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My climb line got nicked on a dead oak limb last Tuesday and I almost didn't catch it
I was about 40 feet up a shagbark hickory in Prospect Park when I felt a little drag near my friction hitch, and sure enough a stub had frayed the sheath down to the core. Anyone else keep a spare line in the truck just for days like that, or do you just call it and reschedule?
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stella_roberts2d ago
I read a post from a climbing arborist a while back who said he nicks a line at least once a year and just treats it as the cost of doing tree work, which honestly made me feel way less dumb about my own close calls. Keeping a spare in the truck is the move, but I also started wrapping my climb line in a small tarp when I'm working near dead stubs, since those things are basically knives waiting to happen. Forty feet up is no joke though, glad you caught the drag before it turned into something worse. I'd probably reschedule if my backup was already chewed up, but if you've got a fresh one coiled up back at the shop, no reason to pack it in for the day. Does the fray look bad enough that you're retiring the line completely, or is it just a short section you can cut and re-splice?
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