Sliding D's

[WorcsWuss]

I use a Treehopper harness with a fixed bridge.

I can see the advantage of a replaceable bridge, but can someone explain the advantages of sliding D's on said bridge?

The Harkie harness which I really quite fancy has a pair of them and I was just wondering if there is anything which makes them a great thing to have?

Thanks guys

Simon

[Matthew Storrs]

The sliding ds make it far easier to twist in the tree for example if ur reaching out to cut a branch off as your rope doesnt reach across you but pulls of from the side, hard to explain, but I use a willans which doesnt have sliding dees, but some times it is hard to twist your body round when there is tension on your climbing line.

[WeeDee]

Sliding Ds allow you to be suspended from a point that isn't central ie. around your navel.

As said above, it means you can reach out while your line holds you from a point near your hip.

Most bridges allow this, sliding Ds provide a dedicated point of attachment instead of the krab sliding along the bridge by itself.

[WorcsWuss]

So it is just an alternative to a crab. Do you anchor straight on with your line or clip on with a crab to the rings?

[Mark James]

What about on the petzel harness if you add the swivels, do those slide across the bridge in the same fashion as the sliding rings?

 

 

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[RobArb]

Simple answer, yes

 

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[WeeDee]

What about on the petzel harness if you add the swivels, do those slide across the bridge in the same fashion as the sliding rings?

 

 

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As above, yes. But a problem arose when I tried a swivel with my Sequoia.

I was hoping to get round the problem of twisted lines by adding a swivel - but found that the addition of said swivel moved my hitchclimber further from me than I wanted (I'm not very tall).

Having swapped one problem with another, I reverted back to 'no swivel' and just paid more attention to rope management.

[WeeDee]

So it is just an alternative to a crab. Do you anchor straight on with your line or clip on with a crab to the rings?

 

I would imagine most climbers clip on with a krab.

Although Harkie refer to them as Ds, they are infact rings - this might add the option of clipping more than one krab into a ring. I'm not familiar with the harness so wouldn't know if the size of the ring would facilitate this.

It's worth noting that adding a D or ring to a bridge turns a hichclimber 90 degrees - placing the slack-tending hand behind the hitchclimber and not to one side or the other.

[RobArb]

I have 3 rings on the bridge of my petzl harness, they come in handy from time to time for work positioning plus they ping and rattle like bling:biggrin:

 

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[WeeDee]

I have 3 rings on the bridge of my petzl harness, they come in handy from time to time for work positioning plus they ping and rattle like bling

 

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Ha!