/single-rope-technique-workshop-for-jims-trees-and-atraes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8,7,4,6,9,5],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops","tag-atraes","tag-jims-trees","tag-single-rope-technique","tag-srt","tag-tree-climbing","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}