Retrievable redirect

[treepanda]

I made this up the other day. Cheap and simple.. seems to work....About 3-4m of 9mm tenex and a shackle... plus a couple of karabiners..

[Will Ayers]

looks lovely!

 

im going to make myself one!

[swinny]

how would you retreive it though when using a false anchor, wether a cambium saver or a device..... it wouldn't feed through the krabs to catch the shackle to pull it out of the tree??

[Stephen Blair]

it would retrieve:001_smile:, the ball would go through the first crab on the left on the way up, release it, and then the re direct would slide down before the ball was even at the rope guide

 

edit, that is brilliant by the way:thumbup1:

[swinny]

it would retrieve:001_smile:, the ball would go through the first crab on the left on the way up, release it, and then the re direct would slide down before the ball was even at the rope guide

 

edit, that is brilliant by the way:thumbup1:

 

haha!! got you! great stuff

[atree]

Jerry?

[Ben Saxton]

How would it work with say a pulley saver?

[Stephen Blair]

i think thats the same question swinny was asking Ben, i think like everything, there is always a chance of a snag up on limbs or tight crotches, but experience will teach us some avoidance skills lol.

I think it is a thing of beauty:thumbup1:

[alex_m]

How would it work with say a pulley saver?

 

when retrieving, the spliced eye of your climbing rope will go through the pulley carabiner on it's way to the pulley saver. the redirect would then be free!

 

 

awesome idea btw! i might use the idea but in a really crude, unspliced form.

[Lancstree]

this looks good. I was recently introduced to using a sling and a crab for a redirect. The sling was wrapped around the desired limb in such a way that it was secure under load but retrievable by simply flicking the climbing line to release it from being 'trapped' on itself. This was used in an aerial rescue practice but I don't see why it couldn't be used in every day climbing.