Strops

[L14M]

what strops do people use?

 

i'm looking to buy my first kit soon and was just wondering what hitches people use for their strops. the pre made kits on honeybros looks good with a pulley, for £58 but they wanna charge £7 delivery! madness!

whereas the strop kit on fr jones is without a pulley and it's £65!

 

so looks like it's £65 either way?

just wondering what you guys were using and if it's cheaper to make up your own strop kit from scratch.

 

Cheers

Liam.

[benhudson treeworks]

I use a rope grap on my strop but started with a prussik on it ! Whatever, as long as it holds you up it dont matter !

[L14M]

just ignore most of that original post, it's late and my maths is a little off...

 

basically i was just wondering if it's cheaper and easier to make your own strop kit or buy the kits

 

cheers.

[Gray]

like i said on your other thread dude chainsdirect.co.uk , it makes sense.

all my climbing kit comes from there now.

cheapest around free delivery

[pault]

I use a 3.5m split tail with a petzl fixed side pulley and a 10 mm eye to eye prussik. Iv had a play around with a few hitches but iv narrowed it down to either the VT or distel. Either way i prefer to buy and make my own setup. That way i can chop and change what i use. If it works and its safe then its good.

[WorcsWuss]

I have the Honey Bros strop kit [which for those who don't know comprises an ISC 3 way captive eye snap, ISC HMS krab, ISC swing cheek pulley, 4m of XTC & 1.4m of 9mm Boa]. Mine's assembled using a VT and I find it absolutely brilliant, one of the best things I've bought.

I snagged my 11mm climbing line the other day so I'm going to cut it and use the shorter length of that to make up another longer version of the same arrangement.

I already have a spare length of Boa so it's just the hardware which is about £41 + VAT from FRJ. If you add in the cost of friction cord at about £3 & 4m of rope at about £7 that would make it £51 + VAT, so the kit from HB, even if you pay postage, is still a good deal!

Definitely get it, don't even think about it!

[L14M]

cool honey bros strop kit it is then!! xtc fire

unless anything comes around at the fr jones opening show on saturday

[mistahbenn]

TBH I only ever use wirecore lanyards these days... A simple pulley, a fixe, or I have a DMM Pinto, and a simple VT tied with Yale Silverstreak does the job for me. Each to their own!

[SAM66S]

Split tail or get a splice with an ART positioner with swivel would be my choice if i were to do it again

[RobArb]

I've just got a 5m piece of xtc, simple isc pulley with OP vt hitch, on two mongoose crabs

 

Cheap and cheerful:biggrin:

 

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