Hopping tips is not usually the easiest way to manage a route and utilize redirects when aiming for decent work positions as it positions the climber route sideways against the branch instead of parallel with it.
What are simple Redirects?
Redirects are utilized in tree work to offer a better rope angle to do limb walks or gain work position to make pruning cuts when doing tip reductions or traversing a sprawled canopy, 9/10 these are done utilizing SRS instead of MRS methods as MRS redirects often require hardware to remove continuous friction while still providing an additional anchor point through a sling carabiner dmm revolver system, petzl eject system, ring ring canbium saver system, pulley saver m rig system or O rig system. Very rarely is it an ART twin line or secret weapon hybrid system off of some flint lock knot block static line. Instead most climbers utilize SRS since a static system means friction is continuous through out without needing hardware and often natural crotch redirects are used to mitigate flat rope angles.
To plan a redirect they say look up above your next work station, do you see a branch above it, cool, take that redirect and it makes life easy. Hit the top first then work down. Hit the interior on the way up making a chuck hole, then work your way out in four quarters of the tree.
Redirects on SRS or, Static Rope Systems, allows rope compression to split loads over multiple anchor points, potential to make a climb safer by loading wood into compression, less rope stretch, and continuous friction, or prevention from falls and pendulum swings aka whips while minimizing gear.
In the case above, Casey was finishing up a lightening of heavy limbs work order and was climbing on a basal anchor system making it retrievable from the ground, Basal anchor systems must use beefy high crotches or 2 or more points to load under a v vector of compression since leverage weight is doubled over a single point in these setups unlike a canobase system, twin line hybrid, or a canopy synch system. Basal anchors are often set when isolation is hard, predirects are better for the route plan to a get a climber to tips faster, or someone wants to easily retrieve their rope from the ground while being somewhat rescue-able from the ground via alpine butterfly pickoff belay systems.
Casey's last two tip reductions were on over extended high limbs and there for to prevent an over exposed limb walk with flat rope angles he picked a limb that was adjacent to the three he needed to hit but still had large enough secondary scaffolds to set said redirects in as he hopped tips.
Again this was to prevent a major swing into the trunk.
Limbs were covered in ice which made normal climbing( panther like limb walks) difficult.
