Sorry...

[Rob Thompson]

I've just read a bunch of my responses, I've been overbearing, sorry.

Most people here will know that I started with srwp in March, because they helped me make the move. I haven't looked back. Although I still LOVE my hitchclimber set up with all the exiting setting options available.

But now it would seem that I've become a bit of a born again srwp evangelist.

I love them both, separate, and together.

Just wanna say thanks to you if you got me through, and sorry for being too excitable.

 

Rob.

[nepia]

I think it's in your nature Rob; you're just a big kid who found an open jar of sweeties in March!  You're in no way unpleasant, you just get carried away.

Who the f*** you're asking?!   I'm the old fart who sat in his chair doing not a lot on the SRT intro day in Dorking and I was in no way offended by you but it was obvious you were... keen!

 

Don't worry about it - enthusiasm is a good thing; just remain polite and people will see you as exuberant, not rude.

 

Happy climbing

 

Jon

[Rob Thompson]

12 minutes ago, nepia said:

I think it's in your nature Rob; you're just a big kid who found an open jar of sweeties in March!  You're in no way unpleasant, you just get carried away.

Who the f*** you're asking?!   I'm the old fart who sat in his chair doing not a lot on the SRT intro day in Dorking and I was in no way offended by you but it was obvious you were... keen!

 

Don't worry about it - enthusiasm is a good thing; just remain polite and people will see you as exuberant, not rude.

 

Happy climbing

 

Jon

Hello Jon, how's it going ? Is it working out for you ? I've regretted not getting on it with the new techniques from the start ! I feel like I've been doing it wrong, or the hard way. Climbing on blakes and prussics for 20yrs, you'd get less for murder !!!

Are you enjoying it, having fun merging it with your other systems ?

Nice to hear from you 🙂 

Rob.

Edited December 5, 2021 by Rob Thompson
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[nepia]

Rob, I barely climb in any way at all!  So I'm afraid I haven't used it and tbh probably won't.  But it was good to see how it works and understand it a little bit.

The guy I was with - Marc with the ginger hair? - is using it (part-time) and loving it.  His first time out with it was to top 😊 a mature 5-stemmed Red Oak; would have been impossible on Ddrt without spikes!  So he's loving it; getting used to the changeovers is taking some thought but it's well worth the effort.

[Rob Thompson]

49 minutes ago, nepia said:

Rob, I barely climb in any way at all!  So I'm afraid I haven't used it and tbh probably won't.  But it was good to see how it works and understand it a little bit.

The guy I was with - Marc with the ginger hair? - is using it (part-time) and loving it.  His first time out with it was to top 😊 a mature 5-stemmed Red Oak; would have been impossible on Ddrt without spikes!  So he's loving it; getting used to the changeovers is taking some thought but it's well worth the effort.

It is totally worth it. I am always thinking back to trees I've done, and thinking how much easier they'd have been !

That day in Dorking was a first time for me working twin systems. Total ball ache at the time, but I've now grown to enjoy it here and there. Not all the time !

The benefits of having it as a tool in the tool box are numerous. 

I think the reason I've been browbeating it's use, is that I don't want anyone else doing what I did, and getting by on the cheap !

I used blakes because they're length adjustable, unlike a prussic. And they're cheap (off cut of climbing line). For a hitchclimber, I was using a cheap single attachment pulley. My whole gear replacement started when I got a proper hitchclimber pulley, and then kicked myself for being cheap for so long !

I know people who are very good, they're on two ends, two prussics, and a side strop. Like myself, working for years, no job that can't be done like that. But it can be better, easier, safer, more comfortable ect..

I suppose that really it stems down to an amount of jealousy, I'm jealous of all the options available to the modern climber starting now, and how I'll soon be too old for this line of work.i want them to use it all, and f#####g appreciate it ! 🤣

[Khriss]

Glad you enjoyed 😀 and came back too  k