Distel

[will.morris]

Beeline/beal regate/silverstreak/sirius have all worked well for me with a 3 turn distel on yale xtc and marlow gecko.

[TIMON]

Hi all,

Just tried a practice climb in a nice wide oak tree using a distel on HC system. 65mm / 8mm eye to eye ocean polyester. There is a small amount of sit-back but nothing too excessive. Really enjoyed it and got used to it pretty quickly. Loved being able to tend the slack one-handed climbing the tree and returning from a limb walk. I also found that the option of using the middle hole on the HC for my lanyard gave me far superior work positioning when using my side strop there. So all in all a big thumbs up for the distel!

 

 

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[carlosfvorgaz]

Hi there,

 

All my respects to the members of the forum!

 

Maybe you could help me out. I climb with a dinamic alpinist rope 11 mm, a hitch hiker pulley with a 8 mm ocan cord tied with a distel hitch. I found out that once you have been seated for a while, it takes a lot of effort to make it run again. However, i have the same distel, with ocean 8 mm, a micropulley and a semistatic 11 mm rope as my lanyard, and it will run smooth after all my weight has been on it. The knot bites harder in dinamic lines and that is why i can not climb comfy with it?

 

Forgive my english i am writing from Spain, i hope i explain my trouble well

 

All the best and thank you!

[Backpain]

I've been using 10mm Sirius at about 700mm on 13mm Yale XTC. I'd given up on the HC decided to give it another go. Sitius works extremely well on Yale both as a Prussic and Distel. It didn't take long to get 100% trust in the knot. I tided it short to reduce sitback but found it needs a little more length do maybe 80 or 85 cm would be better. I'm testing OP 10mm at 90cm tomor. Previously used as a VT but didn't like it one bit. Hoping it doesn't freeze lol

[Dionysus]

At the moment i am using a sort of bastardized distel with 4 wraps on my side strop, its on tachyon braid, friction cord is sirius tied with 2 double fishermans, pulley is a hitchclimber.

[Marksquirrell]

Using a distel yesterday with my HC and as it was wet it kept jamming up tight. Any ideas?

 

 

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[stihlmadasever]

75cm, 8mm ocean polyester eye to eye.3wrap distel advanced with shizll rope slider on a stein 3 meter lanyard.

Dont know where that lanyard is now i think about it...

[daltontrees]

I just came across these pics I took last year of how to tie a Distel witha fixed loop of rope. It's a slight improvement on the Schwabian I use, but only because it is easier to shunt along the rope with a pulley. May be of interest to someone who wants to try the Distel but hasn't got an eye-to-eye.

[daltontrees]

And the rest

[Darrin Turnbull]

Well done i like that.