Rope Wrench feedback

[BenR]

Hi Luke. Ideally you dont want to tether yourself to a toothed ascender in case of a shock load situation. Not ideal when its above your climbing system if its enough to rip the cover on a rope. A webbing sling in a figure of 8 over your shoulders with a biner works well, or a small strap over a shoulder to the back of your harness, or a neck elastic. Its also then easier to just take your hand ascender and foot loop off the line and straight into a little chalk bag or something. Then you can do short ascents with the pantin and still have something to drag your wrench up the rope. My two cents climb safe, viva la SRTWP!!

[Luke Osborne]

Hi Ben. Thanks for that. I'll give that a go tomorrow instead. I can see how it would be a lot safer in case of a slip

[James Atkinson]

Here we go boys! Finally got there, got my 10" tether made up by top_rope on eBay , real nice job, first climb will be this week let you know how it goes

 

 

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[BenR]

Personal preference but I like a bigger carabiner like a petzl william to give it all a bit more space. Helps keep most of the load along the spine instead of loading up the whole top half of the biner

[James Atkinson]

Yea that makes sense, just I'm finding the whole system abit far away from me after my spiderjack, taking abit of adjusting, so a bigger carabiner will push it even further away lol

 

 

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[Jake Andrews]

The hitch is the system you should be focusing on, not the wrench. Makes no difference how far away the wrench is.

Tie a shorter, tighter hitch if your used to SJ.

J:thumbup1:

[James Atkinson]

Cheers mate, yea I did that today, I'm so surprised how nice the wrench feels on decent, I do feel at a disadvantage coming from a sj, not used knots in about 7 years haha

 

 

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[BenR]

maybe shorten your bridge too.. i run mine quite short

[James Atkinson]

Ok so this is what I'm going to run after abit of experimenting, got a "shorty" 65cm hitch spliced up for me by top_rope on eBay, simple distal hitch, not climbed with it yet but feels real smooth, anyone else got experience with distal? Without this forum I was thinking today, so many of us wouldn't have a clue about all this haha

 

 

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