Climbing a huge beech - part I (SRT climbing, redirects & mechanical advantage)

Lovely climbing, a lot of wind! some redirects and 3:1 mechanical advantage with the CT crick for getting back from a hanging limb walk. What a gorgeous tree this was to climb! This absolute massive and beautiful tree has been pruned pretty hard about 20 years ago (estimation), and there were a few big limbs with big (20 years old) reiterations growing straight up. Two limbs were cracked and resting on other limbs already, so to prevent some other limbs from overloading we went in and got some weight and wind drag out of the limbs. #arborist #treeclimbing #treecare #beechtree #boomverzorging