Inexpensive upgrade from prusik?

[Clinton_Baptiste]

Hi all, I'm a complete beginner trying to get into arborism and have recently done the climbing and aerial rescue course, for which I used borrowed climbing kit. I'm now in the process of buying my own climbing kit so that I can get as much practice in as possible before doing the aerial chainsaw course.

 

With the borrowed kit, in terms of friction devices I had a Zigzag Plus on one system and just a prusik knot on the other. I really liked the Zigzag and ideally would buy two so I could have one on each rope, but I can't afford that at the mo so I'm wondering what I could use on my 2nd rope as an alternative to that or just a prusik. I actually got on ok with the prusik but is there anything else I could use instead that's relatively inexpensive (i.e. £100 or less) but would be nicer to climb on/save energy etc?

[Steve Bullman]

Valdotain. Few quid for hitch cord, 2 karabiners and a hitch climber, can be had for under £100

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

That will act about as close to a zigzag as you’ll get