Helical Feedback

[WorcsWuss]

Well I've been having a go on a helical knot in place of a blakes for a little while now and I have to say, I'm coming to quite like it.

 

It took a bit of setting but I think today I have finally cracked it.

I forgot to take photos of how I rigged it but I found that a fixed cheek micro-pulley clipped to a prusik on the standing line [as in standard blakes tending] but 'wedged' between the braids made it tend really nicely and kept it all from twisting.

 

I've found the helical is an absolute b!tch to set but if anyone fancies trying it, persevere, once it clicks it's a good halfway stop on the way to a VT.

 

I've experimented with 3 & 4 wraps, found 3 had a tendency to creep quite alarmingly using a 13mm split tail on 11mm rope [a far from ideal combination I know....] Stopping to prune off some ivy with the silky I kept finding myself cutting up above my head...!

 

4 wraps and the pulley between the braids works a treat though, tends nicely, binds up far less than a blakes and shoots down, I actually managed to swing out & down to a limb and landed on the limb before ending up ploughing back into the trunk, something I couldn't get the blakes to run fast enough to do.

 

So, helical, thumbs up!

 

On the downside, I snagged the bloody tail of my climbing line on the fecking chain today so I will now have that short rope & longer side strop I've been promising myself.... At least I have a spare 35m length of Aeris in stock though.... ar&e....

[arbmark]

On the downside, I snagged the bloody tail of my climbing line on the fecking chain today so I will now have that short rope & longer side strop I've been promising myself.... At least I have a spare 35m length of Aeris in stock though.... ar&e....

 

know the feeling. eye gone and a thousand bowlines till the next one. hey guess what i got for christmas - a superdry jacket (albeit without the logo, fortunately!)

[WorcsWuss]

hey guess what i got for christmas - a superdry jacket (albeit without the logo, fortunately!)

 

Ha! Nice one! You're way cooler than me then... I got Clarks slippers!

[arbmark]

Ha! Nice one! You're way cooler than me then... I got Clarks slippers!

 

i needed slippers!!!! Was at my godmothers near bodenham - flipping eck you lot know how to eat in herefordshyre.... she also complained about a local tree surgeon selling her logs that were too big - that wouldnt be you was it!?!?! mind you she hadnt noticed they were nearly all cypress:laugh1:

happy new year & have fun with your helical. sticking with the blakes - like something big, cheap & easy to hold on to:confused1: