Rigging alternatives

[AHPP]

Rigging wrenches are a nice idea, just inflexible. I had an idea for improving them by adding a dangling control line that the climber can pull to ease friction and let light pieces run. Messy and faffy though. A solution to a problem for which there are already loads of solutions. 

[AHPP]

And since I’m now thinking about it, three or four APFs ago, I spent quite a bit of time in the tent of a business that made autobrakes like autobelays at climbing walls. I can’t remember what sort of range the weights of pieces had to be in. There must be some clever way  of slowing any given weight down the same, like how wind resistance increases not linearly with speed but squared (road cyclists know this). Parafans do it to an extent. You could make one that used a thicker fluid than air. 

[JBH]

Anyone ever used one of these? 
 

https://youtu.be/uy2HiJqxOVA?feature=shared

[JBH]

God I hate arb equipment music 

[AHPP]

If that lets a really light piece down where you’d have to fight a rigging wrench, it’ll be handy.

[Pete Mctree]

I have heard some positive things about that device, although I have never seen one in person - it was developed jointly by the inventors of the unicender and the akimbo, quite a pedigree

[Hank]

39 minutes ago, JBH said:

Anyone ever used one of these? 
 

https://youtu.be/uy2HiJqxOVA?feature=shared

Saw that recently, looks really good. Quite spenny though

[peds]

3 minutes ago, Hank said:

Saw that recently, looks really good. Quite spenny though

 

Rock Exotica toys definitely aren't cheap! 

[Hank]

56 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Rock Exotica toys definitely aren't cheap! 

Amen

[AHPP]

I didn't want to shoehorn into this thread with a me me me post but it's absolutely relevant so I will. I'm building a rigging device. It's the best thing in this thread by a long way and the best new thing for tree work since the GRCS and the rope wrench. I suggest everyone puts £100 a month in a piggy bank and waits for my signal. If it's shit, you'll have some money for something else. But it won't be and you'll want it.