Skinny Beech Rigging

[Rupe]

No sugar for me, sweet enough and all that!! I am fairly addicted to tea though, I've adapted a bottle carrier on my mtb to hold the lifeventure flask, got to have tea on the winter bike rides!

[charlie]

just a few questions!! what spikes are you wearing Rupe and what endless slings do use for rigging?

[Rod]

rupe hows your hitch climber attached to you. is it crab onto harness and pulley? looks low down in the vid

[Rupe]

Err, gecko carbon firbre spikes

 

[Rupe]

I can't find the slings on line, but they were from proclimber, made by cresto, and they are an awesome 750kgs SWL, so I'm happy using them for most situations.

[Rupe]

rupe hows your hitch climber attached to you. is it crab onto harness and pulley? looks low down in the vid

 

Just onto the ring on the treemotion harness.

[Rod]

Just onto the ring on the treemotion harness.

 

do you not find that a bit restrictive when going up

 

i ues an endless strop between mine which alows it to be almost out of reach while going up i can then half it once in the tree then i can still pull down rather than having to pull up if you see what i mean

 

just curious how other people use them

[Rupe]

I use a pantin for going up any distance so don't worry about it too much. I have tried it extended away from me using the "O rig" method, but I'm so bad at tieing friction hitches that I worry they won't bind when needed, so I prefer to keep them well within arms reach.

[Rod]

fair one i use the pezl hand accender with an endles strop to put my foot in (pantin hung me upside down never liked it since)

 

any way the hand accender on the line means that even if the hitch slips it only stops at the accender and you can use both hands at the same time below the pulley

[Rupe]

fair one i use the pezl hand accender with an endles strop to put my foot in (pantin hung me upside down never liked it since)

 

any way the hand accender on the line means that even if the hitch slips it only stops at the accender and you can use both hands at the same time below the pulley

 

You were using the pantin wrong then!! Its an aid, not a point of atachment.

 

Hand ascenders are good for SRT, I use them from time to time, a place for everything, and everything in its place.