{"id":28425,"date":"2025-09-21T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/?p=28425"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:31:48","slug":"video-questionable-tree-as-rappel-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/video-questionable-tree-as-rappel-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Questionable Tree as Rappel Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high anchor point is generally much more comfortable than a low one when transitioning over the edge. So it&#8217;s great when there&#8217;s a tree close to the edge. But what if the tree is no longer that trustworthy?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reinforcing a weak Tree to Rappel on - Tensioned Back-Tie with Glove Hitch and Mule Overhand\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0-2Rj0hWUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Here I\u2019ve set up a system we can use to practice rappelling. Everything is \u201cfixed\u201d in place and will be dismantled from above once we&#8217;re finished. So this is not a retrievable system \u2013 for that I would simply use a different tree that isn\u2019t questionable.<br \/>\nTo basically reinforce the tree, I guyed it backwards using the 8mm Resc Tech. This way, the main load is transferred back to the thick tree. The questionable tree primarily just serves the purpose of being a high anchor point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high anchor point is generally much more comfortable than a low one when transitioning over the edge. So it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2610,1808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rigging","category-youtube-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28426,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions\/28426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripperkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}