New inexpensive climbing kit...

[Steve Bullman]

Yes steve that was me with Rich in Baltimore, will you be in Pittsburgh this year?

 

 

nah unfortunately not mate.....summer was a bit slack and im playing catch up now.....in the diary for next year though

 

gutted really!

[Heads up]

looks great Kevin, thought the F8 was a brilliant idea that needed a little something to make it better......this looks like it! top marks man:thumbup:

[ledders666]

I cant figure out what its for, could someone explain please.

josh

[kevin bingham]

Just for experimentations sake, try to climb around the tree with only a Hitch attaching you to the single line. You will be safe but you will get frustrated very quickly. The STRW just takes the frustration out of climbing SRT with a hitch.

[Tommy_B]

Kevin, that looks very interesting, Do you have any pictures of the device? I can't quite make it out in the video. Cheers. Tom

[Frank]

That looked awesome but I have no real idea what it does or how it works. Can you do a short video explaining it with spoken word because Im dumb.

[Mark Bolam]

What are the main advantages of single line climbing like this Kevin? Apart from only having, er, a single line, if you see what I mean?

 

Ditto Darrens post above, I am keen to learn more!

[kevin bingham]

it eliminates a lot of complexity. You need to isolate limbs, No need for a cambium saver, No need for complicated redirects, no need for swivels as their is no twisting. one carabiner at the harness. Can redirect multiple multiple times without getting bogged down by friction. I think to be able to climb SRT you must be able to do a pullup though because it is 1:1 climbing so you cant pull yourself up the rope. But 1:1 is obviously twice as fast as 2:1. with a pantin or footlocking, most of that is in your legs, but occasionally, like coming in from a steep limb walk you have to use your arms. Oh and no hockles in your rope ever. You only have to rope manage half the amount of rope. When jumping for a target for example in a comp, half the amount of rope has to go through your hands and you can see exactly if you have enough rope to reach the ground and no risk of hockles flying up and jamming your hitch. In 2;1 the rope is going through your hitch twice as fast as you are traveling. Lots of advantages to SRT.

[Mark Bolam]

Sold!

[ledders666]

sounds like it has a lot of advantages, worth while knowing about srt. Does anyone know of any links or diagrams etc showing the setups that can be used so that the ones of us that dont know can look it up and have a go

josh