Ascender's

[cordwood]

Is there anyone on here, or anything on the net or in any book's that can demonstrate the correct use of ascender's. I've borrowed a set from a mate who never has used them and isn't sure how to either !

 

there are two single's, a left and a right. And also there is a double, i've had a quick play but the way i set them up is definately wrong any advice would be great!!

[madmatt]

Morning mate,

 

don't need to email to you if you have the book, I'll give you a ring again soon, hopefully when you got a signal!

[Steve Bullman]

Morning mate,

 

I can ask the old man to scan the pages out of my tree climbers companion book if you like?

 

thats probably not legal to post them here if thats what you're thinking

[Steve Bullman]

cordwood, could you explain how you have them currently set?

[madmatt]

thats probably not legal to post them here if thats what you're thinking

 

good job I wasn't offering to post them here innit

[Steve Bullman]

i did say "if":icon14:

[Marc]

I have been loaned a pair of Kong double accendors, I just use them to footlock a doubled line into the tree.

I don't back them up with a knot, I just use them as they are, with a sling larks footed to the accendors then larksfooted to a normal 3 way biner to my harness.

 

The Kongs have a latch to hold open the cams to make installing the rope easier, when closed the latch also prevents the cams from opening far enough for the rope to drop out. Still its a good idea to use a small accesory biner in the properly postioned hole as a back up to preventing the cams open.

 

Also i've seen others use 2 shackle between both halfs of the double accendor, this is back up in the unlikly event that the rivets should fail and cause the 2 parts of the accendor to seperate.

[Buzz]

Look on the petzl website you can download pdf's on applications.

[Buzz]

http://en.petzl.com/ProduitsServices/B17_ASCENSBAS_B17504-H.pdf

[cordwood]

Cheer's guy's i wasn't a million miles away with how i had them setup. Need to practice footlocking to use the double! and for the single's use a shorter sling.

Should you use a prussick loop as back up?