Which Knots???

[welwell]

Hello all. Hope you are all well and enjoying the summer.....HA HA!!

I'm thinking about buying a new Hitch climber but understand I have to change my knot, currently I use and love a Blakes Hitch but I feel like a bit of a change. Anyone out there with ideas on which knot and what friction rope would be good to use??? I climb on Yale XTC+.

Also any good websites with instructions and pictures of knots??

Thanks y'all

[Steve Bullman]

http://www.mytreelessons.com

 

you may love your blakes now but after moving on to a v.t or similar i can pretty much guarantee you'll change your mind

[Peter]

Going from a blakes to a short hitch can be a bit weird at first, but if you stick with it and adapt to the slightly different technique required you will reap the rewards!

[Steve Bullman]

thats true, its such a shame when people switch to a short knot, dont quite get it, then give up after a day or so.

[Amelanchier]

I agree Steve, I think that most of them would stick with the short hitch if they were shown how to put some distance in between the hitch and the bridge for bodythrusting (i.e., adjustable bridge or even a sling).

[vduben]

im in the middle, still use a blakes on my short 13mm rope, and a vt on my blaze, still not convinced but i keep trying and its getting easier and i can deffinatly see the benifits from a v.t, so how do you thrust with a v.t? one hand above and one below? i tend to just do 2 or 3 pulls then tend the slack....

[Steve Bullman]

no thrusting...take the pulls and tend the slack like you have been doing.......really to get the maximum benefits you need to be on a rope guide, or at the very least a cambium saver, preferably with a pulley attached to the small ring

[Marc]

so how do you thrust with a v.t? one hand above and one below? i tend to just do 2 or 3 pulls then tend the slack....

 

Try this some time,,, get a short 60cm sling, with 2 karabiners, attach one to your harness main attachment, then the other to the hitchclimber, this will put the hitchclimber ahead of you.

Then just pull the tail of your rope and body thrust the hitch climber will tend the knot for you automatically.

 

There are neater systems, like the tip slider shown in another thread, where you can easily send the hitcclimber ahead of you and bring it back with out unclipping it from your harness and putting in a sling.

[welwell]

Thanks for the replys lads. Any other knots that I may try?? What about the Distell???

 

Cheers peeps

[Paul Smith]

I have just switched to a swabish or modified prussik, I have tried the VT but I can't get on with it at the moment, rope seems to twist a lot and I find I have to pull hold and try tend the slack!

 

I will percivere when time allows.