What is it and how does it work ??

[hazzygawa]

I have been on the web site and read the bumph, even watch the video and still I don't really know what it is and how it works. Please anyone, enlighten me.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

isnt it for increasing friction?

[RobRainford]

When climbing SRT with a friction hitch like a VT, using the hitch alone creates too much friction soothe hitch is very stiff, adding something like the rope wrench or a figure 8 hold some of the friction in the rope, thus decreasing the load on the hitch to a manageable amount.

 

Hope that helps

[David Goss]

I am the same mate, I have watched the vids and i just cant see how it helps at all. I will need to get a shot of one before i figure it out i guess...

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Look at the thread in the climbing forum.

 

I have and I still don't get it!

[Paul Smith]

Do you climb on a VT style hitch now? Do you like the hitch? If you do and also like the benefits of SRT then this is for you!

 

As said the RW just takes some of the friction of the hitch by putting a bend in the rope with one end and having a tether to the hitch climber on the other.

 

If you don't want to buy before you try make one, Kev used to make them out of wood.

[janey]

It's a highly technical, specially designed jangly thing that's to be attached to your harness in order to make you look more knowledgeable than you fellow climbers.

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It's a highly technical, specially designed jangly thing that's to be attached to your harness in order to make you look more knowledgeable than you fellow climbers.

 

 

your just jelous got you didnt have much back in the days when you was climbing:lol: