Rigging alternatives

[Mick Dempsey]

I suppose I asked for that!

[peds]

Smashing story, anyway. 

[Pete Mctree]

Great story and how treework was done . I am not ashamed to say I still melt a couple of hundred metres of polyprop every year. 

[5thelement]

56 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

How are they better than a steel biner besides the lack of (insiginficant in my opinion) spine bending? They look fiddlier and no faster.

They are really quick to attach, especially on repetitive jobs, and easy to undo, even when the groundy is a dumbo. 

[Con]

19 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

They are really quick to attach, especially on repetitive jobs, and easy to undo, even when the groundy is a dumbo. 

Yes. Don't like the reference to the groundless, but àgree with the rest 

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[peds]

2 hours ago, 5thelement said:

Anyone using these? 

 

 

Any reason why I should use this thing instead of the following thing?

 

CMC DNA Carabiner | CMC PRO

WWW.CMCPRO.COM

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Unique “helical-shaped” connectors with a twisted carbon steel body designed for 90° rotation of any...

 

 

 

 

[Domino]

I like this chat - new vs old outlook on things.  Some using new weird little bits of metal just to choke a bit of wood with a rope, others lowering with nothing but true grit and an old horse attached to a rope made of it's own hair! 

Anyway, a word to the wise - any person regularly lowering bits of wood on a rope would gain massively from acquiring one of these. 

SPIN L1D - Pulleys | Petzl Other

WWW.PETZL.COM

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Petzl Other. Very high efficiency single pulley with one-way rotation and swivel

Wish I'd bought one years ago....not actually sure how long they've been about though. 

[AHPP]

17 minutes ago, Domino said:

I like this chat - new vs old outlook on things.  Some using new weird little bits of metal just to choke a bit of wood with a rope, others lowering with nothing but true grit and an old horse attached to a rope made of it's own hair! 

Anyway, a word to the wise - any person regularly lowering bits of wood on a rope would gain massively from acquiring one of these. 

SPIN L1D - Pulleys | Petzl Other

WWW.PETZL.COM

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Petzl Other. Very high efficiency single pulley with one-way rotation and swivel

Wish I'd bought one years ago....not actually sure how long they've been about though. 

 

I've thought for a while they look good. ISC and Harken do them too. Probably others. Only downside I can see compared to a ring is that the rope probably takes itself to the top of the tree if you drop it?

Edited Tuesday at 22:36 by AHPP

[AHPP]

59 minutes ago, peds said:

 

 

Any reason why I should use this thing instead of the following thing?

 

CMC DNA Carabiner | CMC PRO

WWW.CMCPRO.COM

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Unique “helical-shaped” connectors with a twisted carbon steel body designed for 90° rotation of any...

 

 

 

 

 

That looks like it'll sit against wood worse than a normal biner.

[5thelement]

14 hours ago, peds said:

 

 

Any reason why I should use this thing instead of the following thing?

 

CMC DNA Carabiner | CMC PRO

WWW.CMCPRO.COM

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Unique “helical-shaped” connectors with a twisted carbon steel body designed for 90° rotation of any...

 

 

 

 

Because ‘the following thing’ already looks like a LOLER fail.

Probably isn’t as easy to attach/disconnect with freezing wet hands either.