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Could would it be possible for the guys at DMM/treemagineers to produce a smaller carabiner so that it keeps my dead end knot below the top of my friction hitch on my HC please? I don't know if this happens to anyone else but when I've just pulled in a bit of slack the hitch is lower than my fishermans/bowline which then holds on the top, giving me an occasional self descending system which I am wary of and haven't dropped any decent distance but would prefer not to have to worry about!

I was thinking a small almost round one might do the trick

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Fair enough but my ropes don't have spliced eyes and I don't know anyone who can splice in the area.

It would be nice to have a hc/vt system which didn't dictate the need for a splice though.

I'm pretty sure a few people would have been put off the hc who don't have a splice also for this reason.

For me.... i guess i'll just have to stick it out till i need a new rope.

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Fair enough but my ropes don't have spliced eyes and I don't know anyone who can splice in the area.

It would be nice to have a hc/vt system which didn't dictate the need for a splice though.

I'm pretty sure a few people would have been put off the hc who don't have a splice also for this reason.

For me.... i guess i'll just have to stick it out till i need a new rope.

 

You can't put a splice on a used rope anyway so yes, you'll have to wait till you get a new rope.

 

But, if you are using a VT you don't have to do it with a HC. Other pulleys are available and some work ok ish with a termination knot. Splices are generally better allround though, except for blakes and prussik systems where it really doesn't matter that much.

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I know dude, i really should but I've been on a fishermans for a while now and i prefer it, and what with all the mahooosive trees i climb every day i dont want to have to keep retying as i've used that extra foot of rope in my termination :lol:

 

if things aint so smooth from the middle hoop then i'll go for a big bowline.

 

I still think dmm should make me a carabina though :001_tt2:

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