Dropped $800 on a Portawrap and a GRCS last spring, and it paid for itself on one sketchy red oak

Tara Patel · 2026-09-15T00:40:06.441759+00:00

We were rigging a 36 inch red oak over a customer's garage in Roanoke and the GRCS let us lift limbs instead of just dropping them, which saved that roof and probably the whole job, but I keep hearing newer climbers say they'll just muscle it with a portawrap alone, so what's the actual cutoff where you decide the extra gear is worth hauling up the tree?

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