DIY DMM Tendon Knee ascender

[JBH]

Intellectual property rights aside...

 

This was put together from bits around my house in 10 minutes.

 

It works and isn't half as annoying to climb with on my harness as I expected it to be (although it has not topped a conifer hedge yet.

 

Might save someone £50

[Dan Maynard]

Do you leave that where it is and hook it up to an ascender then?

[JBH]

Yeah, it is nice because you can get the ascender on and off without it pulling up the line like usual

[AHPP]

I watched DMM's video on it and I still can't tell what it does. Could you take a picture or something of it all in use please. Make it obvious. I'm clearly not very intelligent today. 

[JBH]

I'll pop you a quick video on next time I am ropewalking. Just a more streamlined storage system for the knee ascender bungee

[carlos]

i used this set up with my knee asscender, it worked well.

[Mr. Squirrel]

Using the same stuff they give you for treemotion gear loops is a little more streamlined 😉 been running one for 5 years now, works very well and is tidy. No copper pipe on mine 😂

[broadsword]

Here's my effort. Worked better than I expected it to. I'll get the real thing when I replace my TM EVO but this set up cost me about a tenner. Ideal really. 

[AHPP]

Still not a scooby what these do.

[stewmo]

23 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Still not a scooby what these do.

The cord is elastic and it pulls up the knee ascender when you are rope walking. Lots of different systems out there....but this has the appeal (at least to me) that it is permanently on the harness and the elastic bit isn't flapping about getting caught on every bit of tree when climbing about.