i want an art rope guide please :)

[alex_m]

i wish i could splice, i would probably go for this .......

 

 

[Rupe]

This one of bobs looks good too!

 

Notice that the pulley is on the end of the rope and the ring is on the friction hitch part. Its an interestign variation.

 

[bob]

you could buy a petzl jane landyard and make one up but they take very little heat to melt them

[Rupe]

You wouldn't easily get heat build up though would you?

[bob]

just where it rubbed or something

mine had a melt point after a couple of uses but did not notice how it had done it tbh

might have been on the retriever end that got pushed up against a branch and rope

but ran a rope across afterwards and melted quite easily

[Rupe]

Oh I see. Maybe an old lanyard or extra long split tail would do the job? I have a stupid long split tail somewhere, I might try it..

[bob]

or just get a long split tail and do like i did the retriever end is just sewn back and heat shrinked over but i did it too small to get a crab in just in case someone borrowed it and got it wrong

[Tree Access]

Whats the advantege of having the Pulley at the spliced end ?

[alex_m]

Right, I have played around a bit and made a bodge job with a bowline loop, prussik attached to a micro pulley and ALOT of electrical tape.

Trouble is the pulley only just takes through 13mm of rope. No more.

Therefore retrieval is impossible because of two reasons;

With a spliced eye, the climbing line will not go through the pulley then onto the retrieval line.

Without a spliced eye, the climbing line will go through the pulley, but will also go through the retrieval line.

 

 

Apart from the art cocoon, could someone let me know of a pulley than will accommodate for a spliced eye whilst being small enough to go through the loop when retrieving.

 

Thanks

[combined tree services]

personally i would stop waisting your time and spend the money on an art friction saver , i have had one for 12 months now and highly recomend them , fair enough they do cost a bit but you get what you pay for IMO i use mune with a lock jack and would not go back to using a friction hitch any more , im now looking to get another friction saver and have been told that art do a deulux version using rope instead of webing , does anyone know if this is the case ???