ISC UltraLink - anyone use them?

[Mark Bolam]

I can only apologise.

I was using the quicker abbreviation for brevity.

 

I’ve let myself down in my haste.

 

I do normally shorten it to butterfly, but I was afraid Newton would bully me.

[peds]

Fair enough, I'm worried about the same thing.

 

I saw it on a honeybrothers clip the other day though, speaking on this exact same topic, so it must be an industry-wide thing... 

It's just interesting how two communities (arborists and alpinists) have taken to using a different term for the same thing. 

 

What other names or phrases could be shortened one of two ways...

 

Crunchy ... frog

Rusty ... trombone

 

Ah, enough of this. Kids to school, then off to work. 

[Hank]

Thanks for all the replies folks. Used it today, I like it. 
 

Reason for wanting to try was a new for me setup:

 

Set my line and base anchor with ultralink then set a "primary" canopy anchor, the idea being that if something fails in the tree I have the base anchor as a backup. I like the extra safety this offers but it's also a faff. 

[Dan Maynard]

9 hours ago, peds said:

Fair enough, I'm worried about the same thing.

 

I saw it on a honeybrothers clip the other day though, speaking on this exact same topic, so it must be an industry-wide thing... 

It's just interesting how two communities (arborists and alpinists) have taken to using a different term for the same thing. 

 

What other names or phrases could be shortened one of two ways...

 

Crunchy ... frog

Rusty ... trombone

 

Ah, enough of this. Kids to school, then off to work. 

I learnt the bowline knot sailing, where it's shortened to bowlin', rhymes with pin. Other arb types I've met have called it a bowline, rhymes with pine.

 

Occasional confusion and weird looks. I just think the butterfly is a bad name for a knot, sounds fluttery and insubstantial and not something you hang your life off of.

[MattHall]

22 hours ago, peds said:

 

That's a good idea. Attached with a shred of accessory cord or wire or what?

Just a cut down spanner, keep it attached to the maillon. 

[MattHall]

22 hours ago, Joe Newton said:

Just get a Quickie. Simple and works. 

Quickie does work real well, only reason I’ve avoided them is working in the uk, they don’t do a CE product conformity for them. Figured after making sure I’m properly insured and have it all loler checked, climbing on something that in an accident might void it all just worried me, probably me just being over the top though.
Hopefully Notch will bring one out that does? 

[peds]

15 minutes ago, MattHall said:

Just a cut down spanner, keep it attached to the maillon. 

Elegant. Thanks for sharing.

[Mark Bolam]

20 minutes ago, MattHall said:

Quickie does work real well, only reason I’ve avoided them is working in the uk, they don’t do a CE product conformity for them. Figured after making sure I’m properly insured and have it all loler checked, climbing on something that in an accident might void it all just worried me, probably me just being over the top though.
Hopefully Notch will bring one out that does? 

Yes, you’re being over the top!

 

They’re bomber, the tree would fail first!

[Mark Bolam]

Love the spanner idea.

[peds]

Great, innit. I've not got any on my arb kit, but we use maillons on our ground anchors for rope rescue. Definitely adding this to all 12 of them.